Dear Nick,
Just concluded reading the final pages of your book…checked out ex the Concord Public Library. Very enjoyable, mainly for having been stationed overseas with the U.S. Navy in 1977-1979 in Naples, Italy as a much younger man. I wish we could have lunch some day over Top Ramen and Hormel Chili, the food getting cold under a long winded confab of Evil Powers, exemplar gratis.
There are countless similarities worth a damn to speak of which you and i may attest. One of those being the end of your “tour” when HR begins lint picking and such. Our Command on base had in 1978-79 mandatory drug testing, all because some clown from CONUS was shipped a couple pinner joints of headache pot through the mail. Dubbed “OPERATION GOLDENFLOW” it was a sham ex the very start since the very person popped for the offence worked in Navy Personnel, spreading the word of the how and whys and whens would occur — I think it was odd/even digits of your Social Security number that determined who pee’d first — so after all the testing we had all been “clean” for days or so.
Anything happen like that at McMurdoo? Do tell…
[R.O.]
