What do you US Soldiers hate the most about being stationed at Iraq?

Question

...while we civilians kick back and rest on our damned chairs, typing out some questions that aren't that interesting even to read?

Answer 1

Things I hated about Iraq:

1) Carrying a rifle everywhere I went for a year.
2) Wearing body armor and a helmet everywhere I went for a year.
3) Watching CNN and realizing that we were winning the war in Iraq only to be back stabbed by people at home.
4) Being in a FOB - imagine being in a prison and being both the prisoner and the guard.
5) cold sandwiches for lunch every day for six months
6) Volunteering for the convoy to FOB Spicher because they just opened a Burger King - and getting attacked by a car-bomb on the way back. (Yes - I almost got myself killed for a hamburger and fries.)
7) The weather. (When it is 90 degrees and hailing - the place is messed up.)
8) Groundhogs day. (Watch the movie and think of re-living the dame day over and over for a year.)
9) waiting for that dammed mortar round to come in.
10) Drafting a letter to the widow of one of your friends - an lying because the way he really died was too ugly for the letter.
11) And the fact that there are people in my own country trying to make everything I went through for nothing. (They say that they 'support me' but the have so little respect for me that they want to flush everything I did down the toilet.)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Oh we like Nizzan's answer. And husband asked that I add to his answer. That the schmoe in his living room who knows nada about the war got his information from the schmoes on cnn.

I am reading off the questions (and answers) to my husband. He agrees with Nizzan. But he says the thing he hates the most is being away from me. But good things result from deployments. We always come out the other end a stronger couple than we were before. Husband enjoys doing his job (driving big trucks), so he will have had fun doing that. And he will have felt like he made a difference. So it aint all bad.

Thanks for asking the question. I like it. Get tired of people telling me (as an army wife) or my husband what to think and feel.

Answer 4

How come when someone poses a question TO THE SOLDIERS we get a whole bunch of answers from people who just want to mouth off? (I am not directing this comment at people who were there, have friends/family there, etc... the people I'm talking to know who they are and that they have no place answering here).

The worst thing? Besides being away from your family, and the ones you love, and just life as you know it?
-- It is filthy and disgusting here... as was already said... even on the camps, it smells like sh*t everywhere because there is no proper plumbing. It makes me gag all the time.
-- Having my friends get killed or wounded.
-- Rain... nothing against rain per say, but when it rains in Iraq, the sand turns into peanut butter that is both sticky and slippery at the same time... it's amazing
-- Having to walk to another building 5 minutes away to use the bathroom (especially annoying when I wake up and have to go)
-- Did I mention the plumbing? Gross!
-- Not being supported by our country

However, though we may not particularly like being here, and would love to go home to our families, the majority of us believe we are here doing a good thing and are proud to be here.

Answer 5

wow, you ask soldiers a questions and people who ARE NOT soldiers and people who ARE NOT here in Iraq respond................ Anyways, thins this guy hates most........ Buring of trash, gives me a headache at times.
Being woken up by mortar attacks and the C-ram guns.
Getting shot at.
Rain, for same reasons as listed earlier.
No beer, not an alcoholic, but would really like a beer.
No spouse. it tends to feel like time back home stands still when your here.
and the number one thing that i hate about being stationed in IRAQ..................people talking trash about a war they have never been in and don't understand. if your not IN the war, your opinion means nothing to me, i signed up for this war, stop the "bring out troops home" BS. i know what i signed up for and i know more about what's going on here then some schmoe in his living room.

Hope that answers your question.

Answer 6

Wow, so many answers from people that have obviously never worn a uniform, or stood for something besides movie tickets. I'll buy what the wife says, and add that the separation is not easy for my buddies over there. I'm not there now, but there's not telling how long until I am.

Answer 7

I noticed that myself.

Well, I can only say that I was there for the first dance in '91.

Don't think that America doesn't support you. It's the congressional Democrats and civilian liberal idiots that don't support you. Americans, on the other hand, understand the stakes and are with you.

Answer 8

Iraq is a dessert climate,no trees to speak of.The people you can't trust,and out side camp facilities there is nothing to do. I served aboard the USS VALCOUR AVP55 in the Persian Gulf back in 59-61. It was peace time and it was not the place I wanted to be.Besides I bet it hasn't changed much in all those years and the smell of curry is everywhere, stinks.Can you imagine no inside plumping and someone taking a bowel movement in public,along side a building.You don't hear much about how they live.Please don't shake their hand they use it to whip themselves also.

Answer 9

My husband said he hated the constant prayers being played over loud speakers.

Answer 10

What I hated most was the lack of support and the subversion that takes place among the people we fight to protect, Americans.