Sounds like you’re describing HELL!...I went to Iraq and I thought that was Hell. Maybe they are just sections of a larger overall area!
They are sections of a larger overall area: the middle east. What a place. We made a PILE of money from ARAMCO but five years was WAY enough. We wanted home, home, home.
I came to believe that if children survived all that middle east-ness, NOTHING short of a silver bullet would kill them.
The Saudis didn't live long lives. If you THOUGHT a guy "looked" 45 years old, he was probably only 30 years old. It ages people quickly and not in a good way.
Thank you for serving.