E4 No More

I was talking about Doug.

Well, since he's on this forum I assume that his computer is internet facing. There are other threats but I doubt they're a concern considering where he now lives.

Is that a robot's tampon attached to the side?

The problem with running an unsupported OS is that vulnerabilities will not be patched.

You need to look at the requirements for Windows 10 and see if your computer matches or exceeds them. If you cannot upgrade memory drive capacity, and CPU then you'd certainly need a new computer. You can check this by going to System Information where it will give you what your system has installed. I work for a large computer company here in town if you need a new one. I get 17% off and have access to the outlet site which is refurbished computers that aren't really refurbished; they were just returned for one reason or another. Anyway, payment options would be limited. PM me if you're interested and I'll be glad to help.

My wife drinks that in her hot tea during the winter.

It was ruined already!

That's good to hear.

Well, I was wrong about the rank reduction. They knocked him down to an E-6. Seems harsh when he served 9 months for a 4 month sentence.

I don't think the charge of taking a picture over a dead enemy will warrant getting kicked out. I doubt he'd even see a reduction in grade - particularly with the publicity of his whole ordeal: however, I seem to recall something saying that he was retiring and the charges delayed him being able to retire.

When I was in school the only time we saw a cop was if they were there to arrest someone or investigating a crime. Both were very rare occurrences.

The elected officials are the ones who are supposed to represent Memphis. Memphis can change its image if it so desired, but it doesn't.

You mean like your cop-bashing?

Really not cool to characterize all SROs as Scott Peterson.

You have a Jitterbug!!??

If I'd gone the mustang route I would have hoped to at least retired as a full-bird Colonel. When I was in they were slowing down on the Master Gunnery Sergeant and Warrant Officer ranks quite a bit. So much so that I knew of several Master Sergeants who put in for, and received, re-designation to First Sergeant so that they could advance to Sergeant Major.

Yeah, I hear of double and triple dippers too, meaning, retiring from the military young and then working one or two government jobs to retirement so that you get two or three times the retirement pay from Uncle Sam. I couldn't imagine working for the post office though. From things I've heard their management has their heads perpetually stuck up their butts.

I don't have the tolerance for other people's kids to have become a SRO.

I'm old and grumpy enough to be a Master Gunnery Sergeant by now! There are many times that I wonder what my life would have been like had I stayed in. I probably would have stayed in if I didn't have a wife and three kids. I know I'd have been more likely to have gone through the program to become a mustang had I stayed in. My CO pushed me fairly hard for that but the Marine Corps life is much harder on spouses.

When I was a LEO I read about a lot of cases where highly trained LEOs didn't react as they were trained. Some ran away and some missed their target from 3 feet. Training does not predict how an individual will react when gets real in a hurry!

LOL! I've been out since 1986.

I have yet to find one in a store near me. I do have my name on a list at Gunmart.

Yeah, as a former LEO I don't understand it at all. That's sarcasm, BTW. Humans will do what humans will do regardless of what they are taught or not taught. We see it on the news of HCP holders doing stupid things regardless of their training.

Not really. An attacker knows who to shoot first.

Since the law holds people to a legal standard in both self-defense and negligence situations I think it should be up to the individual to decide what training they need.