Then I consider myself very fortunate. No military service because I grew up in post-was Britain, no university (until my late 30's) to mould my opinions, and I had already realised by age 19 that I was better suited to working for myself. So I chased my own dreams (and occasionally nightmares) ever since, with both great successes and sā¦
Then I consider myself very fortunate. No military service because I grew up in post-was Britain, no university (until my late 30's) to mould my opinions, and I had already realised by age 19 that I was better suited to working for myself. So I chased my own dreams (and occasionally nightmares) ever since, with both great successes and sometimes failures in perhaps roughly equal measure. As Kipling once proposed, I try hard to treat both imposters the same. Still working on that one! š
As an American Marine, you probably still think I'm the one that missed out!
Not a Marine ALRA, my Dad was, and my ex step son. I did have 26 years in special ops, and they have the same mentality. I wouldn't say you missed out, but frankly it was a cloistered society, the social life was built around the people with whom you worked, for me and my team, we didn't pay much attention to the news. The oil embargo of 73 had no effect or inconvenience on me.
I will say this, I endured and survived and having done so I rest comfortably in my old age with a decent military pension and social security. Thanks to a law, my military retirement does not offset my social security as it does for many others, who have other retirement incomes which offset their social security., and I also have Tricare for life, as does my spouse, which is a secondary insurance to take up the 20% that Medicare doesn't cover.
Then I consider myself very fortunate. No military service because I grew up in post-was Britain, no university (until my late 30's) to mould my opinions, and I had already realised by age 19 that I was better suited to working for myself. So I chased my own dreams (and occasionally nightmares) ever since, with both great successes and sometimes failures in perhaps roughly equal measure. As Kipling once proposed, I try hard to treat both imposters the same. Still working on that one! š
As an American Marine, you probably still think I'm the one that missed out!
Not a Marine ALRA, my Dad was, and my ex step son. I did have 26 years in special ops, and they have the same mentality. I wouldn't say you missed out, but frankly it was a cloistered society, the social life was built around the people with whom you worked, for me and my team, we didn't pay much attention to the news. The oil embargo of 73 had no effect or inconvenience on me.
I will say this, I endured and survived and having done so I rest comfortably in my old age with a decent military pension and social security. Thanks to a law, my military retirement does not offset my social security as it does for many others, who have other retirement incomes which offset their social security., and I also have Tricare for life, as does my spouse, which is a secondary insurance to take up the 20% that Medicare doesn't cover.
A small recompense for serving and risking your life, I 'd say.
Nah, like everything in life, it was a gamble. I gambled and won, but four of my team mates did not.
Unlike so many I volunteered and did so during an interregnum of peace.
Yes, The other 4 have not spoken up here. And i didn't even notice until now.
The other four can't speak up. I don't believe in seances.