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My first or second summer camp in the Militia we had cylindrical brass water pump extinguishers around our modular tent lines. We were sternly warned that abuse or misuse of fire fighting equipment was as serious an offence as there was. So, absolutely no one had water fights with the pump extinguishers. It would have been unsafe to do so, what with coming back to the lines after a couple of beers. No way did we dump those same extinguishers in our enemy's beds. And I'm told but never experienced that CO2 can cool beer very fast. But I clearly remember the camp RSM hauling us out on to the big parade square and yelling at everyone. My French wasn't very good at the time, so I just went by his body language that he was miffed about something.

I was looking at the M151A2 the other day (looking for a serial number on the paper registration form to renew the plates), and remembered I have a 5-lb ABC discretely wrapped in a green towel attached to a seat back.