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CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Jan. 13, 2006) ? Gunnery Sgt. Chritopher G. Vance cringes before taking a drink from the grog during a mess night here Jan. 13. The grog was composed of orange soda, Tabasco sauce, non-alcoholic beer, crushed up protein bars and many other oddities. Normally, mess nights are held at officer clubs or other suitable places either on or off base where Marines can suit up in their dress blues while in garrison. However, Staff noncommissioned officers and officers with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), did not don their blues or sit in a fancy restaurant, but rather ate their food off plastic plates inside a tent while wearing the same desert camouflage utilities that they have worn for months on end.

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Jan 14, 2006

CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Jan. 13, 2006) ? Gunnery Sgt. Chritopher G. Vance cringes before taking a drink from the grog during a mess night here Jan. 13. The grog was composed of orange soda, Tabasco sauce, non-alcoholic beer, crushed up protein bars and many other oddities. Normally, mess nights are held at officer clubs or other suitable places either on or off base where Marines can suit up in their dress blues while in garrison. However, Staff noncommissioned officers and officers with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), did not don their blues or sit in a fancy restaurant, but rather ate their food off plastic plates inside a tent while wearing the same desert camouflage utilities that they have worn for months on end.

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