Once overweight forward observer coal came to see me He'd been working out non-stop since arriving at bermel Several months before he dropped more than 20 pounds looked lean and mean. It was a different culture Um, you're now back on base and It's actually it's actually time for you to go on uh leave  and so here we go back to the book Next day our once overweight forward observer Coal came to see us The first sergeant had cleared him to roll beyond the wire and he was eager to rejoin Us.