re: #479 Decatur Deb

I’m a genuine Vietnam-era vet of the Fighting Finance Corps. Wasn’t even in the STRAC half of our section. Those guys bolted hand-crank calculators to wooden backboards and went out to pay FTX soldiers with play money—Swear to god.

(Actually got the 84B MOS I asked for, only to have the orders (Camp Wolters) pulled. Because I fell out of a deuce, the entire direction of my life changed.)

84B and you’d still be shooting for AP or something big. There is a large part of me that wished I’d been smart enough in 1982 to ask for that instead of 19E. Still, the steel death traps were a hell of a good time for a 18 year old.