Made it back state side

[Rcmaveric]

Good evening all. I made it back home state side from deployment. Gained a lot of weight. They fed us good in the desert. I think I ate my weight in chease cake. Lol got till September to get into shape for my first PRT in two years.

It got buisy at the end. So projects went on hold. I chose orders and i am transferring to NAS Pensacola in November. I get to go home and stay home for the first time in 17 years. Wife and I are hopeing to buy a 4 or more acres to homestead on. So all projects and reloading and shooting go on hold so we can purge the apartment of junk and pack. I will have the Navy move me but somethings i prefer to move myself (guns, reloading stuff, aquaponics. It may be a year before I get up and going again. Depending on where we go i will need to build a shop, greenhouse and start my mini farm. Lol i am not allowed to do projects in the house.



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[444ttd]

glad to have you back, safe and sound.

[Three44s]

Glad you are home safe and sound! Thank you for your service!

Three44s

[trails4u]

Welcome home, brother! So happy to hear you're safe and sound!!

[Greg S]

Wel ome home.

[sigep1764]

Glad you're back, very glad you're safe, and even more glad you get your choice after 17 years of service! Thank you for your contributions to this site and to our country!

[slim1836]

Welcome back, good to hear all is well and you are on the track to your forever place of your own. Check back when you can, we will be there for ya. Thanks for your service to our nation.

Slim

[Bull-Moose]

Welcome home.

[wch]

Welcome home.

[nicholst55]

Welcome home, brother!

[Lloyd Smale]

I salute you sir and am glad that you came home to your family!!

[OldBearHair]

Welcome back home and thank you for your service to our country. Here is hoping that you find productive land to grow your food.

[William Yanda]

Glad you are home safe and sound! Thank you for your service!

Three44s

What he said!!!

[dannyd]

Glad your back in the World safe and sound. :)

[kbstenberg]

I am glad you are HOME safe and sound to a loving family.
We all will be waiting to hear of your new home / projects / life

[myg30]

Welcome home. Thank you for your service, and returned safe.
God bless you and your family.

Mike

[MrWolf]

We told ya you would be fine and come back. Congrats. Hope you find something soon.

[jdfoxinc]

Thank you for ensuring my freedom and security.

[Three44s]

I hope there is enough cheese cake left after the OP’s homecoming however ......

Better buy before the ...... run ......

Kidding!

Three44s

[contender1]

Welcome home, brother. Some of us have been there already. Glad you are there now.

[Rcmaveric]

Thanks everyone its good to be home. Now closes this chapter and off to a new adventure.

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[Scrounge]

Good evening all. I made it back home state side from deployment. Gained a lot of weight. They fed us good in the desert. I think I ate my weight in chease cake. Lol got till September to get into shape for my first PRT in two years.

It got buisy at the end. So projects went on hold. I chose orders and i am transferring to NAS Pensacola in November. I get to go home and stay home for the first time in 17 years. Wife and I are hopeing to buy a 4 or more acres to homestead on. So all projects and reloading and shooting go on hold so we can purge the apartment of junk and pack. I will have the Navy move me but somethings i prefer to move myself (guns, reloading stuff, aquaponics. It may be a year before I get up and going again. Depending on where we go i will need to build a shop, greenhouse and start my mini farm. Lol i am not allowed to do projects in the house.



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Thanks for carrying that flag a little farther down the road! And welcome back, Brother.

Pensacola, huh? Lucky dog! ;)

SWMBO wants us to move back to NW Florida. Had 7 acres a couple of miles West of Defuniak Springs back in the mid-80's. Sunk everything we could beg, borrow, or steal into it, and lost it all when Uncle Sam decided we needed to move again before I ever actually got there. If I could figure a way to get Orders to Florida, I'd certainly do it, but I can't see how I can get us there now. I don't think it's fair. Just because I've been retired nearly 25 years, why can't I get a set of orders to NW Florida!?! ;)

Bill
MSgt, USAF(Ret.) 1973-1997

[Ural Driver]

Welcome Home Brother!

[RichBaxter]

Welcome home and thank you.

[curdog]

Welcome back and thank You for your service. I wish you the best of luck on your homestead......................Curdog

[Rcmaveric]

Thanks for carrying that flag a little farther down the road! And welcome back, Brother.

Pensacola, huh? Lucky dog! ;)

SWMBO wants us to move back to NW Florida. Had 7 acres a couple of miles West of Defuniak Springs back in the mid-80's. Sunk everything we could beg, borrow, or steal into it, and lost it all when Uncle Sam decided we needed to move again before I ever actually got there. If I could figure a way to get Orders to Florida, I'd certainly do it, but I can't see how I can get us there now. I don't think it's fair. Just because I've been retired nearly 25 years, why can't I get a set of orders to NW Florida!?! ;)

Bill
MSgt, USAF(Ret.) 1973-1997My sons and ex wife live in Defuniak area.

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[Pb Burner]

Welcome back to the states. Thank you for your service!

[cwtebay]

Welcome home and thank you for your service!

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[tankgunner59]

Welcome home brother, and even though I'm sure you've heard it before, thank you for your service.

[472x1B/A]

Welcome home and thank you for your service.

[8mmFan]

Thank you, RCMaverick, for what you have done. Here’s wishing you and all of yours many years of Peace, and good times.

8mmFan

[popper]

Welcome back.

[Winger Ed.]

As we used to say, "Welcome back to the World".

[lightman]

Welcome Home, Brother! Thank You for Your Service.

[metricmonkeywrench]

Are you heeding your deployment return briefings and not heading out back with an E-tool and MRE sleeve and full battle rattle??

Good to have you home/back

[Scrounge]

My sons and ex wife live in Defuniak area.

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It was an interesting place. Met my first publicly vocal Klansman there. We were walking through the park around the little sinkhole lake in the middle of town during some event there. Guy was running for office, told us he was going to get all the N-words off welfare... I was supposed to be there for 2 years, but Uncle Sam announced they were closing the unit I was assigned to shortly before I got there, and after I'd put $60K into buying a place and setting it up. I signed in early in May, and shipped back out October 1st. Wound up losing the place, and every dime of my money. SWMBO moved to Ft. Walton Beach while I was at Diyarbakir, and we went from there to Sumter, SC., after that. It was very different than the areas along the beach. Kind of like moving from LA to central Georgia. ;) P-Cola would be a good place to be so you can visit your kids. Hope all the drama from that is over by now. My folks divorced when I was 4, but got along fairly well, and my step-mom is also my second mom. I've known quite a few folks where the drama never ends, though. Best wishes, and prayers, that things will go well for you and yours.

Bill

[woodbutcher]

:D Welcome home Sir.Thank you for your service.God bless you and yours.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[gbrown]

Welcome back, glad you are back and all is well. Tell your wife, I applaud her service. My wife put in a lot of heartache, time and effort when I was gone on deployments. The wives serve as much as their spouses. I can attest to that. Thank you for your service.

[Markopolo]

praise God.

[Rcmaveric]

I graduated from Fort Walton Beach High School in 2004.

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[dannyd]

I graduated from Fort Walton Beach High School in 2004.

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Well thanks now you have made us all feel real old. :)

[blackthorn]

Well thanks now you have made us all feel real old. :)

No kidding! I retired in 2004!

[Scrounge]

Well thanks now you have made us all feel real old. :)

I moved SWMBO and what little property we had left after leaving Defuniak Springs in October 1987. He was probably about a year old, then. I'm not really old. I swear it! Just rode hard and put away wet. I retired for the first time in 1997. OK, maybe I am old. ;)