SharkSkin

Wow Dave.... I sure hope you don't get toooo fed up with Kryptonite...

CWO4Mann

In a galaxy far away and a long time ago:

Well let's see now ... nothing wrong with being a leg you just don't get that $55 a month extra and when retired 10% from VA for bad knees and hip joints '-)
I had some interesting assignments. 11B and 11F with HHC 505th; 3/505th;101st Abn Div, 82d MID; G2-XVIII ABC, 2d ID, 8th ID, IIIMAF Army Det; USN Amphib School Coronado, weapons instructor at Armor Officer Basic school, Ft Knox; Berlin Brigade, Panama, Thailand, Japan. After all that real Army I was a staff guy with ACSI, DA; DIA, HQ INSCOM, 902d MI. Retired in 1988 as a CW4. Worked for Uncle Sugar's non-DoD people in Centam until 1995 -- ay caramba! Nice ending up as a CWO ... when I retired the army had only 37 with my MOS so it was cozy. I only had to hump the M2 receiver group a couple of times and that was for as short a run as possible. WHen I was with the regular Infantry units in the early and mid 1960's, the M2 was assigned to the support platoon and at the HHC level along with the 81mm mortar and the 4.2" rocket launcher. Companies had the M1919 .30 cal with the air cooled barrel and bipod. For example, when I was a squad leader (11 man squad) we had 10 M-1 rifles and 1 BAR, then that changed to 9 M-14's and 2 M-14A1 (auto version of the M14), then that changed to 10 M14's and an M60. By the time I was in RVN the first tour a squad typically carried 10 M16's, 2 combat shotguns, 1 M79 grenade launcher, as many 45's as we could scrounge and a four-man waterpipe/bong and four pairs of extra socks.

Cheers,

Dave

CWO4Mann

Now now, if you arrive in a 928 I'll hear you all the way down the block and be waiting for you with a beer. When G-Man was here and drove off towards Nevada I heard him all the way out of the neighborhood. Sweet.

Cheers!

Dave

CWO4Mann

Oh, whew! I sent a reply already to this and thought you said "B & D" ....

In the immortal words of the Mistress Von Stern "Whip me, beat me! Make me Feel Cheap!".

All right Stig-man, now tell us what REALLY happened with that one girl who had the handcuffs hanging from her rear-view mirrow.


Cheers,

Dave

CWO4Mann

Naw, Kryptonite is a challenge .... like a good woman.

I just hug her and pet her and croon sotto-voice comments about her beauty to her. I walk around her rear and slowly rub my hand over the sleek shape of the fender, slowly making my way to the rear hatch.

Whilst singing a little romantic song, I lift the lid until all of her glory can be viewed. Ah yes!

Then, quickly and cleverly so as not not alarm or hurt, I grasp the lug wrench in my hand and swiftly place it into just the proper position, wiggling it every-so-slightly to make it fully locked into a vertical attitude.

"Oh Kryptonite" (or my very secret little love name for her -- "Kryppie") you ARE beautiful!" I exclaim.

With that pas a'deux, the hatch is open so I can continue to perform major work inside the rear cargo area. Lug wrench being needed since the gas tubes are shot.

Cheers,

Dave

(who obviously has too much time on his hands this evening)

SharkSkin

Ah, so you wedge your girl Kryppie's rear hatch open with a lug wrench in preperation for "major work"... and you say that's just like a good woman.... uuuuuuhhh HUH....