Mile Mark

Dear Dead Graphites,

January 03rd marks my eighteenth anniversary in the United States Coast Guard.

I never dreamed I'd see the day that I would come to be regarded as "Old Guard".

I take that back. I did. I just thought that it would be different.

You may not know this, but Webmaster2525 (who is also a Chief) and I both joined the Coast Guard on the same day. I think that he and I played pool together (possibly in Baltimore???) while waiting for the Coast Guard bus to take us away to Coast Guard Recruit Training Center, Cape May, New Jersey.