USN/USNR—a "Spook".
(Shhhh...)
The job was so compelling, I extended my enlistment a year for more technical training. Great years—still communicate with buddies.
Toured Europe on 24¢ a gallon gas...
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Originally Posted by MAXUM
USN '90 to '94, based out of sunny San Diego CA. 4 years in, finished out as an ABH2(AW). Flight deck crew aboard an aircraft carrier. By far the coolest job ever. What a rush it was however after two very long deployments for two different conflicts, crappy pay, long hours and Clinton as a "boss"... yeah I was all set with that and punched out.
Great experience I'll never regret, chilling and sobering to be 18 years old and in a war zone. There is NOTHING quite like coming back to the USA after seeing how uncivilized and violent the rest of the world can be.
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There's nothing quite as sobering as to read the sign, "Achtung—Minen" from your car.
(Unless it's peering down the barrels of Russian tanks at a closed border control point in Europe).