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***** | HAJI MART | convenience store usually found on FOBs. Usually sell various sundries, from DVD’s to candy bars to cigarettes. Also, sometimes sold porn and alcohol.
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***** | HAJI ARMOR | improvised armor, installed by troops hiring Iraqis to update the vehicles by welding any available metal to the sides of Humvees.
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**** | HAJI DETAIL | overseeing Iraqi work details on FOBs, mainly day laborers.
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** | HAJI | Service members’ term for indigenous Iraqis or persons of Arabic descent. Derived from the term given to one that has made the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Used as an adjective to describe anythin
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