OMCHamlin
03-30-2022, 07:26 PM
Intradouche mysef. I've been a member here since 2018, and I just re-discovered what a nice place this seems to be...
Me?; I'm a retired Navy Chief (hence the "OMC" part of OMCHamlin) Now, for chuckles, is there any former (or active) squids that remember the OM rate? We worked on everything with glass in it, from Binos made before WWII, to ship's Big Eyes, Sextants, Alidades, Compasses, NVDs, and what eventually became my cursed specialty, submarine periscopes, and their associated sail systems, fairings, hull packing, etc... 40 some odd feet of brass and glass that was, in some cases, state of the art circa the late 40's - early 50's, up to.. well, much more current, at least as of 2000, when the rate was disestablished and contracted out, and I was forced to become an ETC, but I actually ended up being a ship's Maintenance and Material Management Coordinator (3MC). Retired in '06, changed clothes and went to work for Lockheed Martin at the same place as I retired (Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, VA), retired from THAT in 2018, worked part time doing taxes and then got a fun, cool, neato job working the gun counter at our little town's hardware store. Prior to joining up in '83, we lived in Sevierville, TN, and though I always wanted to retire around there, when we went looking, honestly, the Sevierville that I grew up in was LOONG gone, it had gone off the rails mega-tourist destination, and was not for me. They say that crap about "no man crosses the same river twice", I get it, he is not the same man, nor is it the same river...
But we ended up about two hours west of there, on about 5 acres, half wooded, enough room for a small range and within an hour to a 1K+ range (Dead Zero, if any locals recognize that name, in Spencer, TN, I think?)
I've loved dogs since they were bigger then me, and now have one 5 yr old rough collie, though he seems like two dogs at times...
Wife and I (a former squid herself) in Croatia (or somewhere out that way) circa 2000 or so...
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She's also a shooter, and has (and still can) cleaned my clock on occasion...
18775
Me?; I'm a retired Navy Chief (hence the "OMC" part of OMCHamlin) Now, for chuckles, is there any former (or active) squids that remember the OM rate? We worked on everything with glass in it, from Binos made before WWII, to ship's Big Eyes, Sextants, Alidades, Compasses, NVDs, and what eventually became my cursed specialty, submarine periscopes, and their associated sail systems, fairings, hull packing, etc... 40 some odd feet of brass and glass that was, in some cases, state of the art circa the late 40's - early 50's, up to.. well, much more current, at least as of 2000, when the rate was disestablished and contracted out, and I was forced to become an ETC, but I actually ended up being a ship's Maintenance and Material Management Coordinator (3MC). Retired in '06, changed clothes and went to work for Lockheed Martin at the same place as I retired (Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, VA), retired from THAT in 2018, worked part time doing taxes and then got a fun, cool, neato job working the gun counter at our little town's hardware store. Prior to joining up in '83, we lived in Sevierville, TN, and though I always wanted to retire around there, when we went looking, honestly, the Sevierville that I grew up in was LOONG gone, it had gone off the rails mega-tourist destination, and was not for me. They say that crap about "no man crosses the same river twice", I get it, he is not the same man, nor is it the same river...
But we ended up about two hours west of there, on about 5 acres, half wooded, enough room for a small range and within an hour to a 1K+ range (Dead Zero, if any locals recognize that name, in Spencer, TN, I think?)
I've loved dogs since they were bigger then me, and now have one 5 yr old rough collie, though he seems like two dogs at times...
Wife and I (a former squid herself) in Croatia (or somewhere out that way) circa 2000 or so...
18774
She's also a shooter, and has (and still can) cleaned my clock on occasion...
18775