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Lock & Load
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This channel is intended to exist as a tribute to God, Intelligence Design (ID), mankind, the USAF (specially those soldiers deployed down range at Balad Air Force Base in Northern Iraq) and the US armed forces "only", nothing more.
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For those who wonder or don't have a freaking clue:
I am a proud former WSO (Weapons System Officer) for the F-16 Fighting Falcon who happens to have an "honorable discharged" after three years of service and subsequently completing one tour deployed down range at Balad Air Force base in Northern Iraq (April 2004-May 2005) located right at the heart of OIF. If any one was ever there, then it should be easy for you to remember the nickname "Bombaconda" used to describe LSA Anaconda because of the frequent mortar attacks.
You can call this place "the sandbox" or "the sand pit", whichever way you like. As far as the time spent down range, I have no regrets whatsoever for helping cleanse the planet of pure and utter evil, none. And even with "the faces of dead" having a permanent presence in this hellhole called Balad on the daily basics; the truth is that I miss cruising down P avenue in my spare time with fellow soldiers and watching the sky light up at night by those LCMR systems (also known as AN/TPQ-48) since the more advanced C-RAM defenses were not placed there 'till October of 2005 when I was gone. This place to this day still is the launching point for Air Force F-16 fighters, Army helicopters and Army military intelligence unmanned aerial systems.
A hangar wasn't exactly a war zone hot spot, and certainly my mission had nothing to do with hunting Ali Babas as a cannon fodder nor a cannon cocker, but nevertheless, the whole base was a very dangerous place to be at the time and it wasn't exactly a playground. When looking back and remembering those days of big bangs and loud thunder, I consider myself lucky for not getting FUBAR by one of those incoming mortar shells when you least expected it. In the end it was all well worth it.
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Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl
Made you feel like it's not such a bad world
Hey man now you're really living
Now you're really giving everything
And you're really getting all you gave
Now you're really living what this life is all about...
Support Our Troops
***DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR ***
**LIFE'S SHORT - ETERNITY ISN'T **
***THOU SHALL KILL***
This is to anyone who doesn't support our troops.
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For those who wonder or don't have a freaking clue:
I am a proud former WSO (Weapons System Officer) for the F-16 Fighting Falcon who happens to have an "honorable discharged" after three years of service and subsequently completing one tour deployed down range at Balad Air Force base in Northern Iraq (April 2004-May 2005) located right at the heart of OIF. If any one was ever there, then it should be easy for you to remember the nickname "Bombaconda" used to describe LSA Anaconda because of the frequent mortar attacks.
You can call this place "the sandbox" or "the sand pit", whichever way you like. As far as the time spent down range, I have no regrets whatsoever for helping cleanse the planet of pure and utter evil, none. And even with "the faces of dead" having a permanent presence in this hellhole called Balad on the daily basics; the truth is that I miss cruising down P avenue in my spare time with fellow soldiers and watching the sky light up at night by those LCMR systems (also known as AN/TPQ-48) since the more advanced C-RAM defenses were not placed there 'till October of 2005 when I was gone. This place to this day still is the launching point for Air Force F-16 fighters, Army helicopters and Army military intelligence unmanned aerial systems.
A hangar wasn't exactly a war zone hot spot, and certainly my mission had nothing to do with hunting Ali Babas as a cannon fodder nor a cannon cocker, but nevertheless, the whole base was a very dangerous place to be at the time and it wasn't exactly a playground. When looking back and remembering those days of big bangs and loud thunder, I consider myself lucky for not getting FUBAR by one of those incoming mortar shells when you least expected it. In the end it was all well worth it.
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Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl
Made you feel like it's not such a bad world
Hey man now you're really living
Now you're really giving everything
And you're really getting all you gave
Now you're really living what this life is all about...
Support Our Troops
***DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR ***
**LIFE'S SHORT - ETERNITY ISN'T **
***THOU SHALL KILL***
This is to anyone who doesn't support our troops.
............./´¯/).. ..........(\¯`\
............/....//. .............\\....\
.........../....//.. ..............\\.... \
...../´¯/..../´¯\............/
.././.../..../..../.|_......_|
(.(....(....(..../.)..)..(..(.
.\................\/.../....\.
..\................. /........\.......... ......../
....\..............(..........
......\.............\.........
About Me:
MCSE.
Databases: MS SQL, My SQL.
Environment: ADO.Net.
Web: Net framework, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash.
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Self Employed
Schools:
Miami Beach Senior High, (Miami Dade College), USAF Weapons School (Nellis AFB, Nev), F.I.U (Florida International University)
Interests:
High Tech Weaponry, Computer Algorithms
Movies:
What The Bleep Do We Know!? Quantum Physics Meets Kabbalah. Unlocking The Misteries of Life.
Music:
Rock, Alternative, some Indie
Books:
The Genesis Conflict (The Genes of Genesis) Genesis Revisited, The Lost Realms, Magnetic Field Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps, Mind of God, The Book of The Cosmos, Rare Earth, The Case For a Creator. Trojan Horse or Legitimate Science: Deconstructing the Debate over Intelligent Design.
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George Arliss.
My only simple, but very understandable theory; is an analogy so common and irrefutably true, that it brings unshakable inner peace to my existence, instantly.
Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?
Your brain is meat, and rots and disappears. Do you really think that's all there was to you? Like you're in your house right now. You're in your house, that doesn't mean you are your house. House falls down, you get out and walk away.
What Dreams May Come. (1988)
Seth: "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it". "One".
City of Angels. (1998)
Whoever found true love on this Earth knows exactly what the angel was saying.
Once you have it, nothing else matters, nothing can even pretend to equalize it or compete.
The power of love; which it was given to us all...free.
Seth: "Which gift"?
Nathaniel: "Free will, brother. Free will".
And you can even borrow across time and space like I'll take four today and give back three next week and one next year. Or I'll take one from here and put it over there.
The varieties can be endless but in the end it all has to add up to zero.