Well, I was a truck driver during the last Iraq invasion hauling fuel for the 3rd ID.

Got like 9 hours of sleep the first week of the war. Every single truck in the company had “red line” issues but if would run we ran it, we had one where the whole electrical harness caught on fire that couldn’t be shut down and we ran that too. Had to “reallocate” parts from other units who were stupid enough to leave their equipment unguarded. And random firefights, shit blowing up, bases getting overrun around us all the time.

Forgot what an E-5 made in ‘03, a lot less than my civilian truck driver job at the time.