When I said that watching two Air Force EMs (especially these two know it
alls) try to discuss officer business would be fun, I was not kidding.

  BK>  So, if you retired regular army as a major, that means you spent  20
  BK> years in uniform, then retired.

BA> IIRC Stan is now about 55 years old.  Ten years ago he was (obviously)
45,
BA> and *not* on active duty; he had by that time left the military and
completed
BA> (presumably 2 years of) graduate school at the University of Missouri
School
BA> of Journalism.  He had also established his own business and had been in

I attended graduate school as part of the Army's Advanced Civil Schooling
Program.

BA> operation for at least a year.  All well and good.  He has also been
posting
BA> in FidoNet since at least 1993 (I believe he said 1992, but my archives
only

I have been posting in Fido since 1988.

BA> then on active duty.  Assuming that he graduated from HS at the normal
age (18)
BA> and spent 4 years in college and OCS, he was 22 at commissioning.  Since

I did not attend OCS.

BA> he was apparently not on active duty from his late 30s, he could not
have
BA> served a full 20 years on active duty.  I've no idea why that may be and
don't
BA> really care - unless he is claiming something that is not true.

Given the length of this message, you care a good deal.

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