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02/24/2006 02:21:27 PM · #1 |
So, as of today I am no longer in the military, I was given my honorable discharge this morning :D Bittersweet. If anyone is intersted in my experiences, I have blogged them down today, must warn you, it's long The End Of The Affair So.....if you are drinking tonight, have a beer for me :D I just had to share cause I'm excited!
June
Message edited by author 2006-02-24 14:22:02.
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02/24/2006 02:22:48 PM · #2 |
| Congrats! Good Luck as Civilian! |
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02/24/2006 02:23:54 PM · #3 |
| Way to go Chiq! At last.... |
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02/24/2006 02:28:10 PM · #4 |
Sweet Chiq.....will have a couple of beers for you after work!
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02/24/2006 02:39:01 PM · #5 |
| Touching story. Congrats, and good luck! |
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02/24/2006 02:49:06 PM · #6 |
Chiqui/June - I'll have to wait 'til I get home to read the blog (looking forward to it) but wanted to say a quick thanks for your service!
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02/24/2006 02:51:54 PM · #7 |
Good read. Very interesting insight. Have fun as a civilian. It won't take as long as you think to adapt to civilian life. I kinda thought the same way when I left the US Navy in 1987 but it wasn't as bad as my mind made it out to be. Here I am almost 20 years later still alive and kicking. The life never really goes away. Funny thing is, it's the stupid things that stay with you the most. I often find myself straightening my gig-line. Sometimes when I'm walking around alot of people I catch myself trying to keep pace, left-right-left. I clip the loose threads from my shirts although I can't remember what they are called. I think alot of the things that were drilled into me I don't do mostly out of spite and because I don't have to if I don't want to.
Anyway, enjoy your freedom. Cherish the memories of the once in lifetime experience that a lot of people never get experience.
Good Luck to You and you soon to be husband.
Dave
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02/24/2006 03:09:20 PM · #8 |
June:
Its always amazing to see how closely we, whom have gone through BMT reflect on those first weeks.
My father went in the UASF in early 56' for his four years, myself exactly 20 years later in 76'... Its not surprising that his reflection of his first weeks are just as mine were and your's just not that long ago.
Well, this past Oct 26, my Date of Separation, it has now been 30 years from BMT - OMG, its absolutely only a flash it seems, but its been 30 whole years. Nonetheless one bit, I recall that first step off the bus in Texas that night late and freezing, within 20 seconds [if that] the breakdown starts - you'll never forget, the recall will always be on the tip of your thoughts like it was yesterday!
For most non-career types, it seems we all look back at it in a love hate view - kinda one of those things you are never ever sorry for doing, but sure would never ever repeat it!
So for you this day will come in 2036, and like the ones before you, you will too succeed nicely in your own way...
Best of times to you both on your Wedding!
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02/24/2006 03:12:37 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by dsmeth:
I clip the loose threads from my shirts although I can't remember what they are called. |
Cables? |
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02/24/2006 03:17:37 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by dsmeth:
I clip the loose threads from my shirts although I can't remember what they are called. |
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No. LOL. Actually I think they were called straglers.
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02/24/2006 03:18:12 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by dsmeth:
I clip the loose threads from my shirts although I can't remember what they are called. |
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CLIP !, no way, we burned em with a lighter cause clipping wouldn't get em close enough !!! |
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02/24/2006 03:20:44 PM · #12 |
Then you're both younger than me, I suspect. I did a quick check around the office, and while none of us can truly remember, "cable" seemed to ring a slight bell... And yes, we used a lighter.
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02/24/2006 03:23:47 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by jefalk:
kinda one of those things you are never ever sorry for doing, but sure would never ever repeat it!
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I disagree. At first I was that way but the older I got I came to realize that I would do it again and I also would take better advantage of the opportunities that were there for me. As a kid or young adult you tend to not look at the oppotunities for their value down the road.
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02/24/2006 03:28:15 PM · #14 |
It's been over 23 years and I'm still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. So far, it's fairly apparent "photographer" isn't on the short list. :-)
But I will have to retire, sooner rather than later. I'm both looking forward to it and dreading it. After all, I haven't had to "interview" for a job for over 20 years. I just take the ones they give me!
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02/24/2006 03:32:36 PM · #15 |
Skeered me June, thought the epidemic got you too and were leaving.
I remember 22 years ago, being handed my DD214 after doing 10 years in, and embarked on a new journey in life.
Scary, exciting, uncertainties, security blanket gone.
A lot of changes are ahead. Run with it!
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02/24/2006 03:35:45 PM · #16 |
Congratulations. Enjoy and good luck with the wedding.
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02/24/2006 03:37:58 PM · #17 |
Yeah! Free at last! I'm looking forward to seeing what you make of the "rest of your life"...
Robt.
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02/24/2006 03:53:43 PM · #18 |
Congrats, and the beer I will have. Cheers!
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02/24/2006 03:55:33 PM · #19 |
Congradjiliations!
Thanks for your service.
Enjoy the rest...
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02/24/2006 03:58:03 PM · #20 |
| I get out this next Wednesday after 4 years in...what a small world. |
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02/24/2006 06:38:22 PM · #21 |
Spooky coincidence - you left the Navy the same day I finished my current contract ;o) Great post BTW, gives a real insight into a side of you most people aren't aware of.
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02/24/2006 07:54:21 PM · #22 |
Good luck to you June. I did ten years, hated parts of it, couldn't wait to get out, was discharged in 1990, made a show of ripping my uniform (dungarees, not dress uniform) off as I changed into my "civvies" to leave for the last time. I had my own reasons for being disgruntled, but am still proud of the time I served, the things I did and most of the people I worked with.
I think most every decent person I know who has done military service and hated it at the time, would say ten or twenty years later, that they would never change the experience they had - and that, as much as they may have hated it, it has helped make them who they are.
We're all products of our experiences. I hope yours are brighter, safer, more peaceful and full of joy and happiness.
Best to you.
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02/24/2006 08:59:17 PM · #23 |
| Thank you for serving June. |
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02/24/2006 09:16:48 PM · #24 |
Glad you made it! My brother's experience was somewhat similar to yours--signed up for a 6-year hitch in the Navy for world travel and education...learned differently once the ink had dried. But, as things go, most of us turn out all right in the end and are richer for our travails. Here's to looking forward!
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02/24/2006 09:17:06 PM · #25 |
| Yes, June, thank you for your service. |
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