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That's probably something a lot of people, in later deployments, didn't have as much of, we would go to the local bazaars and barter with people, when we could, when there wasn't a job on. We would interact with them that way. There was quite a few of them who spoke very good English. Shopping there in a bazaar was fascinating. I remember walking down one of the, they don't have any power, so you'd be walking down the street and someone would come and, "Mister, mister. You come to my shop. Come. Mister, mister." And I said, "Well, okay." So they'd come in and they'd flick on their generator so they could turn on all their lights, and they'd try to sell you, and you can buy anything there.
They had a lot of AK-47s and I don't know. Pistols, all sorts of things. They had a lot of Russian paraphernalia, they'd go from things like that to things like queen size fur blankets. I'm talking about, I don't know what it was, mink, but it was just luxury stuff. You could buy, wow. So they had some interesting things in their shops.
