p51 posted:Motor pool...
I knew a guy who learned wrenchin' in the motor pool during the drive across France. He could do anything with nothing. He used a cutting torch like Picasso used a brush. I watched him gas [flame] weld an automobile gas tank by filling it with water to stop the explosion risk. No stuck nut ever resisted him. He'd have the acetylene torch in one hand and an air-wrench in the other. Never saw him twist anything off. He had a Gulf Service Station (remember when that had meaning) and he would cat-nap when he sat down for a couple minutes. I never asked him about his War experience because you didn't ask those people that because for some of them that would trigger that which we now know to be PTSD.
