Tuesday, September 23, 2008

400 Joes/ 8 Showers = Funk

Not content with the indignities of port-a-johns, we shower in trailers here. Our little corner of the FOB houses around 400 soldiers and airmen ("Joes"- soldiers and airmen is too long. Also, the air force uses "airmen" as a gender neutral term. No feminist hate mail, to me at least, please.) Anyway, we 400 Joes (also gender neutral. cool your heels.) have 5 shower trailers, 8 showers a trailer, assigned to us. So, on a good day, 10 Joes per shower.

Tonight, on my way to getting all fresh and clean, I saw one long line and four signs on four trailers. "Closed until further notice." No further explanation. Awesome.

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