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A bemused Brit who served with the US Army in the 1950s recalls some of the humorous highlights of a life among the GIs: the 330lb New York Giants football hero with whom he shared a double bunk… the Polish asylum seeker who knew the Uniform Code of Military Justice by heart… the short-sighted and excitable Greek… the Virgin Islander who made a habit of dropping live hand grenades… the company master-sergeant who tended accidentally to call out his own name in morning assemblies…