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9/21/2012 5:40:11 PM

Happy Veterans Day people.

11/11/2013 9:05:45 AM

right back atcha.


btw, being an Infantry platoon leader is fucking awesome.

11/11/2013 9:09:15 AM

USMC
9.5 years, Captain

Quantico, VA
Pensacola, FL
Whidbey Island, WA
Cherry Point, NC
Al Asad, Iraq
Al Udeid, Qatar
Baghdad, Iraq (only for a week)
Kandahar, Afghanistan (only for a week)
Bagram, Afghanistan

plus training detachments in Yuma, AZ, El Centro, CA, USS Reagan, and stopovers in the Azores (x2), Kuwait, Sicily, and Crete...and cross countries for a day or a weekend all over the place back in CONUS.

Naval Flight Officer ("Goose") flight instructor back in Pensacola, FL. Been either the flight or academic instructor of the quarter for all 3 squadrons here on the base for the last five quarters in a row.

I'll be getting out next summer.

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11/11/2013 8:04:56 PM

Not going to stick around to become O-4?

11/11/2013 9:22:20 PM

Nope. Not on active duty, anyway.

Promotions are going really slow right now; I'd be at 10.5 years before even getting selected for promotion, and then I bet it would take at least another year before I actually pinned it on...so that would be probably 11.5-12 years! Either way, the community I came from is dysfunction as hell, and I'm not going back (and neither are most other people I know. I even know Majors who are getting out!) I'm also not going to leave Pensacola after getting 50/50 custody of my daughter.

I'm thinking about going USAF Reserves, doing some spec ops stuff in turboprop airplanes.

11/11/2013 10:54:14 PM

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"Pensacola after getting 50/50 custody of my daughter."

Congrats man, isn't she like 5/6 now?

11/12/2013 8:36:38 AM

just turned 7 a few weeks ago

11/12/2013 5:49:38 PM

Not sure if I count...but I'll toss it out.

Navy Reserve
Ensign, Civil Engineer Corps
3.5 months
NMCB 18

11/19/2013 9:31:27 PM