Back from the dead!

[Retired Sarge]

Not actually new but its been a few years since I posted. Health has been kicking my ass, after a heart attack forced me into retirement from the Air Force, everything was good for a while.

Now I have been diagnosed with Afib, the med I'm on to control it will lead to me getting Pulmonary Fibrosis. The doc says it's not a if thing, but a when thing. Oh joy! Every 6 months I have to do a Pulmonary study to check if it has started. So the heart issues and meds make me intolerable to heat, heck I keep the house at 62 degrees during the Summer.

I also have Degenerative Disc Disorder now, apparently my back took a beating in the military. Makes it hard getting around in rough areas at times. So I haven't detected in a few years now, I've been concentrating my time on my military surplus weapons collection and getting range time in. No fun having a firearm if you can't sling lead with it. Plus I've been trying to catalog my militaria collection, like where it was acquired, who's it was etc.

Got a new phone and was transferring my favorites over and saw the TNET link and was wow haven't been on there in a while. So here I am..............

My toy collection thus far, they keep me busy, shooting, cleaning etc.


Pistols:

1933 Tula/Nagant Model 1895
1953 Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka BRNO CZ-52 / VZ-52
197? JP Sauer & Sohn / Hawes Western Marshall
1991 Ceská Zbrojovka / Browning CZ-83
1991 Ceská Zbrojovka / Browning CZ-83
1979 Armi San Marco Colt 1851 Navy
2013 Taurus PT 111 Millennium G2
2013 SCCY CPX-1 CB
2013 SCCY CPX-1 TT

Long Guns:

1863 Snider Enfield P1853 Mk II^^ Afghanistan Bringback
1879 Waffen Fabrik Bern Swiss Vetterli Model 1869/71
1890 Danzig Commission Rifle Model 1888 aka Gew 88
1894/1927 Izhevsk/Tikkakoski / Mosin-Nagant Model 1891
1894-1896 Oviedo/Mauser (Spanish) Model 1893
1914 Koishikawa Arsenal Type 38 Arisaka
1915-1917/1924-1927 Remington/Böhler Stahl/Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/24 “Lotta*Rifle”
1917 Tula/Mosin-Nagant Model 1891
1918/1932 Steyr Mannlicher M1895/30
1920-1926 Oviedo/Mauser (Spanish) M1893/1916
1926-1928 Fabrique Nationale d'armes de Guerre M1924/47
1928-1930 Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka VZ-24 (Sent to Brazilian Rebels for the 1932 San Paulo uprising)
1929-1941 Kragujevac Arsenal M1924/47
1932 Izhevsk/Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30
1939 Tula/Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30
1940-1956 Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works Champion
1942 K. Kale/Mauser (Turkish) Model 1938
1942 Izhevsk/Mosin-Nagant 1891/30
1943 Springfield Armory Garand M1
1943 Izhevsk/Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30
1943 BSA Shirley M47 Enfield No. 4 Mk 1
1944 Nagoya Arsenal Type 99 Arisaka
1944 Waffen Werke Brunn K98k Mauset (Dot 44)
1947 Izhevsk/Mosin-Nagant Model 1944
1948-1949 Manufacture d'armes de Saint Etienne MAS-1936
1948-1952 Kragujevac Arsenal M1948
1954 Romanian Mosin Nagant Model 1944
1955 Chongquing Arsenal Type 53
1956 Jianshe Arsenal Sino-Soviet SKS M56
1973 Marlin Original Golden-39M
1975 Remington 1100
2015 Mossberg Int'l 702 Plinkster
2016 Bushmaster XM15-E2S (AR15A2)

 

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[RustyGold]

Welcome back Sir! Thank you for your service! It seems you have given a lot of yourself for our freedom and I thank you for that. Best of luck to you.

 

[uglymailman]

Welcome back & thanks for your service. A degenerative spine caused me to retire in March. I've got some back strengthening exercise's I do and it seems to help. I also walk 2-3 hrs a day. Hope your health gets better and you find a horde, one coin at a time. Good luck

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Welcome to the forum from Massachusetts!

 

[against the wind]

Welcome back and thank you for your service.

 

[Rookster]

Welcome back. Looks like you could hold um off for quite some time.

 

[dsdigger]

Welcome Back! Thanks for your service! Keep on enjoying throwing lead downrange and that nice collection!

 

[Retired Sarge]

At last count we had about 10,000 rounds total. Of course in various calibers. So got plenty of lead to throw, or keep undesirables away from the house. LOL!

 

[Retired Sarge]

Welcome back & thanks for your service. A degenerative spine caused me to retire in March. I've got some back strengthening exercise's I do and it seems to help. I also walk 2-3 hrs a day. Hope your health gets better and you find a horde, one coin at a time. Good luck

The back is just the latest of my ills, LOL!

My operational deployments:

1991 Operation Desert Shield/Storm
1996 Operation Joint Endeavor IFOR
1998 Operation Joint Forge SFOR
1999 Operation Southern Watch
2001 Operation Enduring Freedom
2002 Operation Enduring Freedom

Was a week from shipping out in late 2002 during the buildup for the pending 2003 Iraqi Invasion when I had the heart attack. At first everything looked good, but in 2006 my EF numbers did a 180 and dropped. Dropped to non life supporting level. Went from a 55% (Which is almost a normal number) post heart attack to 12%, the docs freaked out and I had to get an ICD implanted. The Air Force was yeah you're done. Got a medical retirement with almost 23 years at 100% disability. So at age 41 I was permanently retired and haven't worked since, due to VA Disability, Military Disability, Civil Service Disability, and Social Security Disability, was told I was never working again.

Kind of a tough pill to swallow at 41, went from busting my ass in the military to retired. 60 to 0 in 1 second, what do you do after that........didn't slow down at first, but after about 15 shocks from my first ICD, everyone convinced me to slow down. Was told in 2006 when I got the ICD that I would either be dead or have had a heart transplant by age 49 due to damage my heart had sustained. Turning 52 in December and still have the same screwed up heart I had in 2006. Guess I proved them wrong again.........

Give you an ideal how much I've had to slow down. Spent Memorial Day week in the hospital getting a new ICD and leads. Due to being mobile and energetic I actually broke the lead to my ICD. So since I had to have a new lead ran, they replaced the ICD too.

 

[River Rat]

Glad to see you back! The back injury I sustained, caused me to not world wide duty qualified, so that ended my 28 year service.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Glad to see you back! The back injury I sustained, caused me to not world wide duty qualified, so that ended my 28 year service.

Yeah that profile with the "No World Wide Duty" clause is a killer. I was grounded to home station even TDYs for schools had to be approved. Didn't join the AF to sit at home station behind a desk!

 

[A2coins]

Welcome back

 

[BLK HOLE]

Welcome back!!

 

[Retired Sarge]

Going to be MIA again for sometime. Due to the significant damage we took from Hurricane Michael my priorities have changed. Looks as if my house might be done for. Took some serious structural damage when the house over pressurised, there are areas where the roof lifted off from the main house but remained in place.

See below link for some pictures taken during the eye, before the backside of the storm and tornadoes came through. House looked pretty decent at that time, not anymore.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/natural-disasters/590487-hurricane-michael.html