“Who the fuck are you again!?!” he shouts into my face.
USMC Major yours truly had just tracked down the Commanding Officer of School of Infantry for Marines on the east coast to tell him the nicest way possible that I would be needing his one Spanish speaking machine gunner tonow and his Spanish speaking Mortarman tomorrow for riverine training team (RTT) missions into the jungles of Colombia circa 1999.
The Colonel was explaining to me how that was not going to happen so I invited him to call my “CeeGee” (AKA Commanding General). He called my bluff then hung up the phone and told someone to go get Sgt Garcia.
He chewed me out until the NCO got there and then I explained the mission to both of them.
I was able to get Sgt Garcia a follow-up mission as promised but on his second one he met his team on pre-deployment training day one and got to go through the entire work up which included giving me a book report on the book “The Ugly American.”
So now I have a new enemy and I’m sure that he was talking to his XO and the entire Col mafia about me.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 