n1oty
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...but enough about John Effin Kerry.
How'd you know we were talking about that a**hole???
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...but enough about John Effin Kerry.
A few years ago I was thinking about my service and how none of my family knows what I did for those 4 years. All my wife knows is that I got up in the AM (or whatever time) and went to 'work'.
All my family knows is that I was in the Army Security Agency.
That's all they can know.
And that's not 'posing'.
There are many 'non posers' out there.
When I mentioned to my wife the fact that no one knew what I did, and that as far as anyone knew, I went out and 'sanctioned' people, she looked at me funny and said, "did you?"
I said that if I told her, I'd have to kill her."
Sometimes having a mysterious job can be fun.
When my brother was in the Marine Corps they were touring a Navy base and came upon an attack sub. They asked one of the NCO's hanging around "how deep will it go?" He said "I can't tell you - that's classified." So, then they asked him how fast it would go and he said "That's like the depth."
I was out doing some recon in our border area one day in Germany and drove up a tree-covered hill to see if it was suitable for an OP or firing position. And there I found an installation with a couple of buildings, a bunch of antennas, and several vehicles with US Army plates. Big fence around it marked no trespassing. It wasn't on the German topo maps or our border maps. I didn't stick around to see any humans.
I've been lucky enough to actually have met a few of the real deals including one Maj with special forces and ranger tabs who was the former cmdr of an sf unit. The stories he told my class were ridiculous and I'm sure you could go broke buying the guy enough beers trying to hear the rest of them. I would never dream of pretending to be someone like him for fear he would find out or something
Flight deck jobs are crazy shit
And I'm not just talking about the big ones. One of my jobs on Reuben James was FDSO (white shirt) and my station was right next to the LSO (yellow shirt). Him and the blue shirts were from my division (deck):
AS former CO of SEAL Team 6(or SEAL Team Shhhhh)My hardest billett was instructor at BUDs. I taught demo and underwater knife fighting...
i was at a classified briefs last week. i slept through most of them through.
Dude... it was be best if you kept all your "briefs" classified. Don't ask, don't tell...