I was in S.Arabia for a tour of 6 months just after GW1. The main thing that gets you is utter boredom and not being able to get away from shop-talk. It's very easy to slip into using shopping as your main recreation, because everything is a 'bargain'. Then you get the excess baggage check on the way out, after spending all your per diem on gizmos and carpets! I used to go to BAe ladies bingo nites
, fished in the Red Sea, watched every Tom and Jerry ever made!
Community service in what is still a fundamentalist muslim community? Respect, but No Way Pedro!
