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UPDATED: Thursday, July 10, 2008 01:38
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Originally posted by FlatTop:
Gentlemen, I thank you both for your service to our country. I completed RTC Orlando (which isn't even a Naval base anymore) back in September of 1986.
Well, then, oorah to you, too, shipmate, and back atcha!
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Originally posted by Causal:Quote:
Originally posted by FlatTop:
Gentlemen, I thank you both for your service to our country. I completed RTC Orlando (which isn't even a Naval base anymore) back in September of 1986.
Well, then, oorah to you, too, shipmate, and back atcha!
What did you guys do?
I be a Hospital Corpsman. Currently, and sadly, at NAS Jacksonville.
I want 2nd MARDIV, gorrammit.
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Originally posted by Oddbodskins:
My hair, sadly, was struck by a sudden attack of practicality...
It is sad!
Okay, so for those who weren't around (and those who may have forgotten) this one requires some backstory.
I have this black cotton skirt. When I got it I thought it was a little plain, so I decided to add some color. Patches didn't really seem right, so I just started sewing colorful thread into it. Eventually the spots of color became more than just that; they took on some shape. The faux embroidery ended up being representations of people in my life. As a few of those people left my life, I didn't want to tear all the thread out, so I crossed one out with red, then another, then added red to another one as a kind of metaphorical blood, and so on. Mostly, it made the original shape difficult or impossible to see, or surrounded it, or something.
So, there was one I did that I was more proud of than any other. It was the most interesting and well-rendered bit of faux embroidery I've done. Due to recent... circumstances, I felt the need to alter it, but I didn't want to obscure or ruin it.
I'm still proud of it, and of how well it represents what it represents.
You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.
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Aww! I'm sorry things didn't work out. :'( But, that embroidery work is really cool.
Darksiders can keep their cookies. We have better writers.
Grrr. Argghh.Patiently waiting to see Cap'n Tightpants sing!
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Originally posted by AceofSpades:
What did you guys do?
I be a Hospital Corpsman. Currently, and sadly, at NAS Jacksonville.
10 years (badump bump)
Aviation Fire Control Tech, then the Navy did away with that job & made me into an Aviation Electronics Tech. Along the way made AT1 (AW).
Spent a few years in Mayport aboard the Saratoga. Is the 4th floor there at Jax still the psych ward? I heard a story or two about that place while I was in the area.
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Originally posted by FlatTop:Quote:
Originally posted by AceofSpades:
What did you guys do?
I be a Hospital Corpsman. Currently, and sadly, at NAS Jacksonville.
10 years (badump bump)
Aviation Fire Control Tech, then the Navy did away with that job & made me into an Aviation Electronics Tech. Along the way made AT1 (AW).
Spent a few years in Mayport aboard the Saratoga. Is the 4th floor there at Jax still the psych ward? I heard a story or two about that place while I was in the area.
Not that I know of. They're renovating the place, so I forgot where they moved it, considering it's been moved like 7 times in the 4 months since I've been here.
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Originally posted by AceofSpades:
at did you guys do?
I be a Hospital Corpsman. Currently, and sadly, at NAS Jacksonville.
I want 2nd MARDIV, gorrammit.
Careful what you wish for. To paraphrase the Captain, Marine corpsmen have a prodigious death rate.
Myself: 3 years USS George Washington in the satellite imagery interpretation shop (1 med cruise), 2 years doing strike planning w/ VFA-94 (1 WestPac), and then 4 years doing current intelligence and mission planning for Naval Special Warfare Group ONE (combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Here be me, in Nasiriyah in 2003:
And hello to you, too, MsB. Been doin' shiny. Just awful busy.
We'll have to find the bestower of titles. Maybe she'll give us membership in the FFF.net Navy Veterans Association (or just the FFF.net Veteran's Association).
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HUGs and HUGS Rose...rusty cheese grater on stand by
HUGS Causal... as always too hot for words:)
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Naw...it's just all the expensive military hardware that's throw off your "hotness" meter.
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