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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (147950)	11/20/2005 12:48:12 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793672

i was in national guard and she is correct. one captain we had while at weekend camp on cape cod started to play with his forty five. he was pointing it at his head. one the guys suggested he might not want to do that it might go off. captain says no way safety is on. he points at a tree and blows a hole into it. captain was very quiet at the meeting and then disappeared to another outfit. we never said another word. Oh, he had six kids, and was engineering ex. on fast track at big corp. go figure. another time during the northeast coast black out.. someone in our hdqtr battery got bright idea we should go into a very bad section of the city on a recon. without weapons , radio's etc. it almost came down but at least minute power was restored. first of all we had no orders that i was aware of to go into minority section of the city in 3/4 ton truck with four guys to see what was going on. I didn't appreciate someone making stupid ideas like that being in charge. I also found most of the regular(in till retirement) guys in the guard at the time where in for social reasons. boys night out,,, economic, many made more money in guard than in their regular jobs. They seemed dysfunctional to me and they were the nco leaders. Of course that was years ago before today's modern army.