sat comms and mission planning

did u launch in test phase or conflict?

conflict

well

we were not in direct conflict

but we were in the area and got a fire support mission

CM is a stand off weapon.....way off😂

so your system was close in Phalanx?

yeah technically i was not supposed to be watching the missions but they were in my division so i was behind the curtain

yea phalanx

when CM launches....everyone on board feels it...I've seem many a launch. Never gets old.

so ur got your 8 in so you r good for med. did u plan on career/retire?

not really. i just reenlisted for shore duty and got cut short at my training command

i was instructor at CIWS school in SD for a couple years

I see. Over 200 generals got bounced by Obummer too. Ever thought about re-up or reserves now?

but it was kind of a light separation anyway. i was going to fight it at court martial and then they reduced my case to a general under honorable so i just took it

no way re up. im about to go use my GI bill

Good for u. What' the plan for school?

im gonna go to a coding boot camp

3 month class for a couple programming languages and web development

i started going to college already but it was not for me

what part of the country are u in?

central texas

So ur thinking web development. What part the splash page stuff or interactive data management?

actually im probably gonna do both

they usually separate it into front end and back end services

but the front end is like emphasis on languages and the back end is a little more emphasis on analytics and networking

my daughter has 2 degrees in computer science and informatics. She's liking it but wants to do more of the analytics too. I try to push her into security (blockchain)

we'll see😂

yes. the blockchain is taking markets by storm. many people are deciding to use a blockchain for accounting rather than rely on a bank.

right, lots of opportunities that people are not looking at for blockchain as an enabling technology

the blockchain is also a very strong tool for just data management. large companies like IBM are using it to secure their intellectual property.

that is what I mean....it enables many more things than people have thought of yet. still very much emerging.

Still don’t fully trust or understand blockchain

blockchain is just an encryption system

its literally a chain of "blocks" or transactions

just means you have to maintain the whole record "chain" in order to update it

bitcoin uses a hashing algorithm which is just a really large math problem that forces computers to solve it before you can update the next block.

other "blockchains" can be made with other rules but its just a general idea

it prevents people from counterfitting electronic money by forcing everyone to keep the same record instead of double spending money or making a transaction and backing out etc

Hi @Kitty