Arabian Nightmares

[Stan Reber]

When my last DATT was trying to get my LOM through Clarendon, the first few copies kept coming back without Goma and Rwanda. I was thinking, perhaps they needed room for those 5-dollar words and removed Goma and Rwanda to do so. Then it got better: The second sentence started with "At great personnel risk". While in Clarendon and still no LOM, I asked the SP4 to change it to "at great personal risk" and she replied "it already says that". When she went to get some more LOM blanks, I (for some reason) noticed that all the previous traffic from Estonia was right there on her desk, to include a memo from the awards department and two red lines through Goma and Rwanda.

Tom, as always, you're right. We were never even there for our LOMs !
Regards, Stan

[Tom Odom]

Stan,

Quoting what Micky in Rwanda told me every time the phone rang from HQs:

"Tom, remember, 'We were not there. We did not do it. Deny. Deny. Deny."

Best

tom