good as new

Some people come totally unprepared to their reserve duty, even forgetting to bring their army boots, and some come highly over-prepared. I was always somewhere in the middle - remembering to bring what was needed, but hardly ever more than that. Which is why it's far from clear to me why I might have had this cord. It's quite clear that it never got used, and frankly, I don't even know what I might have used it for. It was, however, certainly nice to have.