This isn't quite the same thing, and I hope it doesn't seem like I'm hijacking ackwell's thread, but I do think it is slightly related. My cousin and I enlisted in the navy on the same day. I was allowed to delay leaving for boot camp for 30 days to finish out a semester in college while he left the following Monday. I arrived at Great Lakes a month after he did. Neither of us knew where the other was on the base, but, we did have mailing addresses for each other. Shortly after I got there, my cousin sent me a letter. I received it nearly 3 years later when my ship returned from a Med cruise. It had so many post marks on it that I couldn't read some of them. The Ironic thing was that when he sent the letter we were quartered in opposite ends of the same building.