What do you love besides diving?

[DAJ]

What's ELR?

Extreme long range, generally 1,000 to 1,800 yards.

 

[rexman24]

Extreme long range, generally 1,000 to 1,800 yards.
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Nice! I am trying to put a few pics up, but I attach them and nothing happens, any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I am also not a phone wizard, but I guess that is obvious.

 

[Hoag]

Congrats on beating cancer and out living your genetic predisposition.
I love your photos, esp the typhoon and the galaxy, I like to take them but don't claim any adeptness in doing so.
I love anything to do with study of the universe. I think very few understand the distances involved/ if you do its hard to wrap your head around it. Around 25,000 light years to the center of our galaxy. Which is one of only billions. I really love the advances they are making with the telescopes.
I am eight there with you on skiing and still enjoy shooting, in basic training, I shot perfect on my M16 qualification and got a helicopter ride home, While everyone else got to march/run.
My family has a long military service history. What was your MOS, American military term for your job in the service?

Even though your reply was to @Ana, it looks like it might have been meant for me.
While in the RCAF, I was what was known (when I joined) as an "Air Weapons Controller." The name was later changed to Aerospace Controller when our career field merged with Military ATC. I sat in front of a computer screen that took all of the radar feeds from our Area of Responsibility (all of Canada for instance) and fused them onto a single display. If any aircraft did anything wrong, my job was to scramble armed fighters to intercept that aircraft and correct its behaviour. That could range from simply getting a visual identification to confirm who it is, right up to potentially engaging and destroying (shooting down) the aircraft. I was stationed in the North East Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in central New York as a part of a NORAD assignment on September 11th, 2001. It was some of my best friends who reacted that morning. In over 30 years of service, I never had to order a fighter pilot to shoot anyone down, but I have come VERY close a couple times.

Here is a pic of the very first time that I controlled an intercept of a pair of CF18 Hornets against a Soviet Bear flying off the east coast of Canada. The pilot of one of the Hornets was (then) Captain Chris Hadfield who later went on to become an astronaut, commander of the International Space Station, and best selling author. I crossed paths with him many years later, and had him sign the pic.

 

[Hoag]

Extreme long range, generally 1,000 to 1,800 yards.
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One of those rifles looks a LOT like one that I had. As a retirement gift to myself, I ordered a custom precision rifle based on an Accuracy International chassis. I never got anywhere that I could stretch it out beyond 300m, but at 300m, you could cover a 10 shot group with the base of a coke can.

 

[rexman24]

Even though your reply was to @Ana, it looks like it might have been meant for me.
While in the RCAF, I was what was known (when I joined) as an "Air Weapons Controller." The name was later changed to Aerospace Controller when our career field merged with Military ATC. I sat in front of a computer screen that took all of the radar feeds from our Area of Responsibility (all of Canada for instance) and fused them onto a single display. If any aircraft did anything wrong, my job was to scramble armed fighters to intercept that aircraft and correct its behaviour. That could range from simply getting a visual identification to confirm who it is, right up to potentially engaging and destroying (shooting down) the aircraft. I was stationed in the North East Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in central New York as a part of a NORAD assignment on September 11th, 2001. It was some of my best friends who reacted that morning. In over 30 years of service, I never had to order a fighter pilot to shoot anyone down, but I have come VERY close a couple times.

Here is a pic of the very first time that I controlled an intercept of a pair of CF18 Hornets against a Soviet Bear flying off the east coast of Canada. The pilot of one of the Hornets was (then) Captain Chris Hadfield who later went on to become an astronaut, commander of the International Space Station, and best selling author. I crossed paths with him many years later, and had him sign the pic.

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Yes I am not sure why sometimes my responses end up attached to the wrong post sorry. I am not a technology pro.

 

[rexman24]

Yes I am not sure why sometimes my responses end up attached to the wrong post sorry. I am not a technology pro.

Very interesting job you had, 9/11 must have been a day you and colleagues will not forget anytime soon, as is the case with myself any many others as well. It must be very difficult to contemplate that shoot down order. On that day, it became obvious at some point, that no one on those planes was coming home.
I was very close to becoming an Air Traffic Controller at one point. I think I'm glad it did not happen. It is claimed to be one of the most stressful jobs around. Good chance I would not be here, enjoying my time in the coral triangle and doing a lot of great diving. Thank you for your service!

 

[NothingClever]

6) figuring out correct proportions of food/exercise so I don't grow out of my dry or wet suits

Man, ain’t that the truth…me, too!

 

[RobPNW]

I used to love playing with the frisbee with my dog until he passed. Dogs don't live long enough

 

[DAJ]

One of those rifles looks a LOT like one that I had. As a retirement gift to myself, I ordered a custom precision rifle based on an Accuracy International chassis. I never got anywhere that I could stretch it out beyond 300m, but at 300m, you could cover a 10 shot group with the base of a coke can.

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Here is an older pic that shows them better. The top two are AIAX rifles. One in 6.5 and the other in .338. I have since changed out the optics and the 6.5 has a Tangent Theta and the .338 is running a ZCO. The one on the bottom is an EDM Arms 50.

 

[DAJ]

Nice! I am trying to put a few pics up, but I attach them and nothing happens, any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I am also not a phone wizard, but I guess that is obvious.

No idea. I just select the pic icon, click the box and select the photo from my ipad. Then I select use and it adds it to the thread.