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So the rule became, if the top brass were slobs then you be a slob, cause they didn't trust gung-ho you; and if they were sharp then you be sharp, cause they didn't like screw ups. For me to cruise under the radar, all I had to do was not make any typing errors, because they couldn't be corrected and had to be struck over and initialed by the commanding officer.
Other things I would do was never untie a tie, just slip it over my head. Never use a foot locker or anything that might be inspected once in awhile, so that you didn't have to prepare for inspections. When starting in a new unit they would first thing - give a big inspection and check you out, see if you were going to be a bother to them. I would do a big prep and make it perfect. In fact - if it was really good, it might not get inspected again, and be pretty much left alone. Don't bother them and they don't bother you, unless you got a moron commander like I had in Greece for awhile.
In Greece I was in a headquarters unit and couldn't stand it. Now there the trick was to be useless, and I was - partly due to the conditions and partly due to my own inability. So I got a chance to transfer to the ultimate duty free assignment, which was a Bomb Disposal Unit. Absolute specialists and so no one messed-with and left them alone. No KP, and no anything else except Charge of Quarters, which meant nothing more than staying in the barracks to answer the phone, where I lived so I could sleep in my room, should it ever ring which it never did - a renegade bomb emergency.
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