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Posted: 9/1/2015 9:13:57 AM EDT

[#1]

Congrats on your retirement! Thank you for your service. Let us know how high school compares to the Pentagon!

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:15:27 AM EDT

[#2]

Congratulations Sir and thank you for your service.

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:16:32 AM EDT

[#3]

Now go fishing!! Thank you for your service!

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:17:23 AM EDT

[#4]

Congrats, enjoy your retirement.

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:18:08 AM EDT

[#5]

congrats dude.

You are off to make a whole new generation of strategic thinking little blue kool aid drinkers.

I would have been joining you. Except for the whole, "Fuck you and your retirement job. I'm holding you to an ADSO."

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:18:26 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/1/2015 9:19:28 AM EDT

[#7]

Congrats, and thank you for your service sir.

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:29:26 AM EDT

[#8]

Congrats! Thank you for your service (except the Pentagon tour

) Enjoy Retired life!

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:30:58 AM EDT

[#9]

congratulations!

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:33:23 AM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:42:52 AM EDT

[#11]

Truly thank you for your service!

Posted: 9/1/2015 9:59:41 AM EDT

[#12]

Congrats! Indeed a very fun ride!

Thanks for your service and Godspeed in your future endeavors and adventures!

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:15:50 AM EDT

[#13]

Congratulations! Thank you for your service, and I hope you enjoy retirement.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:23:39 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/1/2015 10:25:04 AM EDT

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my family and I would like to thank you for =
your dedication
your commitment
your service

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:25:33 AM EDT

[#16]

Congrats, and if the details are not classified we need to know the protips on how to get a dead cow out of a sewage lagoon.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:26:36 AM EDT

[#17]

Congrats, I enlisted in 89' too and retired this past June.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:29:38 AM EDT

[#18]

That sounds like a lot of work, you should get to take home like a free rocket or something

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:30:08 AM EDT

[#19]

Thank you!

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:30:34 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/1/2015 10:32:22 AM EDT

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I was thinking a set of keys would be neat.

Congratulations, sir.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:35:38 AM EDT

[#22]

Congrats and thank you!!

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:38:30 AM EDT

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It would be cool to have a key from a silo or something.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:39:59 AM EDT

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Yes, that includes leap days. 26 years, 17 days of wearing USAF blue.

I came on active duty on the 14th of August, 1989.

Since then, I’ve had 25 different jobs at 15 different locations, only three of which were both above ground AND had windows.

I've served under 12 USAF Chief of Staffs, 9 Secretaries of Defense, and five presidents, with my commission signed by a sixth (All Hail Renaldus Magnus!).

I’ve done 27 promotions, nine reenlistments, 31 commissionings, one retirement, and one court martial (not mine),

I've spent 279 days on nuclear alert, 300-ish days on space operations crew, 357 days deployed to Afghanistan, and served a three-year sentence at the Pentagon with no time off for good behavior.

I’ve been a crew commander, flight commander, detachment commander, instructor, evaluator, educator, staff officer, operations officer, and snack bar officer.

In my time in the Air Force, I’ve learned that at 30 below, a boiling hot cup of coffee thrown in the air will freeze before it hits the ground, I’ve had lunch with the Afghan Army Chief of the General Staff, I’ve visited some of the biggest nuclear weapons facilities in the country, I’ve had to figure out the best way to get a dead cow out of a sewage lagoon, and I spent one really fun Christmas Eve answering the phones for the annual NORAD Tracks Santa event, earning the undying gratitude of parents by telling their kids they had to go to bed RIGHT NOW or he’d pass them by.

And I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Except for the Pentagon tour.

The really funny thing is I never planned on making it a career—it just happened that every time I was wondering what the next step was, the Air Force promoted me and sent us off to another cool assignment in a great place that made it worth sticking around. So, here I am, a quarter century later, a lot more grey hair and a lot lower PT test scores than when I started, but MAN, was it a fun ride.

Except for the Pentagon tour.

Anyway, I’ve had a great run, but it’s time for someone else to sign for the alert.

Limaxray, Lt Col, USAF, and as of today, (Ret).

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That's awesome, now go run for Congress, your country still needs you

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:40:23 AM EDT

[#25]

God bless you and thank you for all your service,,,,, including the time at the pentagon.

Some times I look back at my time in the USAF and whish I had made a carrier but I took a different path.

EBR666

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:42:28 AM EDT

[#26]

Congratulations. Welcome to the real world.

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Posted: 9/1/2015 10:43:51 AM EDT

[#27]

Congratulations and a hearty thank-you for your service. Your posts here are always great to read.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:52:24 AM EDT

[#28]

Congrats on the Time served

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:52:37 AM EDT

[#29]

Sounds like you enjoyed yourself. Now enjoy the kids you'll be teaching. At least they want to be there..

Good friend of my wife's retired with almost exactly the same time in, except Navy. She was a Lt. Commander during her Pentagon tour and basically claims she spent the entire tour making coffee for a variety of senior ranks, most of whom seemed to be making copies for flag officers.

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:57:03 AM EDT

[#30]

Congratulations

Posted: 9/1/2015 10:59:49 AM EDT

[#31]

Well done sir, congratulations! Enjoy your second life.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:00:45 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/1/2015 11:02:13 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/1/2015 11:02:14 AM EDT

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That sounds like a lot of work, you should get to take home like a free rocket or something

I was thinking a set of keys would be neat.

Congratulations, sir.

It would be cool to have a key from a silo or something.

It will be years before he quits counting down until he turns the key to start his car as it is...

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:05:00 AM EDT

[#35]

So now you can tell us all of the secrets, right?

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:05:14 AM EDT

[#36]

Thank You.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:07:02 AM EDT

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That sounds like a lot of work, you should get to take home like a free rocket or something

I was thinking a set of keys would be neat.

Congratulations, sir.

It would be cool to have a key from a silo or something.

It will be years before he quits counting down until he turns the key to start his car as it is...

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:07:37 AM EDT

[#38]

Congrats OP. I bet you've got some pretty cool stories.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:12:49 AM EDT

[#39]

Thanks for your service! Have a good retirement

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:15:35 AM EDT

[#40]

once again, I am amazed at the quality of knowledge we have here on the forum.

I have always enjoyed Lima's posts and insight.
truly a great place.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:17:44 AM EDT

[#41]

Wow, what a great career. Thank you for your service!

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:26:50 AM EDT

[#42]

Congrats!

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:32:00 AM EDT

[#43]

Congratulations. Thank you for all you did.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:33:39 AM EDT

[#44]

THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR SERVICE

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:37:12 AM EDT

[#45]

Thank You very much for your long service to all of us.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:41:02 AM EDT

[#46]

Well Done!

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:42:12 AM EDT

[#47]

Congrats Lt Colonel!! You ever get down to where the highway runs into the GOM, I'll buy the beer and you provide the stories.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:45:46 AM EDT

[#48]

Congratulations!

What's the next great adventure?

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Posted: 9/1/2015 11:53:06 AM EDT

[#49]

Thank you for serving America faithfully and allowing my family and myself to sleep safe at night in our warm beds while you did your duty.

Enjoy your new time off.

PSA: It's not as easy as it sounds being retired. Sometimes you mess up the laundry and end up with pink underware.

Posted: 9/1/2015 11:55:44 AM EDT

[#50]

Thank you and enjoy.

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