you can't strike camp without camp striker

Well, the "surge" is beginning, I think. I haven't really seen too many new soldiers around yet, but they've been solidly working on a new pad over by the gate to Striker. A pad is part of a LSA, or life support area. Essentially, it is a small piece of the pie that forms this ghetto that we live in. Seriously, it's a ghetto. We are blocked into a small part of the city, unable to go out, we are completely self sufficient, all of us have a shared commonality and we're forced to wear an identifying symbol. Let's not forget that we're in a war zone, also.
Anyway, rumor once had it that we were going to move into this new pad, but I'm hoping that we don't. Even though we're technically living below standard (a prisoner at Supermax gets more space than I do), it's better where we're at than in the horrid little housing units on the new pad. Right now we live in three unit "CHU's, " or containerized housing units, with three people to a room. It's not too bad. Actually, it's a lot like college, except we have guns. Unfortunately, we don't have the parties or the booze.
The units that are currently being built are nothing more than shipping containers with a door and a window. I'm not even sure that they are the usual size of eight by twenty. So this is where I live now:

And hopefully they don't make us move here:

crapland

And this is my current room:

note the improvised computer table

all my worldly possessions, in this one little box

This is why they call it Camp Striker (I think):

Stryker Combat Vehicles

And this is a shot of our dining facility (hence the DFAC sign):

it's a really big place

In other news, I guess Ruby is up to his usual shenanigans, what with him denying OJ a table over the weekend. That even made news over here. I'm waiting to see if it pops up in "Stars and Stripes," our daily circular. Even some people over here that know where I work have asked me, "hey, isn't that your boss?" And I reply, "yeah, that's Ruby, alright." Speaking of, I found this on the net not too long ago:

PS, this was really cute: