For My 500th Post I would like to Thank...

[Belquar]

Everyone for all their help since I have been here. You may have helped me and didn't even know it. For that I say thanks. Thanks for participating and sharing your knowledge and opinions. It is such a diverse world we live in and we are lucky to live in a place that allows us the freedom and ability to have the connectivity that we share.

My most recent thanks is for the great info I received in my Ipod info thread. I have now discovered iTunes. How technologically impaired I have been. I have always thought it was for iPod owners. I downloaded it the yesterday. I have been importing my entire music collection onto my computer. I have a pretty big computer and use maybe 4% of it. Not anymore. I told my wife that we are going to have to put a limit on how many songs we download each month. Could be very easy to just go nuts.

Anyway....

Thanks for everything. This forum continues to be a wonderful resource. It is nice to be able to access such a large knowledge/experience base when you have a question about anything.

Thanks,
Brian

[BubbaZanetti]

well said, congrats on 500!

[snoone]

Everyone for all their help since I have been here. You may have helped me and didn't even know it. For that I say thanks. Thanks for participating and sharing your knowledge and opinions. It is such a diverse world we live in and we are lucky to live in a place that allows us the freedom and ability to have the connectivity that we share.

My most recent thanks is for the great info I received in my Ipod info thread. I have now discovered iTunes. How technologically impaired I have been. I have always thought it was for iPod owners. I downloaded it the yesterday. I have been importing my entire music collection onto my computer. I have a pretty big computer and use maybe 4% of it. Not anymore. I told my wife that we are going to have to put a limit on how many songs we download each month. Could be very easy to just go nuts.

Anyway....

Thanks for everything. This forum continues to be a wonderful resource. It is nice to be able to access such a large knowledge/experience base when you have a question about anything.

Thanks,
Brian

Hey Brian, You don't have to limit the amount of songs you download. You can always get an external drive and still use itunes. Mine has 120GB's of mp4's, about 20,000 songs

[Belquar]

Hey Brian, You don't have to limit the amount of songs you download. You can always get an external drive and still use itunes. Mine has 120GB's of mp4's, about 20,000 songs

I was referring to the dollar a song part. Cheaper than buying the entire album but between me and my wife, we could rack up quite a big ticket. We like a lot of the same music, but a lot of different music as well.

[kbasa]

I was referring to the dollar a song part. Cheaper than buying the entire album but between me and my wife, we could rack up quite a big ticket. We like a lot of the same music, but a lot of different music as well.

You might want to check out iTunes essentials, then. :evil

[BradfordBenn]

Congrats on 500 and the iPod. Not that I would ever recommend going to the local library and checking out some CDs....

[SNC1923]

Congrats on your 500, Belquar! Yours is a cheerful and welcome presence on this board, if I may say.

I've been dealing with iTunes for a while now, but I'm constantly amazed at the rapidly escalating technology on so many different fronts. I can barely keep up, but it sure if fun trying.

Looking forward to another 500 and beyond. :clap

[PacWestGS]

Way to go Brian, I remember when I had reached the 500 mark. It was kinda like a milestone or something.

Way back (I mean way back) when I first joined the Army they gave us these framed certificates that, when it was all done and said; said that we had run five-hundred miles in the course of completing Basic and Advanced Infantry training. I have no idea how many push-ups and sit-ups I did, they didn't track that then. Hehehe Course we didn't have "Time Out" cards then either. It was always "Drop and give me twenty" :doh

Hey, Bubba's celebrating 2,000 guess we have a ways to go... :dance

Russ

[RedBeemer]

I would like to fine the FOOL that came up with that idea. Time out 'cause the drill sargent is gettin' in your face? What will they do when it is fire fight time?

500 posts and I thought I was chatty at 100+ :wave

[Belquar]

I went through Basic in 1995. The "time out" cards were talked about back then. I never saw them. But Basic had been so toned down then anyways. From the stories I had heard. But it was fun. Keep your mouth shut and do your job and Basic Training is a breeze.

We did have one drill....I ran with the fast group during PT. (That always suprised folks since I have always been a big guy. 5'11 and 212lbs when I went to basic) Anyways...one morning this drill comes out to PT and says he hears that some of us think he can't run cause he always took the medium group out. He corrected that rumor that morning over the next six miles. That was the problem with the fast group....we weren't rewarded for being fast runners, we just had to run further than everyone else.

[Belquar]

http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm

FALSE.

[The_Veg]

When I did basic in 1986 it was (imagine thick southern accent): "PRAAVATE GIT DOWN AN START PUSHIN TILL I GET TAHRED!!!"

[PacWestGS]

http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm

FALSE.

That's psycho babble from Ms. Mikkelson's point of view. Sure that was the intent of the cards and they were widely distributed as many things in the services at the time. But they were issued and different forms of Basic Training took different approaches to how to use them. I never met (later in the service) a combat arms soldier that would tell you he's now a cream puff, but just like junior sports the military took on a more gentler and kinder approach to the Saturday night brawl. No one (your 1st Sgt for sure) wanted to see the Police Blotter that said you single handedly wiped out a bar of unruley (pick opposing service branch) and now you are going to be congratulated. You are going to get dissiplined until your aggresive behaivor changes. The military did get soft, but it started even before me in 1980, I got my a$$ chewed in Advanced Infantry Training for knocking some guy to the ground for being a smarta$$. At lease it stopped there it could have been simple assault these days.

Hijack over.

Don't ask, don't tell, don't invesitgate (We really don't want to know there is something different about you, we'll all find out when the sh!t hit the fan anyway) :dance

Doc

[Belquar]

When I did basic in 1986 it was (imagine thick southern accent): "PRAAVATE GIT DOWN AN START PUSHIN TILL I GET TAHRED!!!"


The drills almost always got down with us for pushups. THat was kinda cool. We had two drills for our platoon. One of them....didn't sweat. Except for a tiny little patch on his chest. No matter how hot and muggy he just didn't ever look fatigued. The other was very fond of the close hand or diamond pushup. And both could easily go to the 500 mark. They had amazing endurance for pushups. They could also flutter kick for days. Good memories.

[Belquar]

I got my a$$ chewed in Advanced Infantry Training for knocking some guy to the ground for being a smarta$$. At lease it stopped there it could have been simple assault these days.

Doc

I got a company grade article 15. Me and a buddy were short and coming back from a bar on post. Some dudes picked a fight with us. Those guys proceeded to go around that night causing trouble. I have always been pretty good at walking away from something that will have more severe consequences than are worth engaging for, had a little fogged :bottle lapse in judgement that night.