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The first time I was stationed in West Germany, I got called into the Battalion XO's (Executive Officer) office and asked how I'd managed to get a speeding ticket. I told him I hadn't been speeding and asked the captain if I might see the ticket. The offending party and I had the same first and last names - not a huge surprise, as they would rank pretty high on a 'Most Commonly Shared Names" list - but the license plate numbers were different, as was the unit of assignment; somehow, the ticket had been routed to the wrong unit. An interesting side note: I don't know what the numbers were back then, but there are now about 28,000 officers and enlisted soldiers in the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence field. That sounds like a lot but, what with the various specialties and such, it was not uncommon to at least run into a former associate elsewhere in your military journey, if not actually serve with them again. In this particular instance, that XO and I were reunited many years later - again in West Germany - when he was my Battalion Commander.  |
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