[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Richard Aiken]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, for the good old days when you knew your foe would be wearing a big Red
> > Star... life was simple then. You knew who you'd be shooting at.
>
> Hey, I was Signals.  You want somebody shot, talk to that grunt over there.
> :)

I was Admin in the Air Force.  Which meant I was "augmented" to
Security as needed.  While based in Zweibrucken Germany, I once asked
my tech sergeant trainer what I'd be doing if WWIII ever started.

He said:  "Well, Airman, we'd take y'all out a couple of miles east of
the base, trailing a phone line as we went.  Then we'd drop each of
y'all off a ways apart, before driving back here to the base.  You'd
each dig yourselves a little foxhole and wait.  After a little the
Soviet Army would show up, so you'd pick up the phone and tell us how
many tanks they got and which way they're heading."

After moment's silence, I asked: "And then what?"

He shrugged: "Well, then you'd be on your own."

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein