Last Day In The Navy !!! Congratulations, Dave!!!

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For every door, a window...etc.


Congratulations and thank you for your service, and ... for other stuff.

We here to help, should such be needed.


wacherass celebrating and stuff, eh?
 
Kismet said:
For every door, a window...etc.


Congratulations and thank you for your service, and ... for other stuff.

We here to help, should such be needed.


wacherass celebrating and stuff, eh?
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Yep, ditto!!!! You're a good man Dave, welcome to the civvie world. Hope your debriefing goes well.:thumbup: ;) :D
 
Good for you Dave! You're another guy I am envious of, just starting out and no mistakes made yet.

Please let us know (and I'm not just saying this!) if there is anything we can do to help you out. If you're ever out here on the coast looking for work I have a guest room that's yours for the asking.

Best of luck,

Norm
 
Keep us posted on what you do to celebrate . Whatever you do don,t sign any papers while you are drunk ! L:O:L
 
Thanks for your years of service, and good luck on your new road! :thumbup:

Steve
 
Does this mean that Dave will/has acheved satori?!
Does this mean that Dave will stop or at least slow down on his weapons abuse?

Oh, and Dave, my late brother (Roy Emory Hargraves) told me the one thing he could never teach the anti-Castro Cubans was fire control. Once the shooting started it continued until the weapons were empty or unusable.

Dave, may nothing disturb your wa.

Namaste my friend.
 
Congrats Dave! Thank you for all that you have done and do. You're a good man getting a fresh start:thumbup:


Jake
 
It's not so bad on the 'outside' Dave; we're all institutionalized anyway!

Congratulations on a job well done.


munk
 
It wasn't much of a celebration. I had some venison for dinner, drank some tequila, and packed it in early. I spent an hour fixing a friend's shotgun; don't know what kind it is, but it's a mean looking thing with a heat shield on the barrel that's marked "Model 37, Made in China" on the receiver. (If you own one of these, do not take it apart. Trust me.)

My obligations for today are as follows: show up to admin "sometime today" to turn in my ID card. I figure that I'll be a good sport about it and show up in uniform, clean shaven, and sober. ;) It felt very odd not setting my alarm clock on a work day.

My former boss is trying to get me a job with the DoD police down in Bremerton. I've got some money saved up and I'm usually pretty good at managing it. (Read as, "I'm a tightfisted bastard.") In two weeks I'm flying out east to see the family. It'll be the first time that I've spent Thanksgiving with my family in...seven years? Eight years? I don't even remember, but it's been a while.

Life is good. Thanks for the kind wishes.
 
Congratulations on your new path. I was scared sh..less when I left the service with a wife and a new baby. Heres hoping that your journey is less perilous.
 
Welcome Home Dave...and thank you.

Sounds like a Norinco...lotsa parts.
 
Dave
Congrats on a job well done. Work for the DA(Department of the Army)
Police here. Good luck, fair winds and following seas. :thumbup:


James
 
Good luck Dave:thumbup: and thank you for all you've done.

There's always the professional killer market...I've thought about that myself;)
 
Maui Rob?

Don't be lured into the profession by all the movies, TV shows, and novels. They only show the glamour side.

The over-head is unbelieveable! And the turn-over in suppliers can just drive you nuts.

Then there's the paper-work maintenance: passport updates, credit cards in various names and various cities, P.O. box fees up-to-date, and try to get a decent set of random SS #s these days!!!


Then, with the forensic science (and NO, CSI is NOT real--Like most places have time for stuff like that) you need to attend to different shoe patterns, different personal grooming aids, even different snack foods.

Personal habits? Hell, you can't even spit anymore.

Note, the Feds have pretty much gone to paper-trail tracking.

Finally, you just get a nice, long-term relationship with a customer, and all of a sudden, HE retires, or gets promoted, or....whatever, and you either have to break in his replacement, or find a new customer to fill the niche. HOW? Advertising is pretty much out of the question, word of mouth is counter-productive, and you sure as hell can't hand out free samples.

Then there is income storage. Half the international banks are thieves and ALL of them charge ridiculous fees. If you use a safety deposit box, you are just throwing away all the possibilities of having your money work for you.

If you use a laundering service, the charges are ridiculous and those guys just get sloppy and can turn on you. Besides, no one has any pride in their profession any more...used to be, you could rely on folks, but that's gone away. We got cyber-space, and cyber professional pride...gone like a pixel.

Of course, real estate is one way, but, again, it is paper-work intensive. You buy one property and pay it off quickly, then use THAT to leverage your next purchases, filling in any REAL shortfalls with your "professional" income. The irony is you have to work like hell to make your income seem legal.

You can buy a property, hold it for a bit, sell it to yourself in a shell company for a major profit, then take your capital gains loss, and legitimize the money. But be very careful of the shell company's books.

Anyway...consider a nice job with the Park Service.


Be well and safe.
 
Aye. Fair winds and following seas, brother Dave.

Now you set your own course-you can do anything.

Congrats and thanks.


Mike
Ad Astra
 
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