Re: Made the decision to go Full-Timing!

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:23:18 -0400, Neon John <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:34:25 GMT, Greg Surratt <glsurratt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Tidewater area in Virginia. The Ford Truck plant will close in 2008,
displacing 2400 workers, the USS George Washington is going to be
changing homeports from Norfolk to Japan, displacing another 3500, and
who knows what the politicos are going to do with the jets at Oceana,
another 5000 or so families.

Really? They're going to home-base a US warship in Japan? Wow. I
hadn't heard. That sounds crazy at first blush.

Kittyhawk's replacement. It was a tough call to decide which carrier
it should be - Truman and Roosevelt still aren't real popular names in
Japan. And FWIW, there are already several US warships homeported in
Japan - http://www.c7f.navy.mil/Pages/shippage.htm


<SNIPPED> a lot of really good info on the auctions - and forwarded it
to the budget master here for consideration. She may like the idea
since moving some of these boxes of stuff around is giving her
back-aches and we haven't even started on the heavy stuff yet.

That sounds like a lot of fun. You should have it made. I've always
been a bit envious of career military folks, both during their service
years and afterwards. I thought they were doing me a favor when they
medical 4-F'd me during Vietnam but after the fact, I wish they
hadn't. I'd have loved a nice long career as a navy nuke.

It's been a fun ride, John. I was 30 when I started the first time
after spending 10 years as an independent trucker. A big, fast truck
and a good paying contract with tight schedules got me too many
tickets, so I had to find something else to do and the Navy was it. If
I had known it was going to be this much fun, I'd have come in
straight out of high school - and been retired with 30 years about six
years ago.

I was going to retire at 20, but somebody screwed up and selected me
for promotion, which required an extra two years. Then they screwed
up again last year, so I have to hang in there til December 2007 - but
the increase to the retirement check is well worth it. And they won't
promote me again - my co-workers keep reminding me that I'm at my
"terminal paygrade." ;-)


Greg
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