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I have a friend who served five years with the Navy Seals during that time.
He claims he was never in battle during all those five years.
But his wife has told me about his nightmares.
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We don't talk about out experiences much because on the rare occasion we do people generally get real quite and walk away or just ignore you.
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That's quite understandable.
He's been quite colourful in describing the rest of his life, and he's had wild one. He was even writing a book about it, sadly it won't get ready as far as I know, since the onset of Alzheimers.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: He was even writing a book about it, sadly it won't get ready as far as I know, since the onset of Alzheimers.
Bummer, to bad someone close to him can't get his stories during his lucid moments.
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I believe quite a lot of it was done already, via dictaphone.
He's dyslexic and was told all the time by all his teachers that he was stupid.
When he did his service his command (can't remember what grade it was now) told him that he was not stupid but rather dyslexic, so he got an education as an electrician specially adjusted for him by the navy. He was so grateful that he stayed for another period.
Got to ask his wife about it, but when he told us about the book she only knew about it, nothing about the contents. He was doing it directly with some publisher.
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Awesome, if it ever gets published would love to read it.
In the early 80s my girlfriend at the time gave me a book called Nam by Mark Baker[^]. Good book!
I lent it to someone years ago so I don't have it anymore.
[Update]
Just ordered it from Amazon
[/Update]
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I'll tell you as soon a I find out.
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I thought I ought to tell you that he passed away a while ago.
He sadly never finished the book.
His wife got her hands on the manuscript, but she was not able to make enough sense out of it to put it together into a book.
She's not sure what was real and not any more, he was having both Alzheimers and Parkinson in the end.
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Thanks for the update. We're starting to thin out more rapidly now.
I wonder if his problems had anything to do with Agent Orange? It has affected a lot of us!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Wouldn't know, the doctors recognized Alzheimers and Parkinson, but they said there was something more that they couldn't put their fingers on. But they both had the opinion that living in Sweden having a US health insurance is great.
Anyway, RIP, to one of the coolest people I've had the honour to meet.
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I think I might get a copy, lots of differing reviews. 
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Let me know what you think if you do order it!
It's been a long time, early 90s? since I read it!
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I have read alot of other books related to the conflict and other cold war types (Falklands) One thing is how similar they are for instance Yompers Amazon.co.uk's Book Store[^] about the Royal Marines in the Falklands and Amazon.co.uk's Book Store[^] Guns Up about the US Marines, very different view points Yompers was written by the commanding officer who's main concern was keeping the Marines & Paras seperate from each other but similar to Guns Up written by an enlisted machine gunner but very similar none the less.
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I have a friend who did write a book abut his experiences. Some of the experiences he shared with me over a beer were quite incredible. I can understand how some might not want to talk about them.
SOG MEDIC - Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence[^]
Ah don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
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Suspicion confirmed, your middle name is Leslie[^] 
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Dang you guys are good! 
Guess I'm getting old got CRS.
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My first year of college (1978) we had an IBM System/360. I remember a large panel with lights and such.
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Not that this would be a bad thing but i guess now i went through every position i could possibly ever sit on.
My todays question to you fellow cpians is rather easy for most of you i guess. Well i hope i don't violate any rules now.
Small introduction, as i lost my "co-worker" (freelancer) for which i was the boss through the last year my boss granted me a new person, this time as a full-contract worker in Slovakia. Due to the fact that he is totally overloaded and i am doing everything myself since ... ever... i have to write the job advertisment.
Well i googled and searched for some ads where i might copy ideas from and stuff but i still have no clue if im doing it right. I mean i just finished my BSc a year ago and i didn't study HR mgmt. So would it be possible you guys might have a look over it if it is okay or tell me what i did wrong?
If it is not considered as spam or whatever i would insert what i wrote so far. Thanks in advance
I need to find someone who can programm and also is able to support it infrastructure, thats what the ? stands for i can't find the correct word. Also some parts are not fulfilled since i don't know what a support guy should know 
C# Programmer and ?
The Company
PMDM is part of the Minebea group and is their largest development centre for automotive and spindle motors in Germany. With our IT-Team of seven members we run the IT-Infrastructure of the PMDM Company and our facility at Bratislava. Additionally to that Task we also provide a lot of self-written software solutions for monitoring, quality improvement, project planning and more.
Role Description
We are looking for a backing of our IT-Department who will work as a direct contact in our facility at Bratislava. Your role will comprise of assisting our software development team at PMDM and maintaining and supporting the systems in the facility. This includes that we will also need to have you in Germany for meetings and planning’s of the new tasks and maintenance schedules for you.
On the programming side the majority of your tasks will be on writing code with C# and using Win Forms/WPF to design the UI. Additionally to support the back-end programming and database connection you’ll need knowledge in SQL and preferably Ado.NET. You’ll also be asked to share ideas on software improvement with us and solving problems on your own.
Your supporting tasks in the facility consist of solving problems that occur and assisting the IT-Support from our side to establish new hardware and network.
Required Skills and Qualifications
The key Skills we require from you are
• 3 years of experience in programming C#
• Strong SQL skills
• WPF / Win Forms skills would be advantageous
• Knowledge of Clean Code, design techniques and patterns such as MVC and Observer
• Strong communication skills (English)
The key Qualifications we require from you are
• Qualification 1
A plus would be if you have knowledge about
• Threading
• DotNetBar (DevComponents)
• Unit-Testing
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
modified 3-Feb-16 8:35am.
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Am I missing something? I don't see your job ad.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I thought i wait till someone says DO IT or DON'T POST IT
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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You missed this:
Quote: If it is not considered as spam or whatever i would insert what i wrote so far
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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How about basic understanding of German language as "nice to have"
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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