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90-98, the Gulf War, Dessert Storm, Dessert Shield. Your dad got out just before all the excitement happened! Good time to have done so IMHO. Don't get me wrong, I was honored to have served and do not regret one moment of it. There were just a lot of changes in the military from when I first joined to the time I got out. Including the Clinton draw down that really decimated the moral of the field troops. I can't even imagine what it must be like now with the current regime in place! By the way, thank you dad for me from the bottom of my heart for paving the way before us! (And providing us at VU with the one and only, lovely and talented, @flowerpots !)
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Ahhh ok. Yeah, he was out by then. I just thought you might have known him, by chance.
Indeed. And, to think I tried to join the Navy in 1989....and again in 1993. Denied on the way to MEPS in the morning because I didn't' pass the eye test...
Man, did I luck out.
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No, sorry. It would have been a honor, I'm sure.
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BELIEVE ME, you didn't miss much!
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How's the project coming along?
I've got to organize my flavors, I forget I have stuff, order what I already have, it's a mess.
I've got to organize my flavors, I forget I have stuff, order what I already have, it's a mess.
Well, I did. I missed a career and from what a buddy told me, a whole lot of pain in Gulf I. He came back...wrong. Funny yellow gases fried his brain.
While I would not have had a combat MOS, I would have been technical and cryptological IT support from GER. If I was lucky. If not lucky, I'd have been shipped.
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Unfortunately (or fortunately in your case), there were no state side (CONUS) or land base billits during that time because the female inlisted could not serve front lines or on shipboard duties. You would have been deployed for your first 4 years. Any other service and you would have been golden for land base somewhere static.
Hate to tell ya, but I'm a guy. ;-)
They didn't want me any more than the AF did...until they saw my ASVAB scores. Out of HS, I tested at a 98th percentile in mechanical reasoning and spatial dynamics. They liked that a lot.
THEN, they wanted the fuck outa me. This was the late 80's.... the Cold War.
I was bound for Germany and stuff I wouldn't be able to talk about. Sandbox was years away.
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He tried to get me interested in going to Annapolis. Yeah, no. I'm not the type. I cry when I stump my toe. lol
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I know, that's why you wuld have been deployed! The female inlisted could not forward deploy during that time in the Navy and took up all the state side and land base duties, making it possible to forward deploy the male service inlisted to fight the war going on at that time. YOU would have been deployed to a ship or over seas forward deployed duty station. Clinton started to change this rule and females were starting to be allowed on ships around 94-95 sometime. Fact is that 80% of the females that forward deployed during those early years of trials came back pregnant to get out of their forward deployed positions. Then there was the "Tail Hook" blunder that gave the Navy a huge black eye. The times were changing when I was in active service. As I said, you didn't miss much, except a lot of headaches!
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Then you would have been PERFECT as an officer! Bunch of whinny, crying, baby, entitled brats! Oh, I'm sorry! Was I thinking out loud again???? Damn brain to mouth filter is broken again!
I wouldn't have been in field. I'm not suited to it, would have been a detriment to it and more valuable in other slots.
I'm 5'4" and back then I was 130lbs. With an IQ of 142 and a lot of computer skills in 1993.
I was headed to Düsseldorf. There wasn't a war on yet.
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It took a lot of skill to run MS DOS and Linux. I don't remember any other operating systems in wide spread use in 93. Do you still work computers?
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My father was a systems admin for AT&T, he did MS DOS, Linux. Those were some crazy years for him. I don't work computers. I turn it on and type, that's my computer knowledge. lol
Work, no. But my Win7 box has been running like kitten since 2007.
Yeah, I like *nix. Used it first in 1990's VAX-land... telnet from a BBS dorway into a Uni...lol
First distro? Red Hat 4. From the Public Library.
I beta-tested virtual machine hosting for RH5...at Enyxma.....fsck that all to hell.
I crashed and burned out in 1998 doing support for win98...lol.
I miss when protocols were named after comix....;-)
Veronica may be dead, but Gopherspace is forever....people think SirDouche's WWW IS the Internet, it is not. Now that we have IPv6...muhahaaa.....dark was never darker.
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But you do it sooooooo well! Just check out your member status! I bow to your ablity to capitalize the knowledge and technology of others to perpetuate the betterment, knowledge base, and entertainment of our small community on VU! YOU, PRETTY GIRL, ROCK!
Well, I still want to hug you everytime I see you.
G33k-ness:
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HELP! I NEED A TEENAGER AGAIN TO TRANSLATE! Lol! Oh, and I thought Al Gore created the internet, according to him that is! Nope, in reality, the internet is still ran on the backbone of the DARPA Net. You don't think the government just gave it away for nothing do you?Work, no. But my Win7 box has been running like kitten since 2007.
Yeah, I like *nix. Used it first in 1990's VAX-land... telnet from a BBS dorway into a Uni...lol
First distro? Red Hat 4. From the Public Library.
I beta-tested virtual machine hosting for RH5...at Enyxma.....fsck that all to hell.
I crashed and burned out in 1998 doing support for win98...lol.
I miss when protocols were named after comix....;-)
Veronica may be dead, but Gopherspace is forever....people think SirDouche's WWW IS the Internet, it is not. Now that we have IPv6...muhahaaa.....dark was never darker.
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Get in line and wait your turn!Well, I still want to hug you everytime I see you.
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A line is just a point with two ends. Who ends up where, is anyone's guess. ;-)
Perhaps, it is a Mobius Strip Tease?
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I'm not sure, but I think she might get tired of an endless line (train?) of hugs! No matter how pleasent at the first.
Actually, it was ARPANET. DARPA was later and mainly is for ...other later projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
I'm In WA, home to Hanford, Fairchild AFB and a lot of secrets. ;-)
Hmm, I'm not even gonna reply to that directly. Her mind is naughty enough as-is without help.
I also know she's smart enough to find out what it means, if she chooses to, or I wouldn't have written it.
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That's what I have been doing for a week. I'll show you where I am tomorrow...with pics...
(Yea, had to pee again...)
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I should have clarified to the N^th degree! Sorry, my mistake! However, ARPA and DARPA are the same agency. ARPA was first and morphed into DARPA. But your point is well played, sir!
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I was wandering where you ran off to for another 45-90 minutes!
No worries.
I didn't mean to be splicing hairs, but it's early infrastructure does make a difference in the evolution and politics of the current Internet.
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Some nights I think I should just sleep in the bathroom. I wouldn't have to walk as much... I could invent a combination "bucket & a bunk"...
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OK, no more bitching... I'm thankful that the plumbing still works...
(A bitching sailor is a happy sailor...)
(A bitching sailor is a happy sailor...)
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Bed pans were invented in the first or second centry. They were called chamber pots. Just in case you were interested in rekindaling the pratice! LOL
AMEN! (AND that's no lol matter!)
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Not complaining, but I will banter all night long!No worries.
I didn't mean to be splicing hairs, but it's early infrastructure does make a difference in the evolution and politics of the current Internet.
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An HP reference, Love it! I do like his writings, but perfer Brian Lumley! You sir, have a good night!It's still too damn warm in here, but gotta try to sleep.
Cthulhu Approves...
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You are not thinking of getting into WA State's newest industry are you @Ace? LOLI now see the error in my ways....
I used to try and grow superhot chiles in my Apt.
I should have used... @flowerpots.
- Much more productive
- Likely a better scent
- provides the same warmth
- lovely in bloom