"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:10:23 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Tim" wrote in message
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When was the last time you had your eyes checked?

Or have you been color blind your whole life? :)- Hide quoted text -

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Actually tom,now that you've mentioned that. at 52 i have 20/10
vision.

However I am a bit color blind. In fact it kept me out of the Marines.

Army didn't mind, though.
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Between you, Dick, Tom, BAR and a couple of others I think we have all
Armed
Forces services present here.

Thanks for serving.

BTW: My son is having a blast on Okinawa.

It's good he's getting it out of the way first rather than later. From
what I've heard, it's a lot of fun when you are younger and fresh out
of boot.

Used to be being stationed on Okinawa was like being in the Pirate
Navy with Pirate Marines. :)

Or so I've been told. Don't know if it's the same way today.


My brother was a spook in the Navy stationed on Okinawa.
Hasn't walked correctly since.

Eisboch

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:16:02 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:10:23 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Tim" wrote in message
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When was the last time you had your eyes checked?

Or have you been color blind your whole life? :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Actually tom,now that you've mentioned that. at 52 i have 20/10
vision.

However I am a bit color blind. In fact it kept me out of the Marines.

Army didn't mind, though.
=========================

Between you, Dick, Tom, BAR and a couple of others I think we have all
Armed
Forces services present here.

Thanks for serving.

BTW: My son is having a blast on Okinawa.

It's good he's getting it out of the way first rather than later. From
what I've heard, it's a lot of fun when you are younger and fresh out
of boot.

Used to be being stationed on Okinawa was like being in the Pirate
Navy with Pirate Marines. :)

Or so I've been told. Don't know if it's the same way today.

My brother was a spook in the Navy stationed on Okinawa.
Hasn't walked correctly since.

My oldest boy was TDY at Kaneda for a couple of months after he first
got out of Pensacola before his squadron moved to Korea - can't
remember the name of the air base there.

He enjoyed it.

On Apr 3, 8:16*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in messagenews:vquav3dboi96boj4t5inqs12uf38i5la82@4ax .com...





On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:10:23 -0400, "JimH" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message
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When was the last time you had your eyes checked?

Or have you been color blind your whole life? :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Actually tom,now that you've mentioned that. at 52 i have 20/10
vision.

However I am a bit color blind. In fact it kept me out of the Marines.

Army didn't mind, though.
=========================

Between you, Dick, Tom, BAR and a couple of others I think we have all
Armed
Forces services present here.

Thanks for serving.

BTW: *My son is having a blast on Okinawa.

It's good he's getting it out of the way first rather than later. From
what I've heard, it's a lot of fun when you are younger and fresh out
of boot.

Used to be being stationed on Okinawa was like being in the Pirate
Navy with Pirate Marines. *:)

Or so I've been told. *Don't know if it's the same way today.

My brother was a spook in the Navy stationed on Okinawa.
Hasn't walked correctly since.

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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A trusted friend of mine was an army spook. had crypto clearance and
all. Had been stationed in Hawaii, Japan, several places around the
far east. CO was wondering what he was doing one night, he said
"playing chess"

"Who with? "

"The Russians"

"Where they at?"

Oh, a sub, about 3 miles off shore"

I was marveld at his candidness then he told me. "What are they going
to do? They're about as bored as I was, so... we played chess!

..besides, they couldn't do anything to us that we couldn't do the
them first....so? we played chess!"

Rob and team were scrambling to recode computers when the Pueblo was
captured.

Like a patriotic spook, that's about all he'd ever say.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:47:19 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

A trusted friend of mine was an army spook. had crypto clearance and
all. Had been stationed in Hawaii, Japan, several places around the
far east. CO was wondering what he was doing one night, he said
"playing chess"

I've heard those stories before. My next door neighbor is a former
boomer skipper and tells some great stories about Russian subs. My
favorite was his story about being trailed by a Russian H/K sub and
they had an accident on board that seriously injured a couple of their
sailors. They guys on the boomer heard it when it happened and as the
Russian sub surfaced, he offered assistance which to his complete
surprise was accepted.

When he surfaced, popped the hatch and got out, he was amazed to find
four other subs all on the surface - one American, one British and two
Russian subs plus the boomer. Everybody had been playing tag with
everybody else.

Anyway, the Russians were transferred to the boomer for treatment
until they could be transferred to shore side hospital.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:16:02 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:10:23 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Tim" wrote in message
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When was the last time you had your eyes checked?

Or have you been color blind your whole life? :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Actually tom,now that you've mentioned that. at 52 i have 20/10
vision.

However I am a bit color blind. In fact it kept me out of the Marines.

Army didn't mind, though.
=========================

Between you, Dick, Tom, BAR and a couple of others I think we have all
Armed
Forces services present here.

Thanks for serving.

BTW: My son is having a blast on Okinawa.

It's good he's getting it out of the way first rather than later. From
what I've heard, it's a lot of fun when you are younger and fresh out
of boot.

Used to be being stationed on Okinawa was like being in the Pirate
Navy with Pirate Marines. :)

Or so I've been told. Don't know if it's the same way today.


My brother was a spook in the Navy stationed on Okinawa.
Hasn't walked correctly since.

Eisboch


Strange. When my brother, Special Forces, had completed two tours in
Vietnam, they wouldn't let him go back for another because the policy at
the time limited the tours to two.

So they sent him to Okinawa. From there he would go back to Nam for 90 days
TDY, and then back to Okie for a couple weeks. This pattern continued for
another year or so.

Wonder if they knew each other.