Camp Buering

Camp Buering is a good-sized base in Kuwait. It is in the middle of nowhere, but on top of a lot of oil. This place wasn't around for our Intrinsic Action rotation in 1997, but this place is much nicer. We pretty much had just junk tents back then, and we had to burn our own poo. Buering is significantly better- Soldiers sleep in fortified tents with heat/AC (they can hold up to 85, so it gets a bit of a funk going), they have three giant chow halls that serve four times a day, they have a big gym, some rec centers, and we shower in trailers. Remarkably, all water (really everything) is trucked to this place daily. I am told the camp can hold up to 15,000-20,000. They do have some fast food joints, you can pay $12/week for really bad wireless internet, there is an internet cafe and some AT&T phones, and the USO has a fantastic facility here.

Plug: If you want to support the troops, then donate to the USO, the money is well spent. The USO tent here has *free* phone calls to the US, an internet cafe, TVs with sports, video games, books, games and card tournaments, and a decor that doesn't look like a tent (nice furniture, real walls, etc). They also have a cool program where you can pick out a book to read to your child and a place to record it on video, then they give you the book, the video of you reading it to your child, and an envelope to mail it home. All for free. The people who work there are always friendly, and they do a fantastic job of supporting Soldiers.

Around Buering is.....nothing. Literally. Imagine the most barren desert, this one is more barren. There are some ranges we shoot and train on, and there are bedouins and camels. And blowing trash (Kuwaiti wildlife). That's it.

Thanks for reading- see ya.
Ron