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He sort of laughed it off and put me to work dusting. The Major came in for a few minutes. I said I was just doing some catch up. The next day - big hubbub ! I was called down stairs where in a private room the Staff Sergeant wanted to know what was going on. So I gave him the whole story. The upshot was I had a lecture from the ExO and Whom had to keep his GI parties to an hour, hour and a half, no fatigues and no more drills out back. So he substituted a half hour in-barracks lecture, which we all had to endure. I was the only one to buck Whom and get away with it.
What you could say about Whom was he was always happy. He always had a smile. He was always excited and always gave one hundred percent. He was having the time of his life and we had no idea to the extent that he had everybody conned and the machinations he was engaged in.
And he was loving every minute, all the schmooze, the BS, the intrigue and manipulation. But Boone liked me. I always gave him absolute honestly. He would ask my opinion about things because he knew I was not going to skew my opinions based on any gain. He sometimes used my advice in his lectures. He could not manipulate me and so he respected me. I asked nothing of him and was not interested in anything military, so any energy he might exert upon me would be a total waste. So he left me alone. He even got me promoted six months before I was eligible by doing some kind of unit rank quota shift. Probably loved pulling it off and hoped for appreciation.
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