For A Day My Desk Was A V100

         My one experience with a V100, other than a ride in one with a broken turret that just kept spinning, (closest I ever came to motion sickness other than Miami). The IV Corps Provost Marshal, Can Tho, Vietnam, got really pissed at me and to teach me some kind of lesson or for his weird memory's book.

        One Saturday night on the four to twelve shift he posted me on, not in, a locked up V100 parked right outside the MP Desk area on the street in Can Tho. It was some sort of preventive enforcement idea of his that I had laughed at. Believe it or not for this missive I was the only enlisted person assigned to the 22d PM Detachment at Can Tho. In other words, I was his command, all of me, I was also the IV Corps PM Operations Sergeant, Evidence Control NCO, Vice Control NCO, with 1,400 registered Business Women to keep track of ... and keeper of the four foot Cannabis plant we used for a visual training aid that was kept on a lanai behind my desk. It was trimmed frequently of course LOL.

       Well, the place where this V100 was parked happened to be in front of the building where we had the second floor room we declared a medical clinic to examine the registered hookers biweekly, and coincidently Saturday was the busiest because it was the cutoff for the cycle to keep the registration current. On Sunday the contracted Vietnamese doctor would collate all this and bring me the cards to initial off on Monday.

        The doctor being educated and capable of a logical thought, when he saw me down stairs doing nothing sitting on top of a V100 decided to cut out Sundays collating, at least for the ones that appeared on the four to twelve shift. So as the ladies finished their checkup, and if all was well, they would come over to the V100 and hand up their cards and the Doc would holler down the clearance "she's clean," and I would sign off on the card. Twelve o'clock came and I slid down off the V100 leaving it parked where it was, I couldn't drive the damn thing plus didn't even have the key.