planning a trip to iraq

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Originally Posted by andy45247

the army planned a trip to Iraq for me and i have a couple of cigar related concerns.

1. is my initial traveling i can buy 1 of those hard cased travel humidors not a big deal. but what am worried about is temp control which i don't think will be a problem long term.

2. Is getting cigars shipped to me from home and while the humidity isnt such much a problem since i can get them humi bags for shipping. but once again its the temp control.

so basically am wondering is how long does it take the bug to hatch? when am traveling from place to place its not going to be a big concern since its going to be inter still. but shipping can take awhile at least it did when i was in Afghanistan.

3. not so much a concern but i was wondering if i could order Cubans to my APO. i heard there are places in Iraq/Kuwait you can buy em but never been so no idea. this question is kind of geared for the men/women that have been there and know.(am sure ill be in Kuwait for maybe a week or more so am sure i get some Cubans before heading into Iraq)

I didn't really get into smoking cigars regularly until after my first deployment so any tips or experiences are more then welcome and thanks in advance.

I just got home and here is my advice.
1. save a cooler and get some humidity beads. They worked flawlessly over there. I used the 65% and after a few weeks I didn't even have to bother checking the hygro since I knew the beads were dead on. Don't try the green foam humidi's or any other types as they take too much work. The beads were set and forget for a few weeks and all I had to do was add bottled water. While it wasn't distilled it worked for the year I was there and I bought new beads when I got home since I left the cooler, the remainder of the cigars I was sent and the beads to the unit that replaced me. They appreciated the generousity as well and I felt good spreading the wealth.
2. Most of the buildings there now have AC and never get too hot. At least where I was so temp really was not a concern like I thought it would be.
3. If you order online cigars ship in about 7 to 10 days. Holts and JR's took 6 days to arrive and CI and Famouse are not any further so that gives you a few choices of places to order from.
4. The BOTL from here were so generous and sent over a couple of cigar bombs to me while I was there and that just about filled my cooler that I supplied all my troops with so make some good friends here and maybe they will give you the same horrible treatment and wreck your office with a few bombs like they did mine. It took me days to clean up the mess but seeing my battle buddies smile just about every night we were there for an hour made the mess worth it.

Just my