USN Fire Control Technician Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2) My system was GD Mk. 15 CIWS (Phalanx) Nick named "Sea Wiz".
Been off the grid with VU for some time thanks to a relapse on pipes and cigars. A very recent bad day with mucho blood clots in the lungs from my legs has me highly motivated to stop that insanity and start puffing some vaporized baccy juice and vanilla cupcakes.
I have my old mod box and a couple kanger tanks now. I also have enough 100mg nicotine for a 100 years (4 gal of NicSelect PG)!
I have a lot of catching up to do, as I want a TC mod that won't scorch my cupcake juice!
Oh yeah, I got out in 1988 after a lot of schools and bullshite duty stations from 198. I was unceremoniously sent packing after my thyroid failed on me, and my protests about radiation from 25 mega watts maybe might have helped it go to crap.
Those were the Reagan Navy years and he had swabbies going high and tight with military creases on our damn dungarees! It was a badass Navy though and we were in a war of attrition with the Soviets beating their brains out with our expensive high tech shit like Aegis Fire Control. He wanted a 600 war ship fleet and in the end we broke the commies with better sailors all around doing stuff like Unreps and seriously advanced type weapons the Soviets couldnt build and maintain even if we supplied tech support!
So in my mind what makes the US Uniformed services the best in the world is our gifted and intelligent members doing the hardest stuff with precision and most important, "Esperit De Corps" That's the fancy word for the uncommon valor with our brotherhood in arms.
That was then and I hope some of that is still going strong
Now on too getting my vaping thing together!