Prepare yourself for photo overload

Here is a nifty image with cutsie tags on things so you know what I am talking about. Soup kitchen is slang for our chow hall, it is a half-round tent. We are officially "Bravo Company" but we are really Bad Company, the HQ is called a "CP". Hesco Baskets are big metal baskets with burlap lining that are filled with gravel. The mighty Hemmit and its eight wheel drive attitude are what delivers fuel to our aircraft. The MRAP is only useful as a way for officers to say they are taking measures to protect us. The Pathfinders drive to the PX in them, we use an econoline. I don't know why all the CHUs in this photo are painted yellow. They are the only ones like that, all the others are white.



You could forgive a guy for forgetting which CHU was his.


A CHU farm. They almost look ripe for pickin'.

This is an ammo bunker called a magazine. It was hit by a JDAM(bomb) in the first gulf war. This is pretty common to see around here. In fact, there are huge complexes in the middle of nowhere with dozens or hundreds of these types of magazines, all empty now of course.

Friendly neighborhood sheep just grazing away outside the fence here.

This is an irrigated crop circle next to the oil pipeline. One end of that starts at the refinery to the north and the other end is at the coast.

Trash ends up in the burn pit. That smoke trails on for miles. It smells really gross but it makes for a great wind-sock.

This is a pretty typical setting here; lots of stuff going on and whatnot. Those hangars are hardened with several feet thick concrete shells and blast doors that weigh twenty tons each. The hinges are like tree trunks but one person can swing the doors open or closed. Every now and then, the hinge makes a twenty ton noise and all the Blue Whales nearby think we are flirting with them. What, you didn't know we had Blue Whales?

Making it all look pretty. You go Adam.

This is my friend Adam having a staring contest with his gun.


The happy sunset photo.