Tito!

After traveling for days across the Atlantic we arrived in Kuwait.  From there we ended up getting split in many pieces to go to our various locations we were going to be operating out of in Iraq.  The flight I was on with about 1/2 my company had a surprise passenger on board.  The fighter, Tito Ortiz was on a USO tour of Iraq and we ended up on the C-130 he was flying on.

FOB (Forward Operating Base) DELTA was a decent place to be at.  The climate was better than most places in Iraq and the only really nasty part was when the black cloud from the Chinese oil wells drifted overhead choked you out and dropped oily soot out of the sky.

The "T" wall. Around living and working areas we have concrete barrier walls made of segmented concrete slabs.  These serve as protection from IDF or indirect fire attacks.  They are very effective and a pretty cool engineering feat to have as modular building blocks to make instant barrier walls around an area.





Another interesting architectural piece common to a lot of camps, and FOBs are destination signposts.  It reminds folks of home, and gives you a reference when you are in the numbness of deployment and forget about home.