Chapter 32
0730, 10 November 2004
Phone Trailer
Camp Baharia, Iraq
Anne needed to talk to her boss, Joe O’Daniel. Unfortunately, her satellite phone had stopped working and she needed to borrow the one at PAO or use the public phone. There would be no privacy at the PAO building, so she decided to use the public phone.
At Camp Baharia, a mobile home served as an oversized phone booth. It had no windows, but two air conditioners connected to a diesel generator that in the summer blew cold air from each end. Inside the trailer, two banks of phones faced each wall.
There always seemed to be a line of Marines standing outside the trailer waiting to call their loved ones. There were no signs or attendants, but the callers seemed to follow an unwritten rule that as one came out, another wa
