>>>>>Jerry;
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>>>>>I am idealistic ? to a point. When I was 18 after one year in the Air Force, we got a new Officer In Charge (OIC). He wanted to make a name for himself and get promoted to Major so he gave away thousands of dollars of new electronics equipment we had just received and needed to do our job, to Generals.
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>>>>> I was aggravated for many reasons and went to our First Sargent. The First Sargent suggested going to the Base Legal Officer. ?Who is that?, I Asked? ?Why Captain _____?! was the reply. ?Why that is my OIC?! The First Sargent then told me a story about himself. ?He said, ?When I was your age something similar happened and I went to the Inspector General. Less than 24 hours later I found myself in Greenland, beginning a one year tour?! I got the message and kept my mouth closed.
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>>>>>By the way the Inspector General (IG) has the reputation in the Air Force that you will have full immunity from harassment if you divulge such information. However, it is not true as the ?boys club? good old boys that is, looks after it?s own.
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>>>>>Tom
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>>>>That's a fact. Look at how many whistle blowers thought that the Reagan whistle blower legislation would protect them from retaliation and found out that laws are only meaningful if they are enforced. Deep Throat is still the best way to out a crook.
>>>>JLK
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>>>Jerry;
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>>>Then there was Oliver North - super Marine!
>>Simper fi!
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>Jerry;
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>My dad and brother were Marines. People like to shorten everything. Take ?Semper Fidelis? as an example. When the term ?Semper Fi? became popular I could not understand why it was being used? ?Semper Fidelis? is a Latin term which means ?Always Faithful? in English. Some day it may be shortened further to something like ?Fi Baby?! Somehow reminiscent of the Beatnicks I remember in the late 50?s in San Francisco.
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>When I was in High School the transistor became popular and available to the public. I built transistor radios for my classmates and the popular expression of the day was, ?I am listening to my transistor?! I asked myself, how do you listen to a transistor? A transistor is a current-amplifying device unlike a vacuum tube, which is a voltage-amplifying device. Are they able to hear the movement of electrons within the germanium (now silicon) material? Amazing!

The problem is....you know too much! ;-)

JLK