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117 half of a canoe. It didn't look like aluminum ... you know what stainless steel's like when you put heat on it? How it'll turn kinda purplish, with kind of a blue hue to it? [Glenn later said that he saw a row of unrecognizable symbols—several inches high—on the metal devices.] I just glanced in and kept going. When I got inside, I noticed there was quite a bit of activity. When I went back into the lounge, there were "big birds" [high- ranking officers he didn't recognize, though he was familiar with all the local medical people] everywhere. They were really shook up. So I went down the hall where I usually go, and I got down the hall just a little way and an MP met me right there. He wanted to know who the hell I was and where I was from, and what busi- ness did I have there? I explained who I was. Evidently he was under the impression that they called me to come out. Anyway, I got past that and I went on in and then this is where I met the nurse—she was involved in this thing, she was on duty. She told me, "How in the hell did you get in here?" I said, "I just walked in." She said, "My God, you are going to get killed!" And I said, "They didn't stop me!" I was going to the Coke machine to get us a Coke, and this big red-headed colonel said, "What's that son of a bitch doin' here?" He hollered at the MPs and that's when it hit the fan! These two MPs grabbed me by the arms and carried me clear outside. .. they carried me to the ambulance ... I didn't walk, they carried me! And they told me to get my ass out of there! [Not only that, but according to Dennis, they followed him all the way back to the funeral home.] About two or three hours later, they [called] and told me, "You open your mouth [about this] and you'll be so far back in the jug they'll have to shoot pinto beans [into you] with a bean shooter!" I just laughed and said, "Go to hell!" That was the last Glenn Dennis heard from anyone in an official position. He didn't see the nurse until the next day, and by then she was really upset. "She called me and said, 'If you've got time, come out. I need to talk to you.'"" They agreed to meet at the officers' club for lunch, and when Dennis saw her, he was afraid she was about to go into shock, she looked so different. "My God, I don't know how you got in there," the nurse told RETRIEVAL AND SHIPMENT