bkboy is glad that the VC did not shoot as good as Kinrik!

pjpowell looks at this thread and wonders where Buzz and DaWebMassa are.

pjpowell throws a fig for old time sake and reminisces about when times were good and fig fights were common.

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25years, RAAF 64-89, Warrant Officer, been round a bit. Liked the Air Force, didn't want to crawl around on my stomach with the snakes (grunts)- or float in a tinnie on the big ocean and we only send our Commissioned Officers to the front. G'd day Wombat 1 going to check out your web site mate.

I'm an Officer Cadet in the Canadian Forces Communications Reserve, serving as a Communications & Electronics Engineering Officer (CELE). The CF recently restructured all of its Reserve training, so I'm in a holding pattern, waiting for my Phase II training.

My husband is in the Regular Force. He's an engineering officer, currently at the rank of Major. He's done tours in Kuwait, Haiti, Bosnia, and Eritrea, and had postings at CFB Chilliwack (which no longer exists), CFB Petawawa, CFB Gagetown and now at NDHQ (National Defence Headquarters). He's a 'staff weenie' right now, but prior to that he served as DCO (Deputy Commanding Officer) of 4ESR (Engineer Support Regiment), and was in that position when he went to Eritrea in Dec 2000.

TasT smiles and laughs.....

Kinnik you are deffinatly right one jarhead at a time please..


I served 6 years USN as a Cryogenics Technician ( NO I did not freeze people)

3 aboard the USS Siapan LHA-2
3 aboard the USS Enterprise CVAN - 65

Bangkokboy,

Wasn't that the point you taught them the definition of "Spectre"?

JollyFE

Wow, I didn't serve in any Miltitary so maybe I shouldn't post but I always admired those who served their country (what ever country it is)

I wanted to do it but I just couldn't see 4 years of my life to it. I really am into the Navy.

I guess the closest I will get is being a security screener at an airport. I have to wait because the position is filled.

I worked on SH-3H SeaKings. Anti-submarine Warfare. Did some AK work (supply) and i fiddled around with the AO's (Weapons). I couldn't settle with one rate. The best place i liked to be was a Plane Captain on the Flight Deck! I was also an LSE (landing signalman enlisted) where i would launch and recover birds using signals. We had to be the first ones up and the last ones down, and inbetween i would hang around and watch flight ops for a while Man! What a Rush Night ops was where i wanted to be all the time. To stand just on the other side of the flight line watching an F-14 TomCat Sitting on the Cat, throttle wide open. The afterburners firing out against the JBD's. The pilot signals he is ready by saluting Cat control and BOOM!!! All that raw power goes from 0 to 160 in about 1.7 seconds and blasts off into the night sky and I'm just yelling like crazy!

Man i miss those days Sorry guys...i got kinda lost in my self huh?

... and all this time I thought that joetheblow was an old Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technician !

I've played Half-Life enough times to know exactly how many whacks to the head with a crowbar a person needs until they die.

AND I can remember what it was like playing army men in the backyard with my friends when I was 10


Does that count?

Caylynn- I was comming up on a rotation and I'd been married only a year so I went ahead and got out. Did not want to put a strain on my second marriage.

caylynn- It is fun to see the world and do the things that you are trained for, but it can put a strain on a marrage. Its even harder if only one works. The income only does so far. It does start getting harder the older you get. I found that my body was not keeping up with kids and that started to set the wrong example. There were many factors in my retiring. But I did enjoy it and still find myself longing for it.

Nice chatting with you Caylynn. My day off this week.