What's in a screen name?

ygmodeler4

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

Very young, by my standards..... and age!!

Devil Dawg

ygmodeler4

I was 14 when I signed up, so yg=young and I like the number 4

Though I guess 23 is still considered young if you ask some people

Very young, by my standards..... and age!!

I just feel.... old though LOL well maybe not old...but definitely not young, maybe it's because I'm still in college and I see these 17/18 year old's all the time, maybe it's because I have friends from high school who have gone on and gotten married, or have gone on and done great things, most of it's because my body is just feels broken....I definitely don't have the "illusion" that I'm indestructible that most "young" people have.....oh well rant over haha

I was in the Marine Corps for a little over nine years and my first MOS number was 6094, so there you have it lol

What I wouldn't give to be 23 again......... I'll be 50 in April, and have so many ailments (almost all due to me not taking care of myself when I was younger) that it's getting hard to move around some mornings. I work in many hospitals with lots of physicists, and the ones that are around 40 are looking so much younger to me. I can remember when 40 was really old...............

Anyways, keep thinking young, and you'll always be young. One word of advice - take care of your mind & body now, while you're still very young. I didn't, and I'm paying for it now. I am personally keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business............... Laying on a heart-cath table at 43 while awake and having angioplasty performed and stents inserted ain't fun. It hurts. Severely...... I'll shut up now.

By the way, where, and what university, is UMW?

Chanter

Thanks all.  

Devil Dawg - you are right, they are called bands.  Do you know any of the names of the ones on your album?  There are some amazing ones out there for sure.

We're gearing up for the Virginia International Tattoo in April at the Scope Arena in Norfolk.  It is a great show to do, plus it gives us Canadians a nice little head start on Spring. 

Allen

Hi, Allen. I have some 1st Battalion Scots Guards, The Black Watch, & The Gordon Highlanders. They're pretty darned good, especially the Scots Guards. Ever hear of any of them?

Hope you guys have a great time in Norfolk. Of course, the natives there don't pronounce it like it's spelled. It's pronounced more like "No F**k", if you get my meaning. I'm sure you'll have some of them correcting you on it's pronunciation........

Devil Dawg

What I wouldn't give to be 23 again......... I'll be 50 in April, and have so many ailments (almost all due to me not taking care of myself when I was younger) that it's getting hard to move around some mornings. I work in many hospitals with lots of physicists, and the ones that are around 40 are looking so much younger to me. I can remember when 40 was really old...............

Anyways, keep thinking young, and you'll always be young. One word of advice - take care of your mind & body now, while you're still very young. I didn't, and I'm paying for it now. I am personally keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business............... Laying on a heart-cath table at 43 while awake and having angioplasty performed and stents inserted ain't fun. It hurts. Severely...... I'll shut up now.

By the way, where, and what university, is UMW?

University of Mary Washington, it's in Fredericksburg, VA....halfway between DC and Richmond, though I'm sure as a Marine you may at least kind of know where Fburg is....after all Quantico is the Crossroads of the Corps

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

USMC6094

I was in the Marine Corps for a little over nine years and my first MOS number was 6094, so there you have it lol

Semper Fi, Devil Dog/Leatherneck/Jar-Head! What MOS is 6094? I was a 6492 - Deceptive Electronics Countermeasures. I'm assuming that since yours starts with a 6, it is probably aviation-related. 

Devil Dawg

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

ygmodeler4

Devil Dawg

Most definitely know where Fredericksburg is. I used to live in Columbia, MD (about halfway between DC & Baltimore), and drove through Fredericksburg quite a bit traveling down I-95 to get on I-85. Got to visit Quantico once back in 1995. They were still building the Museum then, so I wasn't able to go through it. Beautiful country up in that area. What's your major?

Gotcha, we moved down here around 97 and yeah they still had a sort of museum in some old hangars or something near OCS while they were build the current one. Im majoring in Political Science and if I can cram enough classes in before next spring Ill try to minor in Security and Conflict studies

That is definitely a very relevant major nowadays. Stay focused on it, my friend. You'll have that degree in no time. Good Luck!

Yeah I was an airframer, Intermediate level (MALS) hydraulics and flight controls. I did my best to stick with my type/model/series which was by and large the Hornet. though I did do some C-130 and helo work from time to time. On the ship I did some work on the Tomcat, Viking, Greyhound, and Seahawk. During OIF I did some Harrier work, but that was the exception.

6492, that probably means you were here at Cherry Point................

Spent two years at Cherry Point with 252, doing hydraulics.

USMC6094

Yeah I was an airframer, Intermediate level (MALS) hydraulics and flight controls. I did my best to stick with my type/model/series which was by and large the Hornet. though I did do some C-130 and helo work from time to time. On the ship I did some work on the Tomcat, Viking, Greyhound, and Seahawk. During OIF I did some Harrier work, but that was the exception.

6492, that probably means you were here at Cherry Point................

Yep, I was stationed there from 1984 - 1995, working on the ALQ-126As & Bs on the AV-8A, AV-8B, and TAV-8B, with a two-year break for recruiting in Albertville, AL (nope, I'd never heard of it either until I was assigned there). I thought that after recruiting, I would get sent to El Toro (the only other Harrier base in the Corps), but heck no! They sent me right back to Cherry Point!! I was originally with H&MS-32, then they changed to MALS-32, and then I was assigned to MALS-14 when I got back from recruiting, as MALS-32 was absorbed into MALS-14 (because MAG-14 absorbed MAG-32) when the Corps was cutting costs in the early 1990s. Got out in July 1995. 

wayne baker

Spent two years at Cherry Point with 252, doing hydraulics.

Ah, yes. The KC-130 squadron. Loved hearing those birds flying around. That was another sound I never got tired of hearing. Never got to ride in one of those. I did get to hitch rides in Pedro (the station's CH-46D), a UH-1N, and a CH-53D, though. And you'd think, with the entire (and only!) Harrier training squadron at Cherry Point, I could've hitched a ride in the backseat of one of the two-seaters. Nope. Seems only dignitaries and the media got rides in the back-seat. I think the retention rate would've gone up a bit if the guys that worked on them got to ride in them. Oops.... Sorry.....My rant is over.........

yeah I hear ya, I went from here ( I grew up in Havelock and thankfully NEVER got stationed here) to MALS-11 at Miramar, though we were still supporting VMFAT-101 and VMGR-352 at El Toro before it completely closed down. I'll tell ya, coming from North Carolina and landing in San Diego was a hell of a culture shock. Then I went on a WESTPAC and after than to Iwakuni with MALS-12, finally ended up at MALS-31 at Beaufort and did a boat ride on a merchant marine ship for the invasion of Iraq and I wasnt all that happy about being cooped up on a ship with MALS-14 being the ace n the hole, lol.

Spent '66-'67 with 152 at Futenma.  I lucked out in that i got to fly everywhere I went in WestPac.  Loved the fact that most everything was easy to access and work on.  Friend also went to Cherry Point from 152.  He was a parachute rigger and went to the Phantom training squadron.  He eventually got 8 hours of flight time in the back seat.

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He took this picture.

wayne baker

Spent '66-'67 with 152 at Futenma.  I lucked out in that i got to fly everywhere I went in WestPac.  Loved the fact that most everything was easy to access and work on.  Friend also went to Cherry Point from 152.  He was a parachute rigger and went to the Phantom training squadron.  He eventually got 8 hours of flight time in the back seat.

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He took this picture.

Great picture of the aerial refueling! I also saw F11F Tigers for the Blue Angels in another picture. Now, that was a while back! Cool!

My oldest son was stationed at Futenma from around 2007 - 2012 as an Air Traffic Controller. That's where he met his wife.

USMC6094

yeah I hear ya, I went from here ( I grew up in Havelock and thankfully NEVER got stationed here) to MALS-11 at Miramar, though we were still supporting VMFAT-101 and VMGR-352 at El Toro before it completely closed down. I'll tell ya, coming from North Carolina and landing in San Diego was a hell of a culture shock. Then I went on a WESTPAC and after than to Iwakuni with MALS-12, finally ended up at MALS-31 at Beaufort and did a boat ride on a merchant marine ship for the invasion of Iraq and I wasnt all that happy about being cooped up on a ship with MALS-14 being the ace n the hole, lol.

You sound as though you're still living in Havelock. Small town, but a very decent place to live, in my opinion.

I went on a 6-month deployment to Iwakuni back in May - November 1989, when the big San Francisco earthquake happened during the World Series that year. Supporting the Harrier detachment, but was attached to MALS-12. Loved watching the big, slow, lumbering Shinmeiwa PS-1 flying boats of the JASDF do touch-n-go's while I was there. Those things looked as though they were just hovering, they were flying so slow. I used to have the Hasegawa kit of that plane, but stupid me decided to sell it on eBay when I was going though my divorce. Wished I could get that kit back.......

Childhood nickname.

I just gotta ask, Beans - how did you get that nickname?

I was the one that could be counted on to finish the left over beans at scout camp.

What a gas.  

What golfer, or anyone else for that matter, doesn't like the movie Caddyshack?  Besides, golf is another excellent form of self induced misery!

Beans

I was the one that could be counted on to finish the left over beans at scout camp.

Well, that's not even close to what I thought the origin of your nickname would be. Great mini-story!

A man's gotta have his fiber and protein...

Beans

A man's gotta have his fiber and protein...

I'm gonna assume that you're not married after that sentence.............. 

Why would you assume that, Double D? I thought that was a rite of passage for husbands.....

Not with MY wife!  She tolerates pretty much everything EXCEPT the most manly of physical arts..... or does that start with an "F"?

I'm currently married. I test her endurance and patience frequently. I'm a challenge for sure.

My wife makes a Firehouse Baked Bean recipe I'd kick the family dog for. So, she kinda encourages "bad" behavior. It's all good.

(I wouldn't really kick the family dog, I'm just sayin'...)