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How's the weather over there?
 
Its about 100 degrees F right now, during the day its between 120 and 140. If the humidity comes in off the Gulf though, then its brutal. I checked the heat index when we were at 50% humidity and it was off the chart. It would be 160-170 degrees, and we were sweating like it was that hot.:sheik:
 
OuuuHoooooo..... sounds fun. I know how that can be. I've been to the UAE in the middle of the summer. Then again it was worse on a carrier in the Gulf or the Inidan Ocean. BAD HUMIDITY. The black flight deck absorbs a lot of heat also. It gets even more interesting when you get trapped and you get hit by jet blast.:fire:
 
How long have you been in Kuwait and when do you get to leave?
Are you restricted to base?

Last August I spent time in Bahrain. The temp was in the upper teens. Some mornings the humidity was incredible. I didn't get to go swimming, but I stuck my arm in the water (Persian Gulf) and it was HOT!
 
I've been here about 3 months now. We have orders for year, but no real idea of when we can leave. We are kinda restricted to base, you can get out if you are sneaky. I here they are supposed to let up on that soon though. I would love to go to Bahrain, I've only heard good things about it. I'm hoping they lift the restriction soon, I talked to the guys who are in charge of the MWR boats and they have scube trips that we can sign up for through a local shop. If you fly out over the gulf you can see wrecks under the water from the plane.
 
I was in the Navy Reserve (retired now) and spent two weeks there last August. They had me working on the base seven days a week, 12 and 18 hour days, but I skipped some sleep time and ran around in town. Maybe things are different now with the political situation, but the people I met were real nice. Friendly and honest, no one acted hostile. There were some real nice restaurants. A lot of little sandwich shops (falaffel and shwarma). Dates were hanging off the trees free for the picking. A lot of fresh fruit juice stands. I really like the fresh pomeganite juice. It cost about $3 and took about five pomegranites to make. The gold souke was amazing to see. You wont see gold like that, for quantity, quality, and workmanship anywhere in the US. You can buy beer and liquor in the hotel bars. They sell beer on base. I took a tour out into the desert. Bahrain is famous for pearls and some of the guys went on a pearl dive tour. They were breath-hold diving and the water they were in was only about ten-feet deep. They found some little pearls, but said that you wouldn't want to eat the oysters because they were full of worms. Bahrain is a nice place and I heard that they get British tourists there in the winter when the weather is more comfortable. The tourists camp and hike out in the desert. There are low limestone hills out there with caves and ancient quarries and archological sites of old cities. There are a lot of places over there in the Persian Gulf region and Middle East that I would love to see. I wish that everyone could just take a break from all of this political crap and just get along.
 
Stay safe and I hope you can get some diving in while you are over there.
 
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