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On 1/21/2014 9:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:34:47 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 5:30 PM, wrote: Your last sentence made the point I was making. The guy on the ground with the laser designator does tho so it is not just an Arc Light mission. They call themselves "fisters" FO's... We have a good friend in MX who is just finishing up a lot of training to be a Fister.. We are very proud of him. A 'fister' is a member of an artillery fire support team. 'FO' stands for 'forward observer', also part of the team. Yeah, our bud just went off to FO school, just made it in... |
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:15:00 -0500, KC wrote:
On 1/21/2014 9:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:34:47 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 5:30 PM, wrote: Your last sentence made the point I was making. The guy on the ground with the laser designator does tho so it is not just an Arc Light mission. They call themselves "fisters" FO's... We have a good friend in MX who is just finishing up a lot of training to be a Fister.. We are very proud of him. A 'fister' is a member of an artillery fire support team. 'FO' stands for 'forward observer', also part of the team. Yeah, our bud just went off to FO school, just made it in... Is he an officer or enlisted? The actual FO is usually an officer, 2LT, but he has an enlisted sidekick/driver/RTO who also needs to be able to direct artillery fire. |
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On 1/22/2014 10:53 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:15:00 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 9:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:34:47 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 5:30 PM, wrote: Your last sentence made the point I was making. The guy on the ground with the laser designator does tho so it is not just an Arc Light mission. They call themselves "fisters" FO's... We have a good friend in MX who is just finishing up a lot of training to be a Fister.. We are very proud of him. A 'fister' is a member of an artillery fire support team. 'FO' stands for 'forward observer', also part of the team. Yeah, our bud just went off to FO school, just made it in... Is he an officer or enlisted? The actual FO is usually an officer, 2LT, but he has an enlisted sidekick/driver/RTO who also needs to be able to direct artillery fire. I really don't know.. I doubt he is an officer yet but I do know he is flying through every course and school they send him to, top of the class and will be someday... If you meet this kid you know. Atypical of the stereotype "special forces", more typical of the guys you see after serving that actually were special forces... spent his life serving others as a young boy and man... Crazy skills, super smart, discreet, unimposing (to a casual observer), selfless, but with a fire you can see if you look in his eyes. |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:59:06 -0500, KC wrote:
On 1/22/2014 10:53 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:15:00 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 9:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:34:47 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 5:30 PM, wrote: Your last sentence made the point I was making. The guy on the ground with the laser designator does tho so it is not just an Arc Light mission. They call themselves "fisters" FO's... We have a good friend in MX who is just finishing up a lot of training to be a Fister.. We are very proud of him. A 'fister' is a member of an artillery fire support team. 'FO' stands for 'forward observer', also part of the team. Yeah, our bud just went off to FO school, just made it in... Is he an officer or enlisted? The actual FO is usually an officer, 2LT, but he has an enlisted sidekick/driver/RTO who also needs to be able to direct artillery fire. I really don't know.. I doubt he is an officer yet but I do know he is flying through every course and school they send him to, top of the class and will be someday... If you meet this kid you know. Atypical of the stereotype "special forces", more typical of the guys you see after serving that actually were special forces... spent his life serving others as a young boy and man... Crazy skills, super smart, discreet, unimposing (to a casual observer), selfless, but with a fire you can see if you look in his eyes. Probably smart, gung-ho enlisted. Sounds like he'll do well, if he stays away from booze/drugs. Those get a lot of good soldiers in trouble. |
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On 1/22/2014 11:20 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:59:06 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/22/2014 10:53 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:15:00 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 9:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:34:47 -0500, KC wrote: On 1/21/2014 5:30 PM, wrote: Your last sentence made the point I was making. The guy on the ground with the laser designator does tho so it is not just an Arc Light mission. They call themselves "fisters" FO's... We have a good friend in MX who is just finishing up a lot of training to be a Fister.. We are very proud of him. A 'fister' is a member of an artillery fire support team. 'FO' stands for 'forward observer', also part of the team. Yeah, our bud just went off to FO school, just made it in... Is he an officer or enlisted? The actual FO is usually an officer, 2LT, but he has an enlisted sidekick/driver/RTO who also needs to be able to direct artillery fire. I really don't know.. I doubt he is an officer yet but I do know he is flying through every course and school they send him to, top of the class and will be someday... If you meet this kid you know. Atypical of the stereotype "special forces", more typical of the guys you see after serving that actually were special forces... spent his life serving others as a young boy and man... Crazy skills, super smart, discreet, unimposing (to a casual observer), selfless, but with a fire you can see if you look in his eyes. Probably smart, gung-ho enlisted. Sounds like he'll do well, if he stays away from booze/drugs. Those get a lot of good soldiers in trouble. I asked him to explain he said: "I'm going to JFO school. So I control the airspace as I call in artillery rounds" As to drugs and alcohol.. not a chance in my opinion, not this kid, he has plans... Had all the tools and resources to go to the top of our sport (motocross) and compete on a world level and decided to go into the military instead.... He comes from a family entrenched in both worlds. |
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:36:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 1/21/14, 12:59 AM, wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:10:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I still have an older XP laptop but something recently died in it. It won't boot up anymore. Any idea of what is going on? Does it get through POST? Do you see signs of life from the boot drive? I hate seeing these things getting thrown in the land fill for a minor problem. If it is an old laptop, and it isn't a software or software update problem, then you have to weigh the time and expense involved in a repair versus buying a new laptops. Run of the mill laptops are pretty cheap these days, and almost any of them would be many steps up from an old XP-era laptop. I suppose if you take it to a shop that wants to sell you a new laptop, fixing it will always be more expensive but if you can take out 2 screws yourself and throw a $50 hard drive at it you are at least $450 ahead. I am still not sure what is wrong with an XP machine. What can your new I-Mac or W7 machine do that mine can't? I tried to have this discussion with our HOA. They only manage a $12,000 a year budget, maybe 200 transactions a year total and they want to buy a new machine because the XP machine is "old". My wife ran a quarter million dollar business on a 5150 (original PC) There also are plenty of used, operating laptops available at pawnshops. I saw a whole showcase full of them when I was salivating over the McIntosh amp I finally bought. At that point, why not fix the one you have? I usually get mine from a surplus outfit that sells off lease machines They come with legally licensed business software and a warranty. You can reload the whole thing from scratch since you have the license keys. A pawn shop would be the last place I would get a machine. The motherboard on my HP pavilion laptop is bad. $175 for just the board. I need a program to read a FAT32 drive on my imac. Put the SATA drive in a USB box. |
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Califbill wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:36:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 1/21/14, 12:59 AM, wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:10:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I still have an older XP laptop but something recently died in it. It won't boot up anymore. Any idea of what is going on? Does it get through POST? Do you see signs of life from the boot drive? I hate seeing these things getting thrown in the land fill for a minor problem. If it is an old laptop, and it isn't a software or software update problem, then you have to weigh the time and expense involved in a repair versus buying a new laptops. Run of the mill laptops are pretty cheap these days, and almost any of them would be many steps up from an old XP-era laptop. I suppose if you take it to a shop that wants to sell you a new laptop, fixing it will always be more expensive but if you can take out 2 screws yourself and throw a $50 hard drive at it you are at least $450 ahead. I am still not sure what is wrong with an XP machine. What can your new I-Mac or W7 machine do that mine can't? I tried to have this discussion with our HOA. They only manage a $12,000 a year budget, maybe 200 transactions a year total and they want to buy a new machine because the XP machine is "old". My wife ran a quarter million dollar business on a 5150 (original PC) There also are plenty of used, operating laptops available at pawnshops. I saw a whole showcase full of them when I was salivating over the McIntosh amp I finally bought. At that point, why not fix the one you have? I usually get mine from a surplus outfit that sells off lease machines They come with legally licensed business software and a warranty. You can reload the whole thing from scratch since you have the license keys. A pawn shop would be the last place I would get a machine. The motherboard on my HP pavilion laptop is bad. $175 for just the board. I need a program to read a FAT32 drive on my imac. Put the SATA drive in a USB box. Actually I hooked up the drive, and found the correct partition and made it through to the pictures of Africa I was missing. Now just have to find the iTunes music folder. |
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