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If you remember I received orders to Korea last year, which I did not want, and I’m expecting them again next month. If I wait until I get the orders and then chose to retire, instead of taking them, I would be retired within a few months but, if I put my paperwork in now I can project out one year… that’s what I’ve done.

I will be retiring 1 Feb 04 but will have my retirement ceremony on or about 1 Nov of this year and be on terminal leave for the remainder of the time. I hate to leave this job because I’ve really enjoyed it but I guess it’s time to move on.

This is not about what’s going on in the world today but about what’s best for my family. I will have pulled 22 ½ years and served in one war and supported numerous small conflicts so I feel I have served my country. I hope to get some type of job with the A-10 either working them here at depot or in the A-10 SPO but I will not know for a while.

Sending my paperwork in was as hard as signing the enlistment papers over 20 years ago… change is scary thing but I know it will all workout in the end.


Ugly but well hung!

Well done, good and faithful servant! Have a suspicion you'll land on your feet, Dice. Most of all, thank-you for your service, dedication and sacrifices.<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> (Also avoids conflict-of-interest for the book, too!)<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

King George II on Gen. James Wolfe: "Mad, is he? Then I wish he'd bite more of my other generals!"

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Edited by - 30mike-mike on Feb 25 2003 10:28 AM

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Congrats Dice, know you will excel at anything you do! I am very proud to have served by your side, and under your guidance!!!

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Dice you have done your part. Best wishes in the next phase of your life. So are you gonna take one of those new packages where they get vets to become inner city school teachers?

Some how I think your answer will be ya right, when hell freezes over. LOl

Dice, just means it is time to make some REAL money now.

Write that book, you WILL be a wealthy man.

Long distance- The next best thing to being there.

Congrats on the impending retirement Dice. You have earned it!

"face it....perhaps your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others!"

Thanks all, it really hasn't sunk-in yet! <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_blackeye.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ugly but well hung!

Retire brother, But never expire.

Congrats on the 22 1/2 years of service. <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>



"Your presence on WT is like an odor dude, you need to unleash.. -Brewski"

um...you spelled 22 ½ wrong <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> but seriously Dice/Diceman/Bosshogg as a "civie" I'd like to snap off a crisp one <S to you for your years of service to the good ole' USA. I'll pass on the "weepies" and just instruct ALL you "sign on the dotted liners" to see my sig.

One question though Dice, more Rhino bites or Hog bites? And which ones bled the worst? hee hee

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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Congrats, Dice! Sounds like you'll have time to be prepared this time around. <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> Hope your last year is your best!

Poke

"See that green switch? Flip it down."

Dice
Congrats on opting to retire!!! I know the feeling. I purposely did not try to make MSgt to stay out of Korea and instead retired. Believe me, the civilian world is quite different. I did luck out and get hired by Raytheon, which I must admit it's just like being back in teh 70th. Jim Miles is my supervisor and we have quite a number of 70th folks with us. I wish you the best of luck with what ever you chose to do, but, dont do as I have done. DO NOT enlist in the Air Force Reserve!!! That was and still is a tragedy for me!!! It has been one hassle afetr another.
Once agaion GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

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One question though Dice, more Rhino bites or Hog bites? And which ones bled the worst? hee hee

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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Ha more Phantom bites for sure but that's because my girl the Warthog was built for us maintainers! <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

I loved my time on the F-4 (and all the other aircraft) but the mission of the Hog, and being able to support it, is by far what makes me the proudest... CAS and CSAR... what could be better!

Ugly but well hung!

DICE,
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN A COUPLE OF CONVERSATIONS,
YOU HAVE DONE MORE THAN YOUR TIME,YOU HAVE DEDICATED MORE OF YOUR TOTAL LIFE SERVING YOUR COUNTRY,TOO WHICH "THANK-YOU" ISNT ENOUGH,OR THE RETIERMENT PAY THAT THEY'LL GIVE YOU.
BUT YOU NEVER DID IT FOR A "THANK-YOU" OR THE PAY,NOT FOR THE HEADACHES OR THE PAIN,THE LONG HOURS AND MONTHS AWAY
BUT DEEP DOWN YOU CAN LOOK AT YOUR GIRLS AND SAY TO YOURSELF

YOU DID IT BECAUSE THATS WHAT YOU FELT FROM YOUR HEART AND NOW YOUR HEART IS SAYING "OK,TIME TO MOVE ON"


YOUR GIRLS COME FIRST,SO TIME TO ENJOY ,BUT DONT EVER THINK THAT ANYONE OF YOUR FRIENDS IN ANYWAY THINK ITS BECAUSE OF WHATS GOING ON IN THE WORLD.

YOU GOT ONE HELL'VA RECORD MAN!
YOU DID YOUR TIME,TIME TO UN-WIND!!!!!












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Are you still gonna go around the base saying "In my day we used to do things differently..." or "You're doing it wrong!" <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -General George Patton

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Are you still gonna go around the base saying "In my day we used to do things differently..." or "You're doing it wrong!" <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -General George Patton
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Yep, and buy a hat that says "Desert Storm" vet and put a hundred pins on it, then hang-out at the local aviation museum! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ugly but well hung!

I shoulda known

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -General George Patton

Congratulations Dice. Enjoy the last year but more importantly, enjoy the retirement.

plane_mc

wow, you've been there a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time! and it's time for you to take a break. whatevery you do I'm sure you'll kick ass at it! And there always a home for you if you need it. <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle> goodluck man! hey IM me some time!

"my heart is with them, but my mind has contempt for them. I want peace, but I know how to get it, and they do not." - Woodrow Wilson

DICE ,

THIS LINK IS TO A PLACE WHO MAKE SPECAILISED HATS.
http://www.militarymatters.com/cgi-local/shop/search.cgi?user_id=16212
SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL GET A BRAGGING HAT

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