Hello from Virginia

[BigHairyGobbler]

Hello everyone, I'm Craig and I will be officially retired from active duty effective 1 July 2015. After I find a job and convince the wife I need a handgun, I'd like to get a small 9mm, get my CCW permit, and eventually buy a mid-sized 9mm with a similar trigger, grip angle, and manual of arms to the K9 but in DA/SA...maybe a Sig P229 or a CZ 75 PCR but not sure yet. Anyways, here to learn and help where I can...

[Black Train]

Welcome. It will be easy to convince your wife of the need for a handgun. Let her watch the evening news for a week or so.

[Bawanna]

Welcome Craig. Glad you found us.

Curious retiring from active duty what? Looking at your date, I'd predict military of some sort, have a couple here at the PD that still write dates funny.

No worries about the wife, I'll send her a little note and let her know it's the right thing to do. Never worked before but hey, I keep trying and one of these days it'll work.

[ripley16]

Hello from Virginia



Does the name imply you're a Hokie? Is so; what year? I'm 1975, H Squadron, (probably a good bit before your time). If not; never mind. :o I'm in Stafford County, about 100 yards from the Quantico.

Welcome to the forum.

[BigHairyGobbler]

Thanks everyone. I'm Air Force and living with in-laws in Newport news area. Looking to work a few hours from here so they can't bug us too much...love 'em but they drive us nuts.

I stress the bad news and threats against the military and people who support the military so I bet she's coming around...she was hard against handguns quite a few years ago but things have changed a lot recently so I bet she'll be receptive now. Just hard to justify spending $700 on a K-9 when I'm just about to be unemployed :(

[berettabone]

Welcome..............you also have to explain how it's important to not be cheap when it comes to your families protection.

[b4uqzme]

Welcome. Thanks very much for your service and best of luck in the future. Will you be looking for a second career? Let us know if we can help.

[Bawanna]

I'm looking for a final career, can you help me with that too?

I gotta get away from the violets and politics and rules and stuff. Something that pays tons of money.

Making something or fixing something.

[b4uqzme]

^^^ or selling something? I know folks looking for good salespeople... :)

[BigHairyGobbler]

Does the name imply you're a Hokie? ...
Nope, not a Hokie, "BigHairyGobbler" refers to the nickname we gave Tira, our beloved English Springer Spaniel who passed away last month. She really wasn't that big but she was hairy and loved to gobble food, sticks, bones, and she caught a dozen birds and even more squirrels. Good dog who we can never replace...love and miss her dearly...

[Bawanna]

You gotta love a Springer Spaniel. Sorry for you loss.

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n538/hopke5/DSC01970.jpg (http://s1138.photobucket.com/user/hopke5/media/DSC01970.jpg.html)

[BigHairyGobbler]

You gotta love a Springer Spaniel. Sorry for you loss.



Appreciate the sentiment...they are great pets. Nice grips BTW...

Miss her a lot because she was fine, I deployed for 7 months, then I come back and she's not herself mentally. Then a few months later and four vets scratching their heads and we find out she's got liver cancer (and most likely a tumor in her brain to cause her to not be herself). So I never got to enjoy the homecoming doggy licks and her being by my side...tough losing a dog, tougher when you gotta euthanize them but it's part of loving them.

[BigHairyGobbler]

I looked everywhere and can't find an RSS feed subscription button...do these forums have RSS feeds?

[Bawanna]

Losing a pet / friend is always tough, your ordeal seems even worse than usual.

I made those grips for an older fella in California, his son in law works here with me. He delivered them and took video of him breaking them out of the box. He cried....I cried seeing him cry.

He was really into Springers. He had a bum ticker and ended up passing away a few years ago, I cried again.

His wife kept one side of the grips for herself and sent me the other half, we had become very good long distance friends. He was quite a character. I been meaning to order some more pins and make another set, haven't got round to it.

[Bawanna]

What's an RSS feed? I have no clue.

[BigHairyGobbler]

I have RSS feeds copied into my RSS reader so I can read all my news in one place. I use https://theoldreader.com/ and then read on iPad using Reeder2. .


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[mr.ed]

BHG - welcome t retirement. Happens to all who serve. Don't worry about finding a job, it'll come. The look is a little longer these days but it'll come. Send a note to Loren at loren.heckelman@cox.net and ask him to add you to the Norfolk NAVNET. It's a group of retired, mostly Navy, but don't mind the squibs, officers and enlisted looking to network about jobs. He'll happily add you to the roster and he posts many jobs specifically for retired military in the Norfolks area.

Oh, and about the wife thing, I remember calling her with the perfect deal when I too bought my first weapon post retirement. When she said yes I checked the number I dialed. Since then she's become a shooter, has her own, and one morning when I left early for work, forgot my glasses, and failed to call her before I came back into the house I can only be thankful my glasses were in the kitchen as she had ... awaked, listened for noise in the house - heard it, then rolled off of the bed, grabbed her gun(with laser pointer), aimed at the door frame to the bedroom, and was prepared to shoot anything that came into the door frame, just as I trained her to do. Darned if women don't make great students! Anyway, she call me with an earful later and I congratulated her on doing what she had trained to do.

Best of luck

USA - Retired

[Dbholfo]

Welcome. If you you have a Top Secret clearance there is a network online posting jobs for people with clearances. My son got an internship at Lincoln Labs@MIT holding a clearance from working at Northrup Grumman.
https://www.clearancejobs.com/
There are several others as well.
My PM45 is a great companion, but my granddog is even better.