This is what they call a B-Hut, it's basically a home (or a fancy fort for a 12 year old) made of 4x8 sheets of plywood. Yes you can imagine it's thermal properties mirror that of plywood, so hot outside=hot inside.
As you can see these are everywhere. At one point they said these were to be just a quick temporary lodging for soldiers and/or office space till we got something more permanent, I think I heard that statement back in 2004.....
This is what it looks like inside, ours has 8 rooms and we are really lucky that we each get or own room, a lot of the other people are 2 to a room.
Here is a panoramic shot of the room, left is the wall next to the front door to the building, far right is the side of the building. It really is not that bad, it's more room than I am used to. The photo does not show that the interior walls of the building don't go all the way to the ceiling so there are sheets to block the light, but not the sound. It is a 24/7 quite zone in my room.
This is a 300# bomb that they found digging about 60-70' from my room, they work us up and made us evacuate (how rude) but EOD found out that it did not have any explosives in it and they thought that it was an old Russian bomb and that it is safe. You can also see how close the flight line is, and yes this is less than 15' from my B-Hut.
OK well it's bed time for me, I hope you all enjoy the update, I have more to post but will have to wait for more time. Aloha!
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