Big nasty boogers

Big nasty boogers

            Like what we blow out of our noses now and then

The time was after the Desert Storm war. I was still in Kuwait.

            The situation was having to breath the often oil laced air from the many oil well  fires set in Kuwait. Worse case I could hold my hand up in front of me and not even see it at 1400 in the afternoon.  So it was pretty bad. Like we often ended up often wearing bandanas as breathing filters as they worked pretty well for the situation. Now we did have gas masks, too.

            Yet the black boogers were still pretty bad, at least to me. Or so my body said as I sneezed and coughed them out. What I saw was pretty disgusting, especially coming out of me, the only body I know.

            Later we I visited a sister unit near Manifah Bay in Saudi Arabia.  Even then the oil well contamination around the Bay was terrible.

            So I imagine I would rather burn this oil stuff than breathe it two decades ago after this quick war.