Although I had a couple of offers for "the other place," I am going back to "home-away-from-home" Baghdad. :)
Well, plenty of Vehicle and Man(and woman) Borne IEDs going off there too. Again, don't forget your vest and always use the trauma plates.
Too bad they won't let you bring your own pistol rather than making you use the wimpy 9mm. I have a nice S&W in .45 Colt, short barrel, that might suit you, althoguh you might want different grips. Also a Dan Wesson in .357, but it's got a long barrel and is set up as a target pistol. Well actually I only have temp custody of them, they belong to a freind of my wife, who wants me to sell them for her. Shot the .357 on Friday. Sweet. Only double action revolver I could ever hit anything with in double action mode. Very smooth.