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Before I deployed to Iraq, various people offered me advice on what I should bring. One guy even sent me a long printout of various tactical gear, fancy clothes, pricey flashlights, cool sunglasses, desert boots, high tech underwear, etc. Now that I’ve been here over a month, I’m glad I ignored all that bullshit. If it weren’t for the crap that the army requires me to have, I would have been able to live happily out of one suitcase for the entire year. It turns out that a lot of people here have footlockers in their trailer, jam-packed with unused and unneeded gear.
The anti-boyscout reality, as expressed by Ray Jardine: "If I need it, and I don’t have it, then I don’t need it."
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