"Mid-East Monopoly was started on my Birthday Sep 2, 1990 because I was bored while deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm and there were no Monopoly board games in country yet...
Everybody ate MREs while we were over there. So, I looked at the MREs and thought, this would be great to make a game out of and in our RTO desk we an X-Acto knife and Elmers Glue and we had a ruler, so I started drawing out a board and everything and that's kind of how I got started". - SPC Michael S. Burec, Jr.
Mid-East Monopoly took 2 weeks to complete (14 days).
The game board itself is made of the thick cardboard sleeve that fit around a box of MREs.
All of the Properties on the game board are actual names of cities, towns, or oil fields taken from a Map of the Mid-East, Egypt included.
Photos of this complete Monopoly set created in theater are courtesy of the AMEDD Museum Collection Department.
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| Date Taken: | 08.08.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 02.26.2019 10:22 |
| Category: | Video Productions |
| Video ID: | 661841 |
| VIRIN: | 150808-A-VG084-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_106485632 |
| Length: | 00:04:48 |
| Location: | FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS, US |
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