[mickie]

Can't figure this out, doubt that it is true.

How can this be true when the USA is spending how many billion of dollars a week in Iraqi.....and there are American troops sleeping where?

[Enterprise]

I received a thank you note from a soldier in Iraq I had sent some things to. Part of the note is this: My team consists of 6 people. We don't live on the main base. We live in an abandoned house in ______________ . " The point being is that this group is unlikely to have beds and couches supplied for them. There are any number of other troops who probably don't have permanent housing due to the mission needs and the need to move them around on occasion.

[brushcop]

You would be amazed at the needs of combat soldiers and Marines. I'm talking about the COMBAT troops, not the mainbase, support areas. Don't you know that it has always been a tradition that the Infantry (soldiers or Marines) get what's left over? Sheesh! Send those mats anyway and flood the troops.

Dad of a combat Infantryman.

[WTSand]

Poncho and a liner. Standard grunt sleeping gear.