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I intended to work no my story but got involved in watching reruns of Mythbusters and nervier did get around to writing. Oh, well, tomorrow is yet another day to piss away.
Nov 2013 story progress
#Lambert goes to her promotion party-part 1#
The invation card was large, very nice and called out to James Lambert. The problem was the invitation was to
his fiance's promotion to Lieutenant. He was still a First Class Petty Officer and having a relationship with his young lady
was against the rules. He desparately wanted to attend.
For both their sakes, he didn't dare.
The question was: how to break the news without destroying their relationship? Doc Lambert sat in his very
nice chair - meant for the MD the ship would probably never have - in front of his nice-for-a-Navy-desk and brooded. He
didn't hear the visitor who knocked lightly on the door and entered Lambert's sick bay. Nor did he see his visitor looking at
him with a wry expression when the visitor saw and recognized the card.
The visitor cleared his throat.
Doc Lambert jerked, his head snapped towards the noise and he saw his XO. Being a well trained sailor, Doc
James Lambert started to push his chair back to stand up.
"Stay there, Doc, I didn't mean to startle you. How are you this fine Navy afternoon?"
"Just fine, sir, what can I do for you?"
"I finished reading your preliminary study predicting possible future broken ankles based on broken feeet. Do
you really think this is valid?"
"Yes, sir, I do. The logic seems sound although I don't quite see how a cast could damage leg tendons so badly
they let an ankle break. But, if it is valid, we have a number of shipmates who could be at risk. Several boatswains mates,
a couple of the gunners and engineers and one of the officers, sir, are at higher risk."
"Who are they?"
"I'm thinking of Lieutenant Johnson, Gunners Mate Johnny Harris, several boatswains mates, some engineers
and a senior officer, sir."
"Who would this senior officer be?"
"An officer who broke his left foot kicking some asshole in the head, sir. I think that was rather ballsey, don't
you, XO?"
"Actually, James, I was rather clumsey and kicked the bastard poorly. Our policeman has been teaching me
how to kick better."
The XO sighed; he wondered why he had gone into a "rundown redneck motherfucker bar" when he was in a
frat. He had gone to an "All Negro College" and was feeling his oats. Now, he would never have gone near that small
Georgia town and certainly would not have followed his frat brothers into a local bar!
"I hope so, Sir, I hope so. With all due respect, XO, if you feel the need to go to the wrong bars, perhaps you
should take some bodyguards with you?"
"And they would be?"
"I'm thinking of T.J., the old warrior and Moleman, who just looks scarey. I don't see what being bulky with
mussell makes a man seem dangerous when Moleman is quite gentle and T.J. is more slender but more scarey."
"T.J. Buchannan simply projects a hard ass attitude and that may be all it takes." Then, changing the subject,
"you got a invitation for the junior officer promotion reception?"
"Er, yes, sir, I did."
"From your young lady, Miss Parker?"
"Yes, sir, and why did you call her my 'young lady'? Sir?"
"Her XO called me and said her hoped you could attend but was afraid a First Class might not be allowed to
attend. I told him you are on the short list for Chief promotion and I think all he heard was 'Chief' because he said a 'Chief
can certainly be at this promotion party'. Charming man, that one."
"I'm on the Chief's list, Sir?"
"Certainly, the short list, but act surprised when my Senior Chief 'springs' the news on you. Oh, wear a nice suit,
something in black. My old college roommate can help you with that.
He made sure the XO had left before shutting his door and calling his fiance.
==================================#2
#getting the tux#
It was a slow morning and Doc Lambert was going over various records regarding who needed physicals and
when did they need them. There was one sailor who planned to marry and Doc Lamberty knew he could call on his old
teacher Dr. Hostetler to give the future bride her first Navy physical. He wasn't worried about which nurse would monitor
the procedings.
He was amused to note that every Chief especially the Senior Chief, a number of the first class petty officers,
the XO, the CO, and to his surprise, a third class cook were over 30 years of age and thus, had to have annual physicals.
These physicals were due to a new command from the Cruiser Destroyer Type Commander. One of the XO's Yeoman had
personally delivered the directive and briefed Doc Lambert on the contents. This had the Senior Chief's fingerprints all
over it.
It had taken Doc Lambert under an hour to come up with his list as his records for each man listed date of
birth. (Why he was surprised by a cook being 31 actually surprised him.)
Doc Lambert typed up a memo to the XO listing the names of those who needed physicals and offered to set up
appointments at the convience of each individual. He put the memo in his out basket, filed the carbon and was happy to
see the boatswain mate on roving patrol take the memo for deliver. Two minutes later, his phone range and it was the XO.
"Doc Lambert, XO here. I have a friend who will meet us at the end of the pier. He'll arrange for you to get a
nice suit."
"Yes, sir, er, I thought you were calling about my memo, sir."
"What memo?"
"The memo with the names of personnel needing physicals, XO."
"Ah, that just arrived. Please meet me at the quarterdeck at 10."
It was 9:37 am and Doc Lambert took about five minutes to change into his undress blues and pick out a nice
white hat. Then, he called Dr. Hostetler to set up the Future Navy Wife's pre-marriate physical time. Dr. Hostetler's nurse
would handle negociating the exact time.
Doc Lambert was standing on the Quarterdeck before the XO arrived slightly early.
Both left the MAXSON and went to the head of the pier where a civilian car waited. The driver, a black
gentleman in his late 30s, got out and shook hands with the XO. Then, the XO said:
"Doc, this is Mr. Mark Dalto, one of the finest defense lawyers in Virgina. Mark, this is HM1 James Lewis
Lambert, the finest independent duty medic in the destroyer cruiser group. He is going to a nice social event and I need
him to look good."
"You do?"
"I want him to make his young lady proud to be seen with him."
Doc Lambert had the accidential good grace to blush slightly and that amused the lawyer.
"Well, Doc, I have just the person for you to meet."
Mr. Dalto drove into a suburb of Norfolk that Doc Lambert didn't know existed. There, they stopped in front
of a shop and went inside. An elderly gentleman, with pier nix glasses, a cloth ruler over his shoulders and a button up
sweater stood waiting for them.
Mr. Dalto introduced Pier Douleur Aiguë to Foote and Lambert.
"Doctor Lambert is going to a social affair and he needs to look very nice", Mr. Dalto stated.
"I just need a nice suit, sir."
"Modest, is he? I like customers to be modest. I will pick what you will wear young Doctor Lambert!"
The old tailor called out something in a language neither Foote or Lambert recognized. A young white woman
who was clearly not American walked in with a merry expression.
"Again, tell us what the young Doctor needs a suit for?"
XO Foote replied: "He is going to a major party for his Young Lady and some others. The families would like
hin to look very nice." This was a surprise to Lambert who didn't know about being in "families".
The old man and the young woman began moving Lambert into different positions, speaking to each other in a
foreign language. Lambert was shocked when she squated down and measured his inseem. The lawyer made a comment
to CDR Foote that Lambert could not hear and repeated his remark in a foreign language. The two tailors laughed merrily
and went on with their work. Lambert would never learn that the lawyer had called him a "nervous virgin" and this had
very much amused his XO and both tailors when the lawyer repeated the remark in Yidish.
Four days later, Doc Lambert received a letter. It read:
Dear Doctor Lambert,
We will be calling you to the shop for your first fitting in a week . Please wear nice underwear.
Yours Sincerely,
/s/ Michelle Marie LaFere
When James Lambert showed the letter to his fiance, she laughed heartily. Then, she took him to an upscale
Men's Clothier - "The Gay Blade" - and helped James pick out nice underwear and thick black socks. James never learned
how much this underware cost as "his Debra" paid while a clerk was trying to talk James into buying a fancy tie; the sale
failed.
About a week later, Doc Lambert got a phone call from the quarterdeck.
"Doc, quarterdeck, John Semmes here, a young lady . is here to see you. She says to wear 'your civilian
clothing'" and that her grandfather liked to see what his clients normally wore. Lucky you!"
Doc Lambert put on a pair of slacks, a matching gray shirt, and his Navy boondocks. Then, he called the XO -
the Senior Chief in actuality - to say he was going to his tailor. The Senior Chief was quite amused...
When Doc Lambert got to the Quarter Deck, he found the tailor's assistant telling the Quarter Deck chief how
he needed a nice suit and that her Grandfather could help. The young woman then told John Semmes that a nice blue
dress suit, a demure tie and pull over beige sweather would look best on him.
"I don't think we've been introduced", Lambert told the young woman.
"Why, I'll help," interjected Boatswain Mate Chief Ed Berry. "Doc Lambert, this is Michelle Marie LaFere,
who moved to Norfolk from Poland when she was a child. Miss LaFere, this is James Lambert, one of the finest Navy
Doctors I have ever met. I understand Miss LaFere is helping her Grandfather make you some suits."
As Lamert and LaFere started down the brow to the shore, Chief Berry said: "Miss LaFere, I suspect you
know a friend of mine, Chief Petty Officer James Watt?"
Miss LaFere showed dimples when she smilled.
"Yes, Mr. Berry, both my grandfather and I know Rabbi Watt. Please give our...respects...to him."
"I will," and Chief Berry shocked Semmes by saluting the young woman.
It wasn't until Lambert and LaFere were down the pier before Semmes spoke:
"Chief, I didn't know Chief Watt was a Rabbi. I mean, I've seen his little hat but I just thought it meant he wasw
Jewish".
"Don't repeat what I'm about to tell you. Her Grandfather barely survived a Nazi concentration camp you've
never heard of. After his rescue, he went back home. There, a Catholic Priest told him he'd been hiding Jews for years. He
was looking for a parent for a shell shocked little. Both took to each other immediately. The Priest arranged the paperwork
to show them as kin, the Navy League arranged for them to come here and the Catholic League set them up in business
with a nice grub stake. I don't know got the old tailor his green card and who pushed through their nationation papers for
both but I suspect the Archbishop had everything to do with it."
"I won't repeat a word, Chief!" Besides, John Raffel Seemes thought, who could I tell a tale like this to that would take it seriously?
#the fitting#
]
aiguë
Lambert’s chief initiation
She attends his advancement
Bm3 talks with bully’s wife
Gets some kissing but never thinks of the GM2’s problems
BM3 bangs bully’s wife
Idiots want the good life like the newly minted BM2 one bails the others get suckered into chipping paint
Lucky Bastard
Gunners Mate 3rd class Johnny Harris
sneaking booze on boat in Norfolk
getting it aboard in Cuba
one sailor gets busted, sent to brig ashore, gets off when lawyer convinces judge thjere was no evivence he had been
drinking booze
wherre is the car
Art Davis want to go safe place
XO knows CO of Frogman training command at Amphib Base
Art Davis gets physical fitness training as part of rehab
Art Davis goes to and passes Frogman training
XO, YNCS, various go to his graduation
officer sneaks car off base
salisman@cox.net
Dear Ms. Lisman,
148
LTjg Debra Parker
Signalman Seaman Arthur Oscar Davies
Bosummate 3rd John Raffell Semmes
LT Dennis Thomas Unruh - OOD, Weapons Department Head and acting Guns Division officer
CAPT William P. Kilgore
Lieutenant Commander Arthur David Foote, XO
Boatswain Mate 1st class Michael "Blackie" Lee
Yeoman first class Thomas Jefferson Buchanan
Boatswain Mate Chief Edward Berry
Lieutenant Walker Johnson (First Lieutenant)
GM2 Harold "Harry" Schmidt
Commissary man 2st Class Michael Carmol (moleman)
Commisaryman Andrew “Andy” Washington
Boatswain's Mate Chief Andrew Bell
Ensign Thomas Payne, JOOD and comms officer
Radioman Chief Samuel Joseph Renner
Quartermaster David William Boyle
Lieutenant Jeffries, Navigator
LTjg Jay Cobb Weiske, torpedo officer and assistant Weapons Department Head
Gunners Mate 1st Class Jeffrey Mark Holliday, Senior Gunners Mate
Torpedoman 1st Class Robert Whitehead
Gunners Mate 3rd class Johnny Harris
Gunner Mate 3rd class Lew Wellen MacAllister
Yeoman Senior Chief Brian McGinnies, XO’s yeoman
HM1 James "Jim" Lambert - James Lewis Lambert
BT3 Jim Baker, the wanta b preacher
BTC (Boiler Tender Chief) James Watt
LT Simon Ulysses, Chaplain
SMC (Sonorman Chief) Robert Sanders (future religious group leader)
Seaman Apprentice Ryan McCameon, a boatswain mate striker (not too bright)
GMSN James Thomas ("Jetro") Etro, not so bight either
Petty officer 1st Class Ronald Coleman, the cuchholder
= mugger
Mr. Mark Dalto
https://mylci.lionsclubs.org/
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
2013 novel as of 6 November 2013
#Lambert goes to her promotion party-part 1#
The invation card was large, very nice and called out to James Lambert. The problem was the invitation was to
his fiance's promotion to Lieutenant. He was still a First Class Petty Officer and having a relationship with his young lady
was against the rules. He desparately wanted to attend.
For both their sakes, he didn't dare.
The question was: how to break the news without destroying their relationship? Doc Lambert sat in his very
nice chair - meant for the MD the ship would probably never have - in front of his nice-for-a-Navy-desk and brooded. He
didn't hear the visitor who knocked lightly on the door and entered Lambert's sick bay. Nor did he see his visitor looking at
him with a wry expression when the visitor saw and recognized the card.
The visitor cleared his throat.
Doc Lambert jerked, his head snapped towards the noise and he saw his XO. Being a well trained sailor, Doc
James Lambert started to push his chair back to stand up.
"Stay there, Doc, I didn't mean to startle you. How are you this fine Navy afternoon?"
"Just fine, sir, what can I do for you?"
"I finished reading your preliminary study predicting possible future broken ankles based on broken feeet. Do
you really think this is valid?"
"Yes, sir, I do. The logic seems sound although I don't quite see how a cast could damage leg tendons so badly
they let an ankle break. But, if it is valid, we have a number of shipmates who could be at risk. Several boatswains mates,
a couple of the gunners and engineers and one of the officers, sir, are at higher risk."
"Who are they?"
"I'm thinking of Lieutenant Johnson, Gunners Mate Johnny Harris, several boatswains mates, some engineers
and a senior officer, sir."
"Who would this senior officer be?"
"An officer who broke his left foot kicking some asshole in the head, sir. I think that was rather ballsey, don't
you, XO?"
"Actually, James, I was rather clumsey and kicked the bastard poorly. Our policeman has been teaching me
how to kick better."
The XO sighed; he wondered why he had gone into a "rundown redneck motherfucker bar" when he was in a
frat. He had gone to an "All Negro College" and was feeling his oats. Now, he would never have gone near that small
Georgia town and certainly would not have followed his frat brothers into a local bar!
"I hope so, Sir, I hope so. With all due respect, XO, if you feel the need to go to the wrong bars, perhaps you
should take some bodyguards with you?"
"And they would be?"
"I'm thinking of T.J., the old warrior and Moleman, who just looks scarey. I don't see what being bulky with
mussell makes a man seem dangerous when Moleman is quite gentle and T.J. is more slender but more scarey."
"T.J. Buchannan simply projects a hard ass attitude and that may be all it takes." Then, changing the subject,
"you got a invitation for the junior officer promotion reception?"
"Er, yes, sir, I did."
"From your young lady, Miss Parker?"
"Yes, sir, and why did you call her my 'young lady'? Sir?"
"Her XO called me and said her hoped you could attend but was afraid a First Class might not be allowed to
attend. I told him you are on the short list for Chief promotion and I think all he heard was 'Chief' because he said a 'Chief
can certainly be at this promotion party'. Charming man, that one."
"I'm on the Chief's list, Sir?"
"Certainly, the short list, but act surprised when my Senior Chief 'springs' the news on you. Oh, wear a nice suit,
something in black. My old college roommate can help you with that.
He made sure the XO had left before shutting his door and calling his fiance.
==================================#2
#getting the tux#
It was a slow morning and Doc Lambert was going over various records regarding who needed physicals and
when did they need them. There was one sailor who planned to marry and Doc Lamberty knew he could call on his old
teacher Dr. Hostetler to give the future bride her first Navy physical. He wasn't worried about which nurse would monitor
the procedings.
He was amused to note that every Chief especially the Senior Chief, a number of the first class petty officers,
the XO, the CO, and to his surprise, a third class cook were over 30 years of age and thus, had to have annual physicals.
These physicals were due to a new command from the Cruiser Destroyer Type Commander. One of the XO's Yeoman had
personally delivered the directive and briefed Doc Lambert on the contents. This had the Senior Chief's fingerprints all
over it.
It had taken Doc Lambert under an hour to come up with his list as his records for each man listed date of
birth. (Why he was surprised by a cook being 31 actually surprised him.)
Doc Lambert typed up a memo to the XO listing the names of those who needed physicals and offered to set up
appointments at the convience of each individual. He put the memo in his out basket, filed the carbon and was happy to
see the boatswain mate on roving patrol take the memo for deliver. Two minutes later, his phone range and it was the XO.
"Doc Lambert, XO here. I have a friend who will meet us at the end of the pier. He'll arrange for you to get a
nice suit."
"Yes, sir, er, I thought you were calling about my memo, sir."
"What memo?"
"The memo with the names of personnel needing physicals, XO."
"Ah, that just arrived. Please meet me at the quarterdeck at 10."
It was 9:37 am and Doc Lambert took about five minutes to change into his undress blues and pick out a nice
white hat. Then, he called Dr. Hostetler to set up the Future Navy Wife's pre-marriate physical time. Dr. Hostetler's nurse
would handle negociating the exact time.
Doc Lambert was standing on the Quarterdeck before the XO arrived slightly early.
Both left the MAXSON and went to the head of the pier where a civilian car waited. The driver, a black
gentleman in his late 30s, got out and shook hands with the XO. Then, the XO said:
"Doc, this is Mr. Mark Dalto, one of the finest defense lawyers in Virgina. Mark, this is HM1 James Lewis
Lambert, the finest independent duty medic in the destroyer cruiser group. He is going to a nice social event and I need
him to look good."
"You do?"
"I want him to make his young lady proud to be seen with him."
Doc Lambert had the accidential good grace to blush slightly and that amused the lawyer.
"Well, Doc, I have just the person for you to meet."
Mr. Dalto drove into a suburb of Norfolk that Doc Lambert didn't know existed. There, they stopped in front
of a shop and went inside. An elderly gentleman, with pier nix glasses, a cloth ruler over his shoulders and a button up
sweater stood waiting for them.
Mr. Dalto introduced Pier Douleur Aiguë to Foote and Lambert.
"Doctor Lambert is going to a social affair and he needs to look very nice", Mr. Dalto stated.
"I just need a nice suit, sir."
"Modest, is he? I like customers to be modest. I will pick what you will wear young Doctor Lambert!"
The old tailor called out something in a language neither Foote or Lambert recognized. A young white woman
who was clearly not American walked in with a merry expression.
"Again, tell us what the young Doctor needs a suit for?"
XO Foote replied: "He is going to a major party for his Young Lady and some others. The families would like
hin to look very nice." This was a surprise to Lambert who didn't know about being in "families".
The old man and the young woman began moving Lambert into different positions, speaking to each other in a
foreign language. Lambert was shocked when she squated down and measured his inseem. The lawyer made a comment
to CDR Foote that Lambert could not hear and repeated his remark in a foreign language. The two tailors laughed merrily
and went on with their work. Lambert would never learn that the lawyer had called him a "nervous virgin" and this had
very much amused his XO and both tailors when the lawyer repeated the remark in Yidish.
Four days later, Doc Lambert received a letter. It read:
Dear Doctor Lambert,
We will be calling you to the shop for your first fitting in a week . Please wear nice underwear.
Yours Sincerely,
/s/ Michelle Marie LaFere
When James Lambert showed the letter to his fiance, she laughed heartily. Then, she took him to an upscale
Men's Clothier - "The Gay Blade" - and helped James pick out nice underwear and thick black socks. James never learned
how much this underware cost as "his Debra" paid while a clerk was trying to talk James into buying a fancy tie; the sale
failed.
About a week later, Doc Lambert got a phone call from the quarterdeck.
"Doc, quarterdeck, John Semmes here, a young lady . is here to see you. She says to wear 'your civilian
clothing'" and that her grandfather liked to see what his clients normally wore. Lucky you!"
Doc Lambert put on a pair of slacks, a matching gray shirt, and his Navy boondocks. Then, he called the XO -
the Senior Chief in actuality - to say he was going to his tailor. The Senior Chief was quite amused...
When Doc Lambert got to the Quarter Deck, he found the tailor's assistant telling the Quarter Deck chief how
he needed a nice suit and that her Grandfather could help. The young woman then told John Semmes that a nice blue
dress suit, a demure tie and pull over beige sweather would look best on him.
"I don't think we've been introduced", Lambert told the young woman.
"Why, I'll help," interjected Boatswain Mate Chief Ed Berry. "Doc Lambert, this is Michelle Marie LaFere,
who moved to Norfolk from Poland when she was a child. Miss LaFere, this is James Lambert, one of the finest Navy
Doctors I have ever met. I understand Miss LaFere is helping her Grandfather make you some suits."
As Lamert and LaFere started down the brow to the shore, Chief Berry said: "Miss LaFere, I suspect you
know a friend of mine, Chief Petty Officer James Watt?"
Miss LaFere showed dimples when she smilled.
"Yes, Mr. Berry, both my grandfather and I know Rabbi Watt. Please give our...respects...to him."
"I will," and Chief Berry shocked Semmes by saluting the young woman.
It wasn't until Lambert and LaFere were down the pier before Semmes spoke:
"Chief, I didn't know Chief Watt was a Rabbi. I mean, I've seen his little hat but I just thought it meant he wasw
Jewish".
"Don't repeat what I'm about to tell you. Her Grandfather barely survived a Nazi concentration camp you've
never heard of. After his rescue, he went back home. There, a Catholic Priest told him he'd been hiding Jews for years. He
was looking for a parent for a shell shocked little. Both took to each other immediately. The Priest arranged the paperwork
to show them as kin, the Navy League arranged for them to come here and the Catholic League set them up in business
with a nice grub stake. I don't know got the old tailor his green card and who pushed through their nationation papers for
both but I suspect the Archbishop had everything to do with it."
"I won't repeat a word, Chief!" Besides, John Raffel Seemes thought, who could I tell a tale like this to that
would take it seriously?
aiguë
Lambert’s chief initiation
She attends his advancement
Bm3 talks with bully’s wife
Gets some kissing but never thinks of the GM2’s problems
BM3 bangs bully’s wife
Idiots want the good life like the newly minted BM2 one bails the others get suckered into chipping paint
Lucky Bastard
Gunners Mate 3rd class Johnny Harris
sneaking booze on boat in Norfolk
getting it aboard in Cuba
one sailor gets busted, sent to brig ashore, gets off when lawyer convinces judge thjere was no evivence he had been
drinking booze
wherre is the car
Art Davis want to go safe place
XO knows CO of Frogman training command at Amphib Base
Art Davis gets physical fitness training as part of rehab
Art Davis goes to and passes Frogman training
XO, YNCS, various go to his graduation
officer sneaks car off base
salisman@cox.net
Dear Ms. Lisman,
148
LTjg Debra Parker
Signalman Seaman Arthur Oscar Davies
Bosummate 3rd John Raffell Semmes
LT Dennis Thomas Unruh - OOD, Weapons Department Head and acting Guns Division officer
CAPT William P. Kilgore
Lieutenant Commander Arthur David Foote, XO
Boatswain Mate 1st class Michael "Blackie" Lee
Yeoman first class Thomas Jefferson Buchanan
Boatswain Mate Chief Edward Berry
Lieutenant Walker Johnson (First Lieutenant)
GM2 Harold "Harry" Schmidt
Commissary man 2st Class Michael Carmol (moleman)
Commisaryman Andrew “Andy” Washington
Boatswain's Mate Chief Andrew Bell
Ensign Thomas Payne, JOOD and comms officer
Radioman Chief Samuel Joseph Renner
Quartermaster David William Boyle
Lieutenant Jeffries, Navigator
LTjg Jay Cobb Weiske, torpedo officer and assistant Weapons Department Head
Gunners Mate 1st Class Jeffrey Mark Holliday, Senior Gunners Mate
Torpedoman 1st Class Robert Whitehead
Gunners Mate 3rd class Johnny Harris
Gunner Mate 3rd class Lew Wellen MacAllister
Yeoman Senior Chief Brian McGinnies, XO’s yeoman
HM1 James "Jim" Lambert - James Lewis Lambert
BT3 Jim Baker, the wanta b preacher
BTC (Boiler Tender Chief) James Watt
LT Simon Ulysses, Chaplain
SMC (Sonorman Chief) Robert Sanders (future religious group leader)
Seaman Apprentice Ryan McCameon, a boatswain mate striker (not too bright)
GMSN James Thomas ("Jetro") Etro, not so bight either
Petty officer 1st Class Ronald Coleman, the cuchholder
= mugger
Mr. Mark Dalto
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