Gym in Iraq Better than Texas?

WTF?

Published on January 26, 2005 By greywar In Health & Medicine

The gym here is incredible folks. It is in a tent sure but the folks who set it up knew how to utilize space. Frankly it puts the gym back at West Fort Hood to shame. KBR should run everything!

P.S. Fuck I am out of shape!

Comments (Page 1)

Sturgee

on Jan 26, 2005

Careful Greywar! Remember, the anti-Bush/Cheney/Haliburton folks might hear you, and Lord forbid that anybody would say anything positive about a Haliburton subsidiary. The only thing we are supposed to hear is how they overcharge for their services and products, and then don't even always deliver. You might burst their bubble if you start revealing that they do an AWESOME job of it, which is why they get single-source non-competed contracts. Nobody else has their experience doing it, and unlike the Federal Gov't, which has a monopoly on many services, and can therefore fuck you if they want (read my blog on Immigration Services), KBR/Haliburton actually strives to retain and gain contracts, so they do a good job. What a concept.

oleteach

on Jan 26, 2005

Good to see you blogging...even a very short one. When are you going to tell us the whole sodden tale of your escape from Kuwait? You were surprised to find out you are out of shape? Go for that gym stuff on a regular basis if your duties permit and you will come home lean and trim. I can't wait...to see you again...that is.

Kemimas

on Jan 26, 2005

The gymn may be better in Iraq, but dammit, Texas is still BIGGER.

pseudosoldier

on Jan 26, 2005

Egregious told me some stories from when he was in Kuwait... since there's no chance he'll post them here (he is illiterate, you know), I'll relate a shortened version of a relevant one.
Seems that some locals had been hired to build the base's gym. However, these guys had no idea what to do to set one up. They knew what exercise equipment was, mind you, they just didn't know what the average GI might want, what sort of machines, preference for free weights, whathaveyou. So, they ask this truck driver. See, the truck driver just happened to be an Arab-American with absolute proficiency with the language. He winds up running around base asking guys who have been bitching about not having a gym what they want, and then relaying this info back to the workers.
I hear it was a damn fine gym. (E also said that's how they built the Jr. Enlisted Club, too. "Make the dance floor bigger, take out that stupid railing, where's the bar?")

Glad to see you're actually making it to the inside of the gym. I guess there's no beer to go with the XBox over there (unlike Germany) to hold you back.

Spc Nobody Special

on Jan 27, 2005

And making it better than the gym here would be a challenge how, exactly? Suprised to hear you're working out, but 'tween gym time and no beer calories, it'd be awful damn funny if you came back hard and surprised the hell out of everybody.......

ummmmmm.......hard as in hard core and buffed up of course, not any other kind of trying to avoid the horrible mental image hard, yeah.

(glances upward at psuedo and waits for the damned pun to fall...........)

pseudosoldier

on Jan 27, 2005

I wonder if he'll ever tell us about the last trip he took where he went to the gym a lot... and managed to gain "body fat" according to the Army, even though he was getting in pretty good shape...

chiprj

on Jan 27, 2005

ummmmmm.......hard as in hard core and buffed up of course, not any other kind of trying to avoid the horrible mental image hard, yeah.

We used to say we were hard like criminals in Haiti...

evilPidge

on Jan 28, 2005

P.S. Fuck I am out of shape!

And the award for the biggest understatement of 2005 goes to.... Greywar!

SSG Geezer

on Jan 29, 2005

BWAHA!@Pidge!
Gee do the job well and have the ability to get the right people in the right place....Hmmm, maybe they should run the Army's S-1s?

Estrogen Lass

on Jan 30, 2005

You're not out of shape, honey.....

pseudosoldier

on Jan 30, 2005

You're not out of shape, honey.....

Clearly, you fed her some moonshine or some such, and she's blind now. Way to go, jerk.

Estrogen Lass

on Jan 30, 2005

Clearly, you fed her some moonshine or some such, and she's blind now. Way to go, jerk.

I married him didnt I? Duh.

pseudosoldier

on Jan 30, 2005

I married him didnt I? Duh.

And there it is. The tell-tale "Duh."

(Now I've confused myself: Okay, she's blind, he's stupid... right.)

Estrogen Lass

on Jan 30, 2005

How does that make him stupid? I am confu-sed as well now. : )

pseudosoldier

on Feb 01, 2005

Got my threads crossed. There's another topic laying around where someone pointed out how much he drinks, and how much of his brain it must have killed (I think estimates were around 243%).

By no means would I call him stupid for convincing you to marry him. Smartest thing he ever did, IMO.

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