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WatchDorks.Net wrote:Welcome. Be aware though, that anyone claiming past military service is required to submit copies of their discharge papers, a retinal scan, fingerprints, and a stool sample for verification.

We try to avoid having another Michael "Sure I was a Convi... err, Navy Seal" Turdling on our hands...

codguy wrote:Jesus Christ Don, One more sea story and I'll Have to unleash my 20+ years on everyone.

"There I was @ 32,000 ft, inverted, #2 flamed out, hanging from the relief tube with when all of a sudden.......... "

CG

chuckf1 wrote:

WatchDorks.Net wrote:Welcome. Be aware though, that anyone claiming past military service is required to submit copies of their discharge papers, a retinal scan, fingerprints, and a stool sample for verification.

We try to avoid having another Michael "Sure I was a Convi... err, Navy Seal" Turdling on our hands...

Is WLs wimping out. When I joined I had to submit copies of my discharge papers, a retinal scan, fingerprints, stool sample AND a had to pass a piss test!

BTW --- Welcome, Don, to this fine forum and valuable resource for watch lovers.

wire-paladin wrote:Hey Don, back in my time (65-70)(DDWalker) i spent many a bridge watch while on plane guard detail in the Tonkin gulf. Mostly crusader's take off and land,day and night,day after day.Some never came back while other's that did were in bad shape.
I believe all the fleet sailors felt alot of respect for the pilot's.

hawkeye wrote:Don't Forget the FF's(formerly DE),the FFG's are Perry Class... FFs were Knox,Garcia etc... And I liked plane guard loved watching the jets take off and land.
Dave

conjurer wrote:

Mortuus wrote:
"WHO YA CALLIN' SQUID, BITCHK?"

I don't recall Popeye ever smoking a cigar. Today, this would be considered a bad role model to the young folks. All the ink on his arms, of course, would be OK.

hawkeye wrote:no garcia was a garcia ff-1040
ffg-1 thru 6 was Brooke class and Brooke being the first

I am a tin can sailor you guys are the carrier sailors...lol
The Garcia was homeported at pearl when I was stationed there, along with Davidson ff-1045 and the sample ff-1048
I was on FF-1077 an old knox class......

foghorn wrote:Better late than never.


Welcome.
I eat with my pecker.

foghorn wrote:I know but I realized I never welcomed the old bastard.

Goddamned neither do I what an oversight, then again, I rarely welcome anyone and shit happens so,
Welcome to the forum Don we hate trump, mike Turdling and el Lalo supporters/trolls around here, as long as watches goes? we love Rolex , Patek and Vacheron despise everything else without a proper, uninterrupted ownership from the last 200 years (at least), feel free to speak your mind on everything else as long as you agree trump's Bum and Invicta suck .....

gerdson wrote:What is a FNG -
Former Navy General?
Freakin' Natural Guy?
Fortunately Not Greyhaired?
Fist'n'glove?

Ah, found it. Welcome then. We joined about the same time.

Mortuus Fakeuus wrote:

codguy wrote: FWIW- Always enjoyed watching the Crusaders being thrown off the pointy end.

Are you sure that wasn't your being relieved that yet another Crusader managed to get off the deck without (1) dropping all its ordnance and then (2) falling completely apart...? (I'm not 100% sure, but I think that pretty much all of the A-8's were retired by the time I made my first WestPac...that's my story and I'm sticking to it, anyhow...)

My name is Don, and I'm a retired USN officer with 26 years active duty service. I drove SLUFF D's & E's then Hornet E's. Then wound up under a slab of cement in the Pentagon on 9/11. 17 surgeries over a 28-month period. Re-learned how to walk and talk...at the same time, even.

bobbee wrote: ↑

December 15th 2020, 6:51pm

He also claims he went to parochial school.
A jewish boy, going to a catholic school? Is that normal?

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Mouse's Note: This is a review that I should have completed far earlier than I did, but as “they” always say, Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans. Which means that this review was “overcome by events” a few times along the way. I think you’ll understand why as you read further, but this was one review that I wanted – even needed – to get done right, so I took my time with it. I hope you find the end-product a good and entertaining read.

One of the common quirks of Americans is their loyalty and even devotion to their respective almae matres. (That’s “schools attended,” for you folks in Rio Lindo and Perth-Fremantle.) For some it's a matter of pride due to the school's sports teams, while for others it's all about the school name and the éclat it connotes. Nonetheless, there exists that same depth of school pride even for those of us who didn't go to a school with a legendary basketball or football program, or a name that conjures up images of ivy-covered brick walls and professors in their snazzy corduroy sport coats with suede elbow patches. Case in point: Yours Truly.

I'm a very proud graduate of the California State University's Long Beach campus, where the only sports we as a school excelled in were baseball (Google “Cal State Long Beach Dirt Bags”) and surfing, which happened to be an obsession of mine during the time I attended -- and still is, though I've not stood atop a board and ridden a wave in, oh, let's just say a long while and leave it at that. At any rate, those two sports are not exactly the kind of activities that would tend to make good old Long Beach State a sports powerhouse. And it's not exactly the kind of school that anyone would take for an "ivy league" institution, despite being able to boast such famous former attendees and/or graduates as Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, Snoop Dogg and commercial aviation pioneer, Mortuus Praesepultus. Okay, so maybe that last one is a stretch, but all of them would no doubt tell you that CSU Long Beach is truly "the shizzle."

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