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Getting snacks and coffee via care packages is nice, but sometimes what you really need is a little personal space in the middle of a war zone.
Depending on your rank and branch of service, you get more luxuries. The standard grunt in the formation, however, gets a bunk and a foot or two of space that you share with everyone else in your tiny tent.
Here are the little ways troops try to make their bunk their own, despite the conditions.
1. Hard drive full of movies and TV shows
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There’s basically nothing to do on your downtime while deployed. Shocker, I know.
Everyone picks up a hard drive so they can pull movies off of each other. After a while, everyone in the unit has pretty much the same collection. So, troops will start by watching everything they care to watch… and then they’ll finish by watching everything they don’t.
2. Extra tough boxes
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When you’re trying to set up your “space,” you’ll need more storage than just your duffle bag.
Tough boxes serve multiple purposes in addition to being a place for all your crap: Table, desk, chair, an end table to place family photos, a divider to cordon off your side of the tent — whatever’s clever.
3. Cameras
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It’s not just the combat cameramen who get into photography while deployed. Plenty of troops take photos so they can try to make the “most perfect deployment video ever!”
Every photo is basically just the guys hanging out — an average day while doing military stuff. Rarely do troops capture the awesome combat videos they dream up. If you do, the CO will scrub it down. If they don’t, you’ll probably put “Bodies” by Drowning Pool in the background.
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