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Originally posted by bald1:
I was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1990. Had been selected as a member of the senior management project team for the first engineered refueling overhaul (ERO) of a 688 class submarine. Half million mandays of work were involved. Tons of huge PERT charts were generating as the roadmap showing the resultant work execution sequences (critical paths) and interrelationships with all the tasks involved. We spent almost 3 years planning and commenced work on the USS LOS ANGLES SSN-688 in late 1992. The planned 24 month ERO was completed ahead of schedule and under cost.

I was on Mare Island 87 and 88 for Data Systems Technician A and C schools. Was back at Mare Island as the schools command was winding down there, in 92 and 93, for another electronics C school. DS rate was done away with in 98 and I became an ET for a couple of years before transferring over to FC. Would end up as an instructor at Dam Neck Virginia where the Mare Island schools command had transferred. Picked up Chief at Dam Neck after getting the Instructor ticket punched.

I was stationed at Station Yankeetown, a USCG Search and Rescue on the Withlacoochee River on the west coast of Florida. I believe I was a “Fireman Apprentice “ E2.

Didn’t know anything, worked on engines in the 41foot boat, wiped oil, worked on small boat engines, cleaned the bilges- and anything else that needed it...also was a Boarding teammember(carried out law enforcement wrt fishing,boating,BWI,etc...)

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I had just graduated high school, thinking I had the world by the balls. Thirty years later, I still don’t have the world by the balls. But I have a great family, and I will eventually grab the world by the balls...

30 years ago I was in 2nd grade, Greensboro, NC.

In July 1990 I'd been retired from USAF for 10 years and working that long for Texas Instruments Incorporated here in Dallas as a COBOL computer programmer on their big IBM mainframes. I was living in my current townhouse, bought in March 1984. I checked my travel log and I did not have any major trips during 1990, so I was at home that summer. I had not yet acquired any cats, so I was living alone, assisted every two weeks by a hired maid. My church vocal choir takes July off, so I was not doing that, or the handbell choir there; the secular chorus I had joined the year before was also off during the summer (a class at a local college), so my only musical activity was in Sunday church services (as a congregant).

flashguy

30 years ago (July 1990) I was in Taichung Taiwan moving my lock manufacturing operation from SoCal to ROC. 30 years later I'm getting to move it again, this time from PRC > xxx

aileron

Had to go back through my list of travel, but after refreshing my memory, I well remember I had two fun-filled weeks on the ground in Port Au Prince, Haiti. I have been to a fair number of less than desirable spots but Port Au Prince stands out in my mind; of course I can't draw a comparison with places in the middle east as I was never in the more rural parts.

Probably being yelled at by some General Contractor over me issuing another change order or getting a pay request approved to their liking.

30 years ago? Just got back from my 2nd tour in Germany to take over as the NCOIC of the Nuc Med Clinic at Madigan Army Med Center. Was in the process of buying a yet to be built house in Rainier Washington. And in 5 years would be retired from the Army and looking forward to the civilian adventure.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with my wife and our tiny, very premature daughter. She was our first and it was a shock when she’d been born a day or two earlier at 26 weeks gestation. The doctors didn’t give her much of a chance to survive, but she struggled through those early trials and turned 30 this week.

30 years ago my wife and I were back in the Pac NW and I was just starting my 2nd year with my P.D. She was working for Northwest Airlines.

Camp Blanding FL, Army reserve annual training. I’d just graduated basic and MP school. Barely got settled in before we mobilized for Desert shield. Can’t believe it’s been 30 years.

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had just graduated high school, thinking I had the world by the balls. Thirty years later, I still don’t have the world by the balls

30 years ago...
I graduated high school, and was heading off to college in a new city with my best friend. We both had scholarships and got an apartment together. It was a wild time and I ended up losing my scholarship....

I thought I had it all figured out... Fast forwarded 30 years.... I was wrong and have been bouncing around ever since.

Thirty years ago I was living in this same house in north St. Louis County and I was well into my career as an engineer working for McDonnell Douglas on the soon to be cancelled A-12 Avenger II aircraft.

Newport News Naval Shipyard...

Just reported to new construction duty on USS Jefferson City SSN-759.

Did initial crit...plankowner.

First Officer's log Stardate 44030.5...It was a hump day. I was still in my Accounting career and 4 years deep into a HORRIBLE 12-year stint with The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. It would take another 8 years to escape that wretched hell-hole...the Tribbles were smarter. That place and the management, using that term EXTREMELY loosely, was a JOKE, as is typical of many Government employees. I've never seen a more precise example of The Peter Principle in action than at that loathsome place.

I was an Army SSG (E6) stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. I had just returned from a 13 week Basic Non-commissioned Officer Course (BNCOC) for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Warfare Specialists at Ft McClellan AL.

Within weeks, a majority of my fellow NBC specialists would be off to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I did not deploy but instead trained activated Guard and Reserve soldiers who were deploying.

The end of July 1990 I was a Second Class Petty Officer assigned to HSL-47 Detachment 8, 2 weeks from Deployment on the USS Princeton.........The next year would be rather exciting

4th grade in rural Texas