We arrived here at Kuwaiti Naval Base around noon, and the more of this place I experience, the better I feel. It’s so relaxed here, and the amenities so abundant, it makes Al-Asad seem like a po-dunk hole in the ground. Which it is. And really so is this place, it’s just a form of culture shock, I guess, coming out of the field for so long, spending so much time in horrible little Marine Corps FOBs.

Life is good.