While in-transit to Vietnam from Germany, got to stay at lovely Oakland for a few days. First day, morning formation, I could already figure out what was going to happen. We were fodder for local details. Having already anticipated this, I'd brought a clipboard and papers with me. At an opportune moment, when people were moving to different details and others were still being selected, I grabbed a buddy who was also from Germany and said "Let's go". As we walked off, he was asking what we were detailed to do. I replied, "anything we want as long as we stay out of sight and just make formations." Spent a couple hours at the local PX, wandered around the base, then went to noon chow. Almost got caught that afternoon in the barracks, but the Cadre made too much noise coming down the hall. When he entered the squad bay, my buddy and I, clipboard in hand, were busily counting bunks, and correlating them with the number of nearby wall lockers.
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