Posted on Jun 8, 2016
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SCPO Larry Knight Sr.
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Get the type of cost of living increase as our elected officials do !
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PO3 Sandra Gomke
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Run a craft store that offered classes and materials, with discounts for school kids. So they can learn art techniques that are dying away.
In Alaska. Or Montana.
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SSG Pete Fleming
SSG Pete Fleming
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Well that would be great. There is a trend to try and get kids away from the computer... you should look into this
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CPT Jack Durish
CPT Jack Durish
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One thing I really miss about the Army is the Craft Shops they maintained at Army installations. I found a few hours occasionally to visit them when I was at Advanced Infantry Training and learned to throw clay. I loved it. It helped alleviate the stresses of rigorous training. In Hawaii, everyone wanted to make a Monkey Pod table (that's a table made from a thick slab cut from a Monkey Pod tree and sanded and sanded and sanded to an ultra smooth surface then covered in a liquid acrylic that hardened like glass. I also made a cradle for my first son in the craft shop. I often thought that a commercial operation like them would be great in the civilian world.
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PO2 Peter Klein
PO2 Peter Klein
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Not a craft beer store?
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PO3 Sandra Gomke
PO3 Sandra Gomke
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PO2 Peter Klein - I can find one of those anywhere.
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SSG Warren Swan
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I'm fascinated with speed. I've always liked and I watch all forms of auto racing. When Dale Sr. was alive I wanted to be the gas man on the pit crew. His son is racing and I would like to have the same job on his team. Those would be my dream jobs.
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I get in plenty of practice racing home from PT to get back before 9 lol
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CPT Jack Durish
CPT Jack Durish
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I grew up with dreams of becoming the next A J Foyt. I practiced on dirt roads and honed my skills as a driver. I didn't collect speeding tickets only because the roads were far less crowded in those days and I could run and hide. Then one day in the pits at a small raceway, I found myself shoved to the fore in a fight and almost had my head bashed in by a driver swinging the biggest crescent wrench I ever saw (I never knew before they made them that big). That's when I discovered that there were other opportunities open to me. Still, I wouldn't mind taking one last lap on a clay track in the midst of a cloud of fumes, the roar of engines, and a field of cars sliding through a corner with the precision of ballet dancers.
http://www.foytracing.com/
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Warren Swan
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CPT Jack Durish - Have you ever thought about one of the NASCAR experience days? You get to drive a actual Stock car? Foyt was a damn good driver, and we hear horror stories of racers turned owners and they fail. He wasn't one of them. Andretti was too, but I was born in the tail end of his career. His son Michael was good.
http://www.nascarracingexperience.com/
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CPT Jack Durish
CPT Jack Durish
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SSG Warren Swan - I appreciate the thought but, sadly, I have a champagne bucket list and a beer barrel budget. No, make that a six pack...
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