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Some of these guys were assigned to help me with my office work, to give them something to do while awaiting dishonorable discharge. However we did have a straight guy punching his hand through a barracks window everyday. Guess he figured that would get him out.
There was a specialist 8, and there were reputedly few of those in those days, certainly I had never seen one before he got called on the carpet. He got caught by the DC police doing something untoward in a down-town Washington public toilet. He was married with kids, could speak Chinese and Russian, type at about ninety words a minute and take shorthand at the same rate. He was too valuable to kick-out, so as punishment the Major made him live on Post in the barracks away from his family for a length of time. I heard a good deal of the discussions of that case, since the Major often left the adjoining office door open. I got to overhear the machinations of the Whom psychiatric report and how they were concerned that Whom should somehow make a substitution. After Whom was turned in, the Major who until this time knew nothing of the devious nature of Whom, and who was completely smoozed, began to ask questions and people began to answer.
Andrew was a clerk in the main office. He and I were room mates for a short time in my rented room after MaryJ left and went back to school or California. He had an interesting story to tell concerning Whom's psychiatric report. But first he told me that when he was in clerk school, a runner sent over from HQs came over and pulled him out of class, think it was Fort Benning, Georgia. He said HQs Company Army was calling and the locals were hopping-too.
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