From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 15:16:06 MDT
Some of us get nailed by friendly fire....of various sorts.
--- Cory Przybyla <recherchetenet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm a little confused. It seems as if most of your
> war wounds were inflicted by the same military whose
> service it was said people don't respect enough.
> Reading this completely out of context, I would expect
> it to be from something written by Ron Kovic...
>
> --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > As it was, I worked as an electrician on F-15s and
> > F-111s, as well as
> > being an anti-sniper security adjutant. I was
> > involved in the Panama
> > operation, among other things, lost half of a
> > toenail root to bad
> > combat boots, injured my back lifting an AC
> > generator into an F-15,
> > welding burns in my eyes from poor quality welding
> > goggles, got a
> > ricocheted bullet in the leg, oh, and my pickup
> > truck was crushed by an
> > idiot who dropped a 1000 lb genset on it during the
> > mobilization for
> > Desert Storm (with the USGovt denying liability and
> > the insurance
> > company claiming an Act of War exemption, I was
> > stuck with no truck and
> > a fat car loan).... as it was I was discharged a
> > week ahead of orders
> > to go to Saudi for the big Spring Break Volley Bomb
> > tournament, and I
> > wasn't interested in staying in due to the political
> > situation at my
> > last base.
> >
> > Oh, and when I got out, the gummint defrauded me of
> > my GI education
> > benefits (which I'd paid for, thanks) to the tune of
> > $12,000. Yeah, I'd
> > say I paid my share.
>
>
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