The Deid - Morale Improvements

[tommee_hawk]

You couldn't make it up.To improve morale and combat graffiti at a top secret coalition base in Qatar, they've decided to remove all the domestic area (men's) toilet cubicle doors. If this doesn't improve morale enough, they're planning to take down the cubicle walls too.... If you're coming, get here quickly or risk missing out. :-)

[Melchett01]

You mean the Chuck Norris stall is going???

[tommee_hawk]

Several of the "Chuck Norris" stalls are still available for our entertainment but all the Cadillacs have been "morale improved", for our sanitary convenience. The legendary "Chuck" stalls in the VIP Departure Area are still there - for now...

[Pontius Navigator]

can we have a photo of this Roman improvement?

[Lima Juliet]

Get yourself to Kandahar mate. If you sit on the dunny in Cambridge Lines then your knees hit the door :ugh:

They were designed for midgets or Douglas Bader...

[plans123]

To improve morale and combat graffiti at a top secret coalition base in Qatar, they've decided to remove all the domestic area (men's) toilet cubicle doors.

Is this being driven by the Americans or is it another great idea from some blunty trying to get promoted? :D

[BEagle]

Bog wall graffiti can often be combated by the simple expedient of installing a whiteboard and dry marker on the stall door. Which stops idiots carving rubbish such as "675476th Recon kick butt - hoo-rah" or other such nonsense.

Whilst contemplating my knees once at Gatwick in the 1970s, I spotted a very cutlured piece of bog wall graffiti:

"Should Excalibur's reincarnation prove imminent, may it please take place in another stretch of water......"

[VMD+12]

My favourite was above the large gap at the bottom of the stall door in the O Club in Kef
BEWARE OF LIMBO DANCERS

[dallas]

I always thought the Brit/UK graffiti was a little close to threatening the 'Coalition of the Willing', but find it hard to believe the solution is public defacation drills. Has nobody heard of black paint?

[FFP]

Someone had heard of black paint once but then someone else heard of Tippex / Whiteout / Silver Marker pens (depending on which side of the ocean you are from..;)) and back to square one we went (minus the cost of all that black paint)

To which the reply would be "What idiot spent all this money on black paint ?"

Boredom on det leads to inventive minds IMO.....

[dallas]

Someone had heard of black paint once but then someone else heard of Tippex / Whiteout / Silver Marker pens (depending on which side of the ocean you are from..http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/wink2.gif) and back to square one we went (minus the cost of all that black paint)
Jeez, that's bordering on organised crime...:ooh:

[Spotting Bad Guys]

They talked about this is 07/08 when I was there - as a means to stomping on the graffitos....it's come to pass then?

[Runaway Gun]

They'll take away the entire Thunder Boxes next...

[Laarbruch72]

My goodness, life is hard at Al Udeid isn't it? Try a tour at Basra or Bastion, where you don't have a swimming pool, or ice creams, or a PX/BX, or an unlimited shower, or a duvet, or whatever else. And you have to have the odd bit of incoming.
F*ck me, some people don't know when they're blessed. It can ALWAYS be worse guys.

[Jolly Green]

I'll take austere over stupid any day.

One thing the USAF excels at is stupid. A trip to the Deid should be R&R, but the base 'leadership' finds ways to make you want to go back to your tent in the dust.

My theory is that the average USAF support colonel on deployment has about as much deployed experience as the average lieutenant. They grew up in the cold war in such forward locations as RAF Bentwaters and Bittberg AB. They get plucked from their colonel job at Nowhere AFB, USA to take their (one) turn in the dessert 'leading the troops' before they retire. Now they're out of their league, playing in the sandbox.

The aircrew colonels at the Deid are trying to launch sorties. In their spare time they bitch about the support colonels and scrawl their witty observations on the latrine walls.

[Airey Belvoir]

take their (one) turn in the dessert

A mere trifle Jolly, a mere trifle. However, one wonders whether it might clash with the "scrambled egg" if they are full colonels?

[StopStart]

Try a tour at Basra or Bastion

I laughed so hard at that one that some wee came out! We pretty much all have thanks very much - what of it? Ice cream and pools have nothing to do with f*cktards taking bog doors away! I know Basra and Bastion have doors on their bogs :rolleyes: Get over yourself....

Passed thru the deed recently and it's dire; as the man with the green feet said, the place is inhabited (like KAF too) by mongs doing the one OOA tour of their lives and making their mark by creating more triv and nause for those of us that actually have a job to do.

[VinRouge]

Think I will be taking a black bin bag and some masking tape with me to the died then....

******* retards.

[tommee_hawk]

Good news from near the front, toilet doors have now been replaced.

Apparently, it's claimed they were taken away for "repainting", about 100 or so, all the Caddies at one time. Clearly common sense has prevailed but "morale improvement" must wait for another day......

Sorry if this post has upset those of us who're having (or have had) it harder - yep, it can always be worse but surely there's no need to make life more difficult for stupid reasons.

[Jolly Green]

Americans need more allies that will give credit where none is due. I hardly think common sense prevailed. They probably got a new colonel (on his first trip overseas) who found a way to make immediate improvement and gain lasting fame by adding toilet doors.

The good news is that our current crop of lieutenants and captains have spent their entire careers on rotations to those places. Expect things to get fixed in about 15 years.

The bad news is that I've met hundreds of colonels who have never been overseas--not even to Alaska. They all supposedly have to go once before anyone is due to go again. The crop of untrained support colonels is far from depleted.

P.S. Don't tell the Canadians that Alaska is overseas from the contiguous 48 states, they might get mad enough to deface the toilet doors at the Deid.

[Vage Rot]

P.S. Don't tell the Canadians that Alaska is overseas from the contiguous 48 states, they might get mad enough to deface the toilet doors at the Deid.

That's quite funny for one of our colonial chums!!

[edwardspannerhands]

A trip to the karzi certainly got rid of your shyness at Al's Garage (Al Kharj for the uninitiated!). Rows of three traps - all open fronted - inside a tent. All you could do was hide behind a week old copy of the Observer! And get out quick if a 'cheese eating surrender monkey' appeared!!

[TheInquisitor]

They probably got a new colonel (on his first trip overseas) who found a way to make immediate improvement and gain lasting fame by adding toilet doors.
Or, more likely, the d**khead who's idea this was in the first place was taken aside in the Muff and given a kicking by some irate Brits...