C96 adventure

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by MikeP

Got my 1st C96 at age 14 from the vet who brought it home. Complete rig, all matching, including stock and leather. Learned to disassemble and assemble.
How they ever designed, manufactured, and made those function is a miracle of the universe.,....

Here is a story, joined the army in 1980, went through counterintelligence school before I swapped to an MP.
When we interviewed, you always started with a minimum of 3 people - blah, blah, blah, and can you give me 3 people who might know ed tinker. Go to those three, blah, blah, can you give me 3 people who might know ed. This went through a couple of iterations, just to get to where if you were hiding info, they'd find out. Most important thing is to always stick with your story or tell the truth in the beginning. If you told them the truth at the beginning, they just said ok (like smoking pot a few times, if you lied, they might kick you out of the MOS that required a clearance)

Any Top Secret and above, they went through the entire process, could take weeks. But, what they wanted was folks YOU would NOT put down on your list of folks you knew, so they got the truth about you. supposedly