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  • Yep (Score:2)

    by BWJones ( 18351 ) *
    Right on... although it is a bit disconcerting to realize how fast time passes.
    • Yeah. I don't feel like I can be possibly be that much older than the nineteen-year-old infantryman who covered his wall locker with Siouxsie lyrics. Except for the aches and pains and expanding waistline that constantly remind that yes, I am.
  • I had no idea that you were ever in the armed services, all though it might be expected considering all my knowledge of you comes from /. posts and that blurb at the side of your profile.

    How long were you in for, and do you have any interesting stories to tell from it?
    • Heh. I do have "veteran" buried in the middle of the profile somewhere.

      I was in about nine years. Would have been ten -- one two-year term, two four-year terms -- but when you re-enlist the clock starts over, and I always re-upped well short of my out date. Started out as an Army reserve infantryman, realized that really wasn't for me, and went active duty as an Air Force medic. In that capacity, I served in Daddy Bush's war and worked ER in peacetime, so yeah, there are plenty of stories. I'm not eve

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