CID

One of the most popular programs on television, and one of the few networks shows I watch now, is NCIS.

The army equivalent of NCIS is the CID; I was a member of a CID unit at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX, in the early '60s. We had more investigators than they seem to have on NCIS, but we did not have a fancy lab, for that matter no lab at all.

That's me on the right with two civilian employees and three other members of our unit. There were about twenty or so in our unit including two FBI agents. Because we were an investigating unit, we could choose to wear civilian clothes. Some of us didn't have enough clothes so chose to wear our uniforms most of the time.