Re: OT-Anniversary #57

Propwash wrote:
Don Myers wrote:
C'mon Paul. Iive met you and if you lied about your age and joined at
14, then did 18 years and retired, you would now be 82. I've met you
and know that you can't be a day over 79. <vb> Are you sure you didn't
mean USAF enlistment?

Don M - USN Active Duty June 1958 - September 1989.

Yeah Don............ENLISTMENT. I'm still choking on 'humble pie"
from responding to William and Max! (You guys are sharp, lol.)
[:0)

Oh, and for the record, even though I look it, I am not really 79.



Those comments reminded me of a rather large life's experience. In early 50s my brother enlisted in the Army and was sent to the war in Korea. Now my father, being protective as he was, Initiated legal paperwork that made me to young to be drafted in the Army. I upset him and lied about my age and enlisted in the Army National Guard in Oklahoma, they didn't check very close for age. From that point, after long enough to know the Army was a lot of work, I was able to transfer to the Air Force with out proof of age. Dad sure was pissed, but considering it was the Air Force, he didn't pursue the issue. But the joke was on me, I had been legal age all along.

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BILL P.
&
DOG
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