[tx_eggman]

I just read your profile ... you weren't by any chance with the 1st Cav at Fort Hood, TX '70-71.

I worked for an E9 there who could be your dispositional twin - which I view as a good thing.

If you're that E9, all I can say is that I know now that I was an idiot then.

[OldSmaj]

you weren't by any chance with the 1st Cav at Fort Hood, TX '70-71.

Geez, I ain't that old!

I was a young stud (E-5) know-it-all at Fort Rucker, then.

Was the Cav at Hood in 70-71?

I thought the colors came back in '72.

I worked for an E9 there who could be your dispositional twin...

E-9's are required to take secret classes, given at a secret location, to ensure that we all are equally curmudgeonly, patriotic to a fault, meaner than hell, can curse in at least six languages, know how to kill with a Snickers Bar and a paper clip and have rapier tongues with which we rip young soldiers under the grade of E-7 apart with.

The curriculum hasn't changed in 40 years.

If you're that E9, all I can say is that I know now that I was an idiot then.

As I said, hindsight is always 20-20.

It's what you did with yourself in between your blind spell and the here and now that matters.