Thank you ICM and dr_spock.
Everyday right now I do operations orders, I tell people what to do. When I was running the systems I'm a tactical guy we take small systems into the field set them up find the satellite(bird) and connect then provide phones and internet to our users. I'm high enough ranking now that I do admin work and miss the technical work, but I've been a drill SGT and an instructor, I've also been a Ski Instructor for a couple weeks twice teaching Soldiers how to Ski and ski patrol operations. don't do a lot of real math just basic addition and subtraction. I have to understand what frequency I'm using and the transmit and receive translation and translating from RF to SHF and different bands, and of course Azimuth. I do networking as well and have to have some minor binary skill, but not much at all, to do subnetting but not often, in fact outside of teaching or when someone made a mistake giving us our network addresses I've never done it. Funny story how I picked this career. I was in the Army recruiters office a young 19 year old McDonald's Assistant manager telling him he needed something good to pull me away from my $9.50(USD) an hour job in 1997 he started talking computers and communications as my test scores were pretty high. I said I've got a felony and the Air Force turned me down he said the Army won't. He mentioned Switchboard and Network Operator which is a phone guy and I'd use computers and have phone access to call home everywhere I would go, I though heck yeah thats a lot of money when I get out. He told me the training was in Georgia, I said NO WAY, my mom, whom I didn't live with, as I lived in Utah with my dad at the time, lives there and I've not seen her since I was 10, what's the longest job training you have there and that's the only reason I picked it, it was 11 months of training. I got lucky with my Black Seas Barracuda, my little sister, I'm 11 years older, had them from the time I joined the Army in 97 till 2010 when my dad gave them back to me and she added a few lego sets to my collection in the early 2000s. I also had half my legos stolen during a move, I had two footlockers full of legos and they stole one, most of them were the newer Legos from my kids and some random stuff that they had borrowed from mine, I believe my monkeys, I had 5, were all in that box, the Army did reimburse me for all that was stolen, I claimed the footlocker for $500 and a total of $4000 for all the stolen stuff.
dr_spock, I already hate you... Now I need to buy a train... :P That is a brilliant idea. I was just going to use it for taking pictures for stop motion because it's small easy to set up and you can either voice control or use a remote or phone to take the picture, using your phone you can see what you're looking at easily and make sure it's right.
