Here is picture of the Post Exchange at FOB Striker. Some soldiers spend their entire deployment 5 minutes away from this store. On large FOBs anything imaginable is for sale. "Iraq is the best place to buy a harley," said one Senior NCO. That's because Harley Davidson has offices here and at bases in Kuwait--both offer discounts deeper than anything you'll find in the States.
For one grand a soldier can buy a menacing broadsword. One set, known as the "Freedom Fighter," comes with two axes, a shield, and a sword. They even engrave the names of villages you've inhabited on the blade.
"I was going to buy one, but they didn't have my crest," said one soldier.
