What can you tell me about going to Djibouti as a guardsman?

But on review, the task force has a large number of slots to fill here and forward deployed as well. Those are more remote and although they have better temperatures they have fewer amenities so it is a crazy matching roulette wheel no matter what.

Once you know where you will be, you can fill the void of time and help speed up your perception of time by of course staying busy.

CLU (CHU, connex etc) life is expected unless you get in the E4/E5 barracks or if you are eligible for the E6 barracks...this place is arguably the best. Naturally there are other living arrangements that are geographically better but still worse suited for water and small other benefits from being indoors while you go to your room...strange topic I know.

Gym life and volunteering can help keep you engaged and make your time perceptively chug along if your work life is permitting enough.

From on base volunteering through the USO, Red Cross and MWR events plus the location specific and awesome group Friends of Africa Volunteers (FAV) with opportunities to build relationships with coalition partners (French, Japanese, German, Italian and Spanish) to community relations events playing soccer with Djiboutian kids, helping teach English through simple conversations to kids and adults as well as physically assisting such programs as the DECAN Wildlife Refuge, FAV is an amazing organization that really improves morale while improving relationships with local nationals and coalition partners.

Weather is mostly hot, hotter and really dry or pretty darn humid. A few dust storms with electrical storms attached and very seldom rain make it kind of predictable weather wise.

MWR holds many events every month, don’t miss the Bingo and their 5K’s, both are well attended. Also, if you’re into running 5K’s, every Tuesday is the Jack Quinn Running Club where 5 runs gets you a free patch and 10 runs (in total) gets you a t-shirt. Oh and if free t-shirts interest you, log you runs and track them at the MWR who gives out a t-shirt for multiple achievements in running as well as powerlifting and the like.

There is a small pool and occasionally a coalition partner will put on a foreign badge event such as: French Foreign Legion Desert Survival Badge, French Airborne wings, German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge and if there is an international jump (paratroopers only of course), those wings as well.

Good luck and just remember to expect it to get and stay hot.

Yes, the IRS still sees Djibouti as a combat zone.
What I will tell you as far as preparing yourself and your wife is to sit down with her. Both of you talk about the monthly bills, make sure she has a username of any online payment site you might use. Make sure you two are tracking which bills are due when. Also, make sure you make a plan on how to save the extra money you'll be making.

What can you expect while in country...HEAT. Lots and lots of heat. If it's anything like Iraq, then expect it to cross into triple-digit temps by 10 am.

Easiest combat deployment ever. It’s hot. Then in the summer it gets even hotter! It’s like the sun personally hates you!
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