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#1 Going to the IDF

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Tomorrow, at 7:30AM, I leave the civvie life. Hopefully I'll still be home on every weekend, if not, bye all for a while. :smile:
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Good luck, Ace.
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Have fun, and always remember to wear a clean pair of knickers.You never know when you might get run over by an APC.
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good luck man, just remember, never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.
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*HUGS* Good luck, Ace. Take care of yourself.
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*big hugs to Daniel*

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Best of luck, Ace. And remember that if you manage to get yourself killed, I know people who can truly make your afterlife miserable so it's in your best interest to stay alive even more than would ordinarily be the case.
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Keep your head down and your feet dry.
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About damn time :P.
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I'm going to miss you. Stay safe out there man and come home soon.
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Take care of yourself, man. Stay blessed.
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I'm home for the weekend. I'll have a nice amusing list of "things Ace has learned not to do in boot camp" up later but so far I can tell people i'm surviving quite well. Mostly.
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"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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Talk to Frigid, he'll give you scarey bootcamp tales. :wink:
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Good luck. :smile:
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LadyTevar wrote:Talk to Frigid, he'll give you scarey bootcamp tales. :wink:
The best ones are from MOS school ;)
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Kick ass Ace. Stay healthy. :grin:
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And done with boot. Sunday starts our equivilent of I guess MOS school. Was fun. Had pretty good food for a boot camp, since it's an active intel base and you want to give those guys good food.
Came out sick, turns out sharing a room with 8 people and no circulation during winter leads to sickness.
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Dorsk 81: this is why I support the separation of Aces eyebrow's, something that ugly should never be joined

Mayabird:You see what this place does to us? It's like how Eskimos have their 16 names for snow. We have to precisely define what shafting we're receiving.

"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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Ah Boot Camp Crud, truly thou art universal in thy reach.
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Only 2 weeks of Bootcamp?
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LadyTevar wrote:Only 2 weeks of Bootcamp?
The IDF sees no reason to have a longer period of bootcamp for people whose primary job role is in an office doing work rather than field ops.
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Dorsk 81: this is why I support the separation of Aces eyebrow's, something that ugly should never be joined

Mayabird:You see what this place does to us? It's like how Eskimos have their 16 names for snow. We have to precisely define what shafting we're receiving.

"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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I prefer the Marine style myself but if it works it works. They did at least teach you which end of the rifle is the dangerous end right?
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I would probably have also enjoyed a marine style boot, or atleast the 5 week version of what I did.
And yes, I did basic marksmanship and all that. I'm qualified enough to do guard duty in places where they think I might actually end up having to use the gun.
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Dorsk 81: this is why I support the separation of Aces eyebrow's, something that ugly should never be joined

Mayabird:You see what this place does to us? It's like how Eskimos have their 16 names for snow. We have to precisely define what shafting we're receiving.

"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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Marine bootcamp is 13 weeks, not 5.
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frigidmagi wrote:Marine bootcamp is 13 weeks, not 5.
That's why I was surprised Ace was out so fast.
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