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I just sat down at a bar in O'hare int'l airport and gave my mil. ID for my birthdate. The guy next to me asks if I'm military. I say yes. He asks what branch, I say Navy. Asks where I'm headed, I answer Kuwait, then he starts talking about the base I'm going back to. He was stationed there and left around the time I got there. Weird specially because he's airforce and we don't have many of them there.
One time I was sitting in line to get a new ID. I struck up conversation with an Army guy who was a diver. It's after I told him my "active duty, got out, weent reserves, got recalled.." story that he mentioned he'd been in Gaeta Italy at one point. He fixed a boat that had hit the quay wall. I remembered that boat. I was working down at the harbour when that happend. I told him, me and my friend Veronica used to watch you guys like hawks because of your short shorts. Those guys flew in from the states only to fix that boat. They left a week later. What are the odds. That was almost 2 years ago. He remembered my friend, but that's because she was a total flirt.
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