Cherry Picking Time

By PFC Anonymous

This story is about Big Mike Powers or as some of us called him Gross Mike.

Mike was the Assistant Trick Chief on A trick in 1967. At times he could be a real asshole, but outside of work he could party with the best of us and usually did. When all of us were PFC's and Spec 4's, Mike was an E-5 and would get us booze from the Top 5 Club for our parties off post. So that made him a pretty good guy.

For about 2 or 3 months Mike was shacked up with a Bar Whore named Flora from the Fiore bar in the circle at the bottom of the hill. Everyone was back-dooring him even his friends. We'd go over to Flora's house for a party and Mike would pass out and we would take turns with Flora. He finally caught on to what was going on and stopped paying the rent for her. We missed it as a place to party on break.

Just before Mike left Asmara we had a trick party for him. About 15 or so of us met at the Fiore Bar. We had gotten primed at the Oasis club, walked to the main gate and took garry carts to the bar. If I recall it was just after payday because we all had money. We were drinking fools that night and started to act gross as usual. Flora was there and we had her drinking real drinks with us. She got pretty fucked up. Next thing you know someone stuck a cherry into her with the stem sticking out. Mike was the first one to retrieve the cherry. Many cherries followed with us all taking turns pulling them out with our teeth and then eating them.

After the bar closed we continued the party at someone's house. We were all naked and taking turns in the bedroom with various girls from the bar, sometimes 2 couples to a bed. The party lasted for 2 days, I think that we ran out of booze. Good thing too, because it gave us some time to recover before going back to work.