(October 21, 2018 at 10:46 am)anjele Wrote:(October 21, 2018 at 10:35 am)Fireball Wrote: US Navy, '72 - '76. Three ships and some shore duty, none of note. Maybe got 90 days out to sea. Joined the navy to see the world, never left the continental US.
My dad was in the navy back in the 50s. He made it to an island but the only boat he every went out on were grandpa's deep sea fishing boats. He was a Seabee who helped build the base on the Outer Banks of NC that was later decommissioned. But his time in service did pay the bulk of his cost of going to vet school.
Indeed. I calculated once that I used about $14k in VA college benefits. Back in '77-'83 that wasn't a bad deal. Of course, I still had to work, but it helped.
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