What is daily life in a Marine Corps base in Iraq like?

Question

What is daily life in a Marine Corps base in Iraq like?

Answer 1

It's like gat gat boom boom kaboom allalaaa death :(

Answer 2

Been all over there. Its BORING. There is amenities that vary by base or FOB. But mainly you have a phone center and internet service. Or whatever personal sources of entertainment that you bring. Its hot in the summer, chilly in the winter, sometimes rainy. There are mortar attacks here and there. Basically it sucks.

Answer 3

depends on where you are station. i cant completly tell you what it was like because i have never been. however my husband has and i have read his letters and talked to him about what he experianced over there.

what he experianced over there was nothing like anyone else. everyones experiance is different. my husbands was probably the hardest for me.

he was stationed at the abu ghriab prison. his USMC unit went there to help smooth over the doings of the Army mp unit that is accused of toturing prisoners. my husbands unit was "lucky" enough to get there right as the story hit the press. five months after it really happen. however, all the press reported was it just happened. so they assumed who did it was stationed there now. unbenost to the general public that was not the case.

my husband was stationed at the prison. he stood in the towers every day with mortar whizzing by his ears. there are others things he told me, but i cant repeat them. all i can say is he said he had never been that close to death before. but being in a war you have to expect that. just not the egging on our cars, the threating letters in my mail box, or the verbal abuse in public from people who knew where my husband was. i could watch him every day on cnn or fox and see he was alive. knowing he was there to try to help the situation and the media reported they were the ones who did it.

so everyones is different. i have heard of guys who have never left base or fired a weapon. while my husband ran out of ammo EVERY NIGHT trying to keep people from attacking the prison.  

Answer 4

It really depends on the job. Here's a letter Time has posted(real or not), virtually anyone who's been to Iraq(any force) can relate to.