You ever serve with dudes you knew they just had a destiny

Crazy A I knew him in leg land in west Germany. One solid trooper we served in mech infantry platoon 1986. I heard through grapevine years later after I ETS. Friend who re enlisted stopped to visit me. Crazy A went through Ranger course then SF assessment and the Q’s and was with the teams. I always knew that he had a destiny to serve in that community.

Why not sure like me we just did our own thing. We were tight as friends put up with army stupid just kept our heads low we both had our jump wings EiB caught PCs from Bragg. Just thinking about him this morning not sure as of why. Example of how A operates I think it was Graf a training area west Germany. I was standing with the LT and platoon sgt, maybe early morning and A comes walking past us with 50 cal ammo cans. He stops puts down his cans grabs the LT and kisses him on Kevlar helmet. picks up his ammo and never says word heads to his 113. Lt was like what the fuck was that we laughed, I said LT he must like you he never kissed our old LT he was a asshole.

Another example of serving with A one night we need a patrol. Some FTX the brits were playing the Warsaw Pact, and the LT is telling me take my squad of 5 guys yea we were undermanned check out this ridge and sweep through this small village. So we get outside the perimeter and I stop my friends I said look let’s just bag the ridge cuz we know the brits are there we heard there mech moving in. Will call in fake reports and head straight to the village drink some beers find a guesthouse or pub.

We always carried deutsch cash or dollars. So we all agreed beer over patrol so we end up in this pub tossing them back A would take the radio prc 77 out once in awhile give sit rep. And we had this hard charging pvt first duty station he said were supposed to be checking out the town I said go ahead it was night time go earn your cash. At least four of us were enjoying the self made R&R that I made for us. This hard charger comes flying back into the pub excited man armor British armor coming up the road from the south. We step outside to listen cuz we can’t see shit snowing dark sure as shit they’re on the move. A radios it in we get a reply hide and observe and report we smiled at each other and we went back to drinking beers. But crazy A i always knew was on a course to be high speed trooper.