Mideast Notebook: Desperately seeking Toilet Paper- Daily life of our troops in Kuwait(exc. read)

European edition, Stars and Stripes ^ | Friday, February 21, 2003 | Joseph Giordono, Steve Liewer and Mark Oliva

[xzins]

Great stuff!

[dixiechick2000]

"Did you read the piece about the aviators? They LOVE to fight with safety guys!"

I didn't read the article (could you post a link, pretty please), but every Naval aviator that I knew thought they were as useless as a knife at a gunfight.

That is, until they were named Safety Officer. Then, it's a different story.;o)

IIRC, the Safety Officer was the most junior guy in the squadron...but I could be wrong. ;o)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[MeekOneGOP]

Short on T.P., huh? I have PLENTY that I am happy to share ...

More to come ...

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

[xzins]

It's in the article above...like the 3rd or 4th segment down.

Good hunting!

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you for directing folks to the Canteen petunia.

Freepers if you click on our link, look for the thread we ran February 20th which has the Chaplain's address at Camp Doha, Kuwait. Also, the February 12th thread has a list of all our service members and actual deployed freepers we are in contact with, who would appreciate your support through letters or care packages.

Have you visited the USO Canteen today?Come show some support for our Brave Soldiers and Sailors!!

Feel free to post your graphics, jokes, stories and prayers for our wonderful Armed Forces! Click the graphic to enter the Canteen

[snippy_about_it]

Looks like we need to start packing TP! BTW, see beth's newest creation at post 28.

[johnb838]

Yes, I got the impression that the EMERGENCY emergency backup might be Stars & Stripes itself. Is that what you are saying?

[Calpernia]

THANK YOU Wolverine! I am on this!!!! :)

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping snippy....Bttt

[dixiechick2000]

Doh! I read about the helo pilots. For some reason when you mentioned "pilots", I thought of fixed-wing pilots and I thought you were referring to another article.

Thanks and please forgive my temporary insanity.

At least, I hope it's temporary...

[Wolverine]

Fortunately, the funnies are not in color.

[xzins]

I was chaplain for the famous nightstalker helo unit for 3 years of my 20 year career. Not only are they pilots, but these yardbirds call their choppers "airplanes."

They're the greatest group of Americans assembled in this era. Wonderful unit.

NSDQ!!

[lewislynn]

Next to toilet paper, the hottest commodity in the Europe-based V Corps units is Stars and Stripes. Reporters in the field are bombarded with requests for the paper, which is slow to arrive and scarce once it gets here. Since televisions are virtually nonexistent and there is no Internet access at places like Camp Udairi, Stars and Stripes is the only source of news for most of the troops.

With a shortage of TP it's not likely you'll want to pick up any old Stars and Stripes laying around.

U.S. Central Command in Tampa purchases the papers from Stars and Stripes and decides how many each unit will get and which units will get them.

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They believe they, and not some desk jockey back at HQ, ought to decide how low or high they need to fly to get the job done.

Does any of this remind anyone else of McNamara and Viet Nam?

There's absolutely no reason for any shortages for our troops.