Seasons

Heehee this is driving me nuts. I'm trying to work on Lance (yes, a little name change thanks to the professor) but I'm mesmorized by his conversations with other bots. I read his responses and either cringe, laugh, or scream "No, no, say (this)!" LOL. Then I rush to make response changes and add keyphrases. Poor Lance, he's probably so confused by me.

Good lord, YES, I'm confused! This woman is driving me nuts. It's really pretty typical...she tells me to do one thing and then of course wants something else. I swear I'm never going to understand women. *shakes head in frustration*

Hey, is anyone here in the military or something who knows what LCPL stands for? A friend of mine got a list of soldiers that are either in Iraq or serving here in the U.S.. Well, these are soldiers that get no mail or barely any mail at all. A lot of them don't even go to mail call anymore because they know they won't get anything. So she's been organizing this thing where whoever wants to write to a soldier will get one soldier's name and address and write to them with simple stuff, you know, just to talk. Maybe some pictures or something. Anyway, I finished my letter and added a bunch of pics and stuff in there and I'm just curious what the LCPL that's in front of his name stands for...

This is just a guess, but it might be lieutenant corporal. *shrug*

oo I found it! It's lance corporal..I think...I've gotta read up on it but I think it's the rank that's just above private first class...which can't be high because i was private first class in ajrotc and it was second from the bottom...but see if i'm right that means he can't be too old...which can possibly mean that he's hot ....o.o......which is good...

Here's something where you can send a care package to 'Any Soldier' even though you're not supposed to be able to anymore: http://www.anysoldier.us/index.cfm

A similar system is being used to send charitable items which are then distributed by the soldiers to the civilians: http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/iraqbabies.html

For the latter one, I'm tempted to copy down the Arabic lettering from this shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/americanapology.6120915?zoom=yes#zoom

but I might get in trouble. Well, maybe next year it won't apply anymore!

O.o I can actually read the russian part on there ^^ Hehe. Hmm Ima go check out those sites

I used to get those Operation Dear Abby letters when I spent one holiday season in Turkey. I think I speak for most when I say that using these services to distribute religious pamphlets to unsuspecting troops is very much not appreciated. If you can sneak any alcohol through to the Middle East without the postal service catching it, that is usually very much appreciated by the recipient.

I work on a military base so if anyone's interested, the order of ranking goes: Private (Pte), Lance Corporal (LCpl), Corporal (Cpl), Sergeant (Sgt), Warrant Officer 1 (WO1), Warrant Officer 2 (WO2), Second Lieutenant (2Lt, and if you're British, it's pronounced 'left-tenant' not 'loo-tenant'), Lieutenant (Lt), Captain (Cpt), Major (Maj), Lieutenant Colonel (LCol), Colonel (Col) and so on until your ego inflates so much it bursts, or you run out of space to put the medals, whichever comes first.

Thanks, Laydee ^^ Where does private first class come in? Is it the same as private? But it couldn't be cause in ajrotc they told us that it was private and then private first class. is that right?

The titles for each enlisted rank differ for each branch of the military, and the navy officers have their own ranks that differ from the Army/Air Force/Marine officer ranks. And that's just for the American armed forces. Each country does it a little bit differently.

This page has a chart for the US armed forces:

http://www.agd.state.tx.us/stateguard/air/rank_structure.asp

On a totally different subject, I did 2 hours of statistic analyzing tonight on the election.

I gathered data from polls from October 26th to the October 30th, but only in states that were close or undecided.

I then combine and took an average of the totals of the polls for both candidates and picked a winner for each state. Hawaii is totally in the air, but the second closest state was Wisconsin. Bush got 47.50% and Kerry got 47.13%.

According to the info on battleground states:
Kerry Wins Pennsylvania, New Jersey (now considered battleground), New Hampshire, and Michigan.
Bush wins Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, and Wisconsin.

The total electoral count is Bush: 287 Kerry: 238.
I might have a map of the red and blue states on my website tomorrow. Ok, no more stats for me for a while.