I wish the old "ilovebagram.com" website still existed. That site was funny as hell, I think it has been taken over by the Taliban (visit if you dare).
I wonder what has become of the old
USO Pat Tillman Center as well, that was the strangest thing to see in the middle of
District 9*: a vaguely Germanic Alpenhut-type building right where you get off the plane that brought you there.
Ah, good thymes. Nah, I am lying. Bagram sucked, I am so glad I wasn't stationed there and was only passing through to other destinations. Always felt bad for the guys in our unit that got stuck there.
I had the rare pleasure of staying in shitty tents like those, only dirtier. I think those were "cleaned up" for the photo-op.
*Our flight crews called it "District 9" because that is what it looked like from the air.
Seriously, I
seent-
it with my own eyes. Parts of the base were indistinguishable from the above still from the movie.
