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  • SPC Joe Rock
  • SPC Jorge "Junior Ric" Ricardo

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25 AUG:
We lived in trailers, as I mentioned before. When we first got there, these trailers seemed like vast hotel suites. These were people who expected to end up in group tents, jammed cot-to-cot, or in pup tents or foxholes with ponchos draped over them, perhaps, as we’d seen pictures of guys doing during the initial invasion. The war in Iraq was barely a year old and there were already trailer parks, septic systems, plumbing and electricity. Logistics like that are indeed one of the wonders of the world.

Still, within a few months our lifestyles had caught up with us– the PX (Post Exchange; a big general store mentioned in an earlier comic) opened and we quickly accumulated all the stuff we love: TVs, books, computers, Playstations & XBoxes, and so on. It quickly felt like, instead of a hotel suite, we were living in one of the garbage mashers in Star Wars, with the walls closing in closer… and closer…

Characters

  • SPC Joe Rock
  • SPC Jorge "Junior Ric" Ricardo

Locations

  • Trailers

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