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"  Arthur Gage of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was a captain in the Army Dental Corps stationed with the 24th Regimental Combat Team during the Korean War. A lifelong Popular Mechanics reader, Gage spent his downtime amid the turmoil building an Adirondack chair out of broken-down ammunition boxes and scavenged nails. Using skills he learned from his early days as a Boy Scout and woodworking with his father, he made do with a handsaw\u2014the cutting tool of &amp;quot;no choice,&amp;quot; he says\u2014borrowed from his engineering outfit. He also had to get creative when touching up his finished chair. &amp;quot;The bayonet was handy for removing the sharp edges from the armrests,&amp;quot; Gage says, adding to the &amp;quot;rustic beauty, comfort, and ultimate congruency with all the plush environmental attributes.&amp;quot; When the unit was reassigned, Gage couldn&amp;#039;t take his chair with him\u2014it was not a part of the regular field equipment. He did make another chair while in Korea, but that too got left behind. &amp;quot;Woodworking still is a very important hobby for me, 62 years after Korea,&amp;quot; Gage says. Hey, some stories just ooze Popular Mechanics\u2014especially this one, which also reads like an episode of M*A*S*H. And Gage still has the photo seen here, taken on July 16, 1951. Is that a pistol casually hanging over the back? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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