The Porta Potty
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The things left out of history.

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TPPC-2016-DEU-0112

Grafenwoehr 2016 Joint Service

Frozen by Morning

By morning the door had frozen shut. This was considered a maintenance issue, not a crisis.

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Al Asad Airbase · 2010 Collection study

“Every new rotation added a line. Half the wall was advice. The other half was corrections to the advice.”

Northern Iraq · 2007 2 min read

“We moved the command post three times that summer. Somehow, this thing beat us to every location.”

Eastern Afghanistan · 2011 2 min read

“It was the only place on the outpost where nobody outranked anybody.”