12-13-2009, 11:45
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Originally Posted by Richard
Just now heard those unmistakable radial engines and ran outside to watch a B-24 which just took off and was flying over at around 500' AGL. One of the joys of living near an airport which has an aviation museum and is used as a staging field for the Commemorative Air Force so it must've been their "Ol' 927" bird from Midland/Odessa.  
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Richard,
Were they formally the Confederate Air Force stationed in Harrington(?) Texas? 
Big Teddy 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
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12-13-2009, 12:00
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Originally Posted by Dozer523
This is my oldest grand-daughter. Someday she might be responsible for that whoop-whoop-whoop sound we hold so dear, early in the morning . Her Daddy, Son Numba One, just pinned on his Major leaves! (No, but he is a damn fine MI guy!)
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Dozer,
She really is adorable.......... I had my first great grand-daughter(Autumn) 3 years ago and a great grand-son recently (Maddox)his nick name already is Mad Max.  I would post their pictures but I still don't know how to do Thumbnails!!!! Anyway,congrats on you sons promotion,I'm sure your very proud,I know I would be..... 
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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12-13-2009, 12:14
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goofed that up
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12-13-2009, 12:22
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save the picture you want to your computer's my pictures.
click "post reply" type whatever you want
scroll to the box under it. "Additional Options"
click "manage attachments"
click choose file (takes you to your files) go to my pictures
double click it Takes you back to "manage attachments"
click "upload" when you get the attachment key close the window
that ought to do it.
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12-13-2009, 13:15
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Originally Posted by Dozer523
save the picture you want to your computer's my pictures.
click "post reply" type whatever you want
scroll to the box under it. "Additional Options"
click "manage attachments"
click choose file (takes you to your files) go to my pictures
double click it Takes you back to "manage attachments"
click "upload" when you get the attachment key close the window
that ought to do it.
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Thanks Tim, I gave it to Maggie and she said she'll do it for me......I really am a dumb shit when it comes to trying to do some things with my computer....I was once told by the VA after a CAT scan I had early dementia but it turn out to be a false,positive and a 2nd opinion reversed it,however my recent CAT scan confirmed it again and I am having trouble finishing my sentences...... Anyway thanks for the info........
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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12-13-2009, 14:42
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Richard,
Were they formally the Confederate Air Force stationed in Harrington(?) Texas?
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Harlingen, Texas.
TR
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12-14-2009, 12:53
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Harlingen, Texas.
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Thanks TR,but my question still wasn't answered...........
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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12-14-2009, 13:11
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Thanks TR,but my question still wasn't answered...........
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Force
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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12-14-2009, 13:37
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Thanks TR,but my question still wasn't answered...........
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Sorry BT, but it was answered!! It used to be "The Confederate Airforce", but due to PC Pressures, it changed it's name!! It used to be based in Harlingen, Texas, but moved to the Midland-Odessa Airport several years ago. Back in the late '70s, I got to make a few jumps from the bomb bay of one of their B-17s (and a few other aircraft)!! Really a wild jump and the FAA went BONKERS, something about not having an STC that would allow the opening of the "Bomb Bay Doors" in flight, for the purpose of making a Parachute Jump!! (We did it again the NEXT DAY of the Airshow!!!)
Take care.
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12-14-2009, 13:56
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save the picture you want to your computer's my pictures.
click "post reply" type whatever you want
scroll to the box under it. "Additional Options"
click "manage attachments"
click choose file (takes you to your files) go to my pictures
double click it Takes you back to "manage attachments"
click "upload" when you get the attachment key close the window
that ought to do it.
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Cute kid! Your wife must be drop-dead gorgeous!
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12-14-2009, 14:01
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Cute kid! Your wife must be drop-dead gorgeous! |
My Reason For Living is gorgeous! But that little girl is the Grand Daughter. she looks like my daughter-in-law. Oldest son has great taste and high standards too!
MRFL sez, "Thanks"
I'm also thankful that ski season came early to Missouri and I pulled the early NS Patrol shift on Opening Day. Conditions were great, The snow machines have been going for the last week's cold snap. About 10 inches of good stuff. I only worked two injuries (maybe a broken collar-bone and a sprained or broken wrist) both snow board. At the end of shift it started to rain. poured for 30 hours. Probably not a snowflake on the hill. But the cold is coming this way. . . we start over. Goes that way all season long. Skiing can be Great but it can never be bad.
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12-14-2009, 15:25
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Baloney sauce!
As for weather, just returned from Sam's - 67 degrees and sunny skies here in North Dallas and I had the top down on the convertible.
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12-14-2009, 17:40
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Baloney sauce!Richard
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I can't believe you'd say such a Schuss-y thing!
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12-14-2009, 22:31
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I can't believe you'd say such a Schuss-y thing!
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Crossing the Continental Divide from Lake Eldora to Winter Park - January - winds beyond belief - mostly ice and rock about 1/3 of the way up to about 1/3 of the way down the other side - old style military skis with non-release cable bindings and Chippewa boots - rucks and weapons - nie wieder...unless my life depended upon it.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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12-14-2009, 22:52
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just took DLPT and passed. 3/3 in 49 min
Will find out how to get approval to take the upper level. Now waiting for security clearance.
I only used the 1st Group refresher course 0 to 2+ to prepare. I highly recommend them. If you can do the exercise in them well (or good enough), you should be set for DLPT. In the 2+ course, there are questions that I couldn't get right, not even once. It's definitely way harder than the DLPT. |
Forgot to mention:
I got few months before BOLC and not doing much. If you've been assigned Indonesian, I'm willing to help, train-the-trainer etc. near my AO or far (skype etc.). I already checked the SWCS Mlilitary Language Mentor Program but I do not meet the MOS requirement. Feel free to PM for details.
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