I was sitting by a guy today in the chowhall. He's from another CA unit, but we've somehow crossed paths pretty frequently throughout the last few years.
"Well," he said, "this blows."
"Yep," said I. "It seems like a lot of the moments when I say maybe this wasn't such a great idea seem to happen in Kuwait."
We have made the big leap to a country that someone, somewhere, probably in a national publicity office, probably refers to a The Jewel of The Middle East.
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Fortunately, we'll move along from here after an appropriate length of time. And I don't think there's any OPSEC violation at this point in saying that Kuwait is making Iraq look good. And that ain't cool.
Our movement was uneventful, but let me just say this - from the time we dragged our bags outside until we got on the plane, it took sixteen hours. And folks, that wasn't bad compared to some other trips. The flight was long, punctuated by one of those random and anonymous military stops at some flightline somewhere where we could smoke but not buy beer, and then another flight. Ugh.
Weather report - days are hot, but not oh-lord-kill-me-now-because-I'm-already-buring-in-a-fiery-pit hot. Night is nice enough. The dust level is not high by middle east standards. The sun, as usual, is bright enough I wonder if somehow it moved several million miles closer while we were on the plane.
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