AdamD19DFK8
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- Adam
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- 2020 FK8 Type R, 2007 Civic Si Sedan
Yeah I'll just take mine down when I get near the state line. I have an Escort Max 360c as well. Really nice device. Has saved me several times already. Depending on the terrain it usually picks up their Ka band around 30-60 seconds (around a mile) or so before they're in visual range. It's a good thing most cops just leave theirs on the whole time, makes it really easy to detect. If they were to just to sit with it off and then turn it on when you're already in sight you'd be boned either way lol. Annoying thing is the detector gets a lot of false readings, even in the middle of nowhere for some reason. If there's actually a threat it lights all the way up and rings steadily so it's easy to differentiate. False/weak readings just slowly beep.... continuously. Always find myself reaching over the center console to the 12v port and hitting the mute button. I mount mine right next to my camera which is just below the mirror so I can't exactly reach the mute button on the device. It should be very useful in NC on the tail.Adam,
Retired AF here@25 yrs, Still involved is ‘bout all I wanna’ say here.
In VA detectors are illegal, can be fined, confiscated but not likely. It’d be good to take it down just prior and turn it off. I was there four months in ‘19. Forgot to turn mine off (it defaults on at start and found even with it out of view, truckers just keep theirs on but not viz. Advanced police radars can detect some and can play a little cat-mouse-gotcha game so if on, don’t be surprised if they ask where it is along with lic® read of this, not first hand exp). Mine can alert falsely on other detector I.F. Emmisions and using spectrum analyzer display and directional indications , it showed me this, kept it off unplugged after, not worth losing $600 Max 360 plus ticket fines.
I have a large Tonka black window sticker if you’d like to make ‘Tonk’ sound a real thing? Wife mandated withholdings if placed on Ridgeline. I’m not crazy about giving it away but might swap for refreshing non -alc beverage.
My recordings up there might have subtle clanking of golf club heads
Almost there! I got out in 2014 so there were still combat deployments and it wasn't full garrison mode. I got lucky (I guess in a way I later perceived it) when I got to my unit in 1st BCT 4thID they were in Afghanistan at the time, so I was on rear detatchment for a bit before they came back. At first I was bummed that I wouldn't get to actually do my job. Later on I made peace with it since being a combat arms MOS, whose job was to be out there first to do reconnaissance for the whole brigade before they roll in, (this of course is in the conventional warfare doctrine, not COIN) I dodged death/disability and full blown PTSD. When we did actually deploy it was to Kuwait.... to guard the Kuwaiti's own "Naval base". Being right on the persian gulf was wild, It would be 120-130 degrees and since it was on the water you'd get high humidity. The walls of the buildings and even the sand/dirt would get damp. One night it actually poured down rain, I woke up confused as hell wondering what on earth was going on as it pounded against the metal roof of our platoon bay. When I first came into Arifjan for processing it was coming from cool late summer/early fall Colorado weather to middle of the desert, the breeze hurts your face, you can just feel it radiating from the sand heat. Took me a week or so to acclimate. Most days I wouldn't bother going to lunch since the defac was pretty far away and I was in a sleep a bunch kinda mood since we weren't where we were supposed to be yet and didn't have anything to do. Also I didn't see a single cloud for 3-4 months straight. One day at my guard post I looked up and exclaimed, "What the hell is that!!" lolThe military has been zero-defect for awhile. You don’t really get to do anything wrong in your personal or professional life... they just replace you.
Here’s one from a couple weeks ago. No one really learns and grows from errors... because you’re gotten rid of unless you’re pretty junior. It’s sad... but it’s how things are. It’s been a long time coming.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/taskan...quadron-commander-his-job-2644999693.amp.html
It’ll be 18 this coming October. Made chief (E7) in 8 years and some change. Took that long again to get the next one. A very long 8 years. Glad you got out if it’s what you wanted. There’s still a big chunk of me that loves it, though many days I don’t really like it... if that makes sense. I see this next tour as my last hurrah. I never thought I’d make 7 and I did. Never thought I’d make 8 and they finally saw it fit to give it to me after years of eligibility. I doubt I’ll make 9 and, if I do... unless they let me kick babies and kiss ass or vice verse at the shore duty of my choice, I’ll probably ride off in the sunset from a sea tour.
I miss it sometimes, the comradery is unlike anything you would ever experience in the civilian world. You get paid to do things you would never get to experience otherwise. That is of course after countless hours waiting around wayyy earlier than you need to. We went to the national training center in the mojave desert, the terrain was incredible and very challenging. Got to do some of the craziest, thrilling, and most terrifying offroading you would ever get to do. Plus not worry about breaking anything and having to pay for it. I drove our hmmwv so hard that at one point I managed to snap half of the studs off one of the wheel hubs. Didn't notice it until daybreak after we sat in an OP over night. Drove it back to the HQ assembly area, grabbed a hacksaw and cut the welds of the bolts on the spare tire rack on the back of the truck, then put those into the wheel hub, good as new lol. There was a crazy amount of flat tires throughout the whole Squadron, I forget the actual number, well north of 100 I know. I just broke a wheel hub instead. Switched between being the driver and the gunner. We were sitting on the side of the mountain and I had eyes on an enemy OP 3-5 kilometers out with our LRASS (a giant half million dollar beast of an observation device, you can pick someone up 25k away with it) with an Apache hovering right over us as I relayed the grid and lased it with a seperate laser as the PEQ-15 on the .50 wasn't strong enough. Walked the laser onto target and from my position I only saw 2 of them, but behind down the hill there were 8 more sitting there. Our truck had the most "kills" in our Troop.
Not to mention all the cool excercises you get to do and things to shoot and blow up. This all equates to about maybe 2-4% of your time in. The other 96% is shitty details, cleaning, waiting around for final formation and copious amounts of bullshit. I would have destroyed my body if I stayed in, especially at that MOS. Changing MOS was never an option either to me, as a side effect of my pride, and "not wanting to be some bitch ass POG" (pronounced pogue) lolol
ON TOPIC:
Today I made my reservation at the resort and put in for vacation from work. All is a GO! Should probbbably change my oil before the trip as I'll be putting on a lot of miles.
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