[AnAmericanMother]

. . . every now and then some jackass will take a blowtorch to it and find the business end, and it can be a while before the smoke clears and splinters of the furniture and broken glass stop raining down on the crater.

LOL! Priceless!

(I feel that way myself sometimes too.)

. . . for those of us who are latecomers to the thread, who are the corporal and the chaplain's assistant, and what on earth did they do?

(I thought they didn't make bad boys peel potatoes or be janker-wallahs anymore because it hurt their self-esteem.)

[NonValueAdded]

American Mom, you have missed a bit of drama here. From reply #529, the hypothetical corporal is the former Lieutenant Colonel Mosher and the private / Chaplain's assistant is the former Major / Chaplain Gibson, assuming some payback was meted out for their going public And bless them for doing so!