Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
I just hooked up my first law of Freon for the day. Robert was there to help me hook up. Robert is a middle-aged black man who spent ten years in the army, before he got a medical discharge.
What's this got the flow going, he started sharing an army story with me. He was Iraq and he's working with a fueling battalion feeling tanks, trucks, and Humvees. They had tanks, and fuel trucks, with both diesel and gas.
He said his Army protocol was that every time somebody wanted gas, or diesel, he would hand them a drip pan, goggles, and gloves, and they would pump their own fuel, while he operated the truck. Being a veteran myself, I know that military protocol is everything! If you follow protocol nobody can touch you no matter how angry they get!
He said this second lieutenant, and his corporal driver drove up to get fuel. Robert gave the corporal the drip pan, gloves, and goggles. The corporal dropped the drip pan on the ground and kicked it and gave the goggles and gloves back to Robert. Robert told them that if they don't follow protocol they won't be getting any fuel.
So the second lieutenant got in Robert's face, and started yelling and screaming at him. He didn't tell Robert who was an E4 sergeant, where his commanding officer was located. Robert just smiled and pointed him towards the building next to him.
Both Robert and the second tenant walked over there. The second repair started yelling and screaming! That's when Robert's captain walked in the room. Did Robert explain they weren't falling protocol, The captain started yelling and screaming at the second lieutenant! Annie told the corporal that if you ever damaged any of his equipment, like the drip pan, he would live to regret it!
As they start to pump their own fuel, Robert enforcement that army protocol was if one drop goes on the ground they have to dig five feet of ground below it. He said that's not his rules but the Army's rules. He said the second lieutenant in corporal followed the protocol and got their fuel and left!
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