Cloyd Rivers

And I bet they were laughing their asses off...from the sheer hilarity, but also some nervous laughter because they knew they were about to be downrange with the dude.

Never trust a lieutenant with a compass, or a captain with a rifle, or any JAG officer with any weapon of any kind, not even a pointy stick. We were playing cards in our hootch in Vietnam one night while I JAG officer sat nearby "cleaning" his .45 auto. When done, he pulled the trigger and it discharged, fortunately through the rood. I took the weapon from his frozen hands, completely field stripped it and threw the pieces on his bunk. He wandered high and low and never found anyone to reassemble it for him. We had put out the word...

Wife worked for CID in Panama. Agent shot himself twirling his weapon on way to work......whole post knew about it within 30 minutes......