Camp Taq A Ddum

We'll call it Camp TQ for short, it's much easier to say. This is Ty's home away from home. All the guys you met in the last post are stationed here as well. In the picture below you are looking at a large lake from the KBR village.
Welcome to KBR land. The shipping containers you see contain their supplies and the dry hooches are located in the back by that huge wall of sand and rock. Quite a view, isn't it? :)
The next two pictures are basically an entire overview of the KBR village.

These are called C huts. C huts are wooden buildings constructed quickly to house people that first arrive at Camp TQ until a dry hooch opens up. Oh, and let's not leave out the glorious view of the huge wall of sand and rock. :)

A close-up view of the C huts. Although they have a number of people living in them at one time, each person has their own private space separated off from the others. Okay, it's not really all that private, but it's as private as you can get in one building with 6-foot high wall partitions in between the small living spaces.

Welcome to Ty's first humble abode when arriving at Camp TQ. This is inside a C hut. As you can see from beside the bed, it's blocked off from the next space over with the 6-foot high piece of ply board. Personally, I think they should fire their interior design coordinator.

If you look closely you can see that cute little piece of carpet he bought to cushion the wooden floor. It may not be hard for those of you who see normal, but for those of us that have a color-deficiency, we have to really strain the eyeballs to see that beautiful shade of brown on brown. I mean, do they not have a pretty shade of blue to brighten one's mood? I get that we need to camouflage ourselves from the enemy, but this is inside. Please, somebody, spread a little ray of sunshine on the place with the blessed colors God gave us. Ty lived here for a whopping six weeks. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

He was thrilled one day to open a care package from the kids and I and discover an entire array of Christmas decorations. Obviously his ways of decorating were limited but I think he did well with what he had. Besides, I wasn't there to put my cute little spin on things. :) The locker is what held all of his clothes and personal belongings.

This is the wall in his C hut. His stocking arrived filled with goodies, along with the tag frame I made him. It was originally made to sit on something, but he didn't have much to sit it on so he managed to hang it on the wall instead.

In the midst of the holiday season, he was able to move to a dry hooch. As you can see, he has a little desk in it as well. In blogging this, I just noticed the empty peanut can he is using as a pencil holder. It is not altered. For those of you who do not scrap, you may not quite get this issue. However, if you scrap, then you totally get me and know that it can drive a scrappy person nutty to see such a thing. When I have a gazillion and one pieces of pretty patterned paper and lots of Mod Podge, there is absolutely no reason why he should be stuck using just an ordinary empty peanut can. Therefore, my newest goal in life is to alter him something cute to stick on his desk and ship to him ASAP. I will be sure to show you a picture when it's finished. :)

Even after Christmas was over, he did leave these lights up. This is his new locker, for lack of a better word, that stores most of his clothing and personal items.

The following things you will look at are called the MWR buildings. MWR stands for Morale, Wellness and Recreation. These buildings are supplied for KBR employees and KBR also supplies the military with these as well in their own separate area, however, they are allowed to use either one and hang out with each other. When they do have some spare time, they are able to enjoy these things as much as they can. This is the aerobic side of the gym.

This is the weight part of the gym and also the reason he was so buff when he got home. He enjoys the gym as much as he can to alleviate his stress and anxiety. There's nothing like having a bad day then going and hoisting around nearly 300 pounds on the bench.

These are the console gaming stations. They are supplied with Sony PlayStations, XBox 360s, etc.

The tall stalls you see in the back are the phone booths. This is where he goes every time he wants to call home. The shorter stalls in the front are computers with internet connection. They are allowed to use either one whenever they can, but are on a time limit to respect everyone else waiting in line.

You are looking at where they can go to get movies to watch and games to play. All of these are free, of course, unless you want to buy a soda or something.

Here are a few pool tables to enjoy and behind them are shelves of books for the guys to check out as well.

This is the big screen TV area set up like a mini theatre where they go to watch big sporting events like the Superbowl.

There you have it, folks, Ty's home away from home. Stay tuned...