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| Exactly what I have been doing for the last 30 years. It's not quite what I envisioned back then, but I get to look at the tops of clouds every day when I go to work which was about the coolest thing in the world to 6 year old me.
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon
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Still a Marine
| I always wanted to be a police officer, and joined the military with that goal in mind. I found out while in the Marines that I'm not a fan of being shot at, and my aspirations of being a cop came to an end. Life has a funny way of steering you in other directions sometimes.
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| Thanks to McHales Navy and the Movie "PT 109", I wanted to be in the Navy on a PT boat. In fifth grade I decided to become a Marine.  Lock N Load Michael USMC (Ret) |
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| As a kid, a pilot, but reality got in the way for many years. Then I learned to fly in my late 20's. Later in life, after working in computers, I wanted to just sit on a beach chair, drink rum and cokes and piss my pants. This all fell into place.
Awake not woke
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| | | Posts: 567 | Location: Citrus Springs, Fl. | Registered: January 02, 2013 |
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| Fighter pilot. As I got older a Navy fighter pilot. Dang, those guys are cool, I never could step in their foot prints. |
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| Soldier Then a policeman.. I became a sailor Then a cop
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020
“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker |
| | | Posts: 11280 | Location: Temple, Texas! | Registered: October 07, 2006 |
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| My childhood home was in the flight path for Wright-Patterson AFB. So I wanted to be a pilot. Too lazy in school though.
End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
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| airborne soldier checked that block -- not for a career though ------------------------------------
Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
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| | | Posts: 8940 | Location: Florida | Registered: September 20, 2004 |
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| Paleontologist
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-- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. --
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| Chef My mother told me that would be a fine hobby, but study for a real job with higher success rate. A little harsh. Yeah, I thanked her later. (No disrespect to chefs of course, it’s still a close second!)
You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02
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| | | Posts: 12417 | Location: Madison, MS | Registered: December 10, 2007 |
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delicately calloused
| At the risk of ridicule, I wanted to be James Bond.
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