Posted on 03/29/2006 5:01:03 PM PST by SandRat
ahem... he is married to another flight attendant, a WOMAN!!
We were in the wood barracks down on the flats. We could stand out back and look up the long road filled with barracks leading up to the top of "Tank Hill".
Ran up the back side of that hill a few times coming back from the ranges.
The social security generation infultating our military. He probably will only do one tour. Can you imagine him finally finishing at 60? I am so glad I came in at 18. I know that he wants to serve our country which is honorable, but can't he do it in some other way. I guess you guys don't understand since your not in (most of you), but I think it is wrong to have these old guys running around. He will be a 40 E-1!!!!! Make E-4 around 42-43 years old. Finally gets some leadership at 45. Not just right I tell you. Talk about health care costs going up.
He recently failed one written test by not reaching 75 percent, which set him back in training — not unusual for many soldiers. He’s about halfway through his six-month course. The field he has chosen is difficult, and the small stumble will be overcome, Esip said.
Great and a brain too...sigh.
Good old Prosser Village. I wonder if the Delta Dogs are still overflowing into the Marine, Air Force, and A 305 barracks, or if they've finally been upgraded to a bona fide battalion and moved somewhere else.
Sadly, the military has no choice but to raise the enlistment age. Far too many younger people won't answer the call to duty.
This is definitely a story I can relate to having enlisted in the navy, active duty, at age 34. It is tough at first and some major adjustments are in order for guys (and gals) who enlist later in life. Now that I've been in for almost 3 years (and advanced to E4) I have adjusted well and realized that the navy is pretty much like most any other job --except I work on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier!
THAT..........is damned impressive, folks (my eldest is a 1Lt in the Army)......and for a 40 year old to do it is nothing short of phenomenal.
Doesn't prove anything!
I have a much younger relative who was a flight attendant for a few years, back in the 1990s and was married as well, to a girl he stated dating at college.
He was the security guy on flights and said the pay was pretty good. Food bad though, HAHA!!
He found the travel great, International flights gave him and his wife a chance to do something they always wanted to do, see the world.
I think that is fantastic!! Wish I could still travel.
He left that job, went back to college and got degree in theology. Now is a pastor at a church out west.
Gee, he has 3 kids now and one on the way.
Stereotypes are so passe'!! DONCHA THINK??
Partly for economic reasons and partly for patriotism.
In the case of 4 of them, their jobs were outsourced or a foreign H-1B visa holder from India or Pakistan took their jobs. That is another subject... anyway...
All of these relatives have degrees and skills.
But they had college loans to pay back and some had small families to support.
At any rate they are also patriotic kids and knew they could be a help to the military.
So far all have been safe and find the military AOK.
One has gotten out due to ill health but the military has been very generous in the service provided in regard to his health condition.
Oh come on!
Fort Jackson was such a nice place. (I'm only kidding; I would hate to go back to that place. All I can remember is hot, steamy weather (I was there in July and August), shouting drill sergeants, a newly-minted second lieutenant who thought that he was God's gift to the military, and less-than-tasty food.
Oh, come on yourself... that part was in jest... doncha know?
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