Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
More times than I can count in the military, funny thing was I was an accountant... Let me break it down:
Panama 1991: We had weekly runs to the Atlantic side to deliver money and paperwork. It was part of my job as a PFC in my section to schedule these runs and it was always the person getting off of nightly staff duty, we were allowed to sleep next to the phone, but stay there all night, so it wasn't much of a problem. Well for someone it was and they complained about having 24 hour duty and then leaving for 2 hours on top of it, so they left it up to my section only to do the runs. Our cash control officer was not allowed nor our section NCO to leave for the runs so it had to be lower enlisted. The very first time I scheduled someone they begged me to take them off, afraid to fly, went to the next, same story, as was the next. Welp, that left one option open, poor old PFC Kristoff was going to have to suck it up and schedule himself for the weekly run.
That lasted 4 whole months before someone complained that I was getting out of PT and formation once a week, not to mention getting to fly around in a helicopter. (Facepalm) But hell, it was a very sweet time.
Bosnia 1996: Our detachment commander told us we needed to name our Humvees and requested names, I said "Tonka Two" since my Humvee in the rear I had named "Tonka Toy". He said that was ridiculous and we needed finance type names "like Pay Eagle, or Mo Money". I (SPC4) insisted it wasn't a good idea to do that because of the still hostile Serbian faction that happened to be financially strapped as they all were in the recovery. He insisted and I drove (as one of only 3 cashiers) Pay Eagle to two weekly pay missions (3 Days, 3 outposts), and multiple contract negotiations before we rcvd a security alert that certain factions outside the wire were overheard to be planning attacks on US Military convoys, and that they would just love to hit one of the finance convoys.
Whelp, that was that with driving Pay Eagle or any of the other two outside of the wire. We got sent per helicopter weekly, 4 flights per weekly mission, at least every 3rd week for about 9 months. While our malignant narcissist commander refused to even remotely acknowledge that it was his misjudgement.
During these it was Hueys, Blackhawks and once a Kiowa .
Good times, I miss It.
Panama 1991: We had weekly runs to the Atlantic side to deliver money and paperwork. It was part of my job as a PFC in my section to schedule these runs and it was always the person getting off of nightly staff duty, we were allowed to sleep next to the phone, but stay there all night, so it wasn't much of a problem. Well for someone it was and they complained about having 24 hour duty and then leaving for 2 hours on top of it, so they left it up to my section only to do the runs. Our cash control officer was not allowed nor our section NCO to leave for the runs so it had to be lower enlisted. The very first time I scheduled someone they begged me to take them off, afraid to fly, went to the next, same story, as was the next. Welp, that left one option open, poor old PFC Kristoff was going to have to suck it up and schedule himself for the weekly run.
That lasted 4 whole months before someone complained that I was getting out of PT and formation once a week, not to mention getting to fly around in a helicopter. (Facepalm) But hell, it was a very sweet time.
Bosnia 1996: Our detachment commander told us we needed to name our Humvees and requested names, I said "Tonka Two" since my Humvee in the rear I had named "Tonka Toy". He said that was ridiculous and we needed finance type names "like Pay Eagle, or Mo Money". I (SPC4) insisted it wasn't a good idea to do that because of the still hostile Serbian faction that happened to be financially strapped as they all were in the recovery. He insisted and I drove (as one of only 3 cashiers) Pay Eagle to two weekly pay missions (3 Days, 3 outposts), and multiple contract negotiations before we rcvd a security alert that certain factions outside the wire were overheard to be planning attacks on US Military convoys, and that they would just love to hit one of the finance convoys.
Whelp, that was that with driving Pay Eagle or any of the other two outside of the wire. We got sent per helicopter weekly, 4 flights per weekly mission, at least every 3rd week for about 9 months. While our malignant narcissist commander refused to even remotely acknowledge that it was his misjudgement.
During these it was Hueys, Blackhawks and once a Kiowa .
Good times, I miss It.
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