'scuze me for askin, Tom- any idea what made him wanna take the whole chalk down in pieces?

How high up? Doesn't matter.

Y'think he thought his big paycheck could cover the Statement of Charges? or at that level, (what, .5 million $$ or so?) --would that be a Report of Survey? The shitbird must have been AWOL for the block of instruction on Pecuniary Liability.

COLONEL, if you read this, (prolly not!) can you say
PRECIOUS LIVES???

Grrrrr.