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[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, same with my dad. Since he had enlisted he had gotten a masters, so they wanted to make him an officer, starting at some decent rank. However they wanted him to continue on with the types of locations he was being stationed at. He did a lot of work on test, and spy, aircraft, and did all that consulting travel. So they kept putting him in basically the middle of nowhere, but locations that either had a lot of traffic for things like spy aircraft, or they were geographically kinda centered, to travel between a number of locations, to work at, with that place being home base. He said he would do it if they sent him back to Vegas, or put him in Hawaii, or Edwards in southern California, or one of the major spots in Virginia, something other than arctic outposts, and a super rural areas. At the time we were stationed at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho... He hated it. But no, they wanted him to stay there for a few years, then get moved a rather remote location in the midwest. So he retired after 22 years.

[-] foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

and you had wished he owned a Starlink beacon?

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[-] foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

you could interpret my post as pointing out that you elaborated a lot on your father's participation in imperial power projection, but added nothing to the topic.

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's because it isn't worth it, for me, to discuss it with you. Have a nice day.

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