I was at Arifjan in 2003. My Unit was first push in. It was crap. We lived in tents, 20 Soldiers to a tent.. There were very few hard buildings to put Soldiers up in. The Hard buildings were given out as Company, Battalion TOC's/ ALOC's.
It has been 6 yrs. I would hope that with all the money that has been pumped into Iraq, that some of that trinkled down to the Soldiers Quality of Life.
So I would hope the Living situation would be better.
Hope that helped.
Either way, you will make it, you will over come and adapt to your surroundings. I know it sucks, so embrace the suck.