[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmn.

Methinks the Joe is somehow Air Force (darn - that was hard: had to keep form typin' Air Farce for some reason...) related.

Oh well. Guess there's nothing else to do up there in the frozen tundra.

My grandfather was long time USN/Merchant Marine quartermaster/Masters Mate from WWI through Korea.

My dad was SeaBee in Korea.

My older brother was Sub (nuke driver); I was sub (Engineering Duty (repair/rebuilding/shipyard), my sister is an Electronics chief petty officer (now in Guam, ex-Diego Garcia, Puget Sound, Sand Diego.... and a couple of tenders and carriers in between); her husband was Electronics petty officer, my other (younger) brother was/is Lt USN reserve (only DDG's and surface), my other (younger) brother is the wierdo (USAF - radio/crypto/electronics and maintenance officer); my brother in law was a Patriot battery officer in the Gulf War, my uncle was Chaplain (US Army - now retired into Austin); my cousins are US Army.

All told, at one ceremony honoring Gulf War personnel in '93 we totalled upi some 28 immediate relatives that had served over there.

[xsmommy]

illustrious family, robt, you must be very proud!

[CholeraJoe]

Yeah Robert I was an AF Flight Surgeon in Tankers, Helicopters and missles. My father was Army Air Corps in the Pacific in WWII and later USAF. My grandfather fought at the Battle of the Marne in WWI, my great grandfather fought Indians on the frontier and my great-great grandfather received the MOH for heroism at the Battle of Nashville. The tradition actually goes back farther than that but for the British Army.