Reference Kawait, Afganistan:
Is there Internet channels such as "Utube" available to U.S. Military (Army) ?

When I deployed we had those sites


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Where they free ?

At the USO yes


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Things have sure changed. During my 14 months in ROK in the 80's, I made a grand total of two (2) telephone calls to my wife. Each cost me more than $100. She did, however, come over for two weeks on a Korean government subsidized program called "Reunion in Korea".

She flew on KAL Flight 013 two weeks after KAL 007 was shot down by the Russians. I had to assure her, in a letter, that 13 is not an unlucky number for Koreans, instead 4 is.

Today, I would have been able to video call her every night, just so long as we were able to work out a time that worked for both of us with the 16 hour time difference. If was kind of sad that my two year old son didn't recognize me when I returned.

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Now mind you, the last time I went overseas was in 2011, so who knows what forms of entertainment/communication the troops have now


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when I was in Vietnam there was no phone calls home, when I was on temp duty to Okinawa we could call through the MARS.
MARS was, people with Ham radio's that would patch their radio transmission to a telephone. you got 3 minutes and it was a collect from the operators phone to your home. You were never guaranteed be able to talk or complete the call.

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My son was at an FOB in Afghanistan. He had internet access, but he paid well over $100/month for it.

That still bugs me to this day. He didn’t seem to mind though. He said
“What else am I gonna buy here?

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