First, I usually don't padding my own back for my accomplishment or brag about them. I have sworn an Oath to my "new" Constitution in front of Senator Bill Nelson, which is very important to me as law of the land, after 3-1/2 years of grueling paperwork for the legal application and interviews!
Second I spent three years in the Danish forces, the Navy, the Army and also in the Air-force. After that I was stationed four years in Greenland on different radio/weather stations. One year after building the worlds northernmost Radio Station "NORD" ever, approx 400 miles from the North Pole. 1-1/2 year at Dundas Radio @ the U.S Thule Airbase. And two other assignments at Holsteinsborg and Prins Christian Sund radio stations!!
To top it off I then spent some 30+ years in the Danish and Swedish Merchant Marine seen most of the world and dealt personally with the legal authorities in the respective countries, but never been in Hawaii or the southern part of West South America, or near the South Pole. I have now been here 27 years and love this country and my "new" family. I'm sorry, English is only my third language!!!
So, Old Deck, as a "Johny-come late" are we comparing oranges to apples, or you still feel obligated to belittle other Freeper individuals here the same way Chuck Gibson vs. Palin???
I notice plent of after-birthers are trotting out their 25 yrs in the military (of course, no verification, just their say-so) as proof that their lies are truth; corollary is the assumption that anyone without a career in the military knows nothing.
I call it “clutching at straws”.