I happened to find this John Dey masterpiece totally by accident. I hope everyone can read it.

Toulouse and Herbert
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There couldn't be two more coon ass people on the face of this earth than Toulouse and Herbert. Both came from somewhere in the far, dark, dank and near prehistoric recesses of the swamps of Louisiana, and through some grand miscalculation on the part of the Marine Corps managed to not only enlist but to be schooled in aircraft maintenance. I doubt the two of them had even seen an aircraft up close until they found themselves in aviation school in Millington, Tennessee. In a world gone mad during the Vietnam War, it was the luck of VMO-6 that the two of them would come to be placed in the same squadron at the exact place and time in history to make their presence felt in ways that to this day bring me mirth, a sense of the forlorn and dismay.

No one really knew what to do with them. They both displayed a certain proclivity toward rotating machinery, so in the over two hundred years of experience the Marine Corps had piled up, these two were...