I agree- no culpability.
There is, however, the matter of the overdue library book ("Tom Sawyer")
that Wilton borrowed from his local library when he was 7 but forgot to
return. The fines now total in the 7 figures.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> On 04/01/2017 9:55 AM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
>
>> From Oct '57 to Mar '60, when I left to attend Officer Candidate
>> School (OCS), I was a B-47E maintenance crew chief at Lincoln AFB, NE, and
>> wore the two-stripe chevrons of that "lofty" rank of A/2C (airman second
>> class, or E-3).
>> Soon after arriving at Lincoln, I began looking for ways to continue
>> my pursuit of an engineering degree, and began to attend night and
>> Saturday classes at The University of Nebraska in Lincoln and The
>> University of Omaha about 55 miles away. The classes in Lincoln were
>> usually one or two nights a week, and those in Omaha were on Friday nights
>> and Saturday mornings. I usually stayed overnight at the YMCA in downtown
>> Omaha. Because of my very unpredictable work schedule, it was nearly
>> impossible to get to all of the class meetings, but I did manage to
>> accumulate a few credits, anyway.
>> Sometime early in 1958, the squadron's first sergeant, who was very
>> supportive of my efforts to improve my education and knew that I also have
>> a strong sense of integrity, called me to his office and asked me to escort
>> off base an airman who, for some non-criminal infraction, had just been
>> reduced in rank to airman basic (E-1) and given a less-than-honorable,
>> administrative discharge.
>> I drove the airman to his barracks room to pack his belongings, which
>> he did as I watched, and then drove him to a point just outside the base
>> front gate where he got into a car with a young woman and departed.
>> The next day, the first sergeant told me that the former airman had
>> stolen his roommate's field jacket during his departure. I told the
>> sergeant, "He was wearing the same field jacket when I dropped him off
>> outside the gate that he was wearing when I first met him here in your
>> office, and I had watched him pack his bags. Meanwhile, I did not see
>> another field jacket . If he took the roommate's jacket, during that time,
>> I don't know how he could have done it."
>> I never heard another word about the incident, but I did worry a bit
>> that the roommate and the first sergeant might somehow, at least partially,
>> hold me responsible for the "supposed" theft.
>>
>> Wilton Strickland, LtCol, USAF (Ret)
>>
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> You said the First Sergeant respected you. I assume he accepted your
> explanation and that was the end of it.
>
> RB
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