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I don't think White Works was the uniform they were looking forward to (but always keep the dixie cups and the rest will come, and they do look good at graduation in dress Choker Whites, but Marine stands out). Sitting on Stribling after induction with a tired, sweaty and starving Plebe I asked...

I know it's a blessing and a curse.;)

I had six PCS in my four years AD from 1968 through 1972 from basic training and through almost full circle back to Instructor at my original Tech School. I had some great assignments, and it was hard to pick a squadron patch for an Avatar although I have rotated a few in and out. Det 5 621st...

If you mean SHE, Ayesha the novel I liked the movie with Ursula Andress better. Where do I obey?

Rumpole of the Bailey;)

Only one in the Office that ever had a security clearance and could not get through HIPAA.:)

The Gardner may till the soil but the Rose blooms and thrives on its own. Her major USNA was Chinese and spent a Summer and Semester there. Crap there goes the security clearance for the next four generations.

He was a lot of things {sergeant Stryker) never was a welder's helper on a gas pipeline ran a side boom on a pipeline dig seven days a week ten hours a day (big bucks) or a long boom Manitowoc or P&H on a nuclear power plant. He was still the best from Stagecoach on. Always loved the cavalry...

I went Air Force because I didn't want to see the world through a porthole or never see the world for six months. I could have gone with rank with Seabees as a former civilian heavy equipment operator but they were doing six month rotations to SEA. Got there anyway a few years later.

The Natural World is amazing and never ceases to provide wonder and awe. It reminds us of what a brief player we are upon the stage.

Oxford has produced many great philosophical and scientific minds.

No congrats to me it was all her. She is no longer active duty since the second grandchild but SIL is still flying reserves. There are some AD and veterans in her Law School class. Surprisingly quite a few.

I have been here for quite a while. My Daughter was Commissioned over twelve years ago as a 2lt Marine. She will soon graduate J.D. from an Ivy Law School. In my opinion she would not be in this position without her experience at the Naval Academy and command positions in the MC. Chime in...

Can't tell you how many times I have seen the Cummerbund worn with the pleats down. ;)

Daughter did Language Immersion Program in China and then Semester Study Abroad in China through another University Program coordinated through the Academy but not an exchange (Somewhere in the bowls of the NSA there is a record of my money transfers to China and there goes any security...