I removed my key from the lock put the chain back around my neck The Sgt. took a step toward me preparing to scream in my face most likely something to the effect that if I didn�t open that door in the next thirty seconds or so I would be spending time in the stockade. Did they even have stockades? Too many movies as the Sgt. began screaming I reached for the Beretta 9mm quickly removed it from the holster slide the action and aimed for the lock and squeezed off a round. The discharge rang out in the hall. Sgt Reed grabbed his ears and was screaming JESUS CHRIST SNOW I�ll HAVE YOUR ASS COURT MARTIALED FOR THIS. I flipped the safety on tossed the pistol to Reed and said catch. He fumble with the weapon but managed to keep it from hitting the tiled floor of the hall. I pushed the door open picked up the sneaker which now had a black hole in it from where the bullet had hit it when I shot the door. I tossed that back to Sgt. Reed �seems there was an obstruction Sgt. I walked into the room Trang was sitting up in the bed with two fists full of mattress stammering something possibly in Chinese.

Trang could sleep through anything, well anything it seems but a bullet into the barracks room door. Zimm was standing up near the bunks piss running down his leg into a puddle at his feet. I shook my head. Trang stood up, and yelled What the hell is going on. I turned to him and said only, �Alert.� He jumped straight up in the air and ran in circles trying to find something. I said by the chair he stopped looked saw his pants and boots lying in the chair. Sgt. Reed entered the room as I was pulling on my pants. �What is the meaning of this shoe?� Reed was trying to talk in a normal tone but his voice was a bit loud because of the ringing in his ears. I started buttoning them as I said, Ask the one with the wet trousers.� Nodding toward Zimm who was still standing there shaking in the puddle. Sgt Reed asked �Are you shot?� �No Reed he pissed himself.� I pulled on my shirt grabbed my rucksack and headed for the door. �Weapons pad right Sgt.?�

Reed turned looked at me then back to Zimm then to the shoe in his right hand then to the 9mm in his left �Yes Sgt. Snow the weapons pad.� I walked down the hall and turned to start out of the barracks just as the base blue and whites pulled up to the front of the barracks door. The ran toward the doors one of the police grabbed my arm there were shots fired where did the come from? I look at him then back to the hall Room 112. Then walked out into the morning sun it was a beautiful day the sun was shining. I wonder if Palmer made it off the base.

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