Wow. I just found this video for the first time today, but I remember Chase shooting it when we were at Camp Arifjan in 2004.
I spent nearly three weeks in Kuwait in September 2004, and in the five years since, I still haven't been able to fully articulate the trip, aside from saying it was the best experience of my life. The laundry list of things I witnessed still seems like something out of a Fellini movie, starting with the fact that my ride forgot to pick me up at the airport on arrival. Imagine the normal encounter one gets when landing at a big airport, where cabbies bombard arriving passengers looking for a fair. Now imagine that same group mentality, only everyone is speaking Arabic and you don't see any other white people. Prejudiced or not, it's not something you can really prepare for.
Once I got my ride straightened out and got to the army base, I immediately jumped into an edit room and got to work, despite the fact that I had been up for about 24 hours straight at that point. Within a couple minutes, a curious soldier poked his head in to see what we were working on. I invited him in where this exchange took place:
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