Fiddy Good Men :thumbsup

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Er..... by "pathfinder's son", you mean yourself? or your brother?, or has theking now died logged into GFY also, and you are somebody else entirely....maybe the murderer/whoever found the body?

How am I the only one saw this? He mentioned it THREE times for somebody to bite :)

I do not have any brothers or sisters or any family at all. Pf had two sons and two daughters. I am older than all of his children...but since PF took me in when I was 12...I feel as if they are my brothers and sisters...and they reciprocate the feeling...as if I am their big brother.

Are you satisfied now...sport.

Hey Rochard, how many push-ups are you able to do :) ?

Is it true you cut out a rib so you could suck your own dick?

Did this thread really go 2 pages without any mention of mustangs?

My full respect goes to you sir. My brother just completed bootcamp, he's now an airman. I went to his ceremonies in texas.

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A lot.

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I haven't owned a Mustang in a long time...

Are you joking or what?

I am not.

When I was a teenager my goals were pretty simple. I worked in a small "family restaurant", was enrolled at the culinary school in high school (our school had a restaurant open to the public built into the school), and then wanted to join the Marines to become a cook and then onto a professional culinary school.

Somewhere alone the line I got into drugs, and dropped out of high school. I was pretty much homeless and working a series of crappy dead end jobs, and was getting deeper and deeper into drugs. A chance encounter with a Marine recruiter and some help from a friend to quickly get me off drugs, and a week later I was in boot camp.

Eventually I got my GED and went onto college.

Your honesty is refreshing.

I imagine boot camp was a nightmare for someone just off drugs.


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Boot camp was a nightmare all around for me. I choose the Marines because both my father and my grandfather were Marines; I had no idea what Marine Corps boot camp was about and it quickly straightened me out.

Did they know i would have thought they would be against that

It was much easier to get in then. Now it seems they don't like to recruit kids with tats.

lolz. if i felt like it, i'd dig up the thread where you used my admitted past drug use against me in debate we were having.

Boot camp for the Navy was a disappointment, I thought it was going to be a lot harder.

We had a guy go AWOL over the fence, he made the mistake of jumping the fence to the Marine boot camp next door. He came back, packed on maybe 20 lbs of muscle during his visit.

So how did you get from marines to adult biz?

After the Marines I moved to California. I had always had a thing for computers and as soon as I could I got my own PC - home made of course. Within a year or so I had met Steve Lightspeed and he had taught me the basics of web design. A short time later we had worked on a few sites together, gallery sites, that kind of thing. I went to college to study computers, and kept on making websites. I was promoting Amateur Pages (which ironically was a few doors down from my wife's office in Livermore California) and selling banner ads. After college - right during the dot com bubble bust - Steve offered me a job and I moved to Phoenix.

Would have mentioned that 5 years ago though...its more of a story of opportunity given then being a militant nut, which is the way you came off....Anyways cool stuff:2 cents:

Good for you :thumbsup

Without the Marines opportunity, who knows where you would be today .

any idiot can apply for the marines... i look around and everybody i know who doesnt have any education chooses the army because it's known you don't have to have a talent or skill to make decent money... it's literally the last resort: acting as cannon fodder for idiotic politicians. I have no clue why people think it's something to be proud of.

Nice thread. It's nice to know some stories from webmasters around here :)

Maybe in his day, not today. It is tough to enlist in any branch unless you want to be infantry in the Army, that one is fairly easy I would imagine.

I salute you and am grateful for your service, Richard. I lived in the US for 24 years and have nothing but respect for the military. I am Filipino-American and many of my buddies in high school enlisted in the Navy. In fact, I heard the US Navy is HALF Filipino j/k. Anyway, SEMPER FI, my man!

Prior to Afghanistan and Iraq the standards for all branches were much higher than they are now.

All branches required a minimum of a High School Diploma. GED's were not acceptable.

None of the branches would take anyone with a misdemeanor of any kind and certainly not a felony.

In perfect physical health and not be overweight.

Senior NCO's had to have a minimum of an Associate Degree...many had a Bachelor Degree and some had Masters.

Officers had to have a minimum of a Bachelor Degree...many had Masters and some had a Doctorate.

The more warm bodies they need the standards begin to drop. They were...and maybe still are... taking people with certain types of misdemeanors...GED's...lower physical health standards and higher age levels.

When the Afghan conflict ends...providing nothing else flares up...the standards will begin to rise again and those that are already in if they can't meet the standards will mot be reenlisted.

Wait, Rochard, was in the Marines??

No one knows for sure - he still refuses to talk about it.