At the raw age of 17 I enlisted in the Army as a combat medic and was
sent to Vietnam at 18 as an Speedy-4 medic where I misspent my youth as
an ambulance driver with an M-43 that was older than myself. I found
myself following the 5 ton S&Ps of a number of transportation battalions
all over the II Corps area of operations. When the ambulances gave out
after a number of combat losses in the field, I then spent a lot of
those trips in the bottom of a V-100 and a number of 5 Ton Gun Trucks.
Later in my tour there I had the misfortune to be appointed as the BC's
driver, hence my job waxing his jeep. I can assure you that after that
silly game, once I became an officer that I NEVER had any of my troops
waste there time waxing my jeep!
-- Joe Baker Major, Infantry (mustang type, no ring on my finger..)=== To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.