Veteran Status?

[Powder Monkey]

Your model looks great!! How long you been working on it?

Thanks…..
On and off a few months……obsessing over it. Its the “learning how do i do things” process…..and allot of looking for stuff dropped on the floor too.
I get side tracked in a good way with small stuff ….
One thing i am looking for and will be looking at modeling it and hopefully my next #2 is the vessels couldn't possibly be pristine ……the salt wind and seas must have taken a toll ……..
…….a time far from modern paints and materials.

 

[USNChief]

6 years in the US Marines, helicopter pilot. All those years in the continental US.

Semper Fi!

 

[USNChief]

How are things in Rota these days?

"Better than I deserve!" Life is good. I got the biggest house I ever lived in, one block/short walk from the beach. It is a five-minute walk to the nearest Venta (seafood restaurant/bar) and a 17-minute bicycle ride to the office and gym on base. It has changed greatly since I was here in 1995-99 while on AD. I am looking into retiring here in August 2027 when I finally retire-retire.

 

[SAHaskell]

Enlisted in USN Reserve in January of junior year of high school, attending training meetings at the reserve training center in Augusta, Maine. A few weeks after High School graduation I was assigned to the USS Arcadia, in Providence Rhode Island. After about 6 months on board, went to Electronics School and then straight to Lowry AFB in Denver, Colarado for 5-months Precision Measuring Equipment School; then back to the arcadia in Newport, RI. I was supposed to be there for about 3 years in the calibration Lab, but after 6 months on board the Navy decided to decommission the Arcadia, so I was sent back to Great Lakes, IL as an instructor in the Basic Electronics School. Quite a surprizing chain of events that was highly educational for me. Total active duty was about 6 years and 3 months.

 

[Jimsky]

Thank you all for your service!!