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also have a tennis court and an inground swimming pool here. Yeah, I know - you thought I was living in some God-forsaken desert, and here I am living the “good” life. Not that “good”, when you consider that at any moment we can be called out to fight, and all our amenities here won’t mean squat then.

The reason we have all these perks is because our compound is where the 44th Medical Brigade is located. That means lots of brass (higher ranking officers), and they always get to live well. Our job is to provide perimeter security for this compound, and to provide area security for the smaller units of the Brigade, out in their areas around Dammam. Sort of like your local neighborhood patrol work. If the war were to start, we would then run an EPW (Enemy Prisoner of War) holding area - that’s one step below a PW camp. A dangerous job, but still