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2/ I read "The Phantom Blooper" when it came out in 1990 (I was in ROTC, I worked a side job in a bookstore, I got an employee discount, sprung for it in HC, IIRC). Only later learned it was the sequel to ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Blooper …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Did not realize you were a fellow ROTC a guy. It all makes more sense now.
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Replying to @umiami91
Sadly RIF-ed when the Berlin Wall fell and the Dems demanded a "peace dividend". Never got to serve :(
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Army? I Air Force and got commissioned the year before the RIF I think. Just barely made it. My year group was the smallest of the 5 years either side. My brother was Army enlisted and was actually in Europe then. Saw The Wall concert at the the Berlin Wall. Crazy times.
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Replying to @umiami91
Air Force. Cornell ROTC. Would've gotten commissioned in 92, I think.
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University of Miami. Air Force Det 155. And yes, more than half those 92 guys got cut at graduation, totally against their will. I was a December grad and waited 10 months for active duty. Which got me the benefit of being a 91 grad, but met promotion with 92 group…
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when I was cut, the USAF was trying everything they could to get rid of people. I had friends who had medical waivers issued years before, that got yanked. They were lucky - thrown out without any fault attributed. Then they started raising the min GPA. 2.5 -> 2.6 -> 2.7 -> 2.8
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my GPA was 2.98 or something. They raised the minimum to 3.0 ... and suddenly I was under it. ...and it was my fault for "failing to maintain military standards", so I was in violation of the contract. Punishment: report to Basic Training and serve 4 years enlisted. >>>
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I appealed the decision, and they decided to let me "merely" pay back the ROTC scholarship money. ...starting immediately. I appealed again, and they agreed to defer payback until I graduated 2 years later.
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“Taking care of Airmen”. Yeah. I ended up in a financial management field despite having a Mechanical Engineering degree. My first assignment I got my move paid in cash in about 15 minutes. By the time I left it was a 30-day standard that only got met if you were lucky.
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That’s what your books nail. The military bureaucracy and the DA soldiers. Yup yup yup.
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