This was my old job in the Army. I was a Russian linguist.
I don't know how the guys in this pic have their sleeves rolled up. We would be all bundled up - some of us even sitting inside sleeping bags. It was like a meat locker in there.
We made sure the Czar's boys didn't come screaming through the Fulda Gap. And we made the lights blink!
I'm probably the only person whose favorite part of "Apocalypse Now" is the scene where they're playing the tape of the radio voice intercepts of Colonel Kurtz. You can hear the operator giving the zulu-time voice-overs as he records. He steals the show.
Posted by floridacracker at December 28, 2003 08:47 PM