Dannj

Our local paper once printed an announcement, complete with photo, honoring a female employee for being named:
“The Ass of the Month”
Even a period would have helped tremendously.

Wuligal Loc: Slippery Rock, Pa.

I kind of miss those days of typos and misspelled words.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

During the two years I was in Vietnam for 6 months I was on the night shift in the HQ Tactical Operations Center and my boss was a 1st Lt. from the 101st who had lost an eardrum so he was pulled from combat and became our Night Tac Ops Officer and Assistant Intelligence Officer. Most nights it was boring so I had a lot of reports to type for the day shift and he had nothing to do - he didn't like to read, I did - he did know how to type and was at least as fast as me. So he would take over the typing and tell me to read, send me to the Mess Hall to make our midnight lunches, keep the coffee maker clean and full or if there were a lot of reports we both typed. The night duty Sgt. would sit in the room next door and monitor the area radio nets while making sure the coffee I made didn't get old.

Well, the Lt was in the habit of abbreviating assistant as Ass and intelligence as In without a period when he had to put his signature on a paper. So "Ass In Officer". After one report made it all the way to a General at the next higher HQ signed that way the word was passed down for him to stop doing that and use Ast. Int. Officer if he didn't spell all words out and for nothing he typed to go out unless I or the Sgt. proof read it first.

Wuligal Loc: Slippery Rock, Pa.

There's something to be said for those "fun" times.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

And the had more of the attitude of an enlisted man than an officer. As in over minor or unimportant things "What are they gonna do? Cut off my hair and send me to Vietnam." After he lost his eardrum and knew he would be combat disqualified=become a desk officer forever he decided to go to the Guard or Reserves at the end of his deployment and go back to college to learn to make money.

He lost that eardrum from the concussion of a short round of US artillery that came down in the clearing his platoon and the company they were part of captured and was holding for a chopper lift to bring in a reinforced battalion. The company got there by the first and at the time I worked for him the only combat parachute assault jump in Vietnam. Some special forces and some recon units would rarely use parachutes but almost all went in by chopper.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY