Veterans and lessons learned.

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Keeldad

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“Working” from home and inadvertently hijacked a thread under the photo section to a discussion of military service and it got me to wondering how many members here are military vets? How about letting us know branch, rate/rank/ where and what years you were in. Perhaps a sea story or boating life lesson learned? I was US Navy, submarine force, IC2(SS) Mostly N.Atlantic ( Scotland, Charleston, New London) 1975-80. Lesson learned, approach the dock/slip slowly. A slow bump does much less damage than “ALL BACK FULL!!!!”...CRUNCH!!!
 
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Not a USMIL vet, but worked in the shadows in a civiian agency... Learned, in the early days of GPS, that a pitching boat could cause significant problem acquiring a fix due to satellites coming in and out of view...
 

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US Navy 86-90. MM3 USS Sierra out of Charleston, S.C. Learned not to bring explosives on a Navy boat :p

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Citadel military college (1992). No other military background. As you were saying, “approach the dock slip slowly”. I always tell someone “never approach a dock any faster than you are willing to hit it.” Lol. I want to thank everyone for their service!!!
 

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Unfortunately NOT a veteran but worked as a young engineer at Raytheon on Troposcatter Communications terminals and modems and multiplexers. Then Northrop for inertial navigation assemblies and midcourse guidance and sensors (iron gyros and accelerometers near the end RLGs) for SM2, Patriot, AMRAAM, Phoenix, SLAAM, Tomahawk, ALCM and other missiles as well as navigation packages for the A6 Intruder, Harrier AV8, GOES satellite packages, Titan rocket and the space shuttle. We made em, you used em! Thanks for your service.
 

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Not a USMIL vet, but worked in the shadows in a civiian agency... Learned, in the early days of GPS, that a pitching boat could cause significant problem acquiring a fix due to satellites coming in and out of view...
“Working” from home and inadvertently hijacked a thread under the photo section to a discussion of military service and it got me to wondering how many members here are military vets? How about letting us know branch, rate/rank/ where and what years you were in. Perhaps a sea story or boating life lesson learned? I was US Navy, submarine force, IC2(SS) Mostly N.Atlantic ( Scotland, Charleston, New London) 1975-80. Lesson learned, approach the dock/slip slowly. A slow bump does much less damage than “ALL BACK FULL!!!!”...CRUNCH!!!
USAF E-4 gulf war veteran civil engineer