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Originally posted by splummer Did stealing really go on in other units??? gee
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splum
I don't know for sure but I did hear tell that some lrrps may have been a little light fingered about stuff but that just may have been from an overdeveloped zeal to fight the war--I mean if there was stuff we really REALLY needed to fight the war and didn't have like, oh, say, 6 cases of beer, well, lrrps were such lucky fellows that oftimes 6 cases of beer would just jump right into their midst all by theirself. Just seemed to work out that way sometimes. I mean they picked us for derringdo and initative--what did they expect?
Course if its God's will that an unoccupied case of beer was just setting around in their midst unused, why, the character of the lrrps was such that it would get drunk and so would they. I knew those fellows--they were vice ridden. Course then you'd have armed drunk lrrps, always an unusual and intersting challenge for a Provost Marshal
In the 1st/327 PIR 101st there wasn't anything to steal.
Among ourselves, though, no one touched anyone's stuff but a lot of times while we were in the field, some one would help himself to our stuff--this would sometimes lead to violent activity when discovered. One person--the LTs driver--was hustled out of our platoon when stuff fro other people was turned up on his person. He was a marked man.
We took Army stuff if we needed it. Once I was in charge of a detail in the Ft Bragg entral Supply warehouse. There was a whole mountain of fur pile caps and of course my company didn't have any and we were doing maneuvers in the snow. marched my pfcs up there in a military manner, ordered em to grab a case apiese and then marched out smartly in my best military manner. You can get away with ANYTHING in the Army if you look like LT Smith sent you. I gave away pile caps to every one--a little freelance socialism-- and we were the only company that had em as far as I know. Our CO had one already..
Evrything I had was stolen from me, lets see now 3 times? in the Army, all 3 times when the Army was sposed to be watching it. One time they took the wholke wall locker. I had to make it up out of my own pocket every time. I didn't trust anyone towrds the end--nobody will look after your stuff like you do.
I drank enough of that Black Label to know how lousy it was and I still drank more. There was no beer so lousy I wouldn't drink it in the NAm.
Stay good
James
PS: wasn't that Army cap bout the dorkiest looking baseball cap ever seen?