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Mid-East Monopoly

Army Medicine History

Aug. 8, 2015 | 4:48

"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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