Just bragging about my son

[number51]

Great kid, great wife, retirement. **** man. I envy you. You're living the good life. Well deserved my good man.

Absolutely this. Nice people that love each other, work hard and then have great things happen to them, who knew?

 

[Urblock]

Absolutely this. Nice people that love each other, work hard and then have great things happen to them, who knew?

That plan worked for me.

 

[number51]

SERE's kid at 5.

 

[SERE Bear]

Great kid, great wife, retirement. **** man. I envy you. You're living the good life. Well deserved my good man.

Thanks for the Kind words brother.

Although I did retire from the USAF I soon found a job that allows me to work 4 days & 40 hrs. 3 DAY WEEKENDS FTW!! ALL that money has been going into a sailboat fund. My wife and I should be buying a used 40-44 ft sailing catamaran and sailing off into the Carribean in 3-4 years.

 

[botfly10]

Congrats bioch.

Also, good on you for guiding your kid to opportunities that actually take advantage of his skills. I work with high school kids and college freshman a lot. And honestly, highly capable kids that know how to work aren't all that rare. But what IS rare, are adults that know how to guide those kids towards opportunities to excel.

Dual enrollment at a local community college or even flat out taking junior and senior year at a community college is a crazy opportunity that not enough kids take advantage of. Props goes to the parents that learn about this shit and go through the hurdles to get their kids in the programs.

So basically, its the kids that do the work day in and out (almost all success in school is from consistency rather than intelligence) but its the parents that open up avenues for those kids to realize extra opportunities. Its the parents that instill a sense of inherent value for learning.

Its almost impossible for kids to have the foresight to understand the importance of education. Being in high school is being in the shit. Its so fucking hard to see past that daily grind. Its on parents to instill that shit into kids through their own example and home culture. Kids that don't have that appreciation are often kinda fucked and teachers have to battle with them over the value of learning.

All of which is to say, whatever success your kid has reflects back on you as a father. Clearly you have done a good job communicating the importance of education and followed up by doing the legwork to get your kid into these programs. Good for you ***** for being an excellent dad.

 

[Rush]

Congrats man, always love to hear a good father/son humble brag.

 

[xer0h0ur]

Thanks for the Kind words brother.

Although I did retire from the USAF I soon found a job that allows me to work 4 days & 40 hrs. 3 DAY WEEKENDS FTW!! ALL that money has been going into a sailboat fund. My wife and I should be buying a used 40-44 ft sailing catamaran and sailing off into the Carribean in 3-4 years.

Damn that sounds fun. Please for the love of god get a satellite phone when you attempt that.

 

[SERE Bear]

Damn that sounds fun. Please for the love of god get a satellite phone when you attempt that.

I am a retired SERE Specialist. There's no way I want to be one of the negative examples we use for water survival training. (I did work at our water Survival school for two years ). I will have a personal locator beacon on each of our offshore harnesses and our boat will be equipped very well for emergencies. I can't imagine the amount of crap I would catch from the SERE community if I was unprepared. We won't be going near pirate areas either… I don't need to be an example for hostage training either!

 

[number51]

I am a retired SERE Specialist. There's no way I want to be one of the negative examples we use for water survival training. (I did work at our water Survival school for two years ). I will have a personal locator beacon on each of our offshore harnesses and our boat will be equipped very well for emergencies. I can't imagine the amount of crap I would catch from the SERE community if I was unprepared. We won't be going near pirate areas either… I don't need to be an example for hostage training either!

That would be so fucked up if you couldn't Survive, Evade, Resist, or Extract.

I mean beyond the death of you and your family which would be beyond tragic, but yikes. Like an IRS agent getting audited, ironic, you know what I mean.

In other words, have a great time and don't drift into Somali waters.

 

[Monster]

I went to SERE twice...
You might have slapped the shit out of me!
or worse...

 

[theOHIOSTATE!]

Congrats, I had a very similar score and had a generous offer from UH's honors college. Definitely a fine program.

You can take all the credit daddy.

I can't imagine how proud you must