Odd…I was dead tired last night. I had to pull duty…a soldier in my company did a bad thing and got a field grade article fifteen. Part of that is pulling extra duty and an NCO has to be around to make sure the soldier does the duty to standard. So after a very long day (I was up at 0445, had a PT test at 0530, and worked all day…my duty went from 1800 to 2200) and just around the time I was going to release the soldier in trouble for the night, another soldier that was working late on a project started talking to me. I’ll just refer to her as Jenkins since that 'twas not her name.
In our conversation I found this out:
She was from New Jersey. In fact, she was from the same area I recruited in.
A guy I knew, another recruiter, was a personal friend of hers. They were neighbors before she joined the army. She still keeps in touchj with him.
Another guy I knew while recruiting put her into the army.
She used to work at the Fort Dix PX but wanted a better career. A friend of hers at the PX told her to “give my husband a call and ask about MOS 25M. He can tell you about it if its something you might like to do in the army.”.
The friend was MY WIFE! I remember actually speaking to her on the phone!
The reason I did not put her in the army was because she lived next to the other guy and was out of my “recruiting area”. It was wierd, especially when she said
“Yeah, my friend <Mrs. Jolly Roger> was really nice. She told me to call her husband because he was a 25M and knew a lot about it…”
ME: Wait…your friend who?
HER: <Mrs. Jolly Roger’s name>. Did you know her?
ME: (opens wallet) Look at this pic. Is that her?
HER: Yes! You do know her! Small world!
ME: Um…indeed…Thats MY WIFE!
Wow…I then found out that she’s being assigned to MY Squad next week.
On the flipside, I found out that I lost 12 lbs. I’m glad about that, as all of the grueling PT I’ve been doing is working out for me. I was never close to fat, but I wanted to slim down a bit.