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Welcome aboard LRod. Sounds like you've got some sailing by the rags experience. Tell us a little about yourself.
Nah, I just read a lot. Never been in the service, but I was in the gummint for 30 years (air traffic controller). Most of the guys I worked with had been in the service, my parents were in the service, as was my brother and about five of my cousins. I have several friends who had service time, including two on boomers. And I have a special friend, of whom I ask all my raghat lore questions who's a retired CPO (fang fairy). I introduced him once as a "former CPO", the notion of which he disabused me smartly ("there are no former Marines, there are no former chief petty officers--once a Chief, always a Chief"). Oh, another friend served as a sparks on Mother Onion's sister ship, USS Proteus.
I've been interested in sailing as long as I can remember, have read all the Patrick O'Brian books and have picked up over the years what the different rigs are. I know a ketch from a yawl, a sloop from a schooner, a ship from a brig, and a bark from a brigantine. Not that there's much to that for a salt, but there aren't a lot of landlubbers who can.
I came here because I found Dex' After Battery series a while back (read 'em twice), and finally tracked him down. I'm also an Armstrong, but 3 generations back and all on the female side, so it's probably bred out of me.
Since I'll be regarded as something of an interloper with no military experience in general, nor Navy experience (and nothing in subs) in particular, I'll try to keep a very low profile. I know what it's like to belong to something of an elite group (I was a controller in Chicago for 25 years) and I know what it's like when wannabes or poseurs try to play. I'm just here for the articles.
LRod
Edited by LRod 2008-11-11 9:58 AM
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Inyokern, Ca. | Subject: RE: About me, In response to Ralph Luther
Welcome aboard!
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: About me, In response to Ralph Luther
Welcome aboard, L-Rod. If you were an air traffic controller at Ohara, you had a much more responsible and tedious job than any of us had. Talk about having lives in your hands, your is it. I don't know how you handled the pressure at a busy field like Ohara.
Drop down the after battery, grab a black and bitter and watch the monkeys in this tree house play!Steamboat sends |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: About me, In response to Ralph Luther
I came here because I found Dex' After Battery series a while back (read 'em twice), and finally tracked him down. I'm also an Armstrong, but 3 generations back and all on the female side, so it's probably bred out of me.
 What a brave individual you are to admit that in public We'll have to check with our in house "Richard Smith's" if it is actually possible to breed out of such a situation. |
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About me, In response to Ralph Luther
