I *DID* say you were the real deal. :o)
I *DID* say you were the real deal. :o)
Oh, not taken with offense, not at all! And it's certainly true that more of my activities now are more involved with logistics procurement or design considerations, or observations of the changes that have come over the last couple of decades- especially in materials technology- than with door kicking or low crawling in the weeds.
But though age has indeed taken its toll, particularly on my eyes, I can still get off the porch and run with the big dogs every now and again. And I hope to shortly, and hope their conduct is sufficiently noteworthy and professional as to deserve repeating to a general audience with little firsthand knowledge of such things. And if I pick up an affection for one or two bits of equipment similar to if not quite identical to some of that U.S. forces in Iraq or Afghanistan are now using, that too might be interesting.
-archy-/-