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Navy CDR, 28 years 5 months 14 days. you don't have to go home but you can't stay here. I stayed in till the last day allowed by law. LOL!!! Congressional mandated end strengths for paygrade. That's what I did also. Hung around the extra 4yrs hoping for that pity promotion to E8😄😄😄 Cashed in 76 days of leave. Taxed at 26% under a Bonus pay stipulation somehow. 😠😠😠Oh well.....
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Originally Posted By: slumlord
people that text all day get on my nerves
just knowing that people are out there with that ability,....just makes me wanna punch myself in the balls
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SFC, made the 8 list at 19yrs but would have had to stay to 23yrs to pin. Nope.
Bore size is no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance. 458WIN
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Army (82-90) E-5 (p) waited 0n points to drop for E-6 3.5 yrs and gave up
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US Army 78-81 E-4 95B1P, AZARNG 82-90 E-6 13E3O
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Spec 5 62K20. My Lt took me aside one day and asked me what was wrong as they had been thinking about making me a buck sgt. I told him "sir I would rather be a spec 4 than a buck sgt." He informed that that could be arranged so I straightened out my act and did not loose any stripes. The most wonderful feeling in the world was being in that bus as it left the gate at Fort Lewis in March of 1970 and I was a civilian again. My service number was RA 189138XX.
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I never served but, appreciate all of you that did. My father went in in 1960 and trained at Fort Knox, Ky. Then served in Berlin till 1964. He passed when I was little and not sure about his rank.
Why do I have to press 1, for English?
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Col, 0-6, US Army, Inf, 1970-1996.
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"non-participant"
I turned 18 my senior year of high school.
Got a free Greyhound ride to be poked and prodded by military physicians to complete my "pre-induction" physical.
Passed the physical, but was given a 1-HS deferment since I was still in school.
Graduated May, 1969. Got a new draft card almost immediately. Reclassified to 1-A.
Immediately enrolled in college and got a college deferment. IIRC that was a 1-C classification.
In October of 1969, the Gov't instituted the lottery.
Out of 366 birthdates, I was selected 324.
Selective Service System reclassified me back to "1-A subject to draft" and said they were going to draft through #275.
I wasn't happy in school, so I quit and went back to work.
A high school classmate was #274, so he went ahead and joined.
They stopped drafting at #264.
The 'Nam messed up a lot of my buddies, I don't regret missing that fiasco. As immature as I was at that time, I would probably have been a "statistic".
I do regret not having joined after 'Nam. I think it would have helped me mature.
If I had been drafted, the job I was working would have held my position. If I had voluntarily "joined", I would have lost my seniority and there was no guarantee they would even rehire me! Couldn't see throwing away 5 years seniority.
Probably one of my worst mistakes in life! LOL! At 72, it's a tad late to back up now! 😜
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SSgt, USMC, 1976-1986 MOS 5811/09
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I made it to Webelos in the paramilitary youth ranks. Got chaptered out for being a smartass whiteboy.
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Just a spec. Army (82-90) E-5 (p) waited 0n points to drop for E-6 3.5 yrs and gave up You must have been an MP.
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