Chris' Deployment Journal

To be fair, the Kirkuk Regional Air Base (KRAB) is our life blood. They are the big base in town, with several thousand soldiers and we are but a tiny patrol base, the last one in the city actually (they're closing smaller bases as the Iraqi people take more and more control of their own country), with only a few hundred soldiers. The folks over there keep us in parts and fuel for our patrol base's Humvees, cook our food, make sure we're paid, make sure our weapons work properly, and generally support us in all sorts of ways. But still, we hate the KRAB.