Here are a few more pics. Zoe (pictured here with) works next door in another department. She's been here almost two years but I think she'll be gone in about six moths. Talking to her, you can tell that she's tired of being here.

The Twalls are everywhere. There also called blast walls and their purpose is to 'mitigate mortar damage' Much of the damage from a mortar round comes from the flying debris. Of course if you get hit smack on by a mortar round a blast wall won't do any good. A concern over here are the larger 240mm mortar rounds that are probably being imported from Iraq. The smaller 160mm and 180mm rounds are typically older Soviet rounds, which are so old only explode on impact half the time. The 240mm rounds go farther, pack twice as much BOOM and (since are new) always go BoOM. It's a concern.