You know you are in Iraq when….

[Quib]

[/LIST]You have grass?!?!?

LOL.......when I was over in Iraq during Desert Storm, we often from a distance spotted what appeared to be nice soft green fields of grass. As we slowly approached these oddly placed fields of grass, the view quickly changed.

What appeared from a distance to be a field of grass, ended up being one blade of grass per square inch of sand!

[Byte Stryke]

• …you buy Italian gold from a Sri Lankan working in a Kuwaiti gold shop in the middle of Iraq.

Shouldn't that be Turkish Gold?

What appeared from a distance to be a field of grass, ended up being one blade of grass per square inch of sand!

So what you're saying is they had a thick lawn?



I think I spent too much time over there...
Sometimes I miss it.

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• Women that you wouldn't have given a second look at, now look good.

[Quib]

So what you're saying is they had a thick lawn?

LOL.....by their standards, I guess so.

[Irving]

…someone jumps out from behind a barrier with a flashlight and tells you to take your hands out of your pocket

What is this one about please?

[Chris2087]

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…someone jumps out from behind a barrier with a flashlight and tells you to take your hands out of your pocket
What is this one about please?

Well we went to war, and garrison broke out.

Meaning someone is more concerned with reflective belts and making sure that your hands are out of your pockets then if you have a magizine in your gun...

speaking of which, why carry the gun in your PTs and not have ammo or kit? Just a fancy club then?

[Scanker19]

Every time I wore my PTs and had my M9 with me I felt like the guys at the end of pulp fiction.

[Irving]

I still don't understand. Are you not allowed to put your hands into your pockets as some part of the military regiment or something? Some arbitrary thing to keep troops following some kind of orders?

[Byte Stryke]

Well we went to war, and garrison broke out.

Meaning someone is more concerned with reflective belts and making sure that your hands are out of your pockets then if you have a magizine in your gun...

speaking of which, why carry the gun in your PTs and not have ammo or kit? Just a fancy club then?

Actually, it's supposed to be a strength conditioning exercise.
If you carry something kinda heavy around long enough when you carry your M4/M16/whatever it doesn't Seem to weigh as much.
when I was in I carried a 15# pipe on a sling full of concrete around for PT.
When I had to lug that damned 60 around on the DZ it didn't feel quite so heavy.

[Quib]

The constant carrying of a weapon, goes along with accountability.

Regardless of the uniform worn, whether PT or BDU, if a soldier is issued his weapon, he is accountable for it. Where he goes, it goes. Shit, shower or shave, your weapon is with you at all times.

[SA Friday]

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• Women that you wouldn't have given a second look at, now look good.

The 2-8-2 effect...