They call us ”The Elderly”

[MForbes]

My mom started working around 75-76. I tried to join the Navy in 78 but I had a hearing problem with too much rock and roll. Then in 81, I cheated at MEP and was able to get into the Army. I pulled back the curtain and pressed the button when I saw the guy next to me pressing. I had to take the hearing test twice. I was desperate to join the service because I knew where I was headed because friends were going to jail at that time.

Joined in '78.....retired in '02. Still employed by the Army, just not as a soldier. Hopefully in a couple of years I'll be done with that, too.

 

[enoob57]

nice to meet you @Laodicean60 ... I went into the Marine Corp in Jan 1976-78 two year hitch 4 year reserve... I saw what had happened to the soldiers of Vietnam in the US and decided get in and out ...

 

[Laodicean60]

Joined in '78.....retired in '02. Still employed by the Army, just not as a soldier. Hopefully in a couple of years I'll be done with that, too.

Then we are the same age. I spent 8 years in and at reenlistment time I said if I reenlisted and went over the hump I might as well do the whole 20. I had delusions of joining the civil service in El Paso not taking into account I was competing with retirees who had more experience than I did.

 

[MForbes]

Then we are the same age. I spent 8 years in and at reenlistment time I said if I reenlisted and went over the hump I might as well do the whole 20. I had delusions of joining the civil service in El Paso not taking into account I was competing with retirees who had more experience than I did.

I had to work with some Army civilians when I was still a soldier....and I couldn't stand Army civilians. Now I am one...LOL.

 

[Laodicean60]

I had to work with some Army civilians when I was still a soldier....and I couldn't stand Army civilians. Now I am one...LOL.

I hear you I was jealous because they didn't have to cut their hair. Like you, the military did allow me to have a decent job at WSMR.

 

[RDKirk]

Things are VERY different from my growing up years. Sometimes I ask people what planet I'm on! My mom lived from 1924-2017 but never talked about the past.

The biggest argument I have with young black people is how much the United States has changed in my lifetime. They want to complain, "It's as bad now as it ever was," and I have to explain in detail how the US today for black people is like a whole different planet from the US of the 50s.

 

[Tuur]

You must have been a nerd. jk I never used slide rule but I remember asking for a TI calculator and boy was it expensive. Did any of your moms have to work? When my mom started working it was a shock to me.

I was lazy. Slide rules were a quick way to do multiplication and division. My mother worked, but it wasn't unusual in that area.

 

[Joseph G]

I was my Dad's tv remote control. "Boy, get up there and flip the channel. And turn the volume down. And adjust the contrast. And adjust the rabbit ears."

I remember when the first new channel could be tuned in. We now had a whopping FOUR channels.

Funny that - I now have over 200 channels and I still can't find a darn thing worth watching!

 

[RDKirk]

I was my Dad's tv remote control. "Boy, get up there and flip the channel. And turn the volume down. And adjust the contrast. And adjust the rabbit ears."

I remember when the first new channel could be tuned in. We now had a whopping FOUR channels.

Funny that - I now have over 200 channels and I still can't find a darn thing worth watching!

Or more often, you have 200 channels and still only watch four.

 

[RDKirk]

Okay, how many of us remember using slide rules and log tables? Taught myself how to use a slide rule I bought from the drug store, but a few years later transitioned to a scientific calculator. Some teachers and professors required us to use the then ubiquitous logarithm tables in the back of math and science text books. But a coworker who was just a year behind me in school had never used a slide rule.

Spring of 1965, after reading Robert A. Heinlein's "Have Space Suit--Will Travel," I begged my mother to buy me an inexpensive slide rule, then I found a book by Isaac Asimov that taught me how to use it.

I remember in college the engineering students switching from wearing slide rules on their belts to TI calculators in 1972. But in the Air Force, we continued to use slide rules until 1980. I still have my Air Force slide hanging on the wall rule right here above my desk.

 

[Tuur]

I remember in college the engineering students switching from wearing slide rules on their belts to TI calculators in 1972. But in the Air Force, we continued to use slide rules until 1980. I still have my Air Force slide hanging on the wall rule right here above my desk.

A while back I splurged and bought a circular slide rule just to have a circular slide rule. Concise still makes them and sells them in Japan.

 

[Tuur]

I remember when the first new channel could be tuned in. We now had a whopping FOUR channels.

We were too far away from a transmitter for rabbit ears to work. We had to have an antenna mounted on a mast with a rotor. We went through three stations to four, but two of them were the same network and one public broadcasting. Rabbit ears are still around, sold as an "innovation" for free HD TV.

 

[Rescued One]

According to the late Elizabeth Elliott, her goal in life was to be stenographer for the British Prime Minister; then she met Oswald, and to the mission field they went.

Elisabeth Elliot I'm familiar with; her husband was Jim Elliot, missionary. I'll have to look up Elizabeth Elliott.

 

[RoBo1988]

Elisabeth Elliot I'm familiar with; her husband was Jim Elliot, missionary. I'll have to look up Elizabeth Elliott.

She wrote many books, and used to have a radio program; Gateway to Joy.

 

[Rescued One]

The biggest argument I have with young black people is how much the United States has changed in my lifetime. They want to complain, "It's as bad now as it ever was," and I have to explain in detail how the US today for black people is like a whole different planet from the US of the 50s.

Well, that's inaccurate about blacks, IMO. The ones I've known are wonderful Christians. You see, races are all composed of many different people who live in different environments.

 

[Rescued One]

She wrote many books, and used to have a radio program; Gateway to Joy.

Oh, the spelling is Elisabeth Elliot. Jim was killed in South America. She remarried twice, I think. Did she have a husband named Oswald?

Oswald Chambers was Scottish and died in 1917.

 

[RoBo1988]

Oh, the spelling is Elisabeth Elliot. Jim was killed in South America. She remarried twice, I think. Did she have a husband named Oswald?

Oswald Chambers was Scottish and died in 1917.

I believe she wrote a book about Chambers

 

[Rescued One]

She wrote many books, and used to have a radio program; Gateway to Joy.

Here you go:
Born: December 21, 1926, Brussels, Belgium
Died: June 15, 2015, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA
Spouse: Lars Gren (m. 1977–2015), Addison Leitch (m. 1969–1973), Jim Elliot (m. 1953–1956)
Children: Valerie Elliot Shepard

 

[RDKirk]

Well, that's inaccurate about blacks, IMO. The ones I've known are wonderful Christians. You see, races are all composed of many different people who live in different environments.

What in the world did that response have to do with my post?

 

[Rescued One]

I believe she wrote a book about Chambers.

I haven't read any of her books. But I have the one she wrote about Jim.