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Article: Texas Navy reservists are counting the days amid sun, sand _ and little else.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2004
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Byline: Gretel C. Kovach
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait _ The Texas Navy reservists arrived in the Kuwait desert in the hottest time of the year. They were greeted by a sandstorm that obliterated the sun, but not the heat or the homesickness.
By the time the next sand blast arrived a month later, the cargo handlers, fuel specialists and postal clerks of Forward Group Bravo, Naval Expeditionary Logistics Support Force barely blinked behind their tinted goggles.
They are getting used to working in the 120-degree heat, to the steady drone of the generators cooling their tents and the bite of petrochemicals in the air. But the 470 sailors sent to work for ...