hehe .... been awhile since I saw (first encounter) the military designater id-10-t (eye dee 10 tee)
Staffsgt had been sending the "new guy", allllll morning, out to the flightline maintenence shack ...
to inquire:" Where is the eye dee 10 tee located" ?
oh lordy, was he pzzzzd! when, FINALLY he wrote it down to be absolutely positively perfectly clear ... as to what he was "seeking"
ahhhhh .... the slow mo "dawning of awareness" .... the quick morphing of posture as several moods and emotions swept through the posture and face ...
till finally ...
slowwwwwwwly squareing his shoulders and going totally blank in the face ... "Staffsgt? .... found it ... I'm right here"
staff looks up over his glasses "Ah, good, was worried I had misplaced it, take lunch ...then, go get me some frequency grease and a left handed phillips screw driver from supply .... going to have to do some preventitive maintenence on the muliti-oscillating-receiver observer-network"
short pause ...
"Staffsgt"? the new guy calmly volunteered, "I'd be more than willing to take personal responsibility for performing that particular bit of preventitive maintenence, if I could just take some time, to research the process and forms required, after lunch."
"Oh really? very well ... check with Lcpl Dhreams ... see you at muster tommorrow morning then, dismissed"
{smirk} Me? when I arrived, it was the big glass topped tower, out by where all the aircraft were, "Get me a 100yds of flightline" ...
I went to the tower, took the tour, read the standing orders, standard/emergency ops posters/clipboards ... didn't ask about the flightline.
Reported back to the Staffsgt. "Sorry Staff, its done finished discontinued, they aren't making it any longer"
"WHAT? your expletiving me!"
"Oh no sir! Staffsgt, I checked! ... for all the assigned and designated aircraft assigned here, the flightline is LONG enough, and incase of emergency, all craft have been directed to use the dirt at either end ... "
Stone expressionless faces
then
Simultaineous grins
We got along famously .... hehehhe (yep, I HAD heard a variation of it before ...)
Back to UO ...
has everyone done the "headless ones" quest ?

(need a head from a corpse)