Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill bad. Jul 11 2001 And then another day I was Officer of the Guard the officer ofth day. Y u had to go check on the guard. The base officers would take turns doing that. So I was up all night on that duty. And I'd check on the guard every two hours, or four hours, I don't remember which. But I found a guard asleep. And since this was a tact base with a submarine squadron's actual warfare he could havebeen executed for going to sleep on guard duty, even though it was in the United States. But they assigned me to be his defense. Fortunately, as there were no lawyers, the prosecuting attorney wasn't an attorney either. He was a buddy of mine. But, anyway, I got to checking. He told me he'd been to the dentist that day, and I checked in with the dentist in the little compound where they had a dental chair and everything. And he said, "Well, I did give the man shots while he was ... " He said, "They might have made him sleepier than usual." So that was my defense. And I got him off with thirty days. And so those were my two experiences as a defense attorney. And then I got transferred to Goldsboro, North Carolina, the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. I was the base chemical warfare officer there. And, temporarily, my office was in a hallway of this temporary barracks. And at the end of the hallway was the base transportation officer's office. And this cute girl came walking by there. She was secretary to the transportation officer, and she had to walk past my temporary desk to get to her desk. And they'd call it sexual harassment today, but I gave her the old wolf 25