Just like the thread title says. 8 years and I'm done with my Naval service. I started terminal leave yesterday. I don't have to go back to sign my DD214, they're mailing it to my home of record. I've worn my uniform for the last time and driven off base for the last time. It's kinda odd. Effectively I'm a civilian again, but I don't think it's sunk in completely. 8 years, 2 months to the day. I've matured a lot, learned a lot. I went a lot of places I never would have been had I not joined the Navy. I was back in the Arabian Gulf 36 hours after the Twin Towers fell. My ship launched the first air strikes on Afghanistan. We came home to a hero's welcome at the end of that deployment. I can't say that I'll miss the Navy itself. I already miss many of the people that I served with though. Quite a cast of characters indeed.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Congrats on your years in, and Thank You for your service to the US of A!
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A heavy horse, and a tumbling sky, brewing heavy weather...
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Stock 2003 GT vert
Redfire w/black tuck & roll int, and black top
17" Bullitt wheels
4.6 Liter / 5-spd
"Red Alert!"
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Welcome back. Good luck with the land legs. I'm sure you'll miss all of the high powered weaponry. Now you can concentrate on 4 wheeled ordinances...
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
Just like the thread title says. 8 years and I'm done with my Naval service. I started terminal leave yesterday. I don't have to go back to sign my DD214, they're mailing it to my home of record. I've worn my uniform for the last time and driven off base for the last time. It's kinda odd. Effectively I'm a civilian again, but I don't think it's sunk in completely. 8 years, 2 months to the day. I've matured a lot, learned a lot. I went a lot of places I never would have been had I not joined the Navy. I was back in the Arabian Gulf 36 hours after the Twin Towers fell. My ship launched the first air strikes on Afghanistan. We came home to a hero's welcome at the end of that deployment. I can't say that I'll miss the Navy itself. I already miss many of the people that I served with though. Quite a cast of characters indeed.
Congrats!
Good Luck!
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Congratulations. With all the changes currently taking place in your life, you really do have a chance to become 'a new man' now. Just be sure you keep all the best aspects of the man you have been. I look forward to hearing more about your upcoming, ongoing readjustment to civilian life - especially the coming, new (for you) Mustang build-up. Good luck!
“If it rolls, floats, flies or shoots, runs on gasoline or gunpowder, goes fast or shoots a big bullet and makes lots of noise, thus producing torque and recoil — it’s cool.” --Sterling Moss, Society of Torque and Recoil OhFour GT Drop top * Kenne Bell 9PSI I/C * Ford Racing 03 Cobra aluminum radiator * Full length welded subframe connectors * Couple of AutoMeter gauges, Grill delete kit * ZR3 Active laser countermeasures front and rear * Escort X50 blue radar detector *Clifford RSX3.5 Alarm
Thank you for your service. My family always keeps our our men and ladies in our Armed Forces in our thoughts. But the best news is....now you'll have more time to enjoy your Mustang!
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2005 Black GT with Red upgrade interior, fully tinted, 18's with ASA/BBS 5 spoke studded wheels, Michelin Pilots, Borla S-Type catbacks, K&N FIPK cold air injection system.
Congrats on the years, and thank you for your service and helping to protect and preserve our freedom.
Drew
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If I take cars and hot girls with money and add them to my life, I have found the key to happiness!
87 GT (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) new paint job, 306 w/ TFS stage 1 cam, TFS intake , still cant decide on heads.
Thanks for all the good wishes folks. And as always, Drew thanks for yet another awesome avatar
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Bluestreak, that's what i am here for and the occasional answer to a tech question or too, but more so just the interesting avatars.
Drew
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If I take cars and hot girls with money and add them to my life, I have found the key to happiness!
87 GT (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) new paint job, 306 w/ TFS stage 1 cam, TFS intake , still cant decide on heads.
Staying in pretty much the same line of work, Engineering and Power generation. Just getting paid a lot more, the schedule is better and no deployments.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
8 years and I'm done... 
