# What kinda stuff should I get for Iraq deployment?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 12, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinda-stuff-should-i-get-for-iraq-deployment/264144 "2004-09-12T17:20:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinda-stuff-should-i-get-for-iraq-deployment/264144/21 "2004-09-19T04:55:34Z")

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Well, when I was out in the desert, I had plenty of smokes, hot sauce and socks.

Small, portable game sets (Chess, backgammon, etc.) My driver had a small chess set. After 6 months it was pretty much destroyed from use, but we sure as hell enjoyed it.

Books! Fiction, Non-Fiction, it don’t matter. Paperbacks obviously, for size and weight considerations. Get enough people getting enough books in and you start a book swap. Hell, if some of the other troopers get bored enough, you can swap details for books!

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