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MnLakeBum wrote: Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:40 am I recently retired after a 30 year career in sales, the last couple decades with 3M. My wife has always worked in Human Resources and somehow let me retire after she took a position with a new company in Minneapolis 6 months ago. We have always planned on spending summers in the lake country of N. Minnesota and winters in Naples Florida where it will allow us to boat 12 months a year. Now we just need to get our 3rd child through high school to make that dream come true! In the mean time we are making the most of our boating season by logging about 80 hours per month combined on our R5 and Marker One.

Callen841 wrote: Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:18 pm As a new member, this was a fun thread to read through. Very cool to see people from all different backgrounds, interests, etc join together over a common passion. As for me, I put people to sleep for a living- I'm an Anesthesiologist in a private practice hospital setting.

jasonm wrote: Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:26 pm I enjoyed reading up on everyone's occupations. cool stuff.

I started off working as a general dentist with the US Army. While I was in the Army I was assigned with the 4ID. That was a "fun" 3 years of my time with the Army. It wasnt all fun, but it was exciting and allowed me to experience a lot more the Army had to offer than being stuck in a dental office all day. I did that for about 9.5 years. It political and to the point where I was miserable going to work. I so left the Army and I am now an Endodontist in the private sector.

A7, were you flying tankers during the first Gulf War? Reason I ask, is that I lived in Riyadh at the time. I lived near the airbase in the center of town and when the air campaign started the tankers would come screaming over our house so low you could almost count the rivets in the belly. Made me wonder. Love the picture of the A-10 too. In HS I had my senator recommendation letter to go the Air Force Academy. I really wanted to fly A-10s. During the Gulf War I heard a story that an A-10 had got pretty shot up and lost part of a wing and engine and the pilot wanted to get to friendly air space before bailing, but the plane made it all the way back to base! Then maybe 6months ago I ran into a person who used to work on A10s. She told me that yes there was one that came home with over 110 holes in (one of which was the size of a 55gal drum) and only one functioning engine. Bad ass aircraft. But alas my eye sight need correction and so dentistry was my fall back option.

I was stationed at Fort Hood 7 of my 9.5 years. I wish I knew back when I got there that they had blackhawk simulators that I could have gotten my license to using that.

Bfun220 wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:50 am If your 50 call. Souvenirs are from the a10, they are 30mm souvenirs. The a10 was General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon. B52's used the same but in 20mm.