Comments on: March 18, 2003

By: Old War Dogs

Old War Dogs — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:46:53 +0000

Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.18

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By: Bill's Bites

Bill's Bites — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:46:02 +0000

March 18, 2003

March 18, 2003 Critter In the middle of the afternoon, I was dozing in a little hollow in the sand, my head on a sandbag in the shade of the maintenance deuce and a half. Spec. Willie Cooke, who drove

By: Jules Crittenden

Jules Crittenden — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:29:35 +0000

Camp Nowhere … they had moved out of Camp New York several weeks earlier to make room for the 101st, and had set up on empty desert in somewhat rougher camps … no communication with the outside world, no PX, no rec rooms. Lots of piss tubes … 2nd Brigade called its place Camp Spartans. 4/64 was Camp Tusker, A Co was Camp Assassins. It was out in the vicinity of New York, heading toward the Udairi range. The minute we left, those places ceased to exist.

Re Kentucky Crittendens, no. At that time, my people owned a pub about 10 miles from the hamlet of Crittenden in Kent, UK.

By: CavMedic

CavMedic — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:48:38 +0000

Maybe I missed it, but what camp in Kuwait was this?

During this same time frame I was sitting in the old 1950s barracks at Ft. Stewart eating Chinese delivery, watching CNN and wondering if they were going to ever send us to the desert or if we were just going to be sent home. We had about another month until we were told-rather suddenly-to get ready for the flight which took us to Kuwait via Delaware and Moron, Spain.

I’m loving the look back Jules. BTW, I was at Shiloh NMP on Friday and saw that one of the Union generals was named Crittenden. Any relation?