[RKDinOKC]

Tell your youngest I said "Happy Freakin Burpday!"

Met a guy back in my computer club days. He was a live at home military dude. He was in special forces. Had a cover job at Tinker AFB. He was gone for "job related training" for months at a time. Think that's why he lived at home. Was very gung ho as was the reset of his team. It was the late 80's. He was the communications officer. Showed me a device the size of an iPhone plus. It was a radio/satellite phone and had a laser target system in it. Just make a call, point the laser and the painted spot would blow up. Said the main thing they did was go in and train rebels. Said they could parachute 200 miles from a landing zone. Just from his stories of stuff they did off duty, sure am glad I was both on his side AND considered a friend!

Friend in HS got his private, then commercial while in college. He would sometimes take me on flights to get his hours in. Now he is president of a petroleum company in Houston. Spends all his free time in Disney World FL. His daughter is a manager there. He flies the company plane back and forth to visit her. Must be rough.