Seriously. Don’t piss off the guys that are doing all the hard work and shitty hours for you. They will find a way to get back at you.
This bike belonged to a certain young officer that had a habit of losing his temper at the drop of a hat. Which is ok if you aren’t already looked at a a bit of a raving idiot. The kid liked to park his bike in the middle of his office’s smoke break area and didn’t want to move it when he was asked to. A couple of days later this is what happened. The beauty of this little stunt grows when the young captain tried to get his bike off the side of the building. Suddenly there were no ladders to be found. He had no way to get the damned thing down by himself. Everyone he turned to for help suddenly contracted a grave fear of heights.And then there’s the things that happen when you piss off your fellow officers. Namely by not giving them a ride to the chow hall when you are headed to the very same chow hall.
Now this stunt takes a bit more pre-planning than running a bike up the side of a building. And it takes having access to the unit’s check book so you can pay the forklift driver enough to put the truck on top of the connexes. The second part of the plan requires paying the forklift driver enough on the side to take his sweet time coming back to take the truck down. Oh yeah, the joke gets better when the forklift driver pulls the language card out of his pocket and declares he can’t understand English. The offending major got the point. And I’m positive that this incident had nothing at all to do with him asking to be sent home early. And I’m sure it had no part in the Commander deciding to grant his request.TC
It’s been a month since I last came down from The Mount and spoke to the common man. And woman too. Can’t risk another EO complaint at this stage of life. Might leave a scar too big to cover up in the next round of job interviews.
It’s been a busy month here in the desert. I managed to rid myself of one of my junior officers. He’s a good guy and smarter than shit, but he’s no Soldier. To the day he left country he called our base a “campus”. He never understood where he was or why he was here. It was only a matter of time before he got hurt, or before I choked him out.
The rest of stuff that’s been keeping me busy is all the behind the curtain crap that no one wants to read about. And of course there’s always the stuff that would get me busted if I wrote about it here. So just take my word for it that the past few weeks have been really busy.
Right now we’re in our final approach to the final wind up to come home. It’s time for people to start showing who they really are. For instance, nobody can seem to part with their computers. Everybody is ready to get the Hell out of here, but before we can do that we have to pack up our offices, load them into freight containers and ship them home. Since we have to ship them before we can leave that means we have to collect them up, sanitize them and then pack them before we can leave. Still, no one is willing to part with theirs without a fight. You people would be amazed at the Special Forces guys and senior officers that nearly come to tears when my guys show up to take away the laptops. I’ve been disappointed to say the least.
But still, some of our guys have maintained a healthy sense of humor about life.
It’s refreshing to see that the guys that get crapped on the ones the most are the ones most willing to make us laugh. Almost restores a man’s faith in humanity.
TC
