And then it happens that thanks to Facebook or who knows what other "social" you can recapture what was in the office at the bottom of the corridor where the state licenses were registered. They exchange two words and it turns out that now the architect is in touch and that he's in touch with the other, that a bit weird, who instead has devoted himself to boxing, Krav himself and in time lost he made the actor in one dialectical theater company. And, as that Edoardo Vianello song says ... "if we were in two before singing'hully gully, we are now in three to sing'hully gully".
To make it short, with the support of technology it is now easy to get back to the old "gunmates". When I was a child, I often read in various magazines, traps of soldiers, often guilty of war, who were trying to contact old companions. Now, with the new digital frontier, those pathetic demands, tuned to the heavy wave of nostalgia, have not disappeared; they just succeded. And we fell, with all our feet!
In fact, last August 5, for the second time and after 25 years, some offshore sailors (never say "ex-sailors" who play serious as a church blasphemy!) Came to Genoa for a cheerful dinner in Cameroon, in 'enchanting scenery of the old town, what De Andrè painted as his own, illustrating the difficulty, even for the sun's rays of the good God, to penetrate its streets.
And then it happens that the memories, the guards, the young recruits, the guards, and the commands made to do it - are also beginning to be - even the famous guard at the bin, armed guard, but strictly without a charger! - and the guards made to do, but moderately, as was used in Marina, because the elder "has already given". It is told of the Marshal who "cloned" in front of the monitor of "half-sheet A4", a green background and white characters, which was true that he always allowed him to use the same format, though blessed blessed, it is also true that the head of the deman section, the severely tolerant, elderly captain of frigate, always found some mistake ...
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But if we are authorizing the commune of Sestri east to do the fireworks, why two lines under the authority of the Commune of Cogoleto?
Not to say, then, when the chief section, relying on the seniority of his men, entrusted the task of writing letters, pointing to the contents of the text without detracting the text.
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Excuse me, Mr. Tizio, if the trouble ... the commander asked me to write a letter pointing to this and that ... Can you look at me?
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Of course, boss1, we would miss it. Let me see. Hmmmm, I think I understand the juice, but allows me a jerk to the shape?
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Please do, please ...
... and in short, it certainly did not transform a children's rhyme into a song of the Divine Comedy, but in short, certainly the task could be said to be evashed.
It tells of the sergeant who was sleeping with his head on the table for having a good night and asking, begging, to be covered "that then when we will be watching together I'll go to sleep a little earlier ..."
Jump out the story of the one who ran the subcaping watch,2 and that he had appeased to the care of a secretary, who had his son right in that barracks, breaking the rules - formed over time and hardened like an indestructible barrier - had lightened the turn to the bamboo. Bamboccione who will never know of the enormous amount of scones poured into his shadow ...
Apart from the faces, then it is time to deal with what is, and then you see that everyone has made their way in the most diverse areas but that everyone considers the leverage experience as fundamental to their own growth. There are even those who, after 25 years, are bitter because they have not wanted to face the AUC course, preferring to finish the lever first rather than start with a new clock turn.
There is what is now working in the external relations office of important companies, and recalls that in the end, military service has given it the ability to work - honestly and hardly - even in areas where its literary creativity was put into cage (computer database manager!). There is what is now organizing the service shifts of the transport company's drivers, and then they wanted to refuse to work with the pace they were imposed on "because there are sailors who are already in the brim with the 14.00 and I have to bump off at the end of the job! " Now he knows what to answer to those who complain about the shifts: "Or you do this, or you do not, and doing nothing worse. On the other hand, if you want to respond to the commander (the famous captain of severe frigate, say, if it was severe!), Of the assigned job, accommodated! "
We tell each other their stories, we realize that even in misfortunes, in the hard trials of life, someone has suffered more than us, and we are content with what we are, we close the bill with what has passed, we are satisfied with the little that one has.
Lever will not come back. In a structure now professionally organized, there is no way to manage the services with the approximation that the leverage offered (and that has always been the great alibi of the many nonsense-I've-the-place-fixed-and who- mi-schioda of the permanent service). But it is a great pity that young people no longer have the opportunity to meet in an organization that, with all the flaws of the case, allowed young people to feel part of a great service, to confront the different geographical cultures, the different habits and, above all, he taught that the Motherland uses itself in silence and even with small gestures.
And then, it's time to say goodbye, to promise a new next meeting. Next time, however, asking the Harbor Office, the most important in Italy - in the world, for us! - to allow us a visit, after many years, and, perhaps, to grant us the honor of a photo with the commander and with the adored flag.
1 - In the Navy, non-commissioned officers with a rank equivalent to that of sergeant major and up to that of adjutant, were entitled to the title of "chief".
2 - Sub-chief is the rank corresponding to the corporal.
