Talk:An Numaniyah

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I was there during most of my Iraq deployment. The people there are very very friendly toward Americans. But watch out cause they try to sell you pirated DVDs (known as Haji DVDs) with 5 movies on them, that in many cases don't work or don't have good sound. But they only charge $3.00 for them. Haircuts on the base are free but there is an unspoken understanding that they are done in return for donations to help the barber support himself and his family. But there are no women allowed there. It's all men because of the culture.

My Tour at An Numanyiah

When I was at An Numaniyah (2004-2005) there was one American female NCO who was able to just boss everyone around at the supply warehouse. We had to pay for our haircute. While I agree that the Hadji DVD's on post were not the highest quality, we made trips to FOB Scania and were able to get some of better quality. While there was the risk of IED's they were mostly set my the local kids who's parents would point them out the next morning as they came into work. Overall, my deployment there was the better of my two to Iraq, and I would volunteer to go back.

 The locals were fiendly, although the cleaning staff could never figure out sweep, then mop, but they were well meaning and always happy to teach us Arabic  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheChief66 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)