No, I don't know what was going on, if it was just lightening or what, but you could see sky lights. They had a lot of flies. You could be out in the desert and park your vehicle, and all of a sudden it be covered with flies. You could eat something outside, and you had to fight the flies off to eat it. I always prepared to stay longer than I did, but I received mail.
Every soldier looks forward to their mail.
I would get a couple of letters every few days, or something like that. The British, Egyptians, Siberians, and the Saudis. I trained the Saudis in the national guard, I had some that I trained on the guard control. They showed up to work riding in Mercedes. The British were pretty good to deal with, you had a few of the elite forces that thought that they were a little better, but on the whole they were pretty good.