Aug 27, 2019
As the colonel [Wolverton] was leaving he handed me a white mattress cover. "What do you expect me to do with that, sir?" "They want us to carry and use 'em as body bags to store our own remains should we be killed." "You gotta be joking, colonel. Who thought of that?" "The Medical Detachment - now down't forget, to make it easier for them to identify, you'll need to write your name, rank and serial number somewhere on the outside.
Ed Shames, Airborne