Best Friends John Burlingame-legal clerk who became a JAG officer Jim Thorpe-went AWOL, sent to CCF, then discharged Michael Alley-smarter than the officers above him. SSG Stevens (who threatened to kill me if I looked at his daughter)
Best Moment Reforger 76 at Illesheim, Germany. We took the Commo officer to the guest house and got him drunk. He sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" all the way back to the tent city. That young captain would talk to me for weeks.
SFC Luntz was afraid to watch the movie "Jaws" at the outdoor theater alone. He stuffed me in his car trunk so that I could get in free.
Worst Moment Motor pool guard-with a PRC-77 radio and a stick. Post guard with the proverbial 5-rounds-that we had better not lose. Fireman, not the kind that rode in red trucks, but the dummy kind who stoked the coal furnices at the motor pool.
Chain of Command PLT SGT, SFC Luntz (PSNCO) 1SG, Charles McAnnally Cdr, CPT David J. Ley
Other Memories I was the company clerk, RTO, and commander's driver. The commander would typically be sreaming at me "damn it Melville, slow down!" My typical response was "but sir, I am training to be a race car driver!"
