Yes, he thought he was God's gift to women and most women felt the same. I took this photo. He pulled his jeans down thinking I was going to take the whole of him but I just could not do that. It would have been like shooting porn. So I chopped him in half. He liked it anyway and I used this photo to paint him. I gave the painting to his mom because she liked it but she said she couldn't hang it because it was too embarrassing.
I made him a cake here although I would never be able to create one of the fantastic ones of Larry's kind.
Tom working on a part of that VW that he sort of owned briefly.
We spent a lot of time shopping at Surplus City. This tank was actually for sale there. They said it actually ran. Tom wanted to get it and drive it home. Thank God he couldn't afford it!
We did buy a lot of C rations here. When I was at Fort Jackson the rations came in cans like you could buy here. Each person would get a small box with two or three cans and packets of other things inside it.
Here at Fort Carson they used something called lurps and I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong but its how it was pronounced. They were packets of ready to eat meals packaged in plastic.
You could if you wanted them hot, heat them up on tiny portable stoves you could also buy here. The were about 5x7 inches. You got a metal rack thing surrounding a package of 4 smaller blocks of fuel. You open the rack up and set your block of fuel under it and lit it up.
Somewhere on here is a photo of a canteen. On the bottom of the canteen is a steel cup that is shaped like the canteen. You slip this off and pour your meal into it and set it on the stove to heat up. Guys use them for making coffee mostly. I've heard that guys in Iraq and Afghanistan cook ramen noodles in them.
Mostly we bought cases of individual cans but sometimes he got boxed meals, too. I don't know what the shelf life was on these things but they were supposed to be safe for campers to buy and eat. We ate a lot of them and we never got sick.
A lot of guys got extra uniform or equipment items here if there's got lost of stolen. It wasn't unusual for them to go out in the field and somewhere along the way items got "lost" Sometimes a whole duffel bag of equipment would go missing.