Characters

  • Master Ben McCoby
  • the Mechanics

Locations

  • Taji AFB, Iraq

18 JUL:
I guess I should lay off the Star Wars jokes, but it’s so entrenched in our culture! There’s a lot of people in the Army that grew up on Star Wars, and we’d make references and jokes like this a lot, actually. And really, a good mechanic truly is like a Jedi Master, as far as I’m concerned. I have no mechanical aptitude at all, and I admire and respect someone who has the patience for wrench-turning.

On a more serious note, it is hard to understate the problems our mechanics had to overcome on a daily basis. There weren’t enough parts to replace stuff that was abraded away by constant operations, much less combat. I don’t know how they did it.

I’ll do a few Star Wars jokes in the future but I promise to try to contain myself more. Pinky swear.

Characters

  • Master Ben McCoby
  • the Mechanics

Locations

  • Taji AFB, Iraq

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