Topic: RollCall & Welcome Topic for BaseCamper Trekkers

[Ken (OP)]

Didn't stay long enough to retire, but was in the Navy as well. 


Actually, I get tired of getting up so early, but it seems to be hard-wired into my sleep patterns.


This was my ship (1958-61):
USS Guide (MSO-447)

[rwillis]

Same here with the sleep patterns, I'll have to root a couple of old hard drives to find some pics. But looks like you were serving around the time I was born.......  :innocent:  Thanks for you service 

[Ken (OP)]

Same here with the sleep patterns, I'll have to root a couple of old hard drives to find some pics. But looks like you were serving around the time I was born.......  :innocent:  Thanks for you service 

 
Yes, I'll soon be an old fart... and no, I'm not there yet.  :bigteeth:



And thank you for your service as well rwillis.
I know that's the politically correct thing to say currently and it is certainly true that our vets and those still serving deserve our thanks, but back in the day it just did not happen. We've all read the stories about how it was back then so I won't bring all that back up except to say that I served and lived through times and it were nor pretty.

Ps: Here's another 'thing' that I did as part of my military experience that you may find interesting.
Do you have a need for speed? How about Mach 3.65!

[Dataman]

Same here with the sleep patterns, I'll have to root a couple of old hard drives to find some pics. But looks like you were serving around the time I was born.......  :innocent:  Thanks for you service  

 

Yes, I'll soon be an old fart... and no, I'm not there yet.  :bigteeth:

Which? The old or the fart part? :belly:

And thank you for your service as well rwillis.
I know that's the politically correct thing to say currently and it is certainly true that our vets and those still serving deserve our thanks, but back in the day it just did not happen. We've all read the stories about how it was back then so I won't bring all that back up except to say that I served and lived through times and it were nor pretty.

Ps: Here's another 'thing' that I did as part of my military experience that you may find interesting.
Do you have a need for speed? How about Mach 3.65!

Bunch of swabies.   US Army here. '68-'71. Spec 4 Weapons Specialist. Trained as a sniper at Ft Benning. In country '69/70. Thanks for the rides though you boat floaters.  :rofl: :belly: :rofl:

[Ken (OP)]

Happy to oblige DM.  :cool2:

You and Agent Gibbs must be buds. 

[Dataman]

Carlos Hathcock was my idol ... even if he was a jar head.  :rofl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

EDIT:Can't spell this morning.

[Dataman]

Great picks of the nike base BF. Thanks! Looks like San Francisco. The SF nike base is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. I've been there many times as I use to live in Corte Madera. BTW: The Sate of California may still "not exist" due to our massive budgetary crisis. Mexico may do a hostile takeover.  :rofl: :belly: :rofl:

[mike047]

Random -
Some one explain to me why when I'm on holiday this week - I'm still getting up at 0530 :thud:  Coffee's on

I'm up at 0330 every morning:D

USN 64-77, long enough to end the war.

[DistroMan]

I'm up at 10am every morning...

Married 79-09, <<<  That's my war.

[Cruncher Pete]

9-10pm to bed, 0500 to raise regular on getting up but not so strict on going to bed. 20 years in the Army, 2o years shift work in the Ambulance Service took its toll.  You can't teach old dogs new tricks...

[Sport]

There's got to be something amiss with RAMMIE's results numbers.

No way you could get 671,000 points with only 34 results.

Fixed!!!!

[Cruncher Pete]

With all those whining about getting up early, it shows our age, and also proves that we are survivors;

We are Survivors

We were born before the TV age, before polio shots, plastics, contact lenses, frisbees and the pill.
We were before refrigerators, tumble dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, credit cards, ballpoint pens and before man walked on the moon.
We got married first and then lived together.  How quant can you be?
In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of".  Bunnies were small rabbits and dishes were for washing not for receiving programs from outer space.  Designer Jeans were scheming girls, and having a meaningful relationships meant getting along well with your cousins.
We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent and cold turkey was what you ate on Boxing Day.
We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and commuter marriages.
Divorce was something that happened to film stars.  We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.
We played with Dinky toys, wore liberty-bodices, and took a daily dose of cod liver oil and malt.
We drank Ovaltine, ate porridge, and listened to Dick Barton, the Goon Show, Workers' Playtime and Housewives's choice.
We had never heard of Radio1, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors or yoghurt.
For us, time-sharing meant togetherness, not a Spanish holiday homes; a chip meant a piece of wood, hardware meant a shop where you bought hammers and nails, and software wasn't even a word!
In 1945 "Made in Japan" meant poor quality and the Koreans and Taiwanese hadn't even started production.
Pizzas, Macdonald's and instant coffee were unheard of.
We were born when everything in Woolworths cost one penny.  For sixpence, you could take a tram ride, go to the cinema and buy an ice cream.
In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable, grass was mowed, coke was a cold drink and pot was something you cooked in. 
Rock music was a lullaby and AIDS were for those with hearing difficulties.
We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes we discovered, but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had, and we were the last generation to think you needed a husband to have a baby!
We typed letter with manual typewriters, did computations by hand, and used carbon paper to make copies.
We used telephones without buttons or dials and Fax was something you looked up in the encyclopaedia.
We did business with handshakes and trust and somehow it all worked and we survived....

[mousie]

mousie's not a survivor...  :08:

[RAMMIE]

I hated the three yrs I did in the US army.'79-'82
Couldn't wait to get out and I did!

[Sport]

Don't hold back Pete....tell us how you really feel!!!!!!