looks liek you and me are the only ones up tonight crime

Comes with my shift; 2300-0700. The dark side. Bu I like it. This is when all the "interesting" people are out. And when we're not busy it affords me the chance to read through the days posts and get caught up.

Been at this shift for the better part of 14 years now. Only bothers me when my Reserve weekends come around and I have to convert to day shift hours. But its not that bad, and I love the nights. My daughter tells her friends , "All that's out at night is vampires, werewolves, weirdos, druggies, and my dad. And of those the worst is my dad." My little girl...God love here. In fact my tag line at mil.com she gave me..."Nothing exists in the dark that doesn't exsist in the light, except me." She knows me so well.

Howdy there crime. . .you should be getting to work about now. . .and if you respond to this this early you are definately slacking.

No slacking here. 0020 and already had one of my guys in a pursuit. In fact I'm sitting here watching the wrecker load the car. We and sent the driver to jail via the ER. Poss CDS, eluding, and whatever else we can think of. Its going to be a good night.

god you must love the job man. good we have cops out there like you who do.

ok,this thread seems to be dying,so lets have our newcomers put a face behind the name.
lets gooooo......

Trying this...Our anniverary in Aug 04http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/165grNosler/DA-anniv.jpg

Go to:

www.wasagaundersiege1812.com

click on the photos header and scroll down until you see an incredibly handsome young fellow in blue in front of a tent..I'll be the fat old f**t next to him in the Sgt. stripes...

[ taken last year at the annual shoot up - Rocket Troop of Royal Horse Artillery - hence my handle ]

great pic 165grNosler!

This is why I call myself TOW Gunner:
http://www.militaryspot.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=34

Since I was in a MEUSOC, I was lucky enough to fire three TOW 2 missiles (in training, never saw combat).

Tow Gunner....just when were you on the Tarawawa?

OK, how do you actually post the pic instead of just a link??

I was on the Tarawawawa from June to December 1989.

Little later than when I was on her. Mine was Jun through Mar 83-84 One long ass deployment which included Beruit. Yeah, that one.

Regardless, You and I have stood in the same lines, ate the same chow, argued with some of the same squids, gotten drunk with many of the same said squids......geez even the friggin linin wuz probably the same

Well, the Tarawa was my home for six months. It took me to a lot of cool places, including Subic, Thailand, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Korea, etc. Of course the Marines stay in the berthing area in the bottom of the ship. Super crowded. But several of us would go to different parts on the ship and watch the ocean. You could go out on the aft and watch the ship's wake. Sometimes you would see dolphins, sharks, or whales (near Japan). And then there were the flying fish - straight out of Darwin's theory. At night, since you were hundreds if not thousands of miles from shore, you could see many stars and even satellites, which looked like tiny stars cruising across the sky. When they would dump the trash at sea, the sharks would show up. If you shined a spotlight down you could see dozens of sharks feeding off the trash. Then there was the well-deck. My TOW Hummers were to be the first to hit the beach, along with some .50 cals from Heavy Weapons platoon. So we were prepositioned on the LCACS. Whenever the LCACS would go out, we would sit in our Humvees for the ride. But it was a bitch getting down into the well deck with all of our equipment.

Before the Tarawa, I was also on another Westpac from Jan 88 to Jun 88 on the LHA Peleliu.