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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 10:29 AM
Without going to Wikipedia to double check, if I remember correctly, it's due to the clotting agents the mosquito injects into you after the bite.
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 12:26 PM
I would wait another year, then reassess.
Just one problem, the Air Force does not allow one year enlistments. Min 4 years.
Looks like I have to take the gaurantee of the current "job" I have now.
May as well finish out my 20. If the world does not end in 2012 or something....
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Originally Posted by Raven628,Aug 16 2010, 12:13 PM
May as well finish out my 20. If the world does not end in 2012 or something....
Indeed, finish your 20. It's a good retirement income in times when the concept of a pension/assured retirement is becoming a rare commodity.
I have a co-worker who put in his 20 from being a Ranger-Intel. . . he's not complaining about the pay of his "second career."
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 03:16 PM
Your retirement was the next stage of information I'd have wanted to know. . .
Indeed, finish your 20. It's a good retirement income in times when the concept of a pension/assured retirement is becoming a rare commodity.
I have a co-worker who put in his 20 from being a Ranger-Intel. . . he's not complaining about the pay of his "second career."
Indeed, finish your 20. It's a good retirement income in times when the concept of a pension/assured retirement is becoming a rare commodity.
I have a co-worker who put in his 20 from being a Ranger-Intel. . . he's not complaining about the pay of his "second career."
Don't get me wrong, I am very proud and enjoy what I do. I do get those few days when I have had about enough.
Right now I am looking at several military options. I am trying to get back into joint operations. I just got stuck at Kirtland. The furthest you can get from what you hear on the news of what military life is.
I am on the look out and working what connections I have, or thought I had.
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 01:29 PM
Without going to Wikipedia to double check, if I remember correctly, it's due to the clotting agents the mosquito injects into you after the bite.
They're not clotting agents - they're anticoagulants. Well that and whatever other nastiness the individual bug manages to acquire during it's lifetime which is thankfully quite short. I'm not quite sure why they're here unless it's to thin the gene pool. Even that's indiscriminate. I hate them.
Oracle my ass.
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 06:25 PM
Listen here Heiny Hobbit - Larry Ellison does belong in my lower colon, but this is not news.
Come to think of it - it's probably uncomfortable for him as well.
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Aug 16 2010, 03:21 PM
I am to understand that he is in Tibet, but is not a monk. Rather, he's impersonating an ottoman in the Chinese General Consul's office.
