August 8, 2005 

August 8, 2005

Well, today turned out to be a very interesting day. The Chaplain, Jung, and I drove down to K-16 and caught a plane to Daegu. The Chaplain wanted to see some soldiers down there and asked us if we wanted to come. I had never been that far South, so I said sure. We gotg to fly in the General's plane, which was an 8 person propeller plane. It had nice seats that went all the way back. I took full advantage of it and went to sleep.


Chaplain Horovitz on the plane heading to Daegu.


Jung with his usual "peace sign" pose for the camera.


And there is me.


The pilots were very nice and we made it alive which was the best part.


We took a little tour of one of the chapels while we were at Camp Walker, then we went to lunch in Camp Henry with the Chaplain Assistant Sergeant Major. He bought us lunch and we told stories the whole time.


One of the windows at the Chapel. After leaving, we hung out at the SGM's office and played cards with him, while we waited for CH Horovitz to get back. I was getting really sleepy sitting on the couch and I had brought my laptopwith me, so I pulled it out and was watching another episode of LOST, when the SGM walked by and asked "what Field Manual are you looking at?" in a joking voice. I just looked at him and said "Survival Sergeant Major" and went back to watching my show. He said that was a good answer.


Well onj the way back we ran into some problems. First the weather got real bad so we had to land at Camp Humphries which is about 2 hours from where we needed to go. The when there was a little break in the weather, we got back on the plane to take off and the engine wouldn't start. We tried it again and it started to smoke. Now we were stranded with no way of getting back to the base. There was a guy who was nice enough to give us a ride to the bus station, but we ran into another problem there. The last bus had left an hour ago. We just happened to see the guy who gave us a ride when we were walking through the entrance of the PX and asked him to give us a lift to the subway station.

Getting a lift from a pilot to the subway station.

We managed to finally get to the subway when we ran into another problem, The Chaplain didn't have enough money on his card to take the subway and we didn't have any won on us. We ran our card through and he walked thorugh the gate.

Once we got on the subway and were heading for home, I learned a valuable lesson. Never wear an Army uniform on the Subway. Everyone knew we were soldiers and one guy got really mad at us. He started to yell at me and CH Horovitz to shut up in English. Jung said he was drunk, and managed to calm the guy down. I thought we were going to get in a fight and go to jail for sure. I don't know what Jung said to that guy, but he calmed down and said he was sorry even, CH Horovitz gave him a few cookies even.


CH Horovitz on nthe train before we almost got into an argument with the drunk guy.

Well CH Horovitz got off the train before us and we forgot that he didn't have enough money, but by the time we realized it, the trainwas already leaving. I don't know how he got home last night. Maybe he gave the security guy a cookie. Haha. We didn't get home until 10:30 last night.