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> It is very much like being in prison, except that I am not afraid of my fellow inmates.

I don't know - our fellow FOB inmates (Afghan security forces) kept turning on us and shooting people.

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My buddy had to shoot their translator. Funny how you don’t see things like that on the news.

Whoa, more details? That’s wild.

I’m probably not supposed to.... but... Their guy took them to a spot, they camped out, he came back with an AK that night, he wasn’t supposed to, they saw him coming from the wrong direction, he raised the rifle up, one or two of them watched the whole thing through NODs. They found out other info on the guy later.

This sort of thing has also happened to a general.[1] It's the nature of guerrilla warfare.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_J._Greene

I remember that being a huge concern between my second and third deployments, but this was several years ago. Is the green on blue still a common problem? Sexual assaults used to occur in a higher frequency than you would suspect in FOB environments particularly around certain NATO allies as well.

Even with these insider threats and the periodic rocket attacks daily life was still hopelessly dull. I remember people willing to cut off their arms to experience the misery of combat just to get off the FOB.

This was years ago, but we even lost our Regimental Sergeant Major (our equivalent of Command Sergeant Major) to it so nobody was safe.

Yup. Fobbit life is sleepy as hell until green on blue breaks out. This is why you carry guns to your desk job.

> Fobbit life is sleepy as hell

What does FOB mean to you people? In the UK military a FOB is a little base with maybe twenty to a hundred people in, planted in an area surrounded by the enemy, designed for you to patrol out from it and dominate the ground. Sleepy wasn't how I'd describe it. Sleep-less more like. I worked 16 hour days for seven months and dealt with people being killed and maimed daily.

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