When I got back home  from Viet Nam I went home for two weeks leave and then reported back to duty at Ft Hood Texas . I was in Firth Army in an Engineer Unit . My brother had been in the Army before me and had joined the 2^nd Armored Division Band after he was in the tank corp for awhile . I decided that I wanted to transfer to the 2^nd Armored Division Band too . So I got my transfer and settled in . Do you know they wanted me to shine my shoes and shave every day after serving a year in Viet Nam . I couldn’t believe that . I told them to take a hike . They was nice enough to transfer out of the band into a supply and transportation unit in the 2^nd Armored Division . It was my job when a soldier came in and received his field gear to take him back to his barracks . That was a good job . Every day I would go to the motor pool check out a truck and deliver men back to the units . If there wasn’t any men to deliver “Hey I went riding around “ I learned after awhile that if you got up to a certain speed and flipped the ignition switch off for a short period of time and coast them switch it back on the truck would back fire with a loud bang . Gee that was fun until one day the truck started to sound like a sports car taking off .

Luckily one of real super duper good friends was a mechanic at the motor pool where I picked the truck up and he fixed it for me . I just had blown the back of the muffler off , that’s all .

I’m telling all of this stuff on myself letting people know how their  Tax Dollars get spent . I’m sure there is LOT’S worse . And I’m sure there is a lot of mechanics shaking their heads at this story . I never never never liked working on cars . They are too nasty . You look at them and you get greasy . On the other hand I spent over twenty years repairing copying machines for a living . I don’t mind sticking my hand in the toner . That’s a different story . But I hate cars .