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Show But from the engineers I would know h w to put an an hor in but th guy they like put a utility pole in the sand and tied th rope to it. Well itju t pull do r. It wasn't a ... We would have buried a log sideways and put a cable around it anchor d it properly. But this was a two story building, it was just like a great gigantic sail. There was about, well, I don't know, 150 feet long or 200. Whatever length of the barracks was. And that's what was on top of it. And it had its own generators and things on top of it. It was like a self-contained unit. JAS: Right on. So you probably had quite a few duties that other people weren't capable of performing. LOW: Well, I had some, yeah. JAS: What sort of things were you doing? LOW: Well, I started out- I don't know whether I mentioned that or not- but anyway, the day I went into that outfit, the other sarg says, "Sarg, unless you like to drink or like to fight, don't go to the NCO club. Well, I didn't really know what they were talking about but I didn't go down there, anyway, and they used to have quite a lot of scrabbles down there. I found out that that- I guess after I got stuck with it - finally, it was closed for a week and the commanding officer gave me a direct order that I had the club ... And I never went in it! So I made a deal with a first sergeant. I said, "Hey, what am I going to do? I've never been in that thing before." He said, ' You do the books," because it was a chartered club. The books were inspected every three months by somebody that would come in and inspect my |
