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23 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said:

"If your military career ended in the recruitment office..."

Mine did. Recruiter was driving past the gun range & heard me shooting my M1 Garand. Came in to drool over it, and we talked for a bit...even let him shoot a few clips through it. Few months later, I broke my collar bone and was off work (not my choice) and getting bored. Went to take the ASVAB to get out of the house & scored in the 99th percentile. That's when the pressure campaign really got going. I was willing to join under 2 conditions: 1) I wanted a job that was different from what I was doing (driving trucks) but with civilian-world applications, and 2) I needed my student loans paid off. I would've been going in as a CDL-holding Eagle Scout with a BS degree in Forestry, so I didn't think it was asking for too much. Anyway, he says I had to go to St. Louis to the MEPS before they'd know what jobs were available or the offers that could be made. So, it was another day out of the house. Passed the physical (broken collarbone and all) and they simply couldn't give me what I needed to sign on the dotted line. They had it in their mind that I should've gone in as a linguist (despite 6 years of spanish class in jr high & high school and I never really learned the language), and wouldn't have let me sign up for anything else...so I didn't sign. In the 2 hour ride back home, my recruiter got his but chewed by at least a dozen of his higher ups as the WHY I didn't get signed, and he had to explain to each and every one of them my reasons for not signing. A short time later, I was back to work, moved out of the rental house I had been living in, and into a house I bought. The job I had wanted then, was now being actively recruited to fill a BIG need. Oh well, sorry 'bout your luck. I was in a different place and couldn't just walk away from it all to enlist.

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I took a picture of my privacy fence from the seat of my forklift while I was putting my smoker away..   Is that redneck enough??   :) 

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1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:

I took a picture of my privacy fence from the seat of my forklift while I was putting my smoker away..   Is that redneck enough??   :) 

I think you qualify for at least an honorary title, Jo-Jo. 

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1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:

I took a picture of my privacy fence from the seat of my forklift while I was putting my smoker away..   Is that redneck enough??   :) 

no idea.....the picture is MIA.

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when you are up to your armpits in alligators,

it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp..

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