At 10:06 PM 5/13/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Well, it's shaping up to be a bad week. I graduated Primary Flight
>Training, and wanted to get assigned to Propeller-driven aircraft,
>but they could only take four Naval Flight Officers for props, and I
>wasn't one of the four. So now I'm going to be here in Pensacola for
>eight more months, training on jets. My choices are limited
>to F-14 Tomcats, EA6B Prowlers, E2-C Hawkeyes, or S-3 Vikings.
>Unfortuneately, I think all of these are carrier-based aircraft.
>(Three years in the Navy and no sea time, and I was kind of hoping to
>keep it that way.) To add insult to injury, someone broke into my
>wife's car yesterday and made off with about $1800 worth of stereo
>gear. Waiting to see how much State Farm deems my stuff to be worth.
> There may be a bright side, though. The two estimates I've gotten
>for replacing it have been $2200 and $2600. I was planning on
>selling it all for about $1000 anyway. I think I'll go to a simple
>CD player in the 'B' and a tape deck in her CRX and call it good.
>Why do people have to steal things that other people have worked for?
> I know this is the work of idiots. They left behind some of the
>wiring harnesses, rendering one of the amplifiers and one of the
>signal processors useless. They probably didn't even realize what
>the stuff was worth, just sold it for crack money. I'd just like to
>know why the parking lot security didn't notice someone hauling off a
>104-pound speaker box, trailing wires behind them.
>Oh well, I feel better, thanks for listening. Rant mode OFF
>
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>
While I sympathize with you on the loss to your wife's car (I believe the
Romans had the right idea for thieves - the first time you were caught, you
lost a hand. The second time, your head.), and I know how violated you can
feel, I find it very hard to see that the lead-off portion of your post is
bad in any way. I joined the Navy to fly some 26 years ago, and retired in
March of 1994 as a CPO (Submarines fly, don't they? It's just hydrodynamics
instead of aerodynamics). I would have given just about anything I could
think of to have your dilemma. Enjoy what you have, put the loss behind you
(as difficult as that will be) and be glad you are one of the few!
Sam Staton
ETC(SS), USN, RET
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