Posted: 10/25/2006 8:12:44 PM EDT
| Okay, after some dumb-ass put "Rifle Drills" on the PT calendar for yesterday, and the same dumb-ass led those rifle drills until the 19 year olds were wimpering, I woke up this morning barley able to move (did I mention I'm the dumb-ass?). So that got me thinking, how old is Old? Since there's a wide range of ages here on Arfcom, how old were you when you knew you were Old? Not just getting a little sore from doing stuff you used to be able to bounce back from, but really knew you were past your prime. |
Hard to say, for your liine of work where you are working with 19 year olds, well. I probably couldn't keep up. But then I am 52. But I could probably out walk most of them with pack and rifle up a 35 degree slope. As I did this last deer season. If you don't bounce back after a good high protien meal and a nights rest, well... Knowing your limits comes with age. For your safety and for others error on the safe side. For me most injuries occur when I go beyond my limits.
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Found this on Wiki...
BTW, did you know the sum of the angles of a pentagon is 540 degrees? |
That is a latin based number system, the ruling Romans did not speak latin for legislative purposes they spoke the international language of Greek, latin is a badly bastardized greek language. |
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy." |
Im not quite there yet, but Im old for my job. Im bout to be 29, and the average age around me is 20. I feel fine for the most part, but I just cant quite PT like I used to. |
Actually... Latin is a different language than Greek. It took some Greek words the same way the anglo-saxon language also took Latin and Greek, etc. Even though Rome was the US of its time (actually bigger, and its empire lasted longer than the American will) it "absorbed" several Greek culture aspects such as language, mythology, etc. Anyway... back to the original theme: age is really relative. I know several folks at 50 that can beat the crap out of some 19s. Despite being (very) out of shape I do not feel my age (most of the times). By the way... I'm still below the 50s.  After I met my wife's grandma, who is 105, and in excellent shape for her age I do not feel that age is relevant anylonger. |
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Ooooh, we did rifle PT once, the COs idea, so he led it, and boy did he screw it up--all kinds of home-made posters floated around the barracks for months. "A five-count exercise...or is it four...?" I realized I was "getting old" a few years ago, when I attempted to draw the compound bow Mrs. Drang gave me for Christmas several years before that, and the shoulder felt like someone was driving a hot poker into it--and it's obvious now, at 48, what with pain at every step, knee and hip... |
| Felt real old when I went to pick up my buddy from a Bar in the U-district. Very nice young blonde college girl pulls up next to me at a red light and barely even glances in my direction............and I'm pretty sure that glance was just to confirm her initial assumption that I'm not worth her time. (yeah and the whole time I'm thinking, Damn I'd tap it a couple times!) |
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Just remember, a service-related disability adds to your retirement bennies...  ...buy not a lot, not anymore. And the VA may tell you there's nothing wrong with you... 
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