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We used to call R&R, I&I.....Intercourse and Intoxication.
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Thanks Roy, for proving me to be an old poop.
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To play a bit with your log on id. Oldron here only missed one also. Missed the one about a love letter from home. I served 1951 to 1961 active and 4 more in reserves.
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
To play a bit with your log on id. Oldron here only missed one also. Missed the one about a love letter from home. I served 1951 to 1961 active and 4 more in reserves.
I retook the test and got 35 out of 35 correct. I guess my memory still works a little.
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Born in 1948 and got 31 out of the 35. Shows my age LOL's
Born in 1947. Military 1967 to 1971. I got 34 out of 35. Used the "hint" three times but each answer from the "hint" was the same answer I mentally chose before using the "hint".
haha,35 out of 35,but,a bunch of those terms I never heard of. (so I swagged the answers) (scientific wild ass guess)
rjoeholl wrote:
We used to call R&R, I&I.....Intercourse and Intoxication.
Yes we did. At least in the late 50s and 60s for Navy liberty.
pafret wrote:
There were Scientific inquiries being performed all over the globe, Antarctica, Austrailia and many other locations, it occurred in 1956 -1957. Our site was on the shores of the Hudson bay about 4 miles from Ft. Churcill. The expedition to Ft. Churchill was examining the Van Allen belt radiation, the Kennely-Heavyside layer of Ionization and the Aurora Borealis. A number of leading Universities fielded Teams with their own set of experiments. We built our own buildings, installed all of the cabling and necessary power distrubution for the missile trackers, radars and all of the ancillary devices like Coordinate Converters and Tracking Plotters. My detachment was Tech support for the research teams as well as the Aerobee - High Altitude Research Rockets we fired to carry their payloads into the desired regions. I was Radar Section Chief, had three long range tracking radars and twelve guys working for me. I thought I was some pumpkins considering I was 19 years old and the man in charge.
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19!!!! ... I'm very impressed, I don't want to tell you what I was up to when I was 19, certainly not anything to be proud of, but that quickly changed the following year.
I did some reading after my last post, and I recalled some of this stuff, I obviously didn't remember what the project was called. I read, as you also mentioned, the development of technology at the time. I understand that the U.S. borrowed the technology from the German invention of the V2 rocket, was glad to see they put it to more practical use. All of this is pretty cool, and it's an honor to make the acquaintance of someone that was involved with it; thanks for sharing.
My Dad was a retired Marine, 20 yrs. and an additional 6 because he wasn't fit for civilian duty. My Mother was a
First Lt. Fleet, Navy. I tried to enlisting in the Marines after I was turned down by the draft for hernias. No could do. My Dad was furious with me for trying. Cannon fodder don't you know. Ended up joining the Merchant Marines, 1968, hauling ammo and stuff to Vietnam. Have a combat Vietnam ribbon to show for it. It was a great adventure but I've always regretted not being able to actually serve. I was in Military school and loved the structure and discipline.
Thanks to my parents and all the folks they knew, I got all of them right with no hints. Mike
pafret wrote:
There were Scientific inquiries being performed all over the globe, Antarctica, Austrailia and many other locations, it occurred in 1956 -1957. Our site was on the shores of the Hudson bay about 4 miles from Ft. Churcill. The expedition to Ft. Churchill was examining the Van Allen belt radiation, the Kennely-Heavyside layer of Ionization and the Aurora Borealis. A number of leading Universities fielded Teams with their own set of experiments. We built our own buildings, installed all of the cabling and necessary power distrubution for the missile trackers, radars and all of the ancillary devices like Coordinate Converters and Tracking Plotters. My detachment was Tech support for the research teams as well as the Aerobee - High Altitude Research Rockets we fired to carry their payloads into the desired regions. I was Radar Section Chief, had three long range tracking radars and twelve guys working for me. I thought I was some pumpkins considering I was 19 years old and the man in charge.
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teabag09 wrote:
My Dad was a retired Marine, 20 yrs. and an additional 6 because he wasn't fit for civilian duty. My Mother was a
First Lt. Fleet, Navy. I tried to enlisting in the Marines after I was turned down by the draft for hernias. No could do. My Dad was furious with me for trying. Cannon fodder don't you know. Ended up joining the Merchant Marines, 1968, hauling ammo and stuff to Vietnam. Have a combat Vietnam ribbon to show for it. It was a great adventure but I've always regretted not being able to actually serve. I was in Military school and loved the structure and discipline.
Thanks to my parents and all the folks they knew, I got all of them right with no hints. Mike
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You certainly did your part. Thank you. I admire your persistance.
oldroy
Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
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You certainly did your part. Thank you. I admire your persistance.
I enlisted in the Army in 54 but it wasn't from patriotism or anything like that. I wanted the shortest time I could get and had to wait 6 months to get drafted so I just enlisted since the time I could begin teaching would have been as long if I waited to get drafted. I loved my duty in the Army and would have stayed another 30 years if it hadn't been because I had attained my degree from college and wanted to try that out, too. The t***h about why I didn't re-up was that I would have to come back home from Europe in less than a year and, as I said, I loved my duty but didn't want to have to train others to take my place.
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