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[CharlesHarris]

When I was in the Navy a group of officers pitched in together and bought a Checker taxicab. It was rebuilt, repainted in official looking colors, emblazoned with ship and squadron insignia and decals, sneaked aboard ship, and its care entrusted to the ship's Master At Arms, the Sergeant Major of our Marine Detachment. Whenever we made a Liberty Port, our "Navy Taxi" was entrusted to the Master At Arms for appropriate assignments as approved by the Officer of the Deck after submittal to the Chief of the Watch. Its main purpose was as emergency transportation to ensure that ship's personnel who suffered the consequences of Demon Rum would make it back to the ship. I quiet times it delivered toys and ice cream from the ship's mess to orphan's homes being accompanied by Santa Claus and his two Marine elves wearing their dress blues. The cab completed seven tours of the Western Pacific before its engine was trashed by ingesting volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.