[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

The detachment commanders got called in to the B-Team in Kontum for our monthly command & staff meeting. I hated these things for a couple of reasons, one of which was my place was with the lads and not the B-Team. At this particular time I had an operation way out at the extremes of my AO that needed a resupply. The chopper was not available to make the run because Maggie was being ferried around to each of the A-teams that I was supposed to use to resupply my troops. When she flared into the helipad at Kontum I told her that I needed the chopper because it had been diverted for her visits. When she found out why she stormed into the B-Team and ripped the B-Team commander up and down for diverting a chopper for her visits. I boarded the chopper and didn't think much about it. Several months later when I was leaving my A-Team to PCS home in flares a chopper. On board only one person, a sack of mail and a pallet full of stuff for the team. The one person on board was Maggie. I asked if she was getting off and she said no. Then she smiled and said that she thought she owed me a ride seeing as how she had ripped off my chopper a couple of months back. Well you could have floored me. I was amazed that she had remembered that incident. We both got off the chopper at Pleiku and before she left she signed the padding on the back of the chopper with a black magic marker.