When I came home last night from drill weekend, I thought I had lost both the camera the Army issued me and a video camera from my day job.
But on the train home from Philadelphia tonight, Master Sergeant Kirby Hoke of 2-104th called my cell phone to tell me they found the cameras. I had left them in the S-1 (admin) office. I thought they had been stolen from my car.
It turns out I just left them in the admin office while I was waiting to talk to SFC Lori Burns.
WHAT A RELIEF!!!!
I did learn some useful things about losing Army.
One of the officers, I own't rat him out, said even if they charged me for losing the camera, they can't take more than one month's pay. That's less than $300 for a weekend warrior like me. And he said that they usually waive the penalty in cases of hardship.
I asked if it would help if I put water spots on my statement and said they were the tears of my children.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Review of In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sharpens the vast world of his Gulag Archipelago into the story of one vile aspect of a horr...
-
Tasks, Conditions and Standards is how we learn to do everything in the Army. If you are assigned to be the machine gunner in a rifle squad... -
On 10 November 2003 the crew of Chinook helicopter Yankee 2-6 made this landing on a cliff in Afghanistan. Artist Larry Selman i... -
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
No comments:
Post a Comment