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Typical office space or classroom
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Sun shades like this are common over equipment or break areas
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I thought Melissa would like the PT tent!
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This is most of the PT tent
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The black flag tells you that it's too hot for man or beast
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A cluster of typical bathrooms (yes, despite billion$ there is little to no indoor plumbing
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Only 30 percent of Iraqies can read, so why are there road signs?
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There was no chaplain at the chaplain's office while I was in Kuwait
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A common British soldier, painted barriers, and a small helicopter
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Laundry, shower and bathrooms, 2-1/2 minutes from my room
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Loading the luggage for the flight from Ali Al Saleem Air Base, Kuwait, to Baghdad, Iraq
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SGM Jay Rowley, me, COL Doug Rauh
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Same
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test shot for the group picture, too late to delete it now!
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The whole advance party
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The same group once again
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A C-17 blocking our way
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Same
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View out the right rear cockpit window of a C-130 in Kuwait
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Same window, just before the pilot lined up with the runway
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The "colorful" desert
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The pilot (he didn't let me fly)
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I understood most of these, but you are not surprised
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There is actually an occassional body of water
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closer
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closest
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Who is that good lookin' guy riding in the cockpit of another airplane?
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The other side of the cockpit
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Wiring/construction in our new Operations Center
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Another view
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More of the same
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This is the back of the trailer I will be working in, just about where I will be sitting
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A helicopter over my current location, a foam-sprayed tent
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The doorway (actually the picture is of the two "specks" aka helicopters
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A much better picture
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Signal Hill at sunset (lots of radio towers
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I like this view better
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I didn't take it, but not bad!
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A little fill flash will make the shadows go away