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Nice looking car.... why does it remind me of Christine?
 
Might have been enlisted for several years before putting on the bars. LT would be about right for a prior enlisted.
 
I agree with Gordo. Some senior non-comms are promoted to Warrant Officer, but some are offered OCS, especially if they have been taking college level correspondence courses and are close to earning a Bachelor's degree.

Scott
 
25 years in the Navy reserve and my brother made Capt.
 
They left the barn standing when they filled the dam???

Floating debris from trees, barns, houses, etc would create havoc on reservoir operation.
 
gsalt57tr3 said:
They left the barn standing when they filled the dam???

Floating debris from trees, barns, houses, etc would create havoc on reservoir operation.
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One would think, yet apparently that was common practice "back then"! Nowadays, if something like that were to happen, I'd assume that most everything would be removed first to prevent chemical and any other contamination...something like one quart of motor oil is enough to ruin 250,000 gallons of water....?
 
Well there is a whole industry associated with recovering sunken logs from the bottom of lakes for lumber. These are logs that sank while being floated down stream for milling. Some have been there 50+ years and are entirely usable. Cold fresh water I guess is not as distructive as you might think. Still sounds like a bit of a tall story though.
 
If anybody wants a good storyline for their car sale,
how about starting with this:

A young female Red Cross worker goes to Kenya;
buys a car; gets covered in volcanic ash....then
48 years later.....
 
Entertaining tale, but having lived up there, most lakes are sandy, not silty, also I think somewhat acidic. I've personally pulled metal junk off the bottom of those lakes and trust me, they don't look the same as when they went in.

Also, as a chemical engineer who's forgetten more than he learned, I do wonder what caused the rubber bits to fall apart but left the metal - maybe it was a school of Musky nibbling away.

Randy
 
TR4nut said:
Also, as a chemical engineer who's forgetten more than he learned, I do wonder what caused the rubber bits to fall apart but left the metal - maybe it was a school of Musky nibbling away.Randy
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...or maybe it was the same thing that caused the front bumper face bar to morph into a TR2 / early TR3 type bar. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Just an FYI on the rank (it's all rank) part of the story. You have to go to OCS prior to your 32nd Bday if you want a commission to leave enough time for the service to get their investment out of you, huge time to get promoted. No one, and I mean no one would ever want to retire as a Lt. A senior Staff Sergeant would have a better retirement check.
Retiring as a Captain in the Navy is good as a Naval Captain (ship commander) is equivalent to a full Col. in the Army, AF, Marines.
I did 33 years active and never saw a LT. retire (unless retired due to combat wounds/disability). It wouldn't happen, a LT may get out of the service but it's imposs due to regs to retire at that rank.
 
prb51 said:
a LT may get out of the service but it's imposs due to regs to retire at that rank.
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And some folks aren't so precise with language ... leaving a profession can be considered "retiring" even if one doesn't qualify for retirement benefits.
 
Back to the car!!!


"I have some swamp land in Florida if yer interested"

I would need to see resoration pix before I bid!
(Does kinda look nice thou)
 
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