delay of game penalty!

in the world of emergency services, there are no holidays considered too sacred to have to work. thanksgiving, xmas... i've spent them all in some service or another... since people don't wait to call for help until after the weekend/holiday/opening of business. working one of these holidays doesn't bother me though......the ones i really try to never to miss... the super bowl, pride weekend, and the now-defunct lilith fair... *these* are the ones that really matter. but even these aren't sacred. i've missed the second halves due to calls... i've skipped now 2 pride weekends from lack of time or funds. and they're definitely things that i've missed in their full glory over here...but the other things i've missed... like riding my bike, playing softball in the summer, lounging on the couch for sunday football, getting the last game of golf in at the end of the year and the first in the spring... man, i miss those things.i got a little taste of softball this last weekend... we went up and played the F18 crews on a makeshift field they had been working on. evening out the "moon dust" as we refer to the kind of sand. you know you've been in iraq too long when you can classify the types of sand...alright... i'm rambling... so i was out playing 2nd base. on the ankle deep moondust, where i had been playing for, oh, about 4 innings. i'm walking out there between innings, and must have kicked around some sand... now i'm looking at some aluminum tube. "hmmm... well, it might be nothing..." this is my thought, as i'm leaning over, gingerly brushing away sand. then i look up to realize that i'm surrounded by hangers, multi-million dollar aircraft, AND ALL THEIR ARMAMENT. *and* i've now brushed away enough to now see a wire...so i calmly wave the pitcher over, who comes a-trotting cuz he thinks i'm looking for a lost contact. "what the hell is that?" i ask. "hmmm... i don't know..." "yeah, me either... but i sure as fuck don't want to play on top of it..." ...so there's a delay in the game while we get a munitions expert to remove the offending object. ...only in iraq...