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  1. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Yeah - I did six from the get go to get the advanced electronics training and it served me well. I could have sewn on my E-6 at 5 years but I only had one year left to go and you needed to have two years left obligated. Ahhhh - the wondering what would have been if I had stayed around with the...
  2. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Here iz another one - That's Steve on the left - and the good Doctor Jim in the middle - and me shooting my mouth off (who woulda thunk it). :iconbiggrin::iconbiggrin:
  3. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    I answered that one Kevin but the photo didn't insert - perhaps it was to large. Anyhowwwww - here is a photo of Dr. JG attending one our little Nashville Audio Society meets.... This is - shall we say Mr. "X's" system we were listing to.
  4. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    LOL!!! Yeah - sometimes finding enough space on the bed can be a challenge. My wife haz a cousin that lives near Richmond and we are adopting one of their Dachshunds (7 y/o female mini) that they needed to find a home for due to moving into an apartment. She should arrive here Monday morning...
  5. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Go NAVY!!!!! :iconbiggrin::iconbiggrin::iconbiggrin: We always loved our "Mustang" Officers!!! They were the best IMO!!! Did you and your sister stay in or (like me) do you service and then get on with life in the civilian world?
  6. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Hi Kevin!! My wife and I like to give forever homes to rescued dachshunds and if we could we would have a hundred of 'em. I guess we all have a favorite breed - and to that end we have rescued a lot of "mutts" too. It's always great to meet another doggy lover too!!!! :iconbiggrin: I looked...
  7. c2cthomas

    Welcome johnelderrobison

    Used to work for DEC over in Westfield - lived in Chicopee and Holyoak. My brother still lives up there in the hills and works for Kmax down in Hartford. I'm allergic to places that are snowy and cold so I got the blazes outta there and moved to California and currently living near Nashville...
  8. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Yeah - those were the days!!!! I bet that I had several hundred tube thingy's in our rig - AN/SPS-39 A 3D radar. That wuz a real step backwards from the 39 C on my 1st ship and a huge drop from the 48!!! I served from late '66 to late '72. No regrets except for my last skipper. But that's...
  9. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Thanks for the Welcome FF - that's a nice Teac tape deck from back in the day!!! :iconbiggrin::iconbiggrin: I had a big old Akai something - all I can remember now the is glass and crystal heads were the latest craze.... I think that it was a 365
  10. c2cthomas

    Dream TT

    Mmmmmmmmmm turntable porn...... :cool:
  11. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    All of the locals called it that - I think that they still do but I've been gone a few years now.
  12. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    I'm dating myself here - I was aboard the USS Jonn King DDG#3 - (yeah that's right - hull number 3) She was the 1st DDG to switch over from the old analog FC system to the digital system and the then "new" Standard Missile. Of course we had to pull down all of the canvas sails before we could...
  13. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    She's a beauty - but I made it through six years in da Navy without a getting a tat so I don't see any need to start now. I was in the rock 'n roll band business and also worked az a bouncer and bar tender and "met" enough "bad girlz" to last me for the rest of my natural born life...
  14. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Hi Robert! Did you play around with the really old dual rail launchers or the single rail one's? Of course now days they just shove the bird down a hole in the deck and don't have to do all of that business of getting the next bird in position to load. The below deck launching system is after...
  15. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Hi Speakerman - Seeing az how I wuz onna destroyer we were anything but glorious!!! :iconbiggrin: Nothing quite like going outside to look up at the waves..... :puke: The old SAC base Mather was the one out in Rancho Cordova - not too far from the old ESS factory!!! McClellan (now McClellan...
  16. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Nice Tattoo NavLinear!!! My weiner doggy iz giving that two paws up!!!! Did you send up aircraft stuff up for fab or mobile equipment stuff? Yeah - to bad they shut McClellan down - but that's how the politics came down at the time. There are better places to be doing business than Cali and...
  17. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Don't get us anywhere a double deck - no nines - Pinochle game........ We will eat you alive...... :laughing5::laughing5::laughing5: Cribbage too.....
  18. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    I used to live near Sacramento Cali and we had SR-71's up a Beale - I was at the McClellan depot fix'n stuff.
  19. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    That wuz one of the "other toyz" I was referring to - the early warning kids like their stuff out there. Living out there for three years - that isn't my idea of having fun. The climate there iz just plain NASTY!!!
  20. c2cthomas

    Newbie from Nashville Tennessee!

    Dad worked in Finance and back in the old days was the Pay Master for the base - thus he knew everyone on the base. I worked at an Air Force repair depot and we had customers from all over the world - and az far az I can remember there were not any SAC bases in the Aleutian Islands..... We did...
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