Meet the Forumites

[dorjun driver]

Job: Bum
Age: 57
Residence: Port Townsend, WA
Family: Divorced. Lots of nieces.
Education: Boston University, Harvard, Pacific University; mathematics & computer sciences
Work: Harbormaster, Wooden Boat Festival, 2012
Favorite Quote: Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
Reading: Asada, Sadao, “From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States”; Figes, Orlando, “The Crimean War”

[John 3rd]

Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall
Age: 45
Residence: La Salle, CO
Family: 2nd Wife of nearly 10 years, two sons (8 and 6)
Education: MA Military History, BAs in History and Political Science
Favorite Quote: I will cheat and use TWO:
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee upon seeing a Federal assault repulsed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862
AND
“I would charge Hell on earth for that old man.” A member of the Texas Brigade at the Wilderness (May 1864) about Robert E. Lee

Reading: Peter Cozzen's Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign: Shenandoah 1942

[Chickenboy]

Job: Veterinarian (poultry specialist)
Age: 43
Residence: Just north of St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Family: married, two children (ages 5 & 8)
Education: BVSc (Veterinary Science), MPVM (Preventive Veterinary Medicine), DVM, MBA
Work: A rodent-themed large upper Midwest public university. Diagnostic pathology, teaching, research.
Favorite Quote: Don't Tread on Me
Reading: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. by Chris Kyle

[sandman455]

Always hated these but if it gets me to 100 posts . . .

Job: CFO of a company I started 18 years ago. Prior to that US Navy 8 years - see sig box.

Age: 50

Residence: St Johns, Florida

Family: Wife, two daughers age 22 & 25, 2 horses, 5 cats, 2 turtles and my trusty basset hound.

Education: Formal education - BSBA Finance and Economics Univ of Denver, 1984; MBA Univ of N Florida, 1993. Informal - Heh, 18 years of running a business.

Work: Way too much, ready to retire. Can't even call the Navy work anymore, compared to what I do today. It was nothing but fun with flying as an added bonus. 2100 flight hours mostly in S-3A & S-3B, but some time in T-34C, T-2, TA-4, T-47, F/A-18B with another 300 hours or so in 152's and 172's.

Favorite Quote: Too many to list but my favorites are usually from Mark Twain, Will Rogers or Josey Wales

Reading: But of course, the manual.

[Sardaukar]

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]

[wolfclan]

Job: Retired
Age: 66
Residence: rural Ohio
Family: Wife, two children, four grandchildren
Work: Navy, automotive industry
Education: BS USNA, MBA Michigan
Favorite Quote: I want a lucky general, not a good one.
Reading: THE WORDY SHIPMATES, THE VIKINGS

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall

are you already accepted in grad school? Where will you do your PHD? Or will you something different?

[khyberbill]

I was waiting for someone older than I.

Job: Owner of a 15 room Bed and Breakfast in CT (www.homesteadct.com)
Age: 64
Residence: New Milford, CT
Family: Two sons, first wife, now with second wife
Education: Naval Nuclear Power School, BS, Radiological Health, Manhattan College, NY
Work: For over 30 years lots of neat stuff with cleaning up nuclear reactors. My last overseas visit was to Fukushima in 2001! Now I just run an Inn.
Favorite Quote: What the hell is going on out there?
Reading: Stalky and Company, Rudyard Kipling

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]

speak for yourself!

[dorjun driver]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]

I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I'm into my THIRD childhood! So yeah, I suppose it does.

[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]

speak for yourself!

We no speaky to spacecraft people! [:D]

[Sardaukar]

Firefighting is a young mans job. I had two knees with severe arthritis and found something else I could do to support my brothers. Hence the "retirement" and another job.


Gosh...FDF army, police, docs, firemen and nurse parties....[:D] I shit you not.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall

are you already accepted in grad school? Where will you do your PHD? Or will you something different?

Returning to TEACHING college in the fall. Cannot wait!

BANZAI!

[KMCCARTHY]

Job: MetOp Mission Manager (Google works, you figure it out)
Age: 50

Since we devoved to bragging.



Everytime I move somthing hurts. Benning, Bragg, and McCall may have something to do with it....

My other favorite quote is: 1SG Rutland--Deal with it![&o]

[mike scholl 1]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1

Job: Retired. Former Theatre Manager and IT tech.
Age: 63
Residence: Kansas City, Mo.
Family: Two Sisters, One Mother, Many Friends
Education: BS, MA, 50 years of reading...
Work: Not if I can help it..., I'm RETIRED.
Favorite Quote: "There are always three courses of action open to your enemy..., and of these he will inevitably chose the forth."
Reading: 1636: The Saxon Uprising. (I enjoy historical fantasy..., just not in my historical gaming.)

Did you work for Commonwealth Theatres (was based at Kansas City)? My Father worked for them for 31+ years.

Started out with Elmer Rodin's Commonweanth..., and stayed for the ride when the company got passed around like a bad penny until they sold my theatre out from under me on my 50th birthday. My favorite owners were the "Holding Company in Barcelona, Spain". Who was your Dad? I probably at least met him.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Job: Veterinarian (poultry specialist)
Age: 43
Residence: Just north of St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Family: married, two children (ages 5 & 8)
Education: BVSc (Veterinary Science), MPVM (Preventive Veterinary Medicine), DVM, MBA
Work: A rodent-themed large upper Midwest public university. Diagnostic pathology, teaching, research.
Favorite Quote: Don't Tread on Me
Reading: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. by Chris Kyle

OMG! You really are a Poultry Lad...[:D]

[Schanilec]

Job: Architectural/Electrical Engineering CADD tech and designer.
Age: 53
Residence: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Family: One daughter[:)], two grandchildren. Wasn't ready for that yet. Ex-Girl friend and family are still close.
Education: One year UND (history), but I need to live on something. BS Architectural Drafting & Estimating Technology 1985 (workman's compenstaion)
Work: Arch/civil/elec/mech firm. Still part time since the down turn. Was unemployed for eight months. Been here almost two years.
Reading: Just started S.E. Morison's US Naval Operations..., Volume XIV: Victory in the Pacific, 1945. Reading season is about over.
Quote: Not so much a qoute per se. The Gettysburg Address.

[bradfordkay]

Job: Parts and Accessories Buyer
Age: 53
Residence: Olympia, WA
Family: single - no one was willing to put up with me for very long!
Education: BA History, 1981, University of Georgia
Work: local chain of bicycle shops
Favorite Quote: Wherever you go, there you are.
Reading: Destroyermen: Rising Tide (everyone needs a little light reading once in a while)

Okay, Dan... you really need to post your info here as well.

[Mundy]

What the hey...

Job: Programmer Analyst
Age: 43
Residence: Neenah, WI
Family: Married - just about 22 years; Two sons: One, a 17 year old HS Junior and the other 20 years old and currently in USAF at Minot AFB
Education: BS - Mathematics. University of Wisconsin - Superior
Work: Unemployed the last 6 weeks [:(]
Favorite Quote: "Success is commemorated; failure merely remembered."
Reading: Naval Camouflage 1914-1945 A Complete Visual Reference by David Williams

[JWE]

Ok, Nik made me do it. So ...

Job: IP consultant and Businessman
Age: 64 (11 months away from being a serious parasite)
Residence: Fairhope, AL; Puerto Varas, Los Lagos, Chile; Hua Nui, French Polynesia.
Family: wife (divorced), two daughters (deceased), shootloads of sisters and nieces and nephews, and the friut of their loins.
Education: BS Physics/Chemistry, Bates College. MBA UF, MS Physics, MIT. JD Law $hit, USD.
Work: Semi-retired, but doing R&D for optical timing and sensor systems for DoD and Private firms; still doing IP consulting for NASA, Hustsville, Litton Systens, Eaton, Boeing and Rocketdyne.
Favorite Quote: What Ted Turner said when talking aboutthe nouvelle keel of the Mariner; "Hell, even a piece of $hit is round on both ends!"
Favorite Things: Building wooden ship models of 18th century vessels; kicking the living squat out out of any other sailboat racer.
Favorite Reading: Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks, and the Starfisher Trilogy, by Glen Cook. [/quote]