Pup by Christopher Slater

Author:Christopher Slater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fiction Studio Books
Published: 2015-02-26T20:20:57+00:00

How do you say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in Japanese?

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The Great Latrine Sabotage kept the camp talking for several days, and it surprised me to discover that they weren’t making fun of me in the process . . . exclusively. There were some jokes about my burned rear end. That’s no surprise. I made a few of them. Someone also set off a firecracker outside the first time I made use of the new latrine. I admit to falling off of the seat, but I managed not to fall out of the door. Of course, it didn’t exactly shock me when I found the burnt remnants of the old toilet seat mounted above my bunk with a Purple Heart painted on it. I actually found the Purple Heart a nice touch. However, most of the discussion was about preventing another possible sabotage. That largely resulted in beefing up the perimeter security with new razor wire, digging new trenches, and increasing the number of night sentries. Sorry guys. I hope you understand.

I found myself volunteering for sentry duty on a fairly regular basis. I had begun to appreciate the quiet time and the opportunity it gave me to think. It also gave me a chance to make use of the night vision gear a lot. After my run-in with the stray dogs when I first arrived, I had come to appreciate the use of the night vision gear a lot. If I’d had this type of equipment when I was a kid, I could’ve ruled the world. There wouldn’t have been a single person on the planet that could have beaten me at hide-and-seek. I could have snuck out of my house and back in again without ever being caught . . . um . . . not that I ever did that kind of thing, Mom . . . really. I began reading the tech manuals on all of the different night vision gear that we had available. It was excessively boring reading, but it gave me something to focus on. My only other option would have been to write letters home, and I hadn’t done that since I’d been launched into orbit from an outhouse. I just couldn’t figure out how to explain that one to the folks, so I didn’t try. On the next patrol, I was picked to man the listening post for the second shift. When I arrived, the first shift informed me that the night vision goggles had malfunctioned and were useless. Everyone was impressed when I returned the next morning with fully functional goggles and a small essay on the nocturnal bird life in that region of Korea (nobody read it, but they were certainly surprised).

Because of my newfound expertise in the field of night vision technology, the Professor asked me to join him and a few NCOs for a briefing in the mess tent on some new technology that we were going to be field testing. He told me that a civilian representative for

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