Gee, 58 ... BINGO! :D

IIRC, you were just one year off last year; but, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. :p:

Of course everyone benefited from UT's powers of deductive reasoning which narrowed the bracket. ;)

Training missions yes; though, probably not as you think of them. Even when there are no declared US conflicts, SF is providing advisors to train foreign indigenous military and paramilitary personnel in a half dozen or more hotspots around the world. Training and evaluating them necessitates being embedded with them during hostilities while maintaining plausible deniability for US involvement even when there are American casualties. You won't hear war stories or see movies made about those interventions. IMHO, it's the best time to be in SF as there are no large scale conventional forces making the inevitable mistakes that undermine carefully cultivated relationships. :cool:

Gee, I was off by a factor of 2

I'd have guessed 29
... old enough to know better
... too young to care

But instead, just 2 more years and maturity will set in
and you'll see the error of your ways.

Then 20 more years and everyone will tell you how good you look.

:rolleyes:

Seriously, Happy Birthday !

This was enjoyable! Thanks s-o-b! :D

You're smack-dab in the center of the baby boomers. Were you in fact choosing Army Photographer so you wouldn't be cannon fodder?

Happy Birthday, sexobon!

Yppah Yadhtrib, noboxes!

:celebrat:

Glad you all had fun with this.

I chose photography because it was something I already knew and had an interest in expanding on along the lines of military intelligence applications. I wouldn't have volunteered for consecutive airborne training if I had wanted to play it safe in a regular Signal Corps unit somewhere. Parachutist qualification pretty much consigned me to service in rapid deployment units and being among the first in. OTOH, I wasn't an infantry grunt more likely to be targeted by the grid square I was in. I'd be operating on the periphery; or, at low altitude in the air. Evidently, I preferred being rifle fodder to cannon fodder and to that extent I was choosey.

Hang on, now--the promise was, we guess your age correctly and you'd post a photo of yourself. No take-backsies! Pics or you never happened. :)

I don't remember it that way; but, short term memory is the first thing to go. In any case, my cuteness is a secret weapon so any photos would be seriously redacted anyway. ;)

Dang, you're right. I went back through all your posts about it, but all you ever promised was to "fess up" and admit if/when someone was right.

Pshaw. That's no prize at all. You should, like, at least draw us an awesome trophy in MS Paint and post it.

Considering how long it took, that the person who
did the most detective work missed it by one and
had his thunder stolen, this will have to suffice:

Attachment 44494

No thunder was stolen. It was a group effort, led by UT and Clodfobble. The rest of us just filled in blanks in the chart.

I supervised.

I've always wondered what's Sexobon's age and totally missed this thread. Duh!

HONEY BUNNY ... I AM YOUR FATHER. :vader1:

Come to the dark side of the Force Cellar.

I say at least 81 based upon his cantankerous nature. warning pwd