Pray for our Military men snd women.
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02/28/26 01:35 PM
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Although, some of them may not wanting to be there, they are doing their duty in what they are trained to do. So far it is reported no U S. Casualties.
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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02/28/26 04:32 PM
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Aaron Proffitt
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Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is , for all intents and purposes, a vacation spot. Especially after coming out of the mountains.
That said , seeing the Patriot sites and the B-Ones taking off to make a grid square disappear definitely puts it in perspective.
Fun thought...in Afghanistan, you could get a BLT with legit bacon, but not a beer. In Qatar, you could have a beer but not bacon. Weird
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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03/01/26 12:19 PM
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It has been reported three American Soldiers haven been killed. May God take them into his arms and God bless their families.
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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Continued prayer for all in harms way.
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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Aaron Proffitt
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CENTCOM ( Fifth Fleet HQ) has an enormous footprint. Even the intelligence buildings ( SCIF) are easily recognizable both from the road and by satellite.
Conversely, at Al-Udeid AB in Qatar , the sensitive containment buildings are purposely designed to hide. They don’t even throw shadows . From satellite imagery, they look like a mostly empty lot and are self contained complete with their own PX and chow hall. Which is great because nobody wants to go outside in Qatar until around 10:00 PM or so. The heat is oppressive. That is when I’d usually get my runs in.
News from the region is definitely bringing back memories.
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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CENTCOM ( Fifth Fleet HQ) has an enormous footprint. Even the intelligence buildings ( SCIF) are easily recognizable both from the road and by satellite.
Conversely, at Al-Udeid AB in Qatar , the sensitive containment buildings are purposely designed to hide. They don’t even throw shadows . From satellite imagery, they look like a mostly empty lot and are self contained complete with their own PX and chow hall. Which is great because nobody wants to go outside in Qatar until around 10:00 PM or so. The heat is oppressive. That is when I’d usually get my runs in.
News from the region is definitely bringing back memories. Indeed it is Aaron. When were you in Qatar? I lived about 200 miles southeast of you in Muscat, Oman. Was there supporting our B-2's in 2002. I was in contact with the Qatar command post daily. Yes, at 10:00 pm it was manageable to be outside - because the temperature was only 100 degrees and the humidity would dip below 90% for a while. ol' dad
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Re: Pray for our Military men snd women.
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Aaron Proffitt
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CENTCOM ( Fifth Fleet HQ) has an enormous footprint. Even the intelligence buildings ( SCIF) are easily recognizable both from the road and by satellite.
Conversely, at Al-Udeid AB in Qatar , the sensitive containment buildings are purposely designed to hide. They don’t even throw shadows . From satellite imagery, they look like a mostly empty lot and are self contained complete with their own PX and chow hall. Which is great because nobody wants to go outside in Qatar until around 10:00 PM or so. The heat is oppressive. That is when I’d usually get my runs in.
News from the region is definitely bringing back memories. Indeed it is Aaron. When were you in Qatar? I lived about 200 miles southeast of you in Muscat, Oman. Was there supporting our B-2's in 2002. I was in contact with the Qatar command post daily. Yes, at 10:00 pm it was manageable to be outside - because the temperature was only 100 degrees and the humidity would dip below 90% for a while. ol' dad Ol' Dad, I was there from 2012-2013 as part of Obama's shell game. When he made his speech about the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, he made it sound like we were all coming home. Naw. Most of us were redesignated and assigned a different "administrative control (adcon)" . So, every few months, I'd fly from Kandahar to Al-Udeid to sign some papers , make a showing and fly back. Along with 20,000 other troops . Some would go to Kuwait, some to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and some of us to Qatar. That desert humidity was a very strange phenomenon. I hear Oman was the place to be. Still hot as blazes, though.
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