2007-01-18 05:23:18 · 10 answers · asked by sarcastro1976 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
i personally try not think of it when im here, the unit morale ebbs and flows it depends on the time of year what your doing and so on. on my first deployment we walked for 8 hours a day on patrols in tempatrues that barley went below 100 (it peeked at 153). i was to tired to even think straight. though you notice things the countryside smells like an open sewer, they have no trash pickup so the entire area is littered with things best left undescribed. there is very little or no green. in the summer the sun is out so long with no cover that everything gets blinded out and looks super white.
the people smell awful most of the time because of no running water (im sure we did to). though i think there two faced one mintue its "hello mister" the next minute your getting blown up/shot at by these "friendly" people. ive been shot at by the IA as much as i have by the insurgents.
i dont like iraq one bit, but ill come over here to keep radical muslim jihadists out of america
2007-01-18 06:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by trionspectre666 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Having served over 25 years ago I went over as a DoD contractor working with the troops for 18 months.
Definitely miss seeing trees, green grass, rivers and lakes.
I had the opportunity to visit a few of Saddams palaces...great designs but built like junk.
I found that the morale of 99% of the troop I worked with was very high. And no, there weren't always NCOs or officers around...especially when I traveled with the troops in their convoys.
2007-01-18 14:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, recently returned from that craphole. It is so damn hot, all the time, and even when it rains, it only lasts for a short time, and than it gets humid on top of 120 degree heat. Baghdad and its surrounding areas never seem to have been anything to look at, i know there has been years of wars, but this place is just awful. Maybe 6000 years or so ago it was nice, but you can have it now.
2007-01-18 13:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my boss's son is in Iraq,she thought it's a call for duty, soldier doesn't make comment on the mission.
2007-01-18 13:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by di_cassano 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now.its hell by all means.if you want to wash all your sinc,just live for one mounth in it............but
since i was born till 1958,a very peacefull ,fastly growing young country with very high ethics.
58-68 revolutionary unrests,but still people happy,very good developments,exellant society.
68-80 oppression,police state,but,very fastly developing,abolishment of poverity.very high standard in all services,education,health,modrenisation.detoriation of ethics.
80-90spread of death,savage war,but,people still live with dignity.systems still work verey good.
91-2003starvation and poverity era.continious detoriation of public services,ethics,deciplain and order.
2003-now .very rapid fall in every aspect,very high destruction rate.things are compleatly upside down.the white became black.no human being can ever withstand living there even for a day.even birds and animals migrated from iraq.only the very poor and the ..........................................remain.
2007-01-18 18:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by adm_maaf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like a big beach .... minus the water. Very depressing, s*** hole.
2007-01-18 13:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by Ed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never been there--But I can tell you this much..it ain't No Paradise! that's for sure.
2007-01-18 13:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by SJama 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a big sandbox!
2007-01-18 13:31:40 · answer #8 · answered by dstyr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I try not to.
2007-01-18 13:37:04 · answer #9 · answered by Hatchet Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, poor, wars allover
2007-01-18 13:33:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋