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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:28pm PT
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Here is a hearty pic of me when I volunteered for six months duty as a "Combat SAR Crewchief" in Somolia, 93'...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:33pm PT
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Proud.
Thanks for the output.
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:36pm PT
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In the 24 years I did in the NAV, I did and saw soooooo many things that not 1% of the American population ever had a clue about. Every day was a "Combat" environment and entailed 24 hours of always keeping the thought in the back of my mind, if this was my last day on this planet. Loved every second, minute and day that I experienced in all those years. I am so grateful for all that I was allowed to endure, good or bad, all of it! Made me the man of honor that I enjoy at this moment. Even when I clipped those nice bolts this morning at "Al's Garage"!
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:37pm PT
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Ultrabiker
You one bad boy there ..........
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:46pm PT
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Nah, just happy and having a blast. If you all only knew how much fun it all was. Even on those sh*t awful scary, getting shot at and hardass long days/nights in the middle of nowhere, they were all fun. The thing I miss the most is the comaraderie and knowing that I always had someone covering my six and I there's! Don't see much of any of that out here in the civilian sector. Seems everyone out here is just out for themselves. Just my observations and opininion. Maybe that is why I just climb these days and only do part-time wrenching on bicycles. Maybe that is why I live here just north of Tom's Place in a tight little community where everyone knows everyone and we care for one another and would drop everything to help eachother at a moments calling.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:48pm PT
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Sometimes Bad Boys Put Out.
Stay frosty Ultra B.
You got a point there about the tight watch and glue of a cadre.
A thread in itself, if you tapped the right people,
then again -ain't much to discuss because you either get it or you don't.
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 09:58pm PT
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These days find me FAing new obscure routes at 12,400'....
3P's @ 5.10d, 5.11a and 5.10c Alpine Trad....
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:13pm PT
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Is that you on the right?
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:22pm PT
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Yup...
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:34pm PT
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So if I ever see you, I'll sneak up on yah and give you a karate chop just to see if you're still alert.
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:45pm PT
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That's an oxymoran isn't Werner...."Sneak up, Karate Chop and see if you are still alert?" If you do get close enough to even attemp the chop, I will have failed and you will have succeeded, eh? No need for the chop. But, yeah, don't bother me none. Besides, I can't hear shet these days and you could be fart'n all the way up to my neck and I wouldn't hear ya. VA gives me 10% of the 60% combat disability for that alone. It's so bad, tenitus, that hearings aids won't do jackshet for me. I hear five different sets of ringing and bells from all the years of weapons and jet noise...ha?
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:49pm PT
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Just kidding with yah man.
Sorry about the ears, I'm in the same boat there. I have a digital hearing aid but it doesn't do much. I'm still a dumb deaf idiot.
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:49pm PT
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I'd have to bet money that you'd notice if he was fartin' all the way up your neck...
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 10:59pm PT
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Depends on the wind direction. These days, I have the wind to my face as I am always "into the wind" and have been. So, that aspect would screw me also. It's all good as I need not worry about that anymore. Thank God I retired when I did, seven years ago. It's nice and peaceful that way. Can't move with or sense things as I did, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five and thirty or so years ago.
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:02pm PT
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Retired?
No way man, I know it's still in your heart!
You are a warrior ........... kshatriya
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:10pm PT
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hehe!!
Every cloud certainly does have a silver lining, doesn't it?! Kind of a fun little challenge to find them, ya know?
I'm with both of you gentlemen re: the hearing (or lack thereof); got one ear but the other's shot. I just smile and nod a lot!!!
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:13pm PT
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Ever have people asking you questions while you're still nodding.
Hehehe, a dead give away that we're not really hearing :-)
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:14pm PT
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I don't have that problem. I just look or stare at their lips and try to figure out WTF they are trying to tell me. Then, the proverbial, "HA"?
Shambhala...
"Nowness: We need to find the link between our traditions and our present life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with all that is present."
This has allowed me to overcome my arrogance and sadness of some of my past and allows me to muster up some sort of peace in my present. I need to allow the past to be just that and allow the present to be as it is and not as I perceive or wish it to be. If I practice this, I achieve some sort of peace in my heart. And that, is my primary mission these days.
That is my current quest for mental toughness....
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:25pm PT
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Kshatriyas were very highly qualified men. They were not only good warriors and courageous and generous, but they were also rishis, or sages.
Peace brother .........
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Aug 26, 2006 - 11:32pm PT
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Ever have people asking you questions while you're still nodding.
Boy do I!!! It's kind of gotten me into some interesting situations along the way... Long ago I learned the whole lip reading thing (still often wonder WTF they're saying, though, especially when it's a group setting and there's background noise of any type...!! I've also learned over the years to simply position myself so that the conversation is on my "good" side...
Hehehe, a dead give away that we're not really hearing :-)[i/]
Yup; oddly enough, though, very few folks actually pick up on that little fact... Only a few times has someone pegged what's going on.
Shambhala...
"Nowness: We need to find the link between our traditions and our present life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with all that is present."
This has allowed me to overcome my arrogance and sadness of some of my past and allows me to muster up some sort of peace in my present. I need to allow the past to be just that and allow the present to be as it is and not as I perceive or wish it to be. If I practice this, I achieve some sort of peace in my heart. And that, is my primary mission these days.
That is my current quest for mental toughness....
As it is mine, also... Living in the present and allowing the past to be the past has potential to be quite difficult; however, it is quite the rewarding endeavour (check my spelling onthat... it's late here and the brain's not quite all there...)
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