Camp Victory mud knows no bounds

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Two U.S. soldiers wade through a wet, muddy parking lot Friday afternoon at Camp Liberty, Iraq. Last week's rainfall brought mucky, sloppy conditions back to most areas across the country.


Camp Victory mud knows no bounds
By Vince Little, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, January 28, 2008

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — A longtime nemesis resurfaced this week on battlefields and U.S. bases in Iraq.

It’s rained on and off lately. And it’ll take at least a week — if there’s no more precipitation — to get rid of that thick, gooey, stinkin’ mud.

Until you’ve experienced it firsthand, many people say, it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.

Descriptions are as copious as the muck itself. Some call it chocolate pudding, peanut butter and flour all rolled into one, only far nastier. It weighs down boots and coats them up like caramel on an apple, and it doesn’t come off easily.

People use sticks, brushes and metal grates and slam their boots onto concrete walls to knock the clumps away. Nothing seems to help.


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