Tex_Hill
Airborne All the Way!!!
Came in handy though. Especially when you needed an unauthorized vehicle from the motor pool or the GSE shop. Me, never! Well there was this one time, um maybe two times. Okay, okay all the time… We all did it! We didn’t need a car thief though; the keys were always left in the ignitions!?!
Had the duty, went out to get our duty truck, and it was nowhere to be found. I just walked next door and borrowed VF-45’s pickup for my run. (Box lunches for a det.) Hey… what? I put it back where I found it!
I know you’re kidding. But Judge’s would often offer service time to jail time in our day for lesser offenders. Served with a couple of those guys. Good men that turned around. I’m not kidding about absconding with unauthorized vehicles though. Don’t make me tell you about the gas.
Steve
My dad served in the Army as a cryptographer during the Korean War. He was one of a handful of enlisted men in his company that hadn't been "paroled" out of Leavenworth.
There was such a shortage of men when the war broke out that the Army resorted to using men who were serving time in the stockade, a la "The Dirty Dozen".
My dad remembers that there was one guy that had thin vertical scars running across his face. Apparently he reneged on a gambling debt and several guys held him down while another guy took a straight razor to his face.