You had me at *if*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMHmwHJJGZE

@Jeremy the fucking desert

OIF and OEF

@Kealor hmmmm, I hadn't thought of it this way

The only perk being a new pair of boots each week.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Was the sign-on bonus decent?

Each week? I had the same 2 pair the whole time I was there

15k for me re up

And I got to go to Korea

Really? You must've not spent that much time on the ground in the ME, then. You trek around for a week, and you'll be down to the soles of your feet, but I suppose the longevity is dependent upon the issue, some more durable than others.

Right on.

Did you manage to spend any time in Busan, by any chance?

I was a mechanic

I didn't have to trek anywhere but to the hangar.

15N?

I went to Busan for 2 weeks and stayed in a Korean barracks to ship 24 Chinooks to be refitted to the new Golf models

15U

Working on the CH-47s, eh?

That's what a Chinook is, yes :3

Must've been a blast.

They're good birds

That, they are. How was the stay in Busan? Find yourself a Korean a mare for a time?

😏

Ah, yeah, I had myself a little love bird out there at one point in time.

I got to go onto town twice. I was stuck in the port the rest of the time, eating MREs and from one of those portable mess things. I forget what they were called, but the ones the cooks kinda fold out into a chow line

I wasnt very sociable in the military. It took me a long time to get used to humanity

A DFAC?

Mostly barracks ratted it up

@Jeremy no that would imply a more permanent structure. I mean the portable kitchen trailer thing that they boiled C rats at :p

Man, that's a terrible way to spend your time in Busan, as there's plenty of young, European women about, ready for the picking.

A SERT?

Well I didn't have an option. No transportation and the port was far away from town

I dunno, like I said I don't remember the name if there was one. I wasn't the for leisure, I was there for a specific mission

I was stationed at Humphreys

One of these

Are any of us *really* accustomed to humanity as it is, anyway? I understand what you mean, though.

Yeah, that looks like a SERT.

It took me a long time to develop a decent personality and not be able to/ want to interact with people much. I'm still very solitary and insular, but not to the degree I used to be.