Login & Share to Win! Given the chance to travel back in time, what advice are you giving yourself?

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Would not have started drinking

Msgt Jimmie - Microsoft was the root cause of my drinking... LOL

CW2 (Join to see) - 'Damned Operating System' and 'Win? Dose'? ;-)
Diid you ever have to restore a dedicated system to Wm 2.0, after IT wiped it without making a backup, and installing Win 95? I got a direct order from the division's VP that IT could not touch any non networked computer, since so many were used to run test fixtures on the production floor. They didn't make me want to drink. I wanted to walk into IT's office with an aluminum baseball bat, ant wear it out on their hick skulls. Their first day, one of them was looking at our machines, and he complained, "I can't get into the BIOS!" I sighed. "XTs don't have a real time clock, and no BIOS." He laughed, "It'll be in the dumpster next week, when you get a new computer. I shook my head and told him, It is used to program obsolete ICs that the newer programmers can't do. The interface will only work with an PC or XT. That's why the Prime Minicomputer operator has several stashed away, for spares.

SPC Michael Terrell - No helicopters where I was. And I'm pretty sure they didn't put chains on the jets.......

Sgt Robert Hellyer - Maybe at the end of WW II? The radios and RADAR used small chains to link the panel shaft to the actual tuner. The first RADAR system that I got my hands on was from that era, along with one of the ARN-6/R101 direction finding receiver that I converted to solid state. It was terrific for long distance AM radio reception on the Broadcast band.
Whatever, May you have a Blessed day. :)

SPC Michael Terrell - I couldn't tell you. They wouldn't let get that close to anything REALLY fun..............

Sgt Robert Hellyer - Spoilsports! I'll bet they wouldn't let you stand inside a TV transmitter while it was powered, like I did? Of course, I didn't let them find out what I did. I had to make an adjustment that was normally only done at the factory, before it was fuly assembled. I could either make it, fire it up, guess which way to move it, and power itt up again. Or I could stand on the high voltage transformer with a nylon rod and have one of the operators tell me when it was right. That only took five minutes, so we were on the air, right on time. The video was muddy, because of improper coupling between two amplifiers. It looked great, after realignment. :)

I tried to retire but just could not do it! Worked in corporate America settings for a long time but I really didn't like it. After more than 25 years in the military, I was used to people doing what they said that they would do. The corporate world is not like that. I finally left for good. The kicker is that after a couple of years, I went to work at a zoo! Seems as though I came full circle and I love it.

CWO4 Jim Cole - Did the captive Butter Bars behave? ;-)

SPC Michael Terrell - lol brother

CWO4 Jim Cole - My wife wanted me to take early retirement Chief, after crunching numbers, I told her no way.

1LT Neal Schwartz
Likewise LT...likewise

Other guys did the same thing with my ex, thought they were getting the good deal, haha!

CPT Patrick Butler - Some things just can't be recycled. :(

I like crazy women, but I draw the line on the insane ones.

It would have been great to have digital cameras, tablets, and such back in Nam. I'm still trying to obtain rosters and such with little luck.

keeping close contact with my comrades

I didn't find out my buddy from high school and post high school passed away til I went to the 40 year reunion, sad face.

CPT Patrick Butler - Our 50th was last year, and only about 24 showed up. I couldn't make it since there were no plane, train or buses out of where I live, and I simply can't drive 1000 miles, each way. The class was around 450 people.

I get it MSG Frederick Otero, but then looking into the future (like as you're reviewing your life on your death bed) you may just find a giggle in your mind as your memory plays some of that remembered foolishness. Really!

SP5 Robert Kennedy - On my death bed giggling, well i guess that is as good a way to go out as any, should leaves those around me trying to figure out what the heck could be so funny.

I went to every school offered to me. Some were just a big party....

1stSgt Edward Jackson best of both worlds! lol

1stSgt Edward Jackson - But, they were in your file and listed as showing initiative and as seeking improvement et al. Plus, you met your peers from other paces and people from Branch who were often instructors. A Win-Win on all sides of the coin or dice…an education of another sort. If you were selected to attend, you knew you were going to pass the material whether you partied or not. I got to be pretty good at poker on one of my school trips…one of the most difficult ones I attended. I also got attend a second school while there, too since I was going to Germany and wouldn’t be able to attend Andy schools in the States while I was in Europe.

The schools were great, NCO Academy and Senior NCO Academy. I graduated near the top of my class in each one.
But they didn't help me to get promoted to SMSgt.

As I reflect back on my career in the Marine Corps and this in particular we all watched out for each other. I would hope that this would stay but in the current situation now again in Afghanistan who knows it seems to the that the world is tearing itself apart.

My one major grip about the Air Force was no WO program.

I don't understand that either talents and expertise are sometimes hidden as an enlisted. Many commissioned after being enlisted also make better officers the Marine Corps calls them "MUSTANGERS" and the Navy also the same. The WO program in can lead to a commission.

SPC Michael Terrell - Sorry to hear about the health problems, I know about the difficulties in finding good belts for the Reel to Reel and found the problem with the Cassette - the operator (me) did not run the new belts properly... OLD FINGERS! That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

SPC Michael Terrell - And you can still find them if you look in the right places.

SFC Terry Wilcox - It's amazing what parts you can find for this kind of stuff with an online search. I found belts for an old turntable that way - along with a few other things.

Sgt Robert Hellyer - Yes, but the quality has dropped. They used to be made in the United States or Japan. Now they are Chinese, and made from a different composition synthetic rubber.