IRAQ: War changes; language, too

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At the larger U.S. military bases in Iraq, there are no chow halls. The phrase preferred by the Department of Defense is Dining Facility, known as a DFAC, pronounced ‘dee-fact.’

Also, latrines are no more. There are portables with sinks, toilets, and running water. Official name: ablution unit.

Of course, at smaller outposts, the accomodations are more primitive and so is the language used by Marines to describe them.

— Tony Perry at Al Asad, Iraq