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Sliceback
Pre drop - a couple of mugs of Bloody Mary's and a couple of beers. Double shot of Tequila on stage. About face and full knee lock trying not to fall over.
New Wing CC. Drop party in the o'club. He's a non drinker. He drops by in civvies and steps into the men's room. It's trashed (doesn't happen...). Asks a 2Lt friend, who's also in civvies - "how about cleaning up in here?"(Wing CC looks like a civilian contractor with his down vest). Friend - "and who are YOU?!?" Wing CC - I'm Colonel Ellis (Jeffery T.??). Buddy - "I'm cleaning it up"
Talking the next day with senior student. Said Col. Ellis say down with me and Xxx Xxxx to talk. Class leader says "hopefully you did the talking." Me? I was too drunk to talk. Class leader - "Oh no! Xxxx was in worse shape. He was putting his head through the drywall". They kept expecting him to hit a stud and knock himself out. He got the base and jet he wanted.
Col Ellis kept turning the keg off. He'd leave the room and guys would turn it back on. Supposedly happened a couple of times. It didn't go over well. IP's told me the following drops were a lot quieter.
The quieter nights were in vogue for a while.......including mine
I wasn't at Ellis' wing, but I did know his son at Randolph back in the day........a good guy.
When I got my T-37 to Willie, I actually turned the card over to check the name and see if they had given me the wrong card. NO ONE had talked to me about it (the usual thing)

After I got off the stage, still looking shell shocked I'm sure, all the tweet guys came running over saying "we didn't thing you'd mind since your from the local area". But, what was really bad is when I called my parents and told them what I got, and my mom said "praise the lord, we were praying for that" (parents were still in the PHX area). I said thanks mom, I guess this is your fault
Ferd