Re: It fits!

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:03:28 -0400, PocoLoco <PocoLoco415@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:02:27 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:57:07 -0400, PocoLoco <PocoLoco415@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:53:42 -0400, "Bert Robbins" <screw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"PocoLoco" <PocoLoco415@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>news:a26ik1tv3i9avj3sn0vnt1k2p2o8fqango@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Going to the son-in-law's change of command ceremony this morning. He is
>>>>> becoming the company commander of an MP Battalion's Headquarters Company.
>>>>> That's
>>>>> pretty good as he's not even a Military Police officer. He's Military
>>>>> Intelligence.
>>>>>
>>>>> I decided to try on the old uniform to see if I could wear it. By sucking
>>>>> in the
>>>>> gut about two inches I was able to get in the thing! Yippee.
>>>>
>>>>Just remember, don't breath, don't eat, and don't sit down!
>>>
>>>Thanks Bert. I barely breathed, didn't eat, and unbuttoned the jacket when I
>>>sat. Somehow made it with no buttons popping off.
>>
>>There is no way in hell I could get into my dress blues from those
>>days.
>>
>>It's almost as if I was a completely different person.
>
>I will admit that I moved the buttons over to the edge, and that the pants were
>*very* tight!
>
>We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch. Normally that's a pig-out place for me.
>I had coffee.

PS> Some photos at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jherring1/my_photos

Look under Ben's Change of Command.

--
John H

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Ronald Reagan
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