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My MOS was 2631 in the Corps. I ETSd and after 8 years and no future at home I joined again. They decided not to live up to the contract I signed so I joined the Army for 17 years. 98K MOS in the beginning and finished as a 98U. Stationed in Pensacola a few times, huachuca arizona, Aurora CO, Ft Lewis in the states and Edzell, Augsburg German, and Menwith Hill England twice.
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Dad really didn’t want his kids in the service. Said he did enough for all of us, and told me to find a job where I wasn’t doing a mental cost/benefit analysis of my career choice, with bullets wizzing past me. Would have been ironic, don’t you think, if just after taking a long pull off your bottle of High Ten (you keep it in the glove box or under the seat?) on your way to your Teamster job a Molotov cocktail came winging through the window of the Olds during the riots in that bunghole town you live in. Teamsters kept me out of that. And you get a government pension just like pops. Win win! ______________________________ Commies. Pops fought ‘em, you work for ‘em.
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My MOS was 2631 in the Corps. I ETSd and after 8 years and no future at home I joined again. They decided not to live up to the contract I signed so I joined the Army for 17 years. 98K MOS in the beginning and finished as a 98U. Stationed in Pensacola a few times, huachuca arizona, Aurora CO, Ft Lewis in the states and Edzell, Augsburg German, and Menwith Hill England twice. Mike, Johnny Cash in 1953 was a USAF staff sergeant with a similar MOS to yours. He spent his duty in postwar Germany monitoring the Soviet's CW transmission and was the first American to learn of Stalin's death after listening to code transmissions throughout the night concerning his health and ultimately his death. You and LR obviously reached the skill level of hearing words rather than individual letters in CW. I never got beyond 20 wpm listening and at about the same speed sending (with a readable fist) with a straight key. I keep my head in the game by occasionally "sending" in my head roadside signs, etc., and have small QRP battery powered transceiver (Elecraft KX1) hooked to a random wire and counterpoise and monitor 40 meters. A lot of 35 wpm CW is sent on a computer keyboard and decoded on a computer and fewer and fewer ops use keys or bugs to send. Gil
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Dad really didn’t want his kids in the service. Said he did enough for all of us, and told me to find a job where I wasn’t doing a mental cost/benefit analysis of my career choice, with bullets wizzing past me. Would have been ironic, don’t you think, if just after taking a long pull off your bottle of High Ten (you keep it in the glove box or under the seat?) on your way to your Teamster job a Molotov cocktail came winging through the window of the Olds during the riots in that bunghole town you live in. Teamsters kept me out of that. And you get a government pension just like pops. Win win! ______________________________ Commies. Pops fought ‘em, you work for ‘em. Dad really didn’t want his kids in the service. Said he did enough for all of us, and told me to find a job where I wasn’t doing a mental cost/benefit analysis of my career choice, with bullets wizzing past me. Would have been ironic, don’t you think, if just after taking a long pull off your bottle of High Ten (you keep it in the glove box or under the seat?) on your way to your Teamster job a Molotov cocktail came winging through the window of the Olds during the riots in that bunghole town you live in. Teamsters kept me out of that. And you get a government pension just like pops. Win win! ______________________________ Commies. Pops fought ‘em, you work for ‘em. Like most things, you’ve got it backwards. The commies run the university, the unions are just happy to be there. Teamsters are out of my little corner of it, January 1st. Just be the GCC at that point. The Olds doesn’t go to work, and various people right here will tell you I haven’t touched hard stuff in 40 bird seasons. Hey, you get a government pension, me too. People in glass houses... The irony is Dad saw what was happening to his Corps 50 years ago, and suggested there were better alternatives for his own kids, and still loved his Corps. Said he wouldn’t change a thing, except, maybe moving further west, but, he had job offers right near the area he grew up in. When he became a reservist in 1969, he picked up a job at the State, that he worked for 21 years. Triple dipper, State, Federal a SSI pensions, should get your blood pressure up just thinking about it. My mom was the real winner, it was easy to find lifers in my Dad’s circle who hadn’t given a minutes thought to the future, who checked out one day, and left momma with nothing. Surviving spouse benefits were a big deal to Dad. Opportunities are were you find ‘em. The orphan did OK. Best, Ted _______________________________________________________________ RIG is looking OK at the moment. Who da thunk?
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Like most things, you’ve got it backwards. The commies run the university, the unions are just happy to be there. Teamsters are out of my little corner of it, January 1st. Just be the GCC at that point. The Olds doesn’t go to work, and various people right here will tell you I haven’t touched hard stuff in 40 bird seasons.
Hey, you get a government pension, me too. People in glass houses...
The irony is Dad saw what was happening to his Corps 50 years ago, and suggested there were better alternatives for his own kids, and still loved his Corps. Said he wouldn’t change a thing, except, maybe moving further west, but, he had job offers right near the area he grew up in. When he became a reservist in 1969, he picked up a job at the State, that he worked for 21 years. Triple dipper, State, Federal a SSI pensions, should get your blood pressure up just thinking about it. My mom was the real winner, it was easy to find lifers in my Dad’s circle who hadn’t given a minutes thought to the future, who checked out one day, and left momma with nothing. Surviving spouse benefits were a big deal to Dad.
Opportunities are were you find ‘em. The orphan did OK.
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Ted
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RIG is looking OK at the moment. Who da thunk? I think I know why King ignored you. Yer a f.cking idiot. ______________________________ Still holding that turd, eh? ps: orphan did ok? you mean knew how to milk the system. not judging. just sayin’. (credit to Stan for “just sayin’) pss: are you ready for some football?!
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King didn’t ignore me. He didn’t ignore anybody.
You were just enough of an idiot to milk the same system, apparently. Just sayin’.
Football is for idiots. I get it, you are ready. If I owned an RBL, I’d be ready to watch football, too, I suppose.
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Ted
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Been an excellent year for pheasant hunting. The Vikings are keeping the idiots out of the field.
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Hey Lonesome and Ted, if you two have a bone to pick with each other please do it somewhere else. You two are dragging this off on a personal tangent. Please don't do it on my posts.
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Hey Lonesome and Ted, if you two have a bone to pick with each other please do it somewhere else. You two are dragging this off on a personal tangent. Please don't do it on my posts. Sorry. Michigan getting smoked. ___________________________ Should’ve gone pheasant hunting.
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