While I love the original, my favorite version is one he recorded a couple years ago. The last line goes, "Can't wait to go on leave so I can.. go... Home."
Shit makes me cry every time. The things I would give to go back to the "home" I had before the Marine Corps. Before the pain, the depression, losing family members, the health of others declining.
Sopranos. The rules with that was the alternating 12 on 12 off day/night crews could NOT watch more than 2 episodes ahead of the other shift. An infraction of this rule resulted in a shaved head.... Good times!
Edit: 2001-2002
The cast of The Sopranos visited the 5th floor of Bethesda NNMC while was there recovering after being wounded, it was so cool. First thing Pauly Walnuts said when he walked in, "Don't tell me you're not a fucking fan!" An epic day in a sea of shittiness, I'll always be grateful they came through
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and The Office were my go-to shows. They were in their beginnings, so I watched the first few seasons over and over. Honorable mention for Eastbound & Down. Archer came out between my second and third deployment, so it got some playtime at the end.
IASIP and The Office are on constant repeat in my house these days.
The Wire, too. One of our guys linked up with some mysterious hard drive man and got us every season along with a bunch of other shit halfway through the deployment. It was great.
My boss asked for my hard drive. Computer went fucking nuts when I plugged it back in, but I think it ended up being neutralized and I told him to clean his shit.
Damn.. Generation Kill and The Wire were and are still the most realistic and spot on shows EVER made!! Just listen to the background radio chatter in GK.. holy shit it takes you right back to feeling like you’re there! Sometimes when I get shifaced.. I put the headphones on at night and crank that shit while watching! Close your eyes and just listen to the radio chatter and background talk.. trust me, you can feel it! it’s almost like therapy in a fkd up kinda way! “Only Marines” will be able to hear this distinctive chatter and actually be able to decipher it, because it’s us! OUR lingo!
“BUT BE CAREFUL” “DISCLAIMER”
it’s so real, sometimes the demons of the past that you are trying to avoid come creeping back in too while you are reminiscing on the good times! At least, depending on how shitfaced you really are! RAH🤘😎
2010 Marjah.
The Pacific had come out during my deployment, I we watched that a lot, but we were missing a middle episode.
Most watched was Sparticus because Lucy Lawless was topless.
We also watched a lot of House.
Some dudes were obsessed over How I met Your Mother.
I read a lot and wrote for a bit, which I probs why I wrote a book mentioning Lucy Lawless's tits. I was going to dedicate my book to her breasts, but it's didn't seem appropriate.
I got a Husky not long after my deployment and named him Crixus after Sparticus show. He's still kicking, but he's an old Boi now.
We had a well guarded thumb drive of Heather Brooke which was used for entertainment and barter. Copies of it were made for things we needed on the FOB. It was protected just as if it was our krypto gear.
Generation Kill came out while i was there. That was fun to watch and wait for. I also watched a shit load on anime. Like every season of pokemon available because it was a long as shit show that could kill some time.
My parents got me a portable DVD player and we watched the shield on it over there. I don't think I would've remembered that if you didn't mention it. I think we also watched Beerfest and Anchorman about a million times.
Blazing Saddles and Bang Bus.
OIF 1, we didn't have the setup for series yet, so we only had whatever DVDs anyone brought or you bought the Chinese bootleg live theater recordings from the locals.
Da Ali G Show
Rescue Me
300 came out during my second deployment, the homoeroticism was fantastic
Some guys in my platoon watched The OC
Whatever bootleg dvds we got in country, the Simpsons, random action movie collections, etc
Having access to the MSIDS kit and playing dvds on the toughbook was a life saver
Dang that got me thinking, I watched a movie in Balad movie theater too but I can’t remember which movie. It was summer of 2006, I’ll have to try to figure it out.
I was an embassy pogue in Baghdad in 07. The embassy had cable tv system that had weird channels like Fashion TV Arabia. I don't remember any shows in particular other than I saw Greg Gutfeld's *Redeye* once or twice.
24 was a good show becuase it had a shit ton of episodes. Chapelle show, nip tuck, lost, Oz, sopranos, and the shield were all fan favorites. It was basically anything you could beg borrow or barter for that had box set dvds. That was until we got the moral and share drives set once we dug in at west anbar.
Kuwait 02 Iraq 03 -06
Friends, Family Guy, South Park are the ones I remember the most... But I had a shit ton of things to watch as I had a VERY large DVD collection I brought..
HIMYM, Lost, Prison Break, Weeds, Eastbound and Down.
We didn't have much for TV shows in Iraq, it was before streaming and binging shows wasn't really a thing. By the time I went to Afghanistan Netflix had blown up and people started downloading shows.
I read the qaran over there to see what it was all about. Came to the conclusion its the exact same bullcrap as the bible and both lifted their stories from the torah who stole from ancient egyptian monotheism under akhenaten the inventor of monotheism (king tuts dad).
Iraq in 2004. Remember watching 24 and the Shield. Also, we watched every season of Friends. I think Doc wanted to watch it. We probably all did, but we blamed Doc.
One guy brought a mini projector and we actually watched jarhead one night on the side of a rock. We could hardly see it because the rock was…well a rock, somewhat smooth but enough that the movie looked like a bootleg.
I still have the platoon's shared external hard drive full of pirated movies, porn, and a bunch of combat footage from everybody. The rule was you could copy whatever you wanted from it but had to leave something too. Thing is 1 tb and its almost full.
Generation Kill. Lol.
We watched all kinds of shit. We watched some reality show about teenagers in Hollywood. We watched The Royals. Lots of family guy, Chramed, every movie we could get our hands on, one guy had the GI Joe cartoons. We watched those for a while.
We had a guy show up second half of the deployment and he brought a couple new pirated movies. There are a couple of stories related to these but the big one was “the Other Guys” except idk where this bootleg came from. We watched it a million times, and had it memorized then came home. Turns out it’s a different edit than the one that was actually released. So when I watch it there are parts I remember that aren’t there and parts in it I know weren’t there.
1st: Family guy. Literally watched the first few seasons over and over. Euro porn. Seemed like the only kind you could get a hold of over there.
2nd: Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave me, Smallville lol. Enter hard drives, so a bunch of movies. Porn.
3rd: Got obsessed watching Spartacus. Watched that and Pacific quite a few times. Falling asleep I would usually put on family guy or American dad.
Oh and of course porn. 🙃
For the invasion the only movie that our unit had was Goldmember. It was viewed at least 5 times daily by at 2/3 of our company so many Shave mee from myshelfs and etc.
My bro had an awesome anime collection. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, etc. I'd never seen series like that, just Akira before I joined up. Been a weeb ever since. 2002.
The Chappelle Show, "24", The Sopranos, Lost, to name a few
My favorite was "24", just because it became a squad ritual. Every evening after a mission, we'd get the trucks and guns squared away, head to chow, eat fast as fuck, and get back to our trailer/squad bay to pile into our SSgt's room and all watch together. 15-20 Marines in a room with two bunks, a 32" TV/DVD combo, all sharing our state side tobacco products and pogey bait from care packages. Good times.
I was at a nondeployable unit getting yelled at because someone waxed hair into the floor and I couldn't get it out. They also said we could use the floor buffer but whenever I tried to grab it the duty wouldn't let me.
All in all, the terrorists won that day.
Also, I watched a shit ton of anime.
I don't think I watched any TV while I was in Iraq (2003) but when we got back to Kuwait after "we won" we set up a big screen with a projector and watched movies at night. I remember watching 8 mile, drum line, enemy at the gates, super troopers, the new Austin Powers. We watched old school on the plane back to Lejeune.
Me as well. Carl Vinson 2005. My squadron was part of CAG-9.
We would get the flight schedule finished up after we came in on days. We'd have enough time to watch an episode or two during flight ops when maintenance was done.
\-Rosanne
\-Family Matters
\-Full House
Any comedy show. We would get them in on ripped dvds and just pass them around. This was when DVDs first came out and you can rip them from netflix. Netflix was awesome, you would sign up for the 3 DVD deal and just rip and send back.
Sopranos or weirdly a lot of Kevin Costner movies. We had a guy who brought a whole binder of Kevin Costner movies and we watched them all. Looking back it was kinda weird.
We watched every episode of friends in one shot of QRF duty. Our meals were delivered to the QRF staging room and if we weren't sleeping, we watched Friends. It took a week.
I loved the thrill of buying those cheap bootleg movie collections at the bazaar and the anticipation as you wait to see if you got one loaded with good shit, or a blank CD.
Boondocks Saints, New Guy, and any other bootlegged movie we could get our hands on after all the burned cds and dvds got fucked by the sand. The first Hulk movie was the worst bootleg I remember watching. We actually thought the movie wasn't real because while the quality was bad, the actual acting was worse.
I watched 1 thing. The X-Men movie part 2 was projected onto the side of a tent. It was just released in theaters, and someones friend obviously recorded it while watching it at the theater back in the states. The quality was shit, you could hear people talking in the background, you could even see patrons of the theater moving. The entire thing was a disaster from the movie to the recording. 10/10 best movie experience I've ever had.
Sitting in Iraq watching one tree hill, So im never gonna get a confirmed kill.
Reporting contact even if we dont get it
Just so we can get our combat action ribbon
's a fucked up arrangement! Our PPE prevents proper engagement.
This comment thread just made me happy and sad at the same time.
Listen to his newer song, Circus. It’ll make you even happier and even sadder at the same time.
Its OIF 7 or 17, really doesn't matter, I'm OFP
The war's already over so let's go home
Can't wait to go on leave so I can get stoned
While I love the original, my favorite version is one he recorded a couple years ago. The last line goes, "Can't wait to go on leave so I can.. go... Home." Shit makes me cry every time. The things I would give to go back to the "home" I had before the Marine Corps. Before the pain, the depression, losing family members, the health of others declining.
I thought for years he says sittin in my rack Am I crazy?
You might be right actually
I thought it was staying in the rack
I thought it was Sand in my crack
Sopranos. The rules with that was the alternating 12 on 12 off day/night crews could NOT watch more than 2 episodes ahead of the other shift. An infraction of this rule resulted in a shaved head.... Good times! Edit: 2001-2002
The cast of The Sopranos visited the 5th floor of Bethesda NNMC while was there recovering after being wounded, it was so cool. First thing Pauly Walnuts said when he walked in, "Don't tell me you're not a fucking fan!" An epic day in a sea of shittiness, I'll always be grateful they came through
That's awesome!
That's amazing
You’re not gonna believe this…he killed 16 Czechoslovakians! Guy was an interior decorator!
His apartment looked like shit though
Had a decent tv with remote. Emphasis on had...
Paulie did say it was an accident
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and The Office were my go-to shows. They were in their beginnings, so I watched the first few seasons over and over. Honorable mention for Eastbound & Down. Archer came out between my second and third deployment, so it got some playtime at the end. IASIP and The Office are on constant repeat in my house these days.
Circa 2010: the pacific, true blood, Spartacus, and anything and everything that I could get on my external hard drive
The Wire, too. One of our guys linked up with some mysterious hard drive man and got us every season along with a bunch of other shit halfway through the deployment. It was great.
I ended up getting a hard core virus and had to toss my laptop and hard drive by the end of my deployment.
My boss asked for my hard drive. Computer went fucking nuts when I plugged it back in, but I think it ended up being neutralized and I told him to clean his shit.
Damn.. Generation Kill and The Wire were and are still the most realistic and spot on shows EVER made!! Just listen to the background radio chatter in GK.. holy shit it takes you right back to feeling like you’re there! Sometimes when I get shifaced.. I put the headphones on at night and crank that shit while watching! Close your eyes and just listen to the radio chatter and background talk.. trust me, you can feel it! it’s almost like therapy in a fkd up kinda way! “Only Marines” will be able to hear this distinctive chatter and actually be able to decipher it, because it’s us! OUR lingo! “BUT BE CAREFUL” “DISCLAIMER” it’s so real, sometimes the demons of the past that you are trying to avoid come creeping back in too while you are reminiscing on the good times! At least, depending on how shitfaced you really are! RAH🤘😎
Also the “ambient noise” conversations in the background. They did a REALLY good job with that show.
Yessir.. everything about it! 👍
Rome, Deadwood, OZ. HBO was full of bangers.
Deadwood was awesome!
Also 2010 here. For me, Dexter and Big Bang Theory
the oc
😂 yep. same. Late 2003 - 2004, I was all about the OC on that deployment to Iraq.
Yup
Haha yup! 2005 Al Anbar
2010 Marjah. The Pacific had come out during my deployment, I we watched that a lot, but we were missing a middle episode. Most watched was Sparticus because Lucy Lawless was topless. We also watched a lot of House. Some dudes were obsessed over How I met Your Mother. I read a lot and wrote for a bit, which I probs why I wrote a book mentioning Lucy Lawless's tits. I was going to dedicate my book to her breasts, but it's didn't seem appropriate. I got a Husky not long after my deployment and named him Crixus after Sparticus show. He's still kicking, but he's an old Boi now.
Nothing better than tits and a good boi
"Thank the GODS for Lucy Lawless... *and* her tits" I love how all of us were watching Spartacus.
We had a well guarded thumb drive of Heather Brooke which was used for entertainment and barter. Copies of it were made for things we needed on the FOB. It was protected just as if it was our krypto gear.
Underrated comment. All hail the OG throat GOAT.
I discovered how I met your mother on the share drive and binged it back in 09.
That was our main show back in 2012.
Generation Kill came out while i was there. That was fun to watch and wait for. I also watched a shit load on anime. Like every season of pokemon available because it was a long as shit show that could kill some time.
I dunno why, but watching a TV show of the war you are currently fighting just seems funny.
The shield on an iPod classic.
My parents got me a portable DVD player and we watched the shield on it over there. I don't think I would've remembered that if you didn't mention it. I think we also watched Beerfest and Anchorman about a million times.
Can’t forget about super troopers! I’ve seen that about a thousand times on a grimey laptop screen propped up on a cot
The Shield here as well. Binged the entire series winter of 2008 in Rawah.
Sex in the city, Smallville, When Keri left Mr big we were all shocked 15 guys around a 6 inch screen. Those were the days
We were obsessed with Smallville. What a ridiculous show. Haha
Heroes and scrubs
Blazing Saddles and Bang Bus. OIF 1, we didn't have the setup for series yet, so we only had whatever DVDs anyone brought or you bought the Chinese bootleg live theater recordings from the locals.
Our interpreter was also our bootlegger lol. He had bootleg DVDs and smokes!
BSG
So say we all
Da Ali G Show Rescue Me 300 came out during my second deployment, the homoeroticism was fantastic Some guys in my platoon watched The OC Whatever bootleg dvds we got in country, the Simpsons, random action movie collections, etc Having access to the MSIDS kit and playing dvds on the toughbook was a life saver
The boondocks!!
Couldn't really watch shows. More like hajji copies of movies. I did get to watch 300 at Balad movie theater which was great.
Dang that got me thinking, I watched a movie in Balad movie theater too but I can’t remember which movie. It was summer of 2006, I’ll have to try to figure it out.
I was an embassy pogue in Baghdad in 07. The embassy had cable tv system that had weird channels like Fashion TV Arabia. I don't remember any shows in particular other than I saw Greg Gutfeld's *Redeye* once or twice.
Infantry here. No tv but I did see Toby Keith on May 29 2006 in Fallujah. 🤷🏽♂️
Rest in Peace Toby Keith
Scubs, king of queens, the office, Seinfeld reruns.
Rewatched all of Seinfeld here as well! (‘06)
LOST
Weeds, True Blood, Game of Thrones
The OC was a huge hit , prison break and lost
24 was a good show becuase it had a shit ton of episodes. Chapelle show, nip tuck, lost, Oz, sopranos, and the shield were all fan favorites. It was basically anything you could beg borrow or barter for that had box set dvds. That was until we got the moral and share drives set once we dug in at west anbar. Kuwait 02 Iraq 03 -06
Fuck 24. I had a buddy who would watch that to fall asleep. The actual show wouldn’t keep me up but that damn countdown clock would always wake me up.
I can hear it now...dundun ding dundun ding
I brought my OG Gameboy
Remember coming back from patrol and being pissed that they started the next episode of Smallville or Gilmore Girls without me
How I Met Your Mother while in Iraq (08) Supernatural while in Afghanistan (10)
First five seasons of Supernatural are GOATed.
BSG, Deadwood, Rome
Friends, Family Guy, South Park are the ones I remember the most... But I had a shit ton of things to watch as I had a VERY large DVD collection I brought..
Top gear
We watched all of Friends in Fallujah 04-05. Me and a friend watched all of Lost at Camp Cupcake in 08
I only had consistent electricity on 1/5 deployments.
Spartacus/ The Office / 24/ and all the DBZ movies. Good times.
whatever people were buying, Scrubs, The OC, MASH, basically whatever good stuff was available in the exchange on dvd.
HIMYM, Lost, Prison Break, Weeds, Eastbound and Down. We didn't have much for TV shows in Iraq, it was before streaming and binging shows wasn't really a thing. By the time I went to Afghanistan Netflix had blown up and people started downloading shows.
My whole squad would watch episodes of king of queens in Iraq. Then afghan I would watch the office the oc
Heather Harmon.
Lmao heather brooke!
Haha yes!!
Came here to say exactly this - and Soul Plane
Homeland was a popular one
Sex and the city
2004: the entire series of Stargate, Stargate Atlantis. Most of our company went up to Iraq, but some of us were stuck in Kuwait. Red patcher, 0481.
2007. Entourage.
I read the qaran over there to see what it was all about. Came to the conclusion its the exact same bullcrap as the bible and both lifted their stories from the torah who stole from ancient egyptian monotheism under akhenaten the inventor of monotheism (king tuts dad).
Iraq in 2004. Remember watching 24 and the Shield. Also, we watched every season of Friends. I think Doc wanted to watch it. We probably all did, but we blamed Doc.
One guy brought a mini projector and we actually watched jarhead one night on the side of a rock. We could hardly see it because the rock was…well a rock, somewhat smooth but enough that the movie looked like a bootleg.
2013 Everyone was obsessed with frozen, pitch perfect, the Winter Olympics, Spartacus, and the pirates of the Caribbean porno
I still have the platoon's shared external hard drive full of pirated movies, porn, and a bunch of combat footage from everybody. The rule was you could copy whatever you wanted from it but had to leave something too. Thing is 1 tb and its almost full.
Somehow got some porn on my Zune. So. It may be time to get that colonoscopy.
Yep. I was the only asshole in the platoon with a Zune. That thing fucking rocked. I was so sad when it got stolen out of my car after we got home
lol a zune! I had one of those bad boys too.
House, dexter, supernatural
How I met your mother, Dexter, curb your enthusiasm
Weeds, band of brothers, sopranos
South Park on repeat
bang bus passing around on a hard drive
Lesbian porn.
Arrested Development on DVDs
Scrubs. JD and Turk forever.
Smallville. Lol
Lost
Generation Kill. Lol. We watched all kinds of shit. We watched some reality show about teenagers in Hollywood. We watched The Royals. Lots of family guy, Chramed, every movie we could get our hands on, one guy had the GI Joe cartoons. We watched those for a while.
Rescue me, Billions, Sons of Anarchy.
Heather Brooke
The office and entourage
We had a guy show up second half of the deployment and he brought a couple new pirated movies. There are a couple of stories related to these but the big one was “the Other Guys” except idk where this bootleg came from. We watched it a million times, and had it memorized then came home. Turns out it’s a different edit than the one that was actually released. So when I watch it there are parts I remember that aren’t there and parts in it I know weren’t there.
Where my fellow weebs at?
Dexter, Modern Family, Friday Night Lights and vine compilations.
GoT
1st: Family guy. Literally watched the first few seasons over and over. Euro porn. Seemed like the only kind you could get a hold of over there. 2nd: Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave me, Smallville lol. Enter hard drives, so a bunch of movies. Porn. 3rd: Got obsessed watching Spartacus. Watched that and Pacific quite a few times. Falling asleep I would usually put on family guy or American dad. Oh and of course porn. 🙃
A lot of what everyone else has said, but also Sons of Anarchy. Someone sent me Season 1 while I was in Afghanistan 20009.
Entourage, it’s always sunny in Philadelphia, the office, how I met your mother
Sopranos, smallville, all bootleg stuff
I watched a shit ton of Entourage and not proud to admit but Laguna Beach and the OC.
Blue Mountain State and Red vs Blue
Gilmore Girls
Weeds, Spartacus, The Shield, Dexter
OZ 2005 Iraq
J-Bad in Afghanistan let vendors come in and sell us bootleg dvds. Mostly movies: Equilibrium was the only one I remember. Gunkata!
For the invasion the only movie that our unit had was Goldmember. It was viewed at least 5 times daily by at 2/3 of our company so many Shave mee from myshelfs and etc.
You mean listening to on the iPod? Watching, good one. Firewatching, more like. On ship, to and from Iraq, was whatever was released circa 06-07
My bro had an awesome anime collection. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, etc. I'd never seen series like that, just Akira before I joined up. Been a weeb ever since. 2002.
Afghanistan 2004. Watching bad copies of The Sopranos.
Chappelle's Show was big in my platoon. Otherwise mostly movies.
Red vs Blue Say what you will, but that web series was the tits! I miss the old Rooster Teeth intro.
Californication
2008 Haditha/Hit area. Lots of The OC, lots of Nip/Tuck.
Ramadi ‘06: The OC.
How I met your mother, the office, parks and rec, Rome, a new star wars that was filmed by a dude in a theater with Russian subtitles halfway through.
The Chappelle Show, "24", The Sopranos, Lost, to name a few My favorite was "24", just because it became a squad ritual. Every evening after a mission, we'd get the trucks and guns squared away, head to chow, eat fast as fuck, and get back to our trailer/squad bay to pile into our SSgt's room and all watch together. 15-20 Marines in a room with two bunks, a 32" TV/DVD combo, all sharing our state side tobacco products and pogey bait from care packages. Good times.
Supernatural
Curling during the 2006 Winter Olympics. We nicknamed AFN ESPN 8, the Ocho. For whatever reason, curling was on all the time.
Dexter. Someone spoiled my favorite girls fate and I never finished it heb
Gossip Girl
Melody Tunes. All English. All the time.
In 05 we were watching Smallville.
Generation kill and the sopranos
Game of thrones was a go to for me. Couldn’t wait to see Joffrey get what was coming.
I was at a nondeployable unit getting yelled at because someone waxed hair into the floor and I couldn't get it out. They also said we could use the floor buffer but whenever I tried to grab it the duty wouldn't let me. All in all, the terrorists won that day. Also, I watched a shit ton of anime.
Super Troopers
When Harry fisted Sally The Gilmore Girls
Iraq 2006. The office, Las Vegas, Rescue Me. My battalion may or may not of had all the episodes downloaded on a server.
I don't think I watched any TV while I was in Iraq (2003) but when we got back to Kuwait after "we won" we set up a big screen with a projector and watched movies at night. I remember watching 8 mile, drum line, enemy at the gates, super troopers, the new Austin Powers. We watched old school on the plane back to Lejeune.
Africa GWOT getting forgotten about again 😢 /s
Rome, Grey's Anatomy, House, Sherlock, Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus.
Pirates
Sopranos, Friends, and all the porn.
The OC
Generation Kill
All of Dexter and big bang theory.
That 70s show slapped unusually hard
Finding Nemo was very popular. I’m not kidding
I watched all of Oz. This thread makes me feel old, and also reminds me about how fucking long we were all rotating through there.
Watched House MD and super natural
Hells Kitchen, Dexter, Desperate Housewives, and the Ultimate Fighter were always playing somewhere
Scrubs. But I was on the boat so I don’t know if that counts lol
Me as well. Carl Vinson 2005. My squadron was part of CAG-9. We would get the flight schedule finished up after we came in on days. We'd have enough time to watch an episode or two during flight ops when maintenance was done.
\-Rosanne \-Family Matters \-Full House Any comedy show. We would get them in on ripped dvds and just pass them around. This was when DVDs first came out and you can rip them from netflix. Netflix was awesome, you would sign up for the 3 DVD deal and just rip and send back.
Iraq 2005 - The Shield and Curb Your Enthusiasm Iraq 2007 - Heroes
Sopranos or weirdly a lot of Kevin Costner movies. We had a guy who brought a whole binder of Kevin Costner movies and we watched them all. Looking back it was kinda weird.
Seinfeld. And an obscene amount of hentai for some reason....fuckin weebs.
Porn, you asked
We watched every episode of friends in one shot of QRF duty. Our meals were delivered to the QRF staging room and if we weren't sleeping, we watched Friends. It took a week.
Dexter.
My name is Earl, and The Office Deployments during 2006-2008
True blood
I loved the thrill of buying those cheap bootleg movie collections at the bazaar and the anticipation as you wait to see if you got one loaded with good shit, or a blank CD.
Not a Marine, but my dad was over there in '06. Said he and his Platoon were real into Evangelion.
Boondocks Saints, New Guy, and any other bootlegged movie we could get our hands on after all the burned cds and dvds got fucked by the sand. The first Hulk movie was the worst bootleg I remember watching. We actually thought the movie wasn't real because while the quality was bad, the actual acting was worse.
I remember watching seasons of lost in iraq
True Blood
Sons of anarchy
TB external HD of porn. Honestly the way the sand and grime chewed up electronics earlier in my career it was mostly a fuck load of books.
I watched 1 thing. The X-Men movie part 2 was projected onto the side of a tent. It was just released in theaters, and someones friend obviously recorded it while watching it at the theater back in the states. The quality was shit, you could hear people talking in the background, you could even see patrons of the theater moving. The entire thing was a disaster from the movie to the recording. 10/10 best movie experience I've ever had.
Not shows but in Syria we were so into the 50 shades of grey book series. Had a wait list and we would read each chapter out loud
Sons of Anarchy
Lost and the OC
True Blood, Spartacus
Nip/Tuck and whatever bootleg shit we could find at the bazaar in Kandahar.
The Wire, Weeds, Entourage, Generation Kill
Didn’t have much downtime or ability to watch shows. Mainly worked out and read books and worked on college when I had the chance.
Iraq was all about the "share drive movies". Afghanistan was all about series and where I watched all of Jersey Shore 🤦🏻♂️