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Post by sksfordman on Oct 12, 2009 16:45:18 GMT -6
Thanks to my cousin Dewayne, my son Lynn, and my Grandson Zeke, my camo blind is now complete. I think Dewayne did a great layout job on the camo job. He was in the National Guard, as a E6 Sargent, and when they found out he was an artist, he spent most of his time doing the camo layouts on all the heavy equipment, as that was his classification was a heavy equipment engineer. I couldn't have done this without their help. I'm putting some pics of my blind, the interior, and the cool buck skull in the center of the blind. The blind is setup and ready to hunt, so as soon as mom's out of the ICU at the Hospital, I'll be in my blind with my Crossbow, and this weekend with my Muzzleloader. Yahoo!! ;D ;D
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 16:58:04 GMT -6
He did good. Better he was an artist than a backhole operator.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 12, 2009 17:38:02 GMT -6
Backhole, bulldozer, graders, etc, he ran it all at the National Guard Armory at Union City Tn, They built roads among other things!!
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 20:12:35 GMT -6
LOL Most the time they ask can you run a Backhole. The guy says yea sure. Sargent hands him a shovel and says there's where the hole goes. I'll be back.
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Post by caretaker on Oct 12, 2009 20:21:17 GMT -6
Yea, and the truck drivers get to operate the wheel barrows.
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 20:27:32 GMT -6
Exactly! I was a forklift driver. I got to carry the 155's in my arms.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 12, 2009 21:19:00 GMT -6
I did my basic training at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and we didn't allow no don't ask, don't tell in the training you went through for the rubber industry!! Everything was hands on training!!
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 21:25:56 GMT -6
We didn't have a don't ask don't tell. We had a guy typing up process out of service orders while the pilot was on the flight deck warming up the Helo for the don't ask don't tells flight off.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 12, 2009 21:31:44 GMT -6
IB you was on a Navy Ship With a couple thousand men, without to many closets for them to hide in.
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 21:38:45 GMT -6
That ship had spaces on it I never saw and I made daily space tours for six months on Fire Department. I was still finding spaces when I left. Nobody put up with the other nonsense. A space the size of the average living room slept close to 50 men. It was stacked three high bunks. They got them off the ship ASAP for their own safety because some didn't take kindly to them. Yea they caught some and they were off the ship within the hour or in the brig till that time.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 12, 2009 21:43:35 GMT -6
It wont happen anymore with the prez signing his new law. He'll answer to God for that one of these days, and I feel it will be much longer. Randy
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Post by ibugly on Oct 12, 2009 22:02:18 GMT -6
I'm about as pro-military as they come but right now there is no way in good conscience I could encourage anyone to join. That is reason number one and it's gonna cost the military some good troops even senior enlisted and officers. The other reason is I do not believe in eight year first enlistment obligations. Too many changes happen between 18 and 26 in most persons lives. Make it 3/3 or 4/2 obligations for first enlistments {except in cases like Nuclear Propulsion training where you recieve a year and half schooling} and leave the eight year contracts for the career military. Eight year contracts is security for them and they enter it knowing what the realities of military life are. Some are meant for it and some aren't.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 14, 2009 21:11:50 GMT -6
I'm not nor ever was army material, i was born flatfooted. Lol
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Post by caretaker on Oct 14, 2009 21:56:10 GMT -6
I agree with IB. I also feel that no more than one year of combat duty should be required for drafties.
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Post by ibugly on Oct 14, 2009 21:57:57 GMT -6
I'm not nor ever was army material, i was born flatfooted. Lol I lost my arches in about 1990. Both fell at the same time. But I was born nearly club footed.
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