Posted on Apr 14, 2016
What is the most random item you found when cleaning out your office?
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CPT (Join to see) - Anyone need some wall chargers? I've got box full of 'em. No idea what they go with or why I've been saving them. I'll put 'em on e-Bay next week. Free to any RP member (you pay shipping).
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Not necessarily cleaning an office. Had to help clean a barracks room beacuse one of the guys was getting kicked out for drug use. I found a orange needle cap in a drawer. That was my ticket for the NopeTrain to F***itville.
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Capt Mark Strobl
PO1 (Join to see) - Might have to plagiarize that "NopeTrain" line. Good timing to read that on a Friday morning!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
CPT (Join to see) - Does come in Handy Occasionally getting a New Police Commission Card at some place I've never been at before.
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Condoms, fortunately still in the wrapper, and love letters... from three women with overlapping dates. Shredder time but I didn't figure on the lube smell hanging around the copy room for 2 days. I "Sargent Schultzed" that one for a couple of weeks before the dust settled. Hey I was an Ensign at the time hence unknowledgeable about the finer points of Slim Jim sock disposal.
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Nothing notable when I was on active duty, but 5 years back when I took over as Commander of a small village American Legion Post I took the first opportunity i had to go to the office and look through the files and drawers. When I opened the safe the first thing I saw was an antique envelope. Thinking this might be the Posts original charter I took it out and found the deed to a ten grave plot in the local Cemetery that had been gifted to the Soldiers and Sailors of the village in 1925.
After researching I found that 7 veterans had been interred in the 10 plots and I headed out to the cemetery to see them and make sure they were cleaned up, since I felt the Post should be responsible for them.
What I found was 5 head stones and 2 unmarked graves, one of which had nothing at all and the other what was left of a plastic planter.
We found the relatives and ordered the Bronze markers. Had them ready for Memorial Day... We also moved our Memorial Day Ceremony to that location....
After researching I found that 7 veterans had been interred in the 10 plots and I headed out to the cemetery to see them and make sure they were cleaned up, since I felt the Post should be responsible for them.
What I found was 5 head stones and 2 unmarked graves, one of which had nothing at all and the other what was left of a plastic planter.
We found the relatives and ordered the Bronze markers. Had them ready for Memorial Day... We also moved our Memorial Day Ceremony to that location....
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CPT (Join to see) OK.. I admit that I am a pack-rat. Not as bad as the folks on the TV show, Hoarders, but not too far off, I fear.
When I was cleaning out my office/personal files prior to retirement from the Army in 2000, my XO walked into my office and asked why I had a puzzled look on my face (although, to some, that may have seemed like my normal condition). I told him that I was having a hard time deciding what to toss and what to keep. In my hand, I had a menu from a Saint Barbara's (Patron Saint of the Field Artillery) Day dinner I attended as an Infantry LT in Germany in 1972 (almost 30 years earlier). I had kept it (and a great many similar items over the years) and told my XO that "I might just need this some day"... :-) As he had worked with me in three previous assignments and was a close friend, he asked if I wanted him to go through the stuff and decide what to keep. I thanked him, but declined, as I knew he would throw away priceless artifacts (to me, anyway). The truth is that I threw away very little and still have most of that stuff, which means nothing to anybody but me. One of these days, when I die, my wife and sons will go through my stuff and get a chuckle...and, no, there is nothing in there (that I know of) that can be used against me. :-)
I still have every pay voucher I have ever received, a copy of every OER and NCOER I have ever written, a copy of every set of orders I have ever received, and on, and on, and on. I guess, one of these days, I may get energetic and scan them all, if I decide to keep them forever. :-)
However, to answer the question more specifically, I once found some files left by my predecessor, on a computer in my new office, that contained some very explicit e-mails between him (an Army COL/0-6) and a female Air Force CAPT/0-3 assigned to the joint command that clearly indicated they were more than friends. I let both of them know I had discovered the e-mail and advised them that, if I suspected it was still on-going, I would have no option but to report it. Although the COL was not in the CAPT's chain of command, it was still inappropriate (as he was married). As best as I could determine (and I did check), the relationship had already ended and did not start back up. I deleted the files off the computer (but kept a copy on a disc -- which I probably still have somewhere).
When I was cleaning out my office/personal files prior to retirement from the Army in 2000, my XO walked into my office and asked why I had a puzzled look on my face (although, to some, that may have seemed like my normal condition). I told him that I was having a hard time deciding what to toss and what to keep. In my hand, I had a menu from a Saint Barbara's (Patron Saint of the Field Artillery) Day dinner I attended as an Infantry LT in Germany in 1972 (almost 30 years earlier). I had kept it (and a great many similar items over the years) and told my XO that "I might just need this some day"... :-) As he had worked with me in three previous assignments and was a close friend, he asked if I wanted him to go through the stuff and decide what to keep. I thanked him, but declined, as I knew he would throw away priceless artifacts (to me, anyway). The truth is that I threw away very little and still have most of that stuff, which means nothing to anybody but me. One of these days, when I die, my wife and sons will go through my stuff and get a chuckle...and, no, there is nothing in there (that I know of) that can be used against me. :-)
I still have every pay voucher I have ever received, a copy of every OER and NCOER I have ever written, a copy of every set of orders I have ever received, and on, and on, and on. I guess, one of these days, I may get energetic and scan them all, if I decide to keep them forever. :-)
However, to answer the question more specifically, I once found some files left by my predecessor, on a computer in my new office, that contained some very explicit e-mails between him (an Army COL/0-6) and a female Air Force CAPT/0-3 assigned to the joint command that clearly indicated they were more than friends. I let both of them know I had discovered the e-mail and advised them that, if I suspected it was still on-going, I would have no option but to report it. Although the COL was not in the CAPT's chain of command, it was still inappropriate (as he was married). As best as I could determine (and I did check), the relationship had already ended and did not start back up. I deleted the files off the computer (but kept a copy on a disc -- which I probably still have somewhere).
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This is the second post to have the same theme. I just don't understand why you would risk such a think especially at work.
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I bought a lovely wood roll top desk a couple of weeks ago. Used. I found a dried rose in one of the drawers. Kind of sad. Then, when I organized it with stuff from my old desk, I found my military records. On a micro fiche!
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Many great pieces of technology. I controlled the inventory listings so.....
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