On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:02:33 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:36:40 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

What is the medal at the top of the box. I don't recognize it

SEAL maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badges...e_insignia.png

I agree that looks like the seal pin I was talking about the one that
I figured out was the Distinguished Defense Service medal.
It ranks above his bronze star.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:12:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 05:36:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 8:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:21:36 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit 'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief. (E-9) Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first photo.

Yup everyone is in their Class A and he looks like he was just out on
maneuvers



I checked his chevrons. He is also an E-9


You've got better eyes than I do. Looks like only two rockers to me.



Yeah. I downloaded it and enlarged it in Infraview. Think you're correct.


I was thinking the same thing (gunny) He must be their driver ;-)

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:25:21 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/7/2018 10:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:05:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:45 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:35:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:21 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:12:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 05:36:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 8:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:21:36 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit 'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief. (E-9) Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first photo.

Yup everyone is in their Class A and he looks like he was just out on
maneuvers



I checked his chevrons. He is also an E-9


You've got better eyes than I do. Looks like only two rockers to me.



Yeah. I downloaded it and enlarged it in Infraview. Think you're correct.


Surely you mean Irfanview. I've loved that program for a long, long time. It is *so* easy to use.


Yup, I meant Irfanview. I always screw up the name of that program.


I think it was Iview when I first started using it, back in the late 90's. Been a very reliable
program.


It's a great program for viewing and doing limited editing of images.
For more demanding edits I use a free program called "Gimp". Similar to
Photoshop and is easy to learn.


You told me about Gimp. I think it's the most downloaded with Irfanview taking second. I don't do
any real 'demanding' edits. I can't think of anything Irfanview wouldn't handle though. Just about
everything imagineable has been added over the years.



Sometimes I create some humor intended "photoshops" using Gimp. It does
much, much more than Irfanview which is fine for cropping, resizing or
adjusting brightness and color balances.

In fact, if you have visited my Facebook page, the image of my wife and
I (in much younger days) with the beach background was done using Gimp.



===

Gimp can make you look much younger? That should be a popular
feature. :-)

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On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:32:09 -0500,
wrote:


Gimp can make you look much younger? That should be a popular
feature. :-)

They have an app like that on Facebook. It did wonders for my 60
sumpin niece but when Deuce sent in his picture, it came back the
same.
I guess I should have sent them a Mr Ed picture.

On 3/7/2018 2:32 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:25:21 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/7/2018 10:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:05:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:45 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:35:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:21 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:12:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 05:36:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 8:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:21:36 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit 'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief. (E-9) Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first photo.

Yup everyone is in their Class A and he looks like he was just out on
maneuvers



I checked his chevrons. He is also an E-9


You've got better eyes than I do. Looks like only two rockers to me.



Yeah. I downloaded it and enlarged it in Infraview. Think you're correct.


Surely you mean Irfanview. I've loved that program for a long, long time. It is *so* easy to use.


Yup, I meant Irfanview. I always screw up the name of that program.


I think it was Iview when I first started using it, back in the late 90's. Been a very reliable
program.


It's a great program for viewing and doing limited editing of images.
For more demanding edits I use a free program called "Gimp". Similar to
Photoshop and is easy to learn.


You told me about Gimp. I think it's the most downloaded with Irfanview taking second. I don't do
any real 'demanding' edits. I can't think of anything Irfanview wouldn't handle though. Just about
everything imagineable has been added over the years.



Sometimes I create some humor intended "photoshops" using Gimp. It does
much, much more than Irfanview which is fine for cropping, resizing or
adjusting brightness and color balances.

In fact, if you have visited my Facebook page, the image of my wife and
I (in much younger days) with the beach background was done using Gimp.



===

Gimp can make you look much younger? That should be a popular
feature. :-)


LOL! Well, we *were* younger ... once.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:25:21 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 10:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:05:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:45 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:35:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:21 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:12:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 05:36:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 8:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:21:36 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit 'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief. (E-9) Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first photo.

Yup everyone is in their Class A and he looks like he was just out on
maneuvers



I checked his chevrons. He is also an E-9


You've got better eyes than I do. Looks like only two rockers to me.



Yeah. I downloaded it and enlarged it in Infraview. Think you're correct.


Surely you mean Irfanview. I've loved that program for a long, long time. It is *so* easy to use.


Yup, I meant Irfanview. I always screw up the name of that program.


I think it was Iview when I first started using it, back in the late 90's. Been a very reliable
program.


It's a great program for viewing and doing limited editing of images.
For more demanding edits I use a free program called "Gimp". Similar to
Photoshop and is easy to learn.


You told me about Gimp. I think it's the most downloaded with Irfanview taking second. I don't do
any real 'demanding' edits. I can't think of anything Irfanview wouldn't handle though. Just about
everything imagineable has been added over the years.



Sometimes I create some humor intended "photoshops" using Gimp. It does
much, much more than Irfanview which is fine for cropping, resizing or
adjusting brightness and color balances.

In fact, if you have visited my Facebook page, the image of my wife and
I (in much younger days) with the beach background was done using Gimp.


Methinks you've not looked at Irfanview in a while!

On 3/8/2018 12:56 PM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:25:21 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 10:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:05:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:45 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:35:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:21 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:12:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/7/2018 8:03 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 05:36:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 8:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:21:36 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks". Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service. This dude has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit 'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief. (E-9) Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first photo.

Yup everyone is in their Class A and he looks like he was just out on
maneuvers



I checked his chevrons. He is also an E-9


You've got better eyes than I do. Looks like only two rockers to me.



Yeah. I downloaded it and enlarged it in Infraview. Think you're correct.


Surely you mean Irfanview. I've loved that program for a long, long time. It is *so* easy to use.


Yup, I meant Irfanview. I always screw up the name of that program.


I think it was Iview when I first started using it, back in the late 90's. Been a very reliable
program.


It's a great program for viewing and doing limited editing of images.
For more demanding edits I use a free program called "Gimp". Similar to
Photoshop and is easy to learn.


You told me about Gimp. I think it's the most downloaded with Irfanview taking second. I don't do
any real 'demanding' edits. I can't think of anything Irfanview wouldn't handle though. Just about
everything imagineable has been added over the years.



Sometimes I create some humor intended "photoshops" using Gimp. It does
much, much more than Irfanview which is fine for cropping, resizing or
adjusting brightness and color balances.

In fact, if you have visited my Facebook page, the image of my wife and
I (in much younger days) with the beach background was done using Gimp.



Methinks you've not looked at Irfanview in a while!



I've used Irfanview for years.
I installed the latest version of less than a year ago when I bought
this computer along with a few of the plug-ins that I wanted.
I use it as my default image viewer and occasionally for cropping, color
correction or adding text, etc. It's great for that but it's primarily
an image *viewer*, not an image *editor* which is what Gimp and
Photoshop are. Huge difference and you really can't compare Irfanview
to Gimp or Photoshop. Irfanview has very limited editing capabilities.

For example, try opening two (or more) image files in Irfraview at the
same time. You can't. In Gimp you can open as many as you want, take
sections of one image and paste it in another. Here's an example:

https://tinyurl.com/yap2hxcl

Gimp (and Photoshop) have a much higher learning curve. Takes a while
to understand all of their capabilities and how to use them. I don't
use (or understand) a fraction of what Gimp can do.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 17:01:11 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/8/2018 12:56 PM, John H. wrote:

Methinks you've not looked at Irfanview in a while!



I've used Irfanview for years.
I installed the latest version of less than a year ago when I bought
this computer along with a few of the plug-ins that I wanted.
I use it as my default image viewer and occasionally for cropping, color
correction or adding text, etc. It's great for that but it's primarily
an image *viewer*, not an image *editor* which is what Gimp and
Photoshop are. Huge difference and you really can't compare Irfanview
to Gimp or Photoshop. Irfanview has very limited editing capabilities.

For example, try opening two (or more) image files in Irfraview at the
same time. You can't. In Gimp you can open as many as you want, take
sections of one image and paste it in another. Here's an example:

https://tinyurl.com/yap2hxcl

Gimp (and Photoshop) have a much higher learning curve. Takes a while
to understand all of their capabilities and how to use them. I don't
use (or understand) a fraction of what Gimp can do.

I use Paint Shop and I have V3, V4 & V7.
They are all different enough that I keep all 3. V7 is very good and
has features I have not even tried yet.

On 3/8/2018 6:06 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 17:01:11 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/8/2018 12:56 PM, John H. wrote:

Methinks you've not looked at Irfanview in a while!



I've used Irfanview for years.
I installed the latest version of less than a year ago when I bought
this computer along with a few of the plug-ins that I wanted.
I use it as my default image viewer and occasionally for cropping, color
correction or adding text, etc. It's great for that but it's primarily
an image *viewer*, not an image *editor* which is what Gimp and
Photoshop are. Huge difference and you really can't compare Irfanview
to Gimp or Photoshop. Irfanview has very limited editing capabilities.

For example, try opening two (or more) image files in Irfraview at the
same time. You can't. In Gimp you can open as many as you want, take
sections of one image and paste it in another. Here's an example:

https://tinyurl.com/yap2hxcl

Gimp (and Photoshop) have a much higher learning curve. Takes a while
to understand all of their capabilities and how to use them. I don't
use (or understand) a fraction of what Gimp can do.

I use Paint Shop and I have V3, V4 & V7.
They are all different enough that I keep all 3. V7 is very good and
has features I have not even tried yet.



Forgot about that one. I used Paint Shop Pro for quite a while as well
but it was many years ago. Also a fully equipped image editor.