THE EFFECTS OF KUWAIT ON MY MENTAL HEALTH 1991
In this article I am going to examine a couple of the “facts”. These, nurtured in my head, while in Kuwait, during the period immediately after the war. My “facts” are of my own creation. They helped me form an…
A LONG STIFLED RANT “HEY LOOK AT ME” – Q8 1991
During the process of writing my Posts for the Kuwait portion of my life, something was gnawing at me, like a rat, in the base of my guts. At first I did not recognize the issue. It was as if…
BEING BEAT WITH THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS – Q8 1991
Some of my most vivid memories are of things that are now pretty mundane and of little consequence, however, at the time they were stuck solidly in my mind and have remained there until this day. These are short snips…
THE LARGEST PLANE IN THE WORLD LANDS TO BRING US SOME HEAVY EQUIPMENT.
This next little post I am writing as an opinion piece. It deals with an incident that helped form my opinion of this place over the time, I remained on this assignment in Kuwait. At one point we managed to…
MY FIRST TURN AROUND COMES AND I’M GOING HOME
Part of the deal when accepting this assignment was that we would work 30 days in. Followed by, a two week break to our point of origin all paid for. Our hours were unlimited but we were paid during our…
UNDER ATTACK BY A “COKE” PILE
It all happened about mid morning, while everyone was busy. Unbeknownst to us, the Kuwaitis had rolled in, one of their tanks. They moved it up close to our offices. Then drew bead on a pile of coke that had…
THE BOREDOM OF WORK IN A WORLD ON FIRE.
We were broken into groups. Each one charged with securing materials, equipment and services. Anything and everything, that would be required to put out the fires and return the oilfield to normal operations. An unbelievably mind staggering task. We were…
BITE DOWN AND OFF YOU GO TO WORK
Once taken to the worksite offices, the full magnitude of what we were dealing with became a shocking reality. We were in a trailer type office complex, in the middle of 600 wild wells (fires) and about 250 wells that…
YOU WEREN’T SCARED WERE YA – KUWAIT 1991
On my arrived in Kuwait I had no idea of what to expect. Other than the MEMORY. That at each stage of the way. Someone was trying to scare the crap outta me. It worked very well I might add.…
I’M OFF TO A WAR ZONE – KUWAIT – JUNE 1991
As I did throughout my career, once I was focused on and committed to an assignment. I pretty much lost sight of everything else around me. To say I developed tunnel vision was, perhaps, an understatement. My whole life became…
