One of the favorite lines in country was
"what ypu gonna do to me send me to Nam, sir?. The big problem with Iraq right now is that the troops there can not tell the enemy from Iraqi civilians. Now the grunts on teh ground want to be rotated home. The 3rd ID and the Marine who did most of teh war fighting are figuring it is time for someone else to have a go at it. The disparity of accomodations between senior officers and the grunts (do they still use that term?) will really piss off the grunts. It is one thing to eat cold food niot have a regular shower and be living with the insect bites. It is a whole different situation if one sees somebody living in the lap of luxury. The logistics of resupply should damn well be working and e-mail is mail damn it. The troops should have the ability to send and recieve e-mail now. It does not take a whole lot of resources to allow them this. It used to be one could take a piece of cardboard wrapping rats and scrawl a note on it write free in teh corner with teh address and it would get home. E-mail fills taht function now and if teh troops are not getting it then somebody senior should be gettijng their butt in a sling.
Yes it si posible to live well at even a relatively primitive base and one caqn maintain at least reasonable hygene in the field but the time is limited without resupply. one can put up with bug bites whuile one is out in the bush or whatever it is called these rdays but whenit is day in day out patroling from a base that base shoud have at least some facilities for baths, decent food, bug bite lotion and bug repelent.
Iraq is not high intensity combat all they have to do is bring teh damn supplies in.
Get the guys who have done the job alrready home and put some other troopds in to pacify the Iraqis.
Yep, by now they should have "habitablity trailers" with showers and so on set up everywhere. There is no excuse at this point for our guys to still be living on the ground with no email or mail, etc.