He is mad this morning

[jmowreader]

65. War story follows

Field Station Berlin had so many computers we had to run the air conditioning system full blast 365 days a year. The building is on a mountain in Germany, so it’s cold outside and was worse inside.

I always worked Christmas, and the last battalion commander we had was a super guy who’d come up on holidays to talk to us. Everyone liked him. Anyway, I’m walking through the security gate and there stood the colonel, who was kidding around and said, “Sergeant, you know if you’re bad you get coal for Christmas.” I told him he shouldn’t remind people of that because, as cold as it was in the workspace, way too many people would try to find out how bad you needed to be to get coal. He enjoyed that comment greatly.