For the past month or two I have been trying to move from the B Hut to an RLB. I lived in the B Hut for over 4 months. The small, smelly, leaky, plywood structure was about a 15 minute walk to work. Imagine 8 guys sharing a building the size of a storage shed. The building had no insulation – if it was cold outside, it was cold inside. Every time it rained I got wet. Every time I had to use the bathroom, I got the pleasure of using the porta-johns. I could stretch my legs out and touch both walls.
My living conditions now are better. Last Tuesday I got the chance to move to an RLB, or re-locatable building, much closer to the office. The building is actually a shipping container. As the war kicked off over 10 years ago the Government started shipping massive amounts of supply over here thru metal shipping containers. The room I live in now once housed massive amount of supply trucked by a semi-trailer in the States, to the shipping and loading dock, then over the ocean on a barge. Rather than sending the containers back, the Government decided to make living containers from them.
The room I live in is actually 2 containers which were cut in half and adjoined to make for 3 rooms and a “common area”. We live in a whole “neighborhood” full of used shipping containers. Before, I had 7 roommates. Now, I only have 2 others: 1 Army guy and 1 Navy guy. We have a window unit which helps us keep cool at night. The bathroom is only a 30 second walk outside, and it’s not a porta-potty! I have a sheet that separates me from my roommates and adds a little privacy. Life is great.
Here is a picture of me standing in my new room
Here is a shot of our common area.
Here is a shot of our front door
