Reply #5: Oh, yeah... Real elite

[TlalocW]

The one guy in my small farming community high school who was gung-ho for the military weighed 125 pounds sopping wet, was dumber than a box of hammers, and had mental problems. He hated my guts because I was a liberal and shrugged off one of his punches (he hauled off and hit me for no reason) like it was nothing. He tried to join the marines and couldn't make it so went to the army, who snatched him right up, because he wanted to play with guns.

Years later, a friend and I ran into him. He had been dishonorably discharged and was working as a security guard at a grocery store. According to him:

1. There are hidden garbage chutes every 25 feet or so along the inner wall of the Pentagon that lead to the furnace so if someone needed killing, you could shiv them and then throw their body into the chute before someone came out into the hall. If that were true, everyone would be walking sideways with their backs up against the outer wall.
2. He could kill a man with a business card.
3. He was discharged for trying to run his CO over with a truck (that one I could believe)
4. Most unbelievable story though was that he had somehow wrangled a job as Castro's bodyguard (uh, why would Fidel hire a non-Spanish speaking US army private to be a bodyguard), and he was supposed to assassinate him.

It wasn't the lies that hurt us so bad, but his believing that we were as stupid as he. :)

TlalocW