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Nothing like more photos of the kids right? And I still have one more set after this one. I picked out 4 to show below. There’s about 59 photos total. Click here to see them all. They’re a good mix of kids posing for the camera and from us handing out donations.

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Of all the months we spent in country, seeing camels never happened until the very end of our tour. We payed the locals in food and school supplies in exchange for messing around with them. The camels didn’t mind us until we took turns riding. Boy did they vocally object. Here are two videos of our adventure. You can also see pictures from the event here. There’s about 27 in total.

Feeding Joe Camel from Sour Swinger on Vimeo.

Feeding Joe Camel some crackers from our MREs.

Camel Riding from Sour Swinger on Vimeo.

Everyone takes turn getting on top of the camel. Each time the camel gets madder and madder.

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Throughout most of our area of operations, you could see the Ziggurat. What exactly is the ziggurat was a topic of discussion as each interpreter gave me a different semi unsure answer. According to wikipedia: Ziggurats were massive monuments built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

When time was available, my platoon decided to make a pit stop to check out the Ziggurat. After setting up a 360 perimeter, we sent groups of soldiers up armed with their cameras. This was the one and only time I actually felt like a tourist. It didn’t take long for kids to show up from the local village wondering what we were doing. It was pretty amazing to see something so old and yet still standing. One thing you won’t get to experience in the United States. Below are a couple more pics from our trip. Click here to see the entire set. There’s about 35 total.

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Here is the second set of pictures from Camp Liberty. All pictures are from within the base. I picked 4 to show below. Click here to see the entire set. There’s about 51 pics total.

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