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• Scott Sanford commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  my wife's father was the base comptroller for Fort Mead in the early 80s. I never met him as he died while on that duty[1] but the family stories about military accounting... Oy vey. One of my good friends is a military brat; her father was an Air Force veterinarian. I don't know what image comes into your mind when you hear the phrase "Air Force veterinarian" but it's safe to say some bits of the job were stranger than whatever you imagined. Only a few of his stories involved money but I completely believe that a military accountant would...
• JohnS commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Scott Sanford @ 761: One of my good friends is a military brat; her father was an Air Force veterinarian. I don't know what image comes into your mind when you hear the phrase "Air Force veterinarian" but it's safe to say some bits of the job were stranger than whatever you imagined. I don't know about "Air Force" veterinarians, but in the Army, one duty of veterinarians is inspecting & certifying sanitation in mess halls dining facilities. The Army does still have a small number of Calvary horses (mostly for ceremonial purposes) and the veterinarians are also responsible for...
• Heteromeles commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Air Force veterinarian is weird. I had a friend in college who was in the reserve and in vet school. If you know anything about the hardships of a veterinary career, this makes sense, as the Army pays your way and you get out with a job and debt free. Anyway, according to her, the Army vets treated all the service animals, from the canines in all the forces to the Marines' mules, the Navy's sea lions and dolphins, and so forth. Her specialty was emerging diseases, so last I heard, she'd gone to Plum Island......
• Elderly Cynic commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  I like the fact that your post immediately followed Bill Arnold's - I can easily see military auditors either praying to or cursing the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat :-)...
• Elderly Cynic commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  I like Ike. Unfortunately, our current warmongers, monetarists and so on are too bigoted to be affected when you quote him (or Churchill) at them, despite them idolising those two....