Little Creek VA: Center of Military Music(I was told)

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:16 pm

ThomasDodd wrote:
Chuck Jackson wrote:PFC- 1996-Present
I wonder how many here get that....

Just a guess....

Private F---ing Citizen?
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Joe Baker, who loves to guess but is almost always wrong!

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:46 pm

Well Wade, he's won an all expenses paid, 4 year vacation in Uncle Sam's Happy Camping Club, complete with snazzy clothing, bad haircuts and an environment that equates your intelligence with your rank. And if he makes it 20 years, he is gauranteed a substandard pension and some of the worst medical care outside of the the Third World. Other than that, every meal is a feast and every payday you'll feel like Rockefeller.

Chuck"who actually enjoyed his time in the military immensely, but thought he ought to get on with his life before he got too old"Jackson

Mike Finn · Post by **Mike Finn** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:15 pm

Yeah, I got out as an E4 but I've been a PFC ever since. Or, as my DI's would have said, "fat and happy."
My wife had to ask "what are you laughing about?" when I read the "flush!" post, I nearly busted a gut.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Chuck Jackson
Tuba Instructor, SOM, 1986-1989

Dang, I just missed you. Not that I didn't enjoy Ray Becker, but the stories I've heard about you guys (from Joe B. if I remember) lead me to believe I might have even had a wilder time.
Hey did you guys hear the local union raised a stink last year and basically booted all the military guys out of the Tidewater Winds? That seriously depleted the low brass section. let me tell you. Oh well...
MF

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:55 pm

Mike,

It definitely was a wild time. Great students, great Officers (if you can believe it, but it was true), great teachers, alot of comraderie between the services, and NO DRILL SARGEANTS. I am sorry I missed you.

I played in the Winds for 4 summers(86-89), all with Sid Berg(may God rest his gruff soul), and the band would have been nowhere without the military guys. The Union had no business keeping the Military guys out ESPECIALLY if they were card carrying members. That would have been Al Ascercion's call, and he being a former Master Chief, would lustily welcome all the military crazies. Some things never cease to amaze me. Hope all is well in Va Beach. We will be back in June and July to visit Blair's family, I hope we can meet and have a malt based adult beverage or 7.

Chuck"who can't wait to move back to Norfolk and hang at the beach before he is too old to wear shorts"Jackson

manatee · Post by **manatee** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:57 pm

I didn't know anything about the Circle of Fifths before going to the School. . . But I learned. . . Everclear, 151, Wild Turkey. . .