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You got me to laughing so hard tears came to my eyes with the scene with Admiral Webb Stokes! I spent 10 years carrying a rifle for Uncle & have seen many similar situations over the years. There are So many ways & things veteran troopers will put new troopers through to test their resolve & dedication. Every so often we would have someone who had gotten out & decided to reenlist & some of those didn't tell anybody that they had been there before. Some of those would have a lot of fun turning the tables on those trying to trick the newbies. I knew one who was told to get things that didn't exist & he actually had been able to think of how to come up with acceptable substitutes. He was sent after some 'flight line', he brought back several sections of interlocking pierced steel planking that used to be used to assemble rough field runways. He was sent after a box of 'grid squares', he grabbed a number of old maps, cut them along the grid lines & put them in a box. They finally gave up on harassing him after they sent him after a set of 'canopy lights' that were supposed to illuminate his parachute during a night jump. He took a dozen handkerchiefs, chemical lights & locking shower curtain rings. He assembled them into a dozen little parachutes. When his canopy deployed he attached 3 of them to each of the 4 main shroud line sets spread out on separate lines. As he continued towards the ground the air flow pulled each of them up to the edge of the parachute canopy & as he neared the ground we all looked up & saw the ring of lights descending. The one who had been giving him the most inane things to find just shook his head & said "I give up" as the rest of laughed until we cried. It was just after that that we found out he had already served 4 years & was coming back after being out for 2 years, he didn't look that old & had been having a lot of fun screwing with Us while we were trying to screw with Him.

Jake