OTHER RAMBLING MEMORIES OF KUWAIT, OR WERE THEY JUST DREAMS?
As I prepare to leave Kuwait and continue on with my memories of our travel and adventures, I am going to leave you with some ramblings of my feeble mind. I was about to pass over some of these “memories”,…
MY OPINION OF WHERE OUR WORLD IS GOING – AUGUST 2020
Will (Ariel) Durant once said “No great civilization has ever been conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within”. Prophetic, no? Where does it apply today. I guess unless you reside under a rock. You can see an…
A TURKEY SHOOT IN KUWAIT – 1991
As I mentioned earlier the group I was assigned to was in charge of rebuilding and restarting the “gathering centres” and “tank farms”. And this post is of a memory of my time spent working on these gathering centres. These…
AND THEN “BIG WIND” ARRIVES FROM HUNGARY – Q8 1991
Let’s say that at just past the midpoint, of the projected schedule for the firefighting efforts. In about October of 1991, we contracted the services of a wild well control group out of Hungary. And I must say, that the…
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…
