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Are these USS Kitty Hawk uniforms worth buying off eBay?
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I guess, if you want to play "Corpsman".
I bet that's your auction there "UUMe" and your trying to get a little traffic? You sneaky, sly one you. Have a great holiday! Don't forget to check mine: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ADME:B:LC:US:1 Larry AECS (AW/SW/MTS) Disabled Combat Veteran USN Retired 20 years of Navy in my rear view mirror and getting further away every day ;-) "UUMe" wrote in message m... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=36 068 |
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Larry wrote:
I bet that's your auction there "UUMe" and your trying to get a little traffic? It looked a little suspicious even before a quick check showed that the eBay seller and Usenet poster were both in Houston. -- John Miller My email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm We're all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin |
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John Miller wrote:
Larry wrote: I bet that's your auction there "UUMe" and your trying to get a little traffic? It looked a little suspicious even before a quick check showed that the eBay seller and Usenet poster were both in Houston. I didn't see any mention of the Kitty Hawk in a cursory check of the link, so add to the suspicion list "How did UUMe know they were worn by a Kitty Hawk sailor?" -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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"Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message ... John Miller wrote: Larry wrote: I bet that's your auction there "UUMe" and your trying to get a little traffic? It looked a little suspicious even before a quick check showed that the eBay seller and Usenet poster were both in Houston. I didn't see any mention of the Kitty Hawk in a cursory check of the link, so add to the suspicion list "How did UUMe know they were worn by a Kitty Hawk sailor?" Must have been real cursory: "Kitty Hawk" is in at least two places in the eBay ad. |
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Hey Mike,
Nahhh,,,all the way to CWO5 and never got caught!!! Thats one of the funniest things I ever saw anyway!!! Selling your uniforms on Ebay!!! Just when you think you seen it all,,,, On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 07:35:11 GMT, Michael Wise wrote: In article , (UUMe) wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=36 068 Four idiot stripes and still an E-6. How many watches did you fall asleep on? --Mike |
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Michael Wise wrote in
: In article , (UUMe) wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...98881&category =36068 Four idiot stripes and still an E-6. How many watches did you fall asleep on? --Mike Begging your pardon, SIR... A sixteen year corpsman in today's Navy is not unusual, as it wasn't when I retired some years ago. Not everyone can make Chief, and in the current competitive environment, it's not what you know, it's who gets the best suck-up points. When the eval system becomes objective, and the brass who write and approve them become competent, then maybe the promotion system will work like it's supposed to. Having said that, HM1 X could have been "entirely competent" at that level, but still "lacking critical leadership skills mnecessary to advance to Chief Petty Officer". Not all you folks make Captain; not all of us make Chief. Dave Bowles AT1 USN Ret quoted from my own evals -- - "For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; For there you have been, and there you long to return." Leonardo da Vinci |
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Having said that, HM1 X could have been "entirely competent" at that
level, but still "lacking critical leadership skills necessary to advance to Chief Petty Officer". Well put Dave. I agree. Or maybe it was something beyond his control. I had LPO's working for me that were more than ready for Chief, but were "victims of the rate". Just not enough billets to promote them all. All I could tell them was "hang in there, keep up the great job and your time will come". Larry AECS (AW/SW/MTS) Disabled Combat Veteran USN Retired 20 years of Navy in my rear view mirror and getting further away every day ;-) "Dave in San Diego" wrote in message ... Michael Wise wrote in : In article , (UUMe) wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...98881&category =36068 Four idiot stripes and still an E-6. How many watches did you fall asleep on? --Mike Begging your pardon, SIR... A sixteen year corpsman in today's Navy is not unusual, as it wasn't when I retired some years ago. Not everyone can make Chief, and in the current competitive environment, it's not what you know, it's who gets the best suck-up points. When the eval system becomes objective, and the brass who write and approve them become competent, then maybe the promotion system will work like it's supposed to. Having said that, HM1 X could have been "entirely competent" at that level, but still "lacking critical leadership skills mnecessary to advance to Chief Petty Officer". Not all you folks make Captain; not all of us make Chief. Dave Bowles AT1 USN Ret quoted from my own evals -- - "For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; For there you have been, and there you long to return." Leonardo da Vinci |
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"victims of the rate". Just not enough billets to promote them all. All I could tell them was "hang in there, keep up the great job and your time will come". Larry AECS (AW/SW/MTS) Disabled Combat Veteran USN Retired "Victims of rate", this is or was the case with AT's, I encountered this going from E-3 to E-4, then again from E-4 to E-5. As a four year guy, I started out life as an AR, graduated from A school as a ATAA, mean while the 6 year guys were graduating as AT3's. Then after doing my TIR, and finally making AT3, I once again encountered the "victim of rate" the AT3's (rent-a-crows) were graduating from AFTA (advanced first term avionics school) or AFTA-births as we called them, getting ready to take AT2, while I was installing tracking gear on rotor blades, paralleling generators, changing the "greenhouse" window after the Q/A chief stepped through it, etc, etc. But I really can't complain, I did my 4, and got out, and thanks to my "nothing but a black box puller" "O" level career, spent the past 16 years doing it on the civilian side for a much better pay and no sea duty. So being a "victim of rate" work out great for me. So I can see how in some rates it would not be uncommon for a hard charg'in, 4.0 sailor to retire an E-6. J BTW, as for those who say, the numbers are figured out before hand, and the Navy takes only so many AFTA guys and regular guys its BS. I like many others who make there required time to graduate, we were ask if we were to extend for 2 years, you can walk out of school as a E-4 instead of an E-2. Fortunitly for me 1989 sounded like forever in 1983, I passed, many other did'nt. |
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