What would you do?

Ok, so this is a follow-up to my last post which, if you haven't read, you should 'cause you will be totally lost otherwise.

Friday morning we had to get up for an familiarization course in ground radio, which would have been okay except we were really hungover. I guess I was the best out of the three of us because Shitty was throwing up outside before our morning brief and Rattatat had to get called 10 minutes before we had to leave; he was still sleeping. We all packed up, headed to class, and had a few minutes before it started so we (the Air force group and the Navy group) were all outside BS-ing. Shitty comes up to me and says "Hey, I don't want everyone to know about last night, let's just keep it to ourselves." Cool by me, I don't want any more drama than I need.

We get through class alright and then go back to the hotel to sleep. 3 AF guys (Fag Sauce, Brit, and Anti-poon) decide they want to go to the German restaurant. They get there and mention to Cute waitress that they were Air Force. She asks if they knew us. They said they were here with us. She tells them about the last night. (I know some of you can see where this is going but try not to jump ahead.)

Now, somewhere between Friday night and Monday morning the Master Sergeant in charge (Copper top) found out about what happened with me, Shitty, and Rattatat on Thursday night. He tells Shitty and Rattatat that he wants to see them at the end of the day and then, as part of his morning briefing, tells everyone that if something happens to us while we're out he needs to know about it, or something like that.

Long story short: Shitty and Rattatat get chewed but nothing big comes of it.

I don't know why I am the way I am but after hearing that Copper Top found out about it I wanted to know who told him, but not for the reason you're thinking. You see, in retrospect we probably should have said something to him instead of, we thought, keeping it to ourselves. I concede that. I wanted to know why the person who told him didn't say something to one of us first, you know, something to the effect of "Hey, heard you guys had a messed-up night. You should probably say something to Copper top," as opposed to going behind our back and straight to the boss.

So I did some digging and heard that those three guys had been to the German place Friday night. So I called Brit: "Hey man, I heard you were at the German place Friday night and heard our story. Do you know who said something to Copper top," and proceeded to explain my reasoning for wanting to know. He said that he talked to Copper top but by that point he had already heard the story from someone else. Since Brit and Anti-poon are tied to the hip, that only left one more person. So I asked Fag Sauce and this is what he told me:

"I didn't say anything to him. I found out about it Friday morning when you all were running your mouths about it outside. Copper top was next to me so I assumed he heard and didn't care and I left it at that."

A couple of things bother me about that story. The first thing is that he said Copper top was next to him when we were running our mouths. Copper top went inside after only being out there a short minute to find out where a couple of people were. Secondly, he said we were running our mouths about it. Shitty was puking over in the bushes, Rattatat was up in his room passed-out, and I was dividing my attention between watching Shitty hurl and getting pissed off that Fag Sauce was calling out Shitty in front of the whole group. My buddy, Hopeless, was right there with me and talking to me and said I never mentioned it. In fact, the only person that I would have told is Hopeless and I wasn't even going to say anything to him until after the situation had blown over.

So now I have this situation where I know somebody lied to my face. He looked me in the eye and said "I did not say anything to him" and tried to pull one over on me by making stuff up. I would, well I don't want to say I'd be okay with it but I guess I would just let it ride, but Fag Sauce is going to be on my team and possibly my boss when we get over there. I really didn't care for him in the first place but I tolerated him 'cause I thought he was a genuinely good guy who was a little on the annoying side. Now I'm stuck.

I brought it up to the NCO on my team and told him exactly what I just wrote down. Today, he said he was going to Copper top with my concern. I guess he thought it was a big enough deal that I can't trust him. The thing is, I really don't want to make it worse for Shitty who is already taking a lot of heat for this. It is plain and clear that my issue is not with that night or even that Fag Sauce reported that night, which I'm 98% certain now it was him. My issue is just that; I am 98% certain that he lied to my face and I can't have that kind of disrespect and untrustworthiness (yeah, I made up a word for it) from a guys who is supposed to be watching my back.

So what would you do? Would you pursue it farther and try to get your issue with Fag sauce resolved or would you just forget about it because you can't prove that Fag sauce is lying without Copper top telling you so? If you're reading this please either comment on here or hit me up on myspace (myspace.com/thepftbdrummer) or facebook. Thanks for reading.