Okay, so 115 degrees fahrenheith here is hot, but the lack of humidity is absolutely a game changer. You sweat, but you don't get wet, because the sweat evaporates so quickly, that you're basically dry while you are walking around. BUT... the major difference is that the air actually feels hot. I mean, not sticky like you are used to with humidity, but actually hot, like, you are walking through the jet wash all the time, especially with the wind that CSB so aptly identified. In fact yesterday, when I took those pics, there was a mild sand storm going on, that's why you don't see any blue skies, and it wasn't rain clouds making it hazy and drab. It was dust.
RG: Kuwait is about as safe as you'll find over here. I wear civies off duty, go out on the economy to eat, am living in a condo downtown in a normal residential neighborhood, and drive myself half an hour to the base in the mornings. That said, I'd be foolish, and so would anybody else, to think there is no ISIS around here. They're definitely around, gathering intel, no doubt. But they aren't massed and armed and roaming the streets conducting combat patrols in technicals like they are up in Syria and Iraq.
