Nearly all of my 24 years military service was in the Tennessee Army National Guard; the last 15 as a section leader in Headquarters Detachment of a MP Battalion. It was a small, close-knit unit with about 25 EM and 5-7 officers. The (SFC) supply sergeant was full-time (AGR) and a nice guy, but he took everything much more seriously than the rest of us......his livelihood depended on it. The last 2 hours of each monthly drill were devoted to care and cleaning of individual equipment. The whole unit was never there to clean weapons and they all had to be cleaned, so weapons cards weren’t used; just serial number on ‘roster’ and signature. One day when the supply sergeant had been particularly ‘horsey’, everyone gathered for final assembly/dismissal. The armorer came out and said, “Sergeant Moss, we’re missing a weapon”. “Well, look and see who’s got it”.........in a voice filled with sarcasm. “Thurlow Beaver”. Well, of course, there was nobody by that name. He jerked the roster out of the guys hand and looked for my name, since I had a reputation for practical jokes. My name was on there where I had checked out/cleaned another weapon or two. Well, the weapon was found over in a corner of the room where everybody had gathered to clean them and it was in as many pieces as it was possible to disassemble it.........far more than was supposed to happen at unit level. The supply sergeant has an impressive command of the English language and we were treated to a fully array.........until he finally ran out of breath. We all enjoyed it immensely!. I happened to meet the como chief’s eyes and realized that he was responsible. The supply sergeant carefully monitored what was going on for the next 2 or 3 months, before he forgot. For the rest of my time in the unit, the como chief, another guy and myself would occasionally sign “Thurlow Beaver at any ‘appropriate’ time..........never with any prior planning or consulting each other. We never signed a pay roster, but pretty much everything else at one time or another. No one except the three of us ever knew. When I left the unit in ‘89, I carried the handle thurlow with me and have used it on a lot of forums.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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