THUMPER. Portrait, 1989. Released on appeal.

CALL SIGN

THUMPER

Name (b)(6)

Rank

Specialist (SPC)

Duty position

Gunner, 60mm mortar

Instrument

Drums

Home of record

Duluth, Minnesota

Service with band

1988–1996

Current whereabouts

, Minnesota. Ice fishing, seasonal.

1. 1. (U)

   Released. Lays the mortar with the sight and levels both bubbles before she fires. Tunes the drums the same way, before every show, with the house lights up.

2. 2. (U)

   Wore the braid tucked under her helmet in the field and out over her shoulder on stage. In 1990 she played in six-color desert camouflage and shower shoes, which the archive records without comment.

3. 3. (U)

   Attributed remark: “Bubbles are level.”

4. 4. (S)

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   (b)(1)

Released in part