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6 hours ago, KathyLauren said:

Wow, all these intelligence and counter-intelligence agents!  Spies.  Kewl.  Thank you all for your service.

Hey, Kathy Lauren, for what it's worth, we never got the James Bond guitar riff or the Walther PPK. (Dang!) And mostly, it was pretty boring stuff.

BTW, spies are the bad guys. We were referred to as "officers," or "operators." We controlled "agents" and "assets." Spies were always the other guys. What's really weird is that everybody--regardless of nationality or agency--used and still uses the same terminology. 

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15 minutes ago, Marcie Jensen said:

Spies were always the other guys. What's really weird is that everybody--regardless of nationality or agency--used and still uses the same terminology. 

 And, contrary to what you may have heard, "counterspies" are not store security.

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1 hour ago, Colleen Henderson said:

 And, contrary to what you may have heard, "counterspies" are not store security.

AMEN!!!

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@Colleen Hendersonyou will appreciate this. When I was with the 513th MI Bde at Ft Monmouth, we had a counterintelligence agent who's last name was "Guyy." He went by his initials--we never learned his first and middle names--which were C.I.  So his Badge and Credentials identified him as "C.I. Guyy." He was good at his job, but had no sense of humor; he never got the joke in his Bs&Cs.

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1 hour ago, Marcie Jensen said:

@Colleen Hendersonyou will appreciate this. When I was with the 513th MI Bde at Ft Monmouth, we had a counterintelligence agent who's last name was "Guyy." He went by his initials--we never learned his first and middle names--which were C.I.  So his Badge and Credentials identified him as "C.I. Guyy." He was good at his job, but had no sense of humor; he never got the joke in his Bs&Cs.

 

Funny!  Thanks for sharing that.

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I'm celebrating 30 years since I joined the US Navy this fall. 1992-2000 as a jazz musician. I played a large gig for Hillary Clinton in 1994 and played a smaller gig for Bill Clinton in a hanger in 1999. The highlight of that decade was playing a gig backing up Ray Charles with a local big band. Bad memories of getting drunk and vomitting though. Good memories of mountain biking. Surf biking with the dolphins!!

 

I related to stories in this thread about thinking I was gay and then figuring out that I wasn't. And then just spending decades being confused.

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6 hours ago, Lydia_R said:

thinking I was gay and then figuring out that I wasn't. And then just spending decades being confused.

It was kinda confusing for me too.

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1 hour ago, Ivy said:

It was kinda confusing for me too.

I'd say it was confusing for us all.

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RAF aviator for 32 years.  Loved 31 years of it. The other was working in MOD London! 

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On 1/5/2023 at 4:52 AM, Hannah Renee said:

5 January 1973, 50 years ago today, Hannah Renee first promised to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. It's a promise I stand by to this day.

Amen, sis! 

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I served 26 years on active duty in the Army as a commissioned officer. Split my time between Field Artillery and Military Intelligence and learned Arabic along the way. Retired as a colonel.

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1 hour ago, April Marie said:

I served 26 years on active duty in the Army as a commissioned officer. Split my time between Field Artillery and Military Intelligence and learned Arabic along the way. Retired as a colonel.

Welcome April Marie! Nice to see another Arabic speaker in the group. I began my 24 years as a parachute infantryman and later went into Intelligence where I served for 20 years. At one point I spoke, in addition to Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Greek and Hebrew. Nowadays, I sorta ge4t by in English. Mostly I did clandestine HUMINT collection. Glad to have you as part of the group.

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On 7/30/2022 at 7:29 AM, KathyLauren said:

Wow, all these intelligence and counter-intelligence agents!  Spies.  Kewl.  Thank you all for your service.

Actually, we aren't spies. Those are the bad guys.  Also, we never got the cool guitar riff, Walther PPK or Bond girl. Mostly, it's pretty boring stuff.  LOL.

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LOL!

"Clandestine HUMINT collection" = good guys.

"Spies" = bad guys.

Same job description.

Got it!  😄:devil:

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