It's Veteran Day here in The States. It makes me wonder how many of you out there in world wide CR4 are veterans, and if you have any engineering/military anecdotes on this day that we remember those who served.
It's a different world now, from when I served in the paratroopers in the first half of the 80's. But it brings to mind a situation I found myself in about 10 years ago. I was working in Detroit, Michigan in the auto industry. One of my peers turned out to be a recent immigrant from Russia ... Anatoli. Besides engineering, we had another thing in common. We were both Veterans in our respective countries. And as it turns out, we had both served as infantry during the same period of time. He during the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, and I during America's Grenada mission and various other incidences. Anatoli and I became quite close. We came to realize that if we had met during the Cold War, we would have been something just short of sworn enemies. He was as versed in how to inflict as much damage against capitalistic pig American soldiers, as I was against soldiers of the evil Soviet Empire.
But a decade later, the only battles and shots that we exchanged were of two kinds; who could pound more shots of vodka during lunch breaks we never made it back to work from, and shooting pool during those same lunch breaks. He always won the former ... I, the latter.
How times change. How bout you Veteraneers out there?