|
Cellar Meta Users, threads, etiquette, posting, usage, forums, why this place matters or doesn't |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
06-29-2013, 12:03 PM | #16 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
|
Gee, 58 ... BINGO!
IIRC, you were just one year off last year; but, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. 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. |
06-29-2013, 12:22 PM | #17 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
|
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. Seriously, Happy Birthday ! |
06-29-2013, 12:42 PM | #18 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
This was enjoyable! Thanks s-o-b!
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? |
06-29-2013, 12:57 PM | #19 |
Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
|
Happy Birthday, sexobon!
__________________
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi |
06-29-2013, 01:59 PM | #20 |
Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 27,063
|
Yppah Yadhtrib, noboxes!
__________________
Be Just and Fear Not. |
06-29-2013, 02:00 PM | #21 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
|
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. |
06-29-2013, 08:41 PM | #22 | |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
Quote:
|
|
06-29-2013, 09:51 PM | #23 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
|
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.
|
06-30-2013, 08:04 AM | #24 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
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. |
06-30-2013, 10:40 AM | #25 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
|
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: |
06-30-2013, 02:18 PM | #26 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
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.
|
06-30-2013, 03:15 PM | #27 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: La Crosse, WI
Posts: 8,924
|
I supervised.
__________________
Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind. |
08-21-2014, 06:58 AM | #28 |
Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 2,728
|
I've always wondered what's Sexobon's age and totally missed this thread. Duh!
|
08-21-2014, 05:42 PM | #29 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
|
HONEY BUNNY ... I AM YOUR FATHER.
Come to the dark side of the |
08-21-2014, 06:45 PM | #30 |
Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In the Deep South
Posts: 3,408
|
I say at least 81 based upon his cantankerous nature. warning pwd
__________________
Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. |
Tags |
sexobonage |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|