In the spring of 1969 as Rusty was counting the days until his discharge, the executive officer of Hotel Two-Six posed a question to our hero.
"What are you gonna do when you get out, Buttplate, become one them dirty hippies?"
"That is exactly what I aspire to be when I get out, Lieutenant. I'm gonna let hair grow out of every hole in me." Rusty replied with a smile and the knowledge that the allusion to Frank Zappa's song Concentration Moon was lost on the Lieutenant.

More on these adventures at another time.