[R-390] R390A not working at all

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Mark,

I am glad the agency was not getting any less crazy while you were in.
State side at the school house it was very military.
The farm was also a poor place to be. But over seas you could be human and 
have some fun.

You wrote about coming down the hill with no brakes. We will never convey the 
true nature of that road to any one who has not really been there and seen it.

Out side of the detachment was Tag Wa Nie at the base camp just out side the 
civilian no go zone. Back at B company was Tong Da Chon. B Company had other 
detachments on hill tops and a station at Camp Casey. So there were lots of 
R390 about doing real work every day.

Helo rides to the site, What a concept reserved for inspecting generals in my 
day.
The way those guys flew. I would want to be next to the deck. Less distance 
to fall when the thing failed to fly. Forward speed, what's height got to do 
with that? Please take one axis out of the equation.

So one morning at 27 below doing 65 down a gravel road and riding in the open 
back of a pick up truck, I though I would look to see where we were. There is 
some space across the civilian no go zone between our entry point and the 
base of the hill.

A mistake.

I parted my parka from over one eye and looked forward. Instant frost bite 
and intense pain in the eye. We never even slowed down or told the driver. I 
recovered OK.

Roger.