ROBERT,
     In a message dated 02-18-98 you wrote ...
> I did two tours as a recon pilot in I Corp and then took off the
> uniform. Later joined the Reserves and went to helicopter transition.
> Later went to the Safety Officer Course and served as a safety officer
> for seven years. For the last five I've been flying a desk.  In another
> 32 months I'll hit my mandatory removal date.  Maybe I'll be ready to
> hang it up then, but for now I'm happy to be able to keep on serving.
>                                                  Best regards, .. Bob
   Nice career... It is "call out the G-- D--n Reserves" but the
 reserves and National Guard has been downsized so much we do not
 know how many we can get....
    I was a Reservist who went past the old mandatory 20 years for
 retirement of 20 years.. I made L.t Col. Twice (once in reserve
 and once on active duty) over 5 years apart. I was in grade as
 a Major fo almost 11 years not because I had done anything wrong
 they kept changing the promotion criteria. At one time I had 6
 years in grad as Major and was not qualified as one... I was
 offered a SECOND extension of my Reserve career  which would also
 have meant Colonel... but I did not want the extended active
 duuty.  I was on Guam flying the long ones to 'Nam with LBJ
 and Strange Mac calling signals...
    Guess what our intelligence office said they found after our first 
mission to 'Nam?   "10,000 monkeys, hanginng from their tails with fingers in 
their ears."  His statement not mine...
   So I quit soon after I came home...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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