Kuwait by Eric Shelman

Kuwait

By Eric Shelman

While in Kuwait

our ship dropped off nine-hundred Marines

on their LCUs and a few on the pier

I helped with these operations

later on we returned to retrieve them and dropped them off again due to Mosque being blown up in Iraqi.

Since it was a harzardous combat zone

we had no liberty whatsoever on or off the base but only on the pier and our ship.

Instead we painted a side of the ship

it was so hot that the paint melted on the roller and peeled off as we painted it.

Boredom and agitation took over as l tried and continuously failed at painting our ship.

My mind kept thinking about everything else besides wasting my time on wasting paint and only having liberty on the pier and our ship.

Felt like an unsatisfied and restricted prisoner on our ship and the pier.

Our ship had beer on the pier, with a grilled hamburgers, steaks, hotdogs, and lobsters.

Had a steel beach picnic on the aft part

where we had movies playing on a pulled down screen with a projector with more grilled foods and some cooked foods from our galley.

As daybreak began

heaving to the lines that bound us to the Earth

we sailed off to a new adventure.