This is terrific:

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3. There was a service buddy of ours from Johnstown PA.

He liked to shoot deer.

But a couple of us were total photography nuts and I imagine that just by yakkin it up about our great nature photos (and that was over 50 years ago), he got photo fever.

I recall showing off a photo of a mallard in flight with a 300 mm. lens, maybe with a tele-converter.

So, after a while, he took up photography and got one of those long lenses and brought back nice photos from leave.

We made him jealous!