Friday, October 08, 2004

Lost luggage

I have been tasked to fing missing duffle bags. Our soldiers loaded their duffle bags onto trucks on October 2, and have never seem then again. The loading was disorganized. The original plan was to put bags for a specific flight on a truck, then load the bags on the aircraft with the corresponding soldiers. However, soldiers being soldiers, they loaded the trucks with as many bags as they could, mixing up the loads. So, bags were shipped without soldiers, and vice versa. We now have about 60 soldiers with missing bags.

We are scrambling here to issue them gear, and to put in claims for lost items, but Plan A is still to find the missing stuff. The guys on the shipping end insist that everything has been checked, and no bags are there. Haven't had a chance yet to talk to the folks on the receiving end. It's a mystery.

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