BOHICA '08

"Been off the grid for a little bit. I was informed 8 hours before the SP time that I was going on R&R to Qatar. I requested not to go but I am told I need to relax. I spent a little while doing push-ups because I commented to my PL that vacations are for faggots. We got dropped off at the airbase (ASLA/Camp Doha or Ali Al Salem Air Base) about 5 minutes from our FOB and got fucked for two days because of canceled flights. Ali Al Salem is where everyone in theater (OIF and OEF) comes to go on leave, come back from leave, go to/from R&R, or to redeploy to another theater or back stateside. It's absolutely crowded with thousands of people from every branch, civilians (Blackwater, KBR), DOD Contractors/Civilians...foreign military services...etc. The group from our BN is just me and a squad leader from another platoon in the company. The transient housing office did not have tents available (except for E7 and above or O3 and above), so we slept outside with our gear under a mortar bunker, rotating guard on our gear to PT/eat/whatever. We found out later that the tents had shitty AC and no way to secure our gear anyways. BOHICA."
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