The gate into Kuwait. This is after the ground war was over and things were almost getting back to normal for that tiny country. As you can see there was a lot of damage to just about everything. The haze is from the oil fires.

March 1991.

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Actually the only "bathroom" I saw was in the last week in Saudi when we were housed in an officers' barracks near the coast awaiting our jet out of there. At the ASPs the bath was not usually near the head (toliet facilitie). In fact we tried to keep the head away from everything. That little shack was the all plywood construction, not too unlike a campground out house. Except you had a really nice 360 degree view. Hey you CANNOT pay for that kind of luxury. There were 3 to 6 "seats" sometimes even complete with American style toliet rims nailed to them.

What's burning? Well lets just say that there was no plumbing and no septic tank, just a hole and a cut up 55-gallon steel drum. Once it was at capacity, shall we say, our keeper of the gates of hell, Cpl Mobley, got to drag it out and away, add a little fuel and watch the concotion burn for hours. And hours. And hours.

Off in the distance you can see two of the special shelters built for the civilian ammo inspectors.

ASP #3, near Al Mishab, March or April 1991.

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