Place where I meet my wife of 29 years J  3 great kids later.

We used to live in a town house located at 22 Nassulaan.It was a 10 min. walk from the house to the embassy.

Our detachment was instrumental in embassy policy.  We used to be allowed to use embassy vehicles for leisure. They discontinued this policy.

Something to do with a 4 car pile up in Rotterdam – large animal stickers attached to the doors and hood. No persons were injured in the changing of the policy.

Shortly after our detachment rotated through, the embassy changed this policy (sorry guys).

It was a small detachment, size was 5.

Disco was HUGE at the time so it was hard for the Marine House to get a ‘kick’n TGIF’ going.

In order to make some money, we switched from being an ‘American Bar’ on Friday s to being a very active member of the local dart circuit.  We subscribed to about 2 or 3 area leagues, 2 nights a week.  I think all in all, we did better off.  The crowd was easy to please, drank a TON of beer, and everyone had a good time. We sucked at darts, but had a good time anyhow.

For being a fairly ‘low key’ post,  I’ve some fairly stong memories of actually how well prepared we were.  We trained a fair bit (physical, tactical, etc)  – always thinking we were going to be the next target of something or another.

Best thing we ever did?:  we got a mail order company to make up customized ‘letterman jackets’.  Each jacket was red, yellow strip down the sleves.  The front had the Marine Corps emblem.  The other side had our first name.

The back had U.S. Marine Corps across the top. The second line was the name of our first post (everyone different). The third line was the “The Hauge”….30 years ago – the jacket still fits, still looks good  and it’s the ONLY ONE of it’s kind ….