Busted a poser at the hospital who was working on my MOM!!

self | 01/20/10 | RaceBannon

[dancusa]

I admire your devotion to your mom, Race. We only have one Mom. My mother battled cancer for 12 years. Started out as breast cancer, Removed breast. Cancer spread to her lung, removed a lung. A few years later, cancer spread to her spine. She lived 1200 miles from me. I traveled to FLA to visit her 11/2002. I spent 10 hours a day for a week visiting her in the hospital.

She put up a valiant fight. Never, ever complained about her pain. Always positive.

She passed way 12/24/2002. Luckily my sister lives in FLA and sat with her to the end.

[dancusa]

Race. FWIW, my cousin Kevin Greason was a Naval doctor. Served with the 1st Marines during Desert Storm in 1990 when he just got out of med school. I think he made Captain in the Reserves. He is a heart surgeon now. Our mothers were sisters. He grew up in Denver.

After he graduated OCS in Newport in 1985 he came over to my house. I brought him golfing that day. He joked that he was practising for his future Wednesday's. After golf we went back to my house to party and BBQ with lots of neighbors. This was his big celebration for graduating OCS from me. He talked about the Marine DI running him ragged and at the end, he got a salute from him for making him a Naval Officer.

That salute made him proud.

[RaceBannon]

kewel!

[dancusa]

I put his name up because there is no bravo sierra about this guy. Google his name and he looks just like me and has a real deal resume on the net.

[US Navy Vet]

Multi-Operational Specialty(We in the Navy call them Rates).

[bmwcyle]

Obama voter.

[TankerKC]

I can't tell who said what to whom from your writing.

Maybe it's just me.

I've never heard the term "E number". Who used that term?

[TankerKC]

...326X0B...

325X0 here, but they've change all of the AFSCs 3 times (or more since then) What's a 326?

[Yo-Yo]

Integrated Avionics Repair and Automatic Test Station Maintenance. I worked shop level repair on LRUs for the F-111A, Mtn. Home AFB, ID.

There used to be two careers, one to repair the LRUs, and one to repair the test stations that tested the LRUs, and each had separate AFSCs that I can’t recall, but the two career fields were merged into 326X0B. They figured it made no sense to have avionics guys standing around while test station guys fixed the test station, and visa versa.

What was a 325? Avionics of some sort, I lknow.

[RaceBannon]

I never heard of an E-number either!

[RaceBannon]

Mine are the HUH’s...

[Ramius]

I've never ever ever ever heard of any vet that didn't know his MOS.

Well, I don't if things are different now, but twenty years ago in the Coast Guard (and I'm pretty sure the Navy too) they never used the term "MOS", and I've never heard of rank ever being called an "E number". "Rank" or "Paygrade" maybe... but I don't see how being confused about those terms necessarily means that the guy was a fake.

[TankerKC]

325=Autopilot...non-integrated ;) We worked on the jets, pulled LRUs, went to the shop and pulled SRUs...calibrated and fixed our own test sets too. Then, the powers that be decided we were too specialize...and took away some of our responsibilities...;)

[Little Bill]

In the Army the last two numbers of your MOS indicated Rank as in 11B40, Sargent, Infantry. The E Number was Pay Grade, IT could get confusing because you were either hard or soft depending whether you had a command role as a Sargent or were a Specalist.