Army Deployments to Kuwait..

[DD214_DOC]

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Any thoughts or knowledge about why docs are still being deployed to here? The past few who have gone indicate that it's pretty boring and you don't really do much.

 

[Gastrapathy]

Quote from a friend on return from 6 months there circa 2005: It's 50% fat camp 50% minimum security prison.

 

[Goro]

Colleague, your post reminded me of a quote from an ex-Navy friend of mine, who served on a tin can in the Pacific in the early 1980s:

"It was like being in jail, with a chance of drowning".

Quote from a friend on return from 6 months there circa 2005: It's 50% fat camp 50% minimum security prison.

 

[usma05]

Because somebody has to be there for the appys and the testicular torsions...

Even Afghanistan deployments have slowed in terms of operative cases (which is what I care about for my specialty). while not on the same level as arifijan in kuwait, it's still a place where you have to push to prevent skills atrophy.

 

[Gastrapathy]

@Goro, your friend was paraphrasing Samuel Johnson. But true nonetheless.

 

[DD214_DOC]

But why is anyone else there to begin with?

 

[sonofva]

But why is anyone else there to begin with?

This can't be a serious question! We're always trying to maintain our footholds/staging areas for the next time we have to roll into Iraq-a-syr-a-Stan...

 

[sonofva]

Plus I hear they got a great swimming pool

 

[Combatdoc88]

Is kuwait still considered a combat zone (hazard, imminent danger pay, arm patch)?

 

[DD214_DOC]

This can't be a serious question! We're always trying to maintain our footholds/staging areas for the next time we have to roll into Iraq-a-syr-a-Stan...

No, I know. It was more of a vent than a serious question

 

[DD214_DOC]

Is kuwait still considered a combat zone (hazard, imminent danger pay, arm patch)?

I think it's still considered a combat deployment

 

[Shikima]

Combat fat camp....

 

[Zenman1]

Plus I hear they got a great swimming pool

And Chili's, Burger King, etc.

 

[trixmd]

And TWO Starbucks (at least they did in 2011)....

 

[DD214_DOC]

Because nothing beats a piping hot coffee in the middle of the desert

 

[Clap MD]

Combat fat camp....

"Coming this fall, on Fox..."

 

[jabreal00]

I think it's still considered a combat deployment

No it is not. I was there last year and we were the first brigade that did not receive the combat patch or pay. It still counts as a deployment, resetting one's dwell time if they are in theater for 90 days. You still get family separation and the tax exempt up to $80K.