Soldier's Handbook Contest Winners

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This award is long-overdue, but we hope you will forgive us our many distractions the past month.

The winners of the Soldier's Handbook Errors Contest are:

1st Place: Honorary Gunner -- Terrible, who takes it for all of his compatriots who share his hard-working, Yankee ethics. He never gave up. Churchill would be proud.

2nd Place: Honorary Assistant Gunner -- fasteddiez, a two-time RAW winner. He's fast, he's clever, he's a natural to win, place or show.

Where Terrible is deliberate and persistent, fasteddiez is passionate and fast off the mark. Both, winners.

Now, for the prize . . .

I think both have received free Ranger bumper stickers (though we've got plenty more we'd be happy to distribute.) Participant Deryle [past winner] thoughtfully suggested some petroleum, and certainly we'd be happy to scour a gen-u-ine tarball from the local beaches, if that so floated your boat.

We are thinking, however, that the prize shall have to kept on ice, for a future, hoped-for rendezvous. The winners are promised quaffs of their choice at the local watering hole, wherever that may be. This is a promise; LTR's are so difficult.

Thanks to all for their earnest participation. We felt it was kind of like the Special Olympics, really: Everyone was a winner :)