Then the attendant came in and told us that he had to “ice them down” in the freezer for the autopsy in the morning. I looked over my shoulder at ...im pushing the bodies back into their shelf in the wall like he was parking cars as a valet. Only these bodies were not going to wake up anytime soon and give him a tip.“So whaddayouthink, Kiddo? Ya think John Doe got strangled before or after the perp gave him the last drink he would ever have or did he or she just was trying to speed things up a. He just thought he wasn't one of those."W-Where...?" he began slowly, his mouth barely functioning and his words were choked behind gauze and the sheer taste of a metal and plastic tube combination shoved down his windpipe. He could barely move his head to see where, or whom, was in the room with him, much less what type of room he was in, but the sound of a scurrying person leaving the room told him that his noise was very unexpected. He was smart enough to figure that out.Ronald also was. We didn’t miss a single sortie though and no marine was injured or killed from friendly fire. To reward us the wing commander place all of us on a 72 hour stand down with no duty section. The wing supplied the bodies to fuel, inspect and stand the watch over our birds. After our skipper dismissed us I immediately headed for my boyfriend’s apartment. He’d sent me a text message on day two of the exercise to come to his place and relax at the end of my ordeal. I made a quick stop at my barracks. He seemed to be the same age as ‘Jerry.’“I believe being upfront and honest is the best policy,” Jerry said pointedly to his friend.“I think being respectful is a better one,” the man said. He looked at me and said, “I’m very sorry about my friend. He’s a real asshole.”“That may be, but I bet I get laid a lot more than you, Henry.”“I am truly sorry,” Henry said to me. “If you want to send another waiter over I wouldn’t blame you.”“No, that’s all right,” I said, regaining my composure. “As long.