We have xray capabilities here. Larry, our Chief Radiology Tech and botttle washer is on R and R, so we are on hold. We are on generator power here which must be from World War two with a back up generator from WW I. After he shoots the Xray the cassettes go in a digital processor which is run by two computers. We took a chest xray and every time we tried to develop it the generator would surge and "PFFFT" the computer shut down. One more time, same thing. Start again, same thing with the addition of burning up the surge protector. Off to the PX to buy more and a call to IT. Three days later I had an xray. Poor patient came back to the Clinic at 0800, 1600, 0800, 1600, finally we told him that we would call him. Being in Afghanistan he completely understood. If this were the US complaints would be flying back and forth, but not here. We just take this sort of thing in stride. His xray was normal, btw. I sent his case to a Pulmonologist in Bethesda, which is way cool.
We refer to special forces like the SEALS as "secret squirrels." Only us old guys understand the significance. Go ahead, Google it. Any time there's a closed door meeting or if it is "need to know" we say that it's secret squirrel stuff. Sometimes I feel like it's the blind leading the blind here. More like Morocco Mole. "Seeeeecret."...
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