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shoulder and ‘technically’ UNSAT in uniform. Nevertheless, I still carried it in my possession to and from my barracks ‘just in case’.
There was one time that a Petty Officer who worked for me stole my wonderful boot, held onto it for a week, all the while having other people sending me random photos of my boot ‘in action,' and then some inventive person decided to hoist it up on our flagpole after evening colors. Well, I was 'summoned' outside and found my boot floating in the breeze, if that was even possible, and busted out laughing. That was the only time I laughed like that during the entire Afghanistan deployment. It felt so good.
In the end I had to get the boot down myself...and it went right back into a selection of hiding places for the remainder of the deployment...hidden from prying eyes and potentially deceitful Petty Officers.
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