Hooches

In Garmsir, they made a hole in the wall between their hooches, leaky sleeping shelters built from sand-filled barriers, so they could talk into the night after a hard day of patrols through Taliban country. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)

The B-huts, or “hooches,” as we called them, were minimalist wooden structures, eighteen by thirty-six feet, with half-inch plywood floors and walls. ❋ Michael Franzak (2010)

Due to their minimalist forms, B-huts were often called “hooches.” ❋ Michael Franzak (2010)

The entire COP is about a half-mile in circumference and composed of four parallel dirt roads lined with hooches (as well as a cafeteria, the COC, a gym, and hundreds of Hesco units). ❋ Unknown (2009)

When they're not on a mission -- any event that takes them outside the COP -- or pulling post (guard duty for enlisted men) the Marines generally lounge in their hooches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the gators were not questioning detainees, they were writing up reports or conferring with each other and their commanders, brainstorming strategy, eating, or sleeping in their air - conditioned “hooches,” small metal rectangular containers flown in by contractors. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There was a simple frame lodge, some scattered outbuildings, cabins for the sports, and a few downright primitive hooches for the guides, all set on a rise above the creek away from the worst of the mosquitoes. ❋ John Gierach (2008)

I'd also like to remind you that the reputation "Catholic girls are the biggest hooches." did not refer to the Irish. ❋ Will (2008)

The men came tumbling out of their hooches in gym shorts and flip-flops, some of them even barefoot in the powdery Afghan dirt. ❋ Junger, Sebastian (2008)

The kop has a landing zone and a clutch of plywood hooches and barracks tents and perimeter walls made of dirt-filled hesco barriers, many now shredded by shrapnel. ❋ Junger, Sebastian (2008)

The men built makeshift hooches from plywood slung in by helicopter and kept themselves warm around crude gasoline heaters and rigged up a small generator for a few hours of electricity. ❋ Junger, Sebastian (2008)

Free fire zones were designated wherein anything that moved was shot at, and those ‘hooches’ peasants lived in, napalmed or torched. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Have we forgotten about the My Lai massacre and Zippo lighters burning down hooches? ❋ Unknown (2007)

We were finishing up our second nonstop day of visiting bases and were given the option of either eating at the mess hall or resting in our “hooches,” armyspeak for small wooden buildings where several large wrestlers all sleep—separated only by some plywood. ❋ Mick Foley (2007)