At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine
A segregated latrine in Iraq.
FOB WARHORSE, Iraq — The sign taped to the men's latrine is just five lines:
"US
MILITARY
CONTRACTORS
CIVILIANS
ONLY!!!!!"
It needed only one: "NO IRAQIS."
Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis — including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in the same tents as U.S. troops — must use segregated bathrooms.
Another sign, in a dining hall, warns Iraqis and "third-country nationals" that they have just one hour for breakfast, lunch or dinner. American troops get three hours. Iraqis say they sometimes wait as long as 45 minutes in hot lines to get inside the chow hall, leaving just 15 minutes to get their food and eat it.
It's been nearly 60 years since President Harry Truman ended racial segregation in the U.S. military. But at Forward Operating Base Warhorse it's alive and well, perhaps the only U.S. military facility with such rules, Iraqi interpreters here say. LinkHere
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 8:35 PM
1 Comments:
stop and think for a sec there could be an insurgent in there using a cell phone to target troops hiding in a bathroom stall is common so dont try to drag race in this and as far as chow halls are concerned i think the men and women who spend upwards of six hours plus doing patrols and quite often only get one or maybe two meals a day deffinately earned more time than the locals who live on the fob who get three oh and if they eat at midnight four meals a day wether it be in the chow hall or to go they get more than me so take it for what its worth and as far as trying to make this a race thing i think you need to go take a hike and think before you start typing these blogs
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