Now back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

Well, let's take some calls.

800, 321, 0710 is the number.

Let's go to Charles in Smithtown.

Charles, how you doing?

Yes, I just wanted to say, when I was in the military, you had to obey all orders.

One night, it was raining, and we had to do some preventive maintenance on the tank. And the guy that was in charge of the tank says, oh, we could do it the

next day. But the platoon sergeant wanted it done then. The platoon sergeant brought the E5 up

on a court, and I had to go to a court marshal.

They can be really screwy. Wait, wait.

A reclining a tank?

It was just a maintenance.

It was a recovery tank, and we were doing maintenance on it.

It was in the combat zone.

Oh.

And so we were doing maintenance on it one night that could have been done the next day

during the day. But the sergeant wanted us to do it that night during the ring. All right. Sounds

a little silly. What combat zone was this?

Vietnam. Oh, you were in Vietnam. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. I had another, I had another incident. We used to have a police call in the morning with cigarette butts. And I had this one guy, he was one rank above me, and he's pointing out cigarette butts, and call his son, there's one there. Son, there's another one. I said, you're not my father. So you know what? I had to go see the company commander and a first sergeant. I got to be honest with you. Out of all the war stories I've heard about bombing missions and air raid, this is not the most exciting war story. A cigarette gun. Well, this is what happened to me. Cleaning a tank, a cigarette butt. This is not the biggest war stories, but. This is... Well, I'm just saying...

No, you got a good point.

I court-martial people over silly things, but... Oh, yeah, yeah. All right, Charles. Good, good call. Let's go to Mitchell, Monroe Township. Mitchell, how you doing? Fine, thank you, Mark. I'm wondering... What are you? Inside a sofa? Are you in the trunk of a car?

Are you being kidnapped?

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