Chapter 82, Guard Duty
I hate that! Is it that time again? And it seems like I was just last week that I was on guard duty. As you know by now every three months or so I had to be on guard duty for two weeks long. No one liked guard duty. You had to stay up for six hours straight and watch over your post from 6:00 PM till midnight or from midnight until 6 AM. This would have been fine if that was the only thing you had to do. During the day for the whole two weeks, we had to be also on “Master Sergeant’s Patrol”. My post this time was the far away aircraft hangar. I had the late shift, and it was a warm night for the season. We just had the last rain the day before and the trench around the hangar was filled with slippery mud. At 2:00 AM the coffee arrived. My friend Yossi Cohen remember him? arrived with the jeep announcing; “careful ‘T’ the colonel had a fight with his wife tonight. He’s on his way to catch someone and get him in trouble.” That was the last ...