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Bigmack

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8. I can't help but think...

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2013, 03:18 PM

Nov 2013

... what would the MOS description be?

"0399 Tiny Aircraft Operator"... or "Forward Nano-Observer"

This is gonna make it tough for sitting around after the war and telling sea stories about tricky cross-winds and remote difficulties...."My thumbs ached... it was a living hell.

(Sorry... ex-grunts find humor in odd things military-related.)

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