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[lady_kishiria]

Well, I guess the experiment of letting 39-year-olds join the Army Reserves went over well, because now you can enlist in the Regular Army up to age 40. Steve doesn't want me to go RA as an enlisted, but there is really, truly no reason why I can't go green-to-gold now.

I'm just starting to feel I'm the Army equivalent of a perpetual student. When I do this, I'll still have spent almost all my time in uniform surrounded by drill sergeants.

Speaking of which, I've completed First Sgt Nye's homework assignment. I'll try to send it from the post office downtown tomorrow. Bean says that's an amusing PO to use because it's full of bums trying to mail their manifestos to every member of Congress.

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[patgund.livejournal.com]

Still thinking of OCS?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

That's what "green-to-gold" means. Enlisted to officer. I need to start the serious research.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought that was referencing reserve to regular. My bad.

Pity the AF hasn't raised their age. I'd be tempted to see if my knee has improved to the point I could enter.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Checked. Cut off age for regular AF is 28, for Reserve is 35. And I'm five-six weeks out from my 40th. Bother.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

The Air Force has people breaking down its doors to get in. On the other hand, nobody wants to be Army, although they've been meeting quotas the past few months.

[adeodatus.livejournal.com]

The age limits aren't static. They make exceptions all the time for people with much needed skills. I'm pretty sure you just have to have a pulse if you are a doctor. ;)

[patgund.livejournal.com]

(chuckle) Yeah, but the closest I come to that is ARC Emergency Responder certification. I've got multiple computer certifications, (ACHDS, ACDT, ACPT, and MCSE, working on ACTC and ACSA), as well as college degrees, but that's it.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Get ordained and they'll take you.

[adeodatus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just heard about this today. I think our recruiter likes to torture me because I can't join. I also heard about the enlistment bonuses ($40,000 just blows me away) and the new $1,000 referral program. Start harassing your friends to join up. ;-)

[patgund.livejournal.com]

BTW, icon love. :-)

[zeonchar.livejournal.com]

What's the homework?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

He has to read Beowulf and two of the funniest Canterbury Tales. Our running joke was that I was his English teacher. It turned out that he hated English, and I told him that if I'd been his teacher, he would have liked it. This is my evidence.

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

One of those had better not have been the Knight's Tale. . .

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Nope. The Miller, the Reeve, the Wife of Bath. The Knight's Tale isn't a funny one, though if he is drawn in by the fact that yes, literature CAN be entertaining, I hope he will read it.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember my 8th grade Drama teacher showing me, all hushed up ('cuz it was banned in school), the part of the Miller's Tale where Absolon kisses Alison's ass and when Nicholas "let flee a fart" (I still remember that line, to this day), to which Absolon shoves a poker up it.

The Farley brothers could not approach the hilarity and vulgarity of that story.

[youngfreud.livejournal.com]

I remember my 8th grade Drama teacher showing me, all hushed up ('cuz it was banned in school), the part of the Miller's Tale where Absolon kisses Alison's ass and when Nicholas "let flee a fart" (I still remember that line, to this day), to which Absolon shoves a poker up it.

The Farley brothers could not approach the hilarity and vulgarity of that story.