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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2007, 09:15:39 PM » |
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G'day all, just joined - background: retired military, still working, 'coz I have to pay for a diving habit!
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2007, 09:44:36 PM » |
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Good to see a blue job on here Obie,
You and Crusty can compare camel notes.
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2007, 08:32:51 AM » |
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Welcome Obie, With regard to Sniper's 'blue job' comment, would that be Air Force or Police?  As for the diving habit, yes, you have my 'deepest'  sympathy. I get out and paddle in the Red Sea now and then, so appreciate the cost of all the gucci kit on offer. Good to have you here. |
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2007, 04:33:09 PM » |
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'Strewth, that bleedin' camel's gunna follow me around, now, even tho' I really did pay for it! I suppose it's true, eh: ... can run, but can't hide!
Anyway, thanks all for the welcome, and since I was so nicely asked, a potted history:
31yrs RAAF, all over Oz, and S-E Asia/Butterworth when it was big, with active service in Cambodge [UNTAC MCG] and East Timor [INTERFET], and heaps of Blue Beret stuff including two years in Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk, and little forays into the other Congo [Brazzaville] and Western Sahara; then 3yrs in PNG working for Hornibrook, and now "expeditionary logistics" working all over the place: from Burundi, Congo/Zaire [deepest, darkest], Sudan, India, Jordan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Lebanon, and Solomons.
Married, with one, who's also serving his country, albeit as a Navy aircrewman, and of whom Mother and Father are extremely proud, to boot!
As indicated above, favourite activity is deep and wet, wrecks preferred, but have been known to enjoy Jazz and Numismatics, and will bore anyone within earshot about the History of Conflict various, particularly Wellingtonian/Napoleonic and anything to do with UN Peacekeeping.
Ta, now, where's "Dr Monk"?
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2007, 07:24:37 PM » |
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LOL cool no worries I will adjust your membership now  |
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2007, 12:12:13 PM » |
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Welcome andbe carefull of the Sharks!  |
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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2007, 11:19:10 AM » |
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Welcome OBie !
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2008, 07:24:11 AM » |
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Thanks all, for the welcome - I've been slack in not accessing the Forum for a while - I'll claim "work", unfortunately, but I'd rather have been able to use the "getting wet" excuse!! Ref Ultra Requete's "watch out for the sharks", I'll be swimming thru' water that's a damn' sight cleaner than what they'll be chasing me thru'!
I'm currently in Kigali, prepping their Inf for a Darfur sojourn, and off to Lagos, Nigeria, tomorrow for same, and then, oh frabjous joy, off to ElFashir for a couple of months until Ban Ki gets enough of his staff to do the MovCon OpsMgt task for UNAMID. And there'll be no diving there, that's for sure, nor Dr Monk!
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« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2008, 07:30:21 AM » |
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No worries Obie, glad to see your surfaced again  |
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« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2008, 11:22:42 AM » |
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Gday O'bie glad to see you are on 0ne of your flying visits,,,,,bad when there's no Dr Monk around...keep safe.
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« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2008, 05:45:18 PM » |
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Breaking news !!!A man named "OBie"
stood underwater, holding his breath,
from august 26, 2007.................to june 25, 2008 !!!Welcome back, OBie. (P.S. -joke- : "Obie" ? Obie Wan....Obie Wan Kenobie ?!!!! Is this really you ?!!!)
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« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2008, 03:12:42 AM » |
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Welcome to the forum.
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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2008, 01:54:59 AM » |
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G'Day all, and for Husar: "OBie" is a typically Australian derivative of my surname: O'Brien. I can claim a footprint on this Earth longer than that of the fictional chap from that time long ago and far away, but alas, fame being what it is, he is often confused for me!!
I'm currently neither swimming, diving, nor breath-holding, but often under sand and water downpours out here in western Darfur, El Fasher to be precise!
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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2008, 04:02:50 AM » |
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G'Day all, and for Husar: "OBie" is a typically Australian derivative of my surname: O'Brien. I can claim a footprint on this Earth longer than that of the fictional chap from that time long ago and far away, but alas, fame being what it is, he is often confused for me!!
I'm currently neither swimming, diving, nor breath-holding, but often under sand and water downpours out here in western Darfur, El Fasher to be precise!
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« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2008, 04:05:48 PM » |
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Jacob, et al, unfortunately altho' the same surname, I'm not related to the O'Brien Glass mob - I'd like to be, 'coz I reckon the cut of the will would be quite nice, thank you very much! And for those on here of Mexican abode, ie Victoria, I'd like to have a bit of O'Brien Catering's lucre as well - alas, not to be, so I'll settle for my expeditionary logistics travels and "gain wealth through knowledge" of our blighted globe instead - I think Mr Kipling might have said that, not sure.
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