Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[RollingAcres]

Ok I'm all caught up now! Hope your knee is better @Latestarter .
I like the name Elf for your new dog!

 

[Mike CHS]

Is there anything that can be done for your knee or is this one of those things you are going to have to live with?

I have been retired from Navy since 1991 never learned how to tolerate longish hair. It starts touching my ears and I ask Teresa to break out the trimmers. She refuses to give me a High & Tight cut so every once in awhile I have to go see the barber.

 

[Latestarter]

Did you do a straight 20 Mike? I ask because I thought we were closer in age and I retired in 2000 (24 yrs). I also started a year late as I "tried" a year of college and determined it wasn't for me.

 

[Mike CHS]

A couple of months over 20. I enlisted in '69 and had 3 years out when they did the draw down after Viet Nam.

 

[greybeard]

I signed up USMC late 1968 and entered service Feb '69.
The post Vietnam drawdown is when I left the Marines and went into the Navy.
One of the great mistakes of my life, but the Marines Re-up offer of Embassy School and Embassy Duty was not my cup of tea. Marine helo door gunners and GSE types tho were a dime a dozen at the time, and even if they had let me re-up to continue with instructor duty, I found it extremely boring.

 

[Bruce]

I was pretty lucky as the neuter was free with the price of the adoption. So was the rabies vac. So essentially, they cost combined $63.00. I ended up paying ~$69.00 more for all the other shots, the check up and the pain meds for him. Can't complain too much about that.

Geez, up here it would cost several hundred to adopt and you pay the neuter cost on top. Good deal there!
Rascal cost us $85 eight years ago at the HS, she was already spayed.

Chrisotfur cost $417 for his hospital trip. But that included $62 to get him chipped, whenever DD2 gets her life going and moves out (which she wants to do so there won't be anyone expecting her to help around the house) it would be good if he was traceable. It also included the vaccines I am not doing because there is a 0.01% chance the cats could get those diseases. But the vet requires them to be admitted to the hospital. He had his state required rabies shot in March. They get you coming and going.

 

[Mike CHS]

I got out planning to go with the FAA but in my naive little 22 year old brain I didn't think about the other couple of thousand ATC operators that were planning the same career path. FAA got the first group that was discharged and then went into a hiring freeze. I liked ATC enough that when the Navy figured out they had discharged so many they couldn't man ATC at sea that they started offering NAVETs a jump in pay grade to re-enlist I so jumped back in.

 

[Bruce]

Does this look familiar Joe?

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce much of that equipment has been around longer than you have and much of it is still in use.

 

[Bruce]

I watched that and thought "How the heck did they manage to find ANY submarines?" Talk about a lot of variables and obstacles. Very impressive.