I think I've mentioned before that on base housing is a bit of a trip. It's not an environment in which I thrive. As someone who is perhaps overly critical of the details, I can find a lot of things to complain about. So, to balance my hot take on on-base living, I would like to offer some observations of what people do really well: when the plague hit, we had no grocery delivery services. We took it upon ourselves to care for our neighbors and to make sure that they had the supplies they needed. When we needed a dog sitter we could trust, our upstairs neighbor helped us with the best solution for us and for their teenager that missed having their own pup. And, if you screamed bloody murder because one of the banana spiders infiltrated your home and you walked into a web face first, someone would come running.
Maybe people on base are a little nosier or just a little more comfortable getting involved. Whatever motivated the on-base community to contact Chief Petty Officer Woods's chain of command, doing so may have saved his wife's life.
I relied on the CGCCA opinion and the Military Rules of Evidence.
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