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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "cshenk"  wrote in message   
   news:S_WdnbFYGq2w_AD4nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com...   
      
   One of the troubles here that I have, is not a 'bad one' to have.  My   
   science background is primarily 'biology realm' with some chemistry   
   allowed to lay fallow after my attempt to put myself through college.   
   I'm probably 'undereducated' by the standards of some here for the   
   types of knowledge background.   
      
   Grin, should be fun to drop a 'silly Sally' into the mix!  My skills   
   are SQL programming, Navy Education and Training, heavy 'Data analysis'   
   and directing slim resources for maximum benefit to force generation   
   (getting the right trained sailor to the right ship when needed).   
      
   Spent some time post 26year Navy career (E8) in contracting services   
   and Mitre rings a bell though I never worked for them.  I was mostly   
   CSC then moved to GS-13(NETC then NAVIFOR).   
      
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   Mitre worked more with the Air Force, FAA et al.  It was structured as a   
   private non-profit so we didn't have GS grades, or much bureaucratic   
   interference.   
      
   That's a pretty solid resume. I benefitted from someone getting the right   
   trained soldier to where he was needed. I had listed French and German on   
   the "dream sheet" requesting an assignment and was sent to Germany instead   
   of Vietnam. I loved being there and driving around the countryside between   
   our field communications sites but many Americans didn't, to the extent of   
   reenlisting to go back to Saigon. In rural areas they didn't speak English   
   and hadn't been contaminated by us.   
      
   I was a hardware guy with programming experience mainly limited to low level   
   machine control. Being cooped up alone in the lab like Drosselmeyer the   
   toymaker definitely isn't for everyone. Dan Aykroyd's character in Spies   
   Like Us was close to my reality. His office was in the boiler room, mine was   
   beside it, and like him I know a little Russian and KGB = Komitet   
   Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)