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Mirthful Me: First off, my heartfelt apologies for invoking what is, in hindsight, a hurtful stereotype. In my defense, I offer the fact that both gorillas and humans lie well below fez monkeys on the evolutionary scale, and pray you might grant me the forbearance due a lower-order primate. Besides, some of my best friends are gorillas!

ColRobertLemkeUSAF: Please don�t misinterpret my bemusement as an attack upon you, your character or your endeavors. I just find this whole business increasingly humorous as it progresses. If you are laughing at me in your posts, I will always accept that in the spirit of -- dare I say -- mirth that can buoy even the most moribund thread.

While I am really not personally concerned about your status within the USAF Reserve, it is an interesting topic, and since you keep stressing it, I�ll bite. What the hey! I try to keep an open mind lest it snap shut forever.

And there is precedent: I originally thought southbeachpsychic might be a fraud, and am now satisfied (with good reason) that she is the real deal. So anything is possible.

But I will need a little more clarification in your case.

When you refer to your position as �Asst. Director of the Reserve Unit� at Travis Air Force Base,
Are you referring to the 349th Air Mobility Wing, or perhaps some other unit which operates there? I�m not seeing a Robert Lemke in the directory, but that doesn�t necessarily mean anything.

Is Tom Gisler your boss (he has about 3500 people working for him -- the largest USAF reserve command, by the way), or someone else? At the very least, I would expect Dick Perraut to figure into your chain of command.

Any details you can share would make this easier to resolve, which seems to be in line with your expressed interests in the matter. There are a lot of senior officers running around on Travis, and I want to make sure whose flag you fly under before I do any smiling and dialing. Some mighty big birds fly out of Travis. Neat stuff.

As for this thread and your contributions, it seems we differ in our tactics when it comes to potential frauds. I am somewhat more tight-fisted than you, it seems, since I could never bring myself to send money to a potential con artist just to out him as a con artist. That sort of seems to play into a con artist�s hands -- or if your implication is valid, nothing less than an Anti-Christ (!) -- if you see my point, but it�s your money.

It may sound sarcastic when I claim to look forward to your summary report on this business, but in fact, I really do look forward to it.

Regardless of any of this, I give this thread a thumb�s up for continuing entertainment value suitable for all age groups.

N.B. My favorite quote on military matters: "The best soldiers are zealots, the best officers patriots, the best generals philosophers." -- Unknown