Deep breath...
9/11 happened. I was working for an international telecom operation at the time, and I opened FR to find out we had been attacked.
I left the office and went home to root through my office for my last DD-214.
I didn't actually get re-enlisted until January, because of the waivers for my age and hearing loss. Jim changed my screen name from KD5CTS to JRandomFreeper for opsec reasons, and several freepers from the old ATRW thread helped me work through the waiver process.
When I got back in, with the hearing, electronic warfare was out, and combat services was in. So I took it.
During training (I didn't have to go through basic again, just AFSC tech school), I found I loved feeding lots of folks in a commercial kitchen.
I asked my dad for his official blessing to persue that career. He said I was crazy, but laid hands on my head as I knelt and gave me his blessing. A couple of years before he died.
So that's the long and the short of it, and if I left anything out, someone will correct me.
/johnny
Well, that’s the story as I heard it as it was happening. We love you, Johnny, and appreciate the sacrifices and dedication that you to God and Country. I am better for having known you. Love, love.