I'm back.
David, I don't remember Keith being a dipper until you brought it up. Maybe a
closet dipper? I can see why you remembered with him leaving that stuff there
over the holidays. Gross.
Andy, thanks for the cush question info. Here is a follow on. When Clay
Jones' son was in the band and they asked him that question, he pronounced the
name correctly. When the pissheads asked him how he knew that was right, he
told them that Mr. Hanneman was a friend of his dad's and he had been around
him many times. What could a pisshead say to that? I bet the fish had a good
laugh at that one.
I guess you guys are just jealous of my name. I didn't always like it but it
grew on me. When one of you need a pen name, you can use Otto or a derivation
of it and become a best selling author. Mention me in the acknowledgement
section. You're welcome.
Otto
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 05:43:59 PM CDT, Mark Kelley
<markrkelley77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wayne, I wish I could say I am surprised, but I am not. I worked 5 years in
public education in Title 1 schools. The mastery level of stupidity I saw from
the State down was breath-taking. No Child Left Behind not only failed to
improve student achievement, it in fact did just the opposite.
Every year we had yet another program that was going to cure all the problems
we had in Title 1 schools. They were typically managed by retired
administrators who were hired by.....you guessed it....the district they
retired from.
And then there is the whole debacle of the alcoholic Supt that EVERYONE knew
about and yet no one would do something about it. She showed up at board
meetings and convocations three sheets to the wind. It wasn't until she was
finally caught one too many times by law enforcement that she retired and had a
very soft landing with her golden parachute.
The kids weren't that bad. The shit we had them do was bad.
Mark R. Kelley markrkelley77@xxxxxxxxx
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:57 PM Wayne Zieschang <waynez1122@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As an explanation about why I had no GI Bill Education Benefits, and therefore
ineligible for Hazelwood Act funds -
When the idiots in DC wrote the bill, they used specific dates to mark the end
and beginning of each eligibility period. Sorta all hunky-dorry, right? Well
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
The way the bill was written, if you started active duty before "DATE X" you
were VN GI Bill, after "DATE Y" you were Montgomery GI Bill. Even though the
MGIB didn't come into being until 1984, the way it was written, it denied
eligibility for the VNGIB if you were USNR (or USAR or USAFR or USCGR) and was
commissioned in AUGUST 1977 and started Active Duty between 01 August and 31
September 1977.
Well, there were 53 officers nationwide so affected who graduated from ROTC
that August. 26 were at A&M, all of whom graduated/commissioned in August 1977.
That meant with no GI Bill education benefits, you could not meet the Hazelwood
Act requirements, which was to get a letter from the VA stating that "person
XYZ" has exhausted all of his/her GI Bill Education Benefits. Well, if you
have no benefits to exhaust all you can get from the VA is a letter indicating
that the specified individual had no benefits to exhaust. The HA therefore
assumed you had a BCD and therefore ineligible for HA funds.
I learned all this when I started attending the orange & white junior college
of central Texas and tried to get assistance. Filled out all kinds of
paperwork only to be denied GI Bill benefits. Started checking and found the
legislative f-up it was.
Complained to my congressman, and apparently so did several others as we all
seem to have been RIF'd and started school about the same time (January 1988).
The end result was a bill passed granting VN GIB benefits to those affected
(although not by name). The bill passed in October 1988. The catch was one
had to apply for benefits before 01 January 1988 to get them.
Did the PTB directly contact the 53 people and advise them?????? Oh, hell no.
They sent the bill to the DOD, who sent the information to the Services (USN,
USA, USAF, USMC, USCG) who then sent the info on to their respective "Bureau of
Personnel", who then sent it to their Reserve BPers offices, who then sent it
to the Reserve Centers who published it in their monthly "Plan of the Day" for
the drill weekend.
MAYBE if someone was still on active duty, they saw the notice before the
expiration date. When the information arrived at the San Antonio Naval Reserve
Center, it arrived after the November drill weekend. So they published the
info in the DECEMBER 1989 POD.
When I went to drill THE THIRD WEEKEND OF DECEMBER and learned about the
change, guess what happened when I went to apply the next week??? -
ALL THE FRICKING BENEFITS OFFICES WERE CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS UNTIL 02 JANUARY
1989.
So still no GI BILL benefits for yours truly.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:52 AM David Pointon <david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ahhhhh, but at one point in my life, it was not my privilege to know Otto.....
So we named the dog Auto....
dwp
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:49 AM Patrick Pennington
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave, I know if it’s funny it’s not mean, but we are talking about Otto! Groad
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 30, 2021, at 10:40 AM, David Pointon <david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was spelt AUTO....
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 30, 2021, at 09:32, Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is the correct response,
"I once had a dog named Otto."
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 05:38:50 AM CDT, Patrick Pennington
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DT, you win, but Otto that’s a great story! Hey Otto , did you know you area
Cush question in B Company? THAT is the ultimate in cool!Groad
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David W. Pointon210-557-3687
