At one point a couple of friends of mine and I were assigned to COLONEL Guard(we didn't have a General ) to accompany Colonel Timothy wherever he went. It's a fairly easy job and an enlisted soldier can go where officers hang out.Pretty cool. One day the Colonel told us to escort him somewhere. There were 3 MPs in the lead jeep and the Colonel and three MPs were in the main jeep. I was the rear passenger in the lead jeep. We were told where to go and to lead the way. As we were driving I guess the driver never checked his mirror and we were all yakking so much we weren't paying attention where we were. We turned the radio on( that was supposed to be done as soon as the driver checks out the jeep) and were soon on the receiving end of a Colonel's tirade. We had lost him somewhere along the line and didn't realize it.Of course it didn't take long for us to reestablish contact nor did it take long for us to be removed from Colonel's Guard and shuffled back to the "regular" guys.