This is where you discuss your adventures in the Sand Box.

It was hot.

GRAYMAN

Was it?

Funny that some on forgot the COLD WAR.

My belt rusted from the sweat and stained by DCU's. Then I went to Fort Benning for jump school and the sweat washed off more old rust and stained my ACU's. I'll give Iraq credit, never would I have thought that I could sweat enough to completely rust finished metal.

First one was fun, lots of shooting and other noise to remind me I'm alive.

This tour is nice and quiet, reminds me that all the work I did on the first one paid off

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Originally posted by STARSnBARS:
First one was fun, lots of shooting and other noise to remind me I'm alive.

This tour is nice and quiet, reminds me that all the work I did on the first one paid off

Ive heard things have calmed down quite a bit since I was last there. Cheers to you guys making it happen over there.

we had a thermostat in our truck for ambient temp, and the hottest it got inside that HET was 241 degrees. I remember picking up 3rd ID on Tampa in early July 03 and those guys were wired tight ( I would to after being there for 16+ months). On the trip to Kuwait, they would light up anything that remotely looked suspicious. I think it was 3rd BDE.

GRAYMAN

One year aboard the USCGC Baranof in the Khwar Abd Allah river and the Umm Qasr/Al Basra region.

Defending ports, high interest boardings, joint operations w/ iraqi, aussie, English, USN. Defending the oil terminals, standing guard against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy and other "unfavorables."

I miss those calls to Bahrain every couple months and the replenishments runs to Kuwait. The XO would make us run the 5 and 10K runs every morning we were there. 135 Degree heat and EMT golf carts following us hahaha.

Great to see another Coast Guard IOF veteran here.

I wasn't in this one, except by proxy. Many of the Students I trained to be Army LPNs are involved in this war. 4 of my students have been killed.

That gnaws away at me. I'll lay awake on some nights thinking "I could have trained them better, or made the listen better, or got some of my exerience into them by osmosis or something!"

They were good kids. It was sad to see their names on the GWOT section of the moving Vietnam Wall, which now has monuments to Soldiers who have died in every war since vietname.

That is the price for freedom...

We all signed up for that. We, the salty American troopers. Ohhhhhh how we love our country.

I will be heading over for my first tour in the sand courtesy of the USCG....I hear Kuwait is nice this time of year haha.

HTFire15,,,,My son-in-law has been to kuwait many times on USAF C-17 aircraft missions. Here is a photo of a Kuwait Starbucks where you can get some cold coffee drinks on hot days.

Just click on the photo to enlarge it.

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Originally posted by HTFire_15:
I will be heading over for my first tour in the sand courtesy of the USCG....I hear Kuwait is nice this time of year haha.

Kuwait is nice every time of year. Effin pizza hut, Burger King, Subway, Green Beans Coffee. Hell you can send me there for a year with combat pay any day.