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[buzzbomb]

Well, we will just have to find out now won't we?!
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Darn. You win. Hai-Lee is still buying, though.

 

[buzzbomb]

I'm having to pull up a chair at the bar somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I'll take a boilermaker, thank you very much. Goldschlager and PBR. Jack Daniels and Miller will work in a pinch. Maybe another, thank you. Last I checked, PMRC was buying. You can put it on his tab...

I haven't been able to build a thing. I keep wanting to get to my RC aircraft, since I'm off today, but I can't care about it.

My son, my only child Is at MEPS. He's doing it. Right now, he is doing it. Just like I did. Only I went for a technical specialty. He's going for a combat MOS. Assuming he gets through MEPS, there is likely no waiting period to get into his MOS. Unless I miss my guess, he'll be leaving my mother and I very shortly after he graduates High School.

The three of us have taken care of each other for so long. The Journey Continues. I don't always like it.

 

[PoorManRC]

God Speed to your Son!! Every one of us who signed that blank check Knows....
Excitement and Fear, all rolled up in a buzzcut. My Mom was petrified, my Dad was Proud.
I'm not going to imagine that I know how you're feeling, but I do remember that anxiety.

As far as your journey, you're doing great!! I've had some big bumps in the road, so have you... We're both finding solutions, with a bunch of help from our friends here.

Be grateful to be able to send your Son off..... I lost my only Daughter over 2 years ago. The pain just gets worse.
Just don't let him go, without him knowing how you feel about him.

 

[Alexander Carter]

Your family is in my prayers.

 

[kilroy07]

The Journey Continues. I don't always like it.

Thoughts and prayers Brother, Thoughts and prayers!

 

[buzzbomb]

He didn't make it through MEPs. We've got to get him to a doctor tomorrow (well later today) to check out an issue with an ear. If we can get it done tomorrow (later today), he'll go back to MEPs on Monday/Tuesday.

He was so crestfallen, poor guy. He wants this so bad. I told him all that's happened is another step has been added. We'll take that step and it's no big deal.

Assuming all goes well at the Doc's we've got to get through the weekend. Shoot!!! It's killing me, not literally, or maybe so. I don't know anymore. I can't even imagine what he's feeling.

I so want this for him, because he wants it so much. I'm so afraid of it all at the same time. I just realized I keep thinking of him as a four-year old. The joys of parenthood. Bartender, I'll have another boilermaker, please. Rounds are on me.

 

[buzzbomb]

As far as the build goes? I'm not going to fly that janky dihedral wing on the TT. (Yes, I'm crossposting between threads because I forget which has the latest build info.) I am both focused and unfocused at the same time right now. Sorry.

I want to remove all the variables that I can on my first flight. Even with my "repair" it still seems like it's just going to fold. Common sense has prevailed. (Thank you PMRC, it was your journey through your own hard-headedness, that taught me to let go of mine.) I've got plans, I've got foamboard. I'll just build another wing.

I've got the electronics working. Honestly though, I think the next step is not going to involve foamboard. I want some simulator time before I take the TT out on it's maiden. I think my next step is to get that simulator set up and crash a simulated plane a whole lot.

 

[buzzbomb]

Be grateful to be able to send your Son off..... I lost my only Daughter over 2 years ago. The pain just gets worse.
Just don't let him go, without him knowing how you feel about him.

I can not imagine what you went and are going through, either. It would be disrespectful for me to even try. There simply is no way to truly understand it until you go through it. God be with you and your's.

Myself? I am not going to forget the last sentence of your post. Promise.

 

[PoorManRC]

He didn't make it through MEPs. We've got to get him to a doctor tomorrow (well later today) to check out an issue with an ear. If we can get it done tomorrow (later today), he'll go back to MEPs on Monday/Tuesday.

He was so crestfallen, poor guy. He wants this so bad. I told him all that's happened is another step has been added. We'll take that step and it's no big deal.

Assuming all goes well at the Doc's we've got to get through the weekend. Shoot!!! It's killing me, not literally, or maybe so. I don't know anymore. I can't even imagine what he's feeling.

I so want this for him, because he wants it so much. I'm so afraid of it all at the same time. I just realized I keep thinking of him as a four-year old. The joys of parenthood. Bartender, I'll have another boilermaker, please. Rounds are on me.

He will get through MEPS!! They check for so many things now! The whole thing seemed so much easier back in the Day. With the need for Recruits, you'd think they'd make the Enlistment process a little easier.....

I'll take a 7&7... Double!

 

[PoorManRC]

As far as the build goes? I'm not going to fly that janky dihedral wing on the TT. (Yes, I'm crossposting between threads because I forget which has the latest build info.) I am both focused and unfocused at the same time right now. Sorry.

I want to remove all the variables that I can on my first flight. Even with my "repair" it still seems like it's just going to fold. Common sense has prevailed. (Thank you PMRC, it was your journey through your own hard-headedness, that taught me to let go of mine.) I've got plans, I've got foamboard. I'll just build another wing.

I've got the electronics working. Honestly though, I think the next step is not going to involve foamboard. I want some simulator time before I take the TT out on it's maiden. I think my next step is to get that simulator set up and crash a simulated plane a whole lot.

From what I've been learning, the single Dihedral, without Ailerons (3 Channel), seems the best way to get Flying from zero!

Real Flying has not helped my Simulator experience.... at all. However, it's been a great help with getting me used to Stick Memory!

 

[buzzbomb]

Real Flying has not helped my Simulator experience.... at all. However, it's been a great help with getting me used to Stick Memory!

Yep. That's what I'm after. If you're following me, the biggest issue with my kluge quad was that I panicked. Then I started pushing the wrong sticks. I was totally confused, and instead of down and forward I went up and back and just totally lost it to the point I dropped throttle and let it fall.

I've got a capable controller. I've RealFlight 7 with Phoenix 5 and the 22 in 1 cable (rather impressive that last). I've just got to get it set up, and I am so brain-dead after work. I'm off Monday. Cross your fingers.

 

[buzzbomb]

On a note unrelated to flying, but totally relevant to this thread? My son went to our clinic today, and the Nurse Practitioner referred him to the Doctor who wouldn't touch whatever is in his ear. He says it's completely benign (Thank you, Lord!) It's just pimple sized and is too close to his ear drum for them to do anything with it, but it's gotta come out.

He's been referred to an ear specialist. I'll keep you posted. Mostly since I can't help myself. I so worry for his combat life expectancy, but he wants to do this, so I want him to be able to do it.

Bartender! I'll have a Soju with Gatorade (green) mix. More Soju than Gatorade, please. Yeah, I know it sounds really nasty. It's like the only liquor on the planet that mixes well with Gatorade. Dehydration offset by hydration and you can get really drunk. Make it two. Actually, make it six. I can pass them around and we've an extra that everyone else will turn down... Plus I've now bought two rounds (got an extra drink) and.... Ooohhh. Kilroy's turn next.

What do you mean he doesn't have a tab? I didn't create this place for somebody not to have a tab! This is the bar somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Everyone has a tab!

I love ya'll in my way. Strangers on the internet understanding and connecting. Life can be hard. It can also be good.

 

[PoorManRC]

FANTASTIC NEWS Brother!!! So basically, your Son should need not much more than an Outpatient Procedure.
Praise God it was Benign!!

Yeah, I could use about 3 or 4........ 6-Packs about now!

 

[PoorManRC]

I've no solution for the Gulf War Syndrome. I handled my own PTSD by confessing what caused it to my mom. Twenty years (plus or minus, I'm not going to work it out. It was the first Gulf War.) after the fact.

I'm working through every angle to throw my only child in to an even worse situation. I have so many conflicting thoughts about that, that my fingers are frozen on the keyboard and my mind is locked. How does one deal with that?

First, there's NO real solution to GWS.... Not in the case of anyone I knew who had it. 3 of them offed themselves. Just keep breathing!
The flashbacks, nightmares, visions, anxiety..... Whatever else you're forced to deal with.....
Just try to tell yourself that you're needed, and you'll always have a Family that loves you and COUNTS on you.
It's absurdly cliché, but One Day at a Time, Brother!!

I don't believe that your Kid is in trouble! Some Primary Doctors panic a bit over things outside of their usual practice....
We just experienced similar when my Wife developed a small hematoma from her Chemo Port. No big deal, right under the skin...
Her Doctor WOULDN'T do it! She sent us to the Oncologist, who removed it in 15 minutes - with an ENORMOUS Co-Pay (which we ABSOLUTELY couldn't afford!!!).

Constant things like that is what put us in the Dire situation we're in now.

Your Boy may be going to a worst situation..... But remember, he's going in better prepared, and better equipped!! I realize that's not a huge comfort for a Parent, but I'm sure you understand that the efficiency of today's Weapon Systems is so much better than anything we had. So are the Personnel Defensive Systems!!

And I only got this from scuttlebutt.... But I hear that they now roll out Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and various other Food Trucks off of C-17's at DZs all over the World!!

I only remember getting SIX varieties of MREs was a BIG DEAL, back in the first Desert War!!!

 

[buzzbomb]

First, there's NO real solution to GWS.... Not in the case of anyone I knew who had it. 3 of them offed themselves. Just keep breathing!
The flashbacks, nightmares, visions, anxiety..... Whatever else you're forced to deal with.....
Just try to tell yourself that you're needed, and you'll always have a Family that loves you and COUNTS on you.
It's absurdly cliché, but One Day at a Time, Brother!!

I don't believe that your Kid is in trouble! Some Primary Doctors panic a bit over things outside of their usual practice....
We just experienced similar when my Wife developed a small hematoma from her Chemo Port. No big deal, right under the skin...
Her Doctor WOULDN'T do it! She sent us to the Oncologist, who removed it in 15 minutes - with an ENORMOUS Co-Pay (which we ABSOLUTELY couldn't afford!!!).

Constant things like that is what put us in the Dire situation we're in now.

Your Boy may be going to a worst situation..... But remember, he's going in better prepared, and better equipped!! I realize that's not a huge comfort for a Parent, but I'm sure you understand that the efficiency of today's Weapon Systems is so much better than anything we had. So are the Personnel Defensive Systems!!

And I only got this from scuttlebutt.... But I hear that they now roll out Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and various other Food Trucks off of C-17's at DZs all over the World!!

I only remember getting SIX varieties of MREs was a BIG DEAL, back in the first Desert War!!!

You both made me feel better and made me smile. Thank you.

 

[PoorManRC]

You both made me feel better and made me smile. Thank you.

I'm really glad. Looking back at it, I feared it was too corny....
But you and I are faced with something that FEW really understand. There's a lot of Good People out there, many will try to emphathize, but they'll never really "get it". I always try to keep my patience around them, because I KNOW that even if they can't understand what exactly we're going through - they Care enough to help!!

Have you known anyone who was CAPTURED over there?? I've heard about a few, and heard directly from one....
Iraqi Containment was nothing like the FARCE that was the two Charlie Sheen Movies in the early 90's, which made a lot of us LMAO at Desert Storm. They WERE funny - but completely inaccurate!!

 

[buzzbomb]

Thankfully no one I was know was captured. I saw OUR camps from outside the fence. I don't know what the conditions on the other side of the fence actually were, but it looked like they were living pretty much as we were.

 

[PoorManRC]

I'm glad to hear that! It wasn't as bad as say..... Vietnam, but except for the sanitary conditions (which barely met UN Standards) but there WAS mistreatment. Some really bad.... Some were even treated quite well, not many, but there were some cases.

 

[buzzbomb]

The thing in his ear turned out to be dead skin cells. Apparently, it's a thing that just happens to a small percentage of the population. Left alone it would have grown and led to loss of hearing in that ear.

It's now been removed. He goes back to MEPS on Wednesday.

 

[buzzbomb]

As far as flying a foamboard plane goes, I'm still fighting the sim. I want the sim time before I take my TT up. Just a few hours to get the basics down. Working on it.