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Anonymous #1

Confessions of a stranger in a strange land.
    #7399204 - 09/12/07 12:47 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I just feel like taking a load off so whoever wants to read something you may find a little interesting continue on.


I joined the USMC about 2 and a half years ago, for reasons which I seem to have forgotten. Since I have been in I've done more psychedelics than when I was out (I discovered psychedelics shortly before I joined). This of course makes it hard for me to connect to most people I work with.

Keep in mind, I'm not infantry, or any crazy shit like that. My job is metalsmith/welding. I work on aircraft parts and work in an air conditioned shop and it's really not that bad aside from the bullshit you have to put up with and the PT we have to do, which I hate.

Anyway, I'm probably going to be kicked out in the next month or two. For the last year and a half I have not been on the drug test roster, which of course means I get high on occasion and havnt really had to worry about it. I dont get high and go into work, or anything like that, and consider myself a responsible user. Anyway, a week ago I got a piss test for the first time in a year and a half and it was 3 days after I had smoked last. I've already come to terms with the chances that I'm going to pass are less than 50% and there's nothing I can do about it really. Failure in a piss test, especially in my line of work (airwing) results in other than honorable discharge, and sometimes, depending on your command, up to 30 days in the brig.

So, I wouldnt be surprised if, in the next few months I'm back to square one, back home and looking for a job. I'll probably just look for a welding job, which would probably make me more money than while I'm in, and I wont have to work for a gov't that I dont agree with.

I dont regret my choices in life, I just chalk them all up to an experience in life. What else do we have besides those experiences? I have a friend who popped for coke recently and is getting out soon as well, she seems to have gotten off fairly easily, but I doubt I'll get off quite as easy because I'm of a higher rank than she is.


Anyway, I dont know I just felt like telling...whoever reads this whats going on I guess. I cant tell hardly anyone about this, as of yet, because I dont know what the results will say or anything else.

If anyone has any questions comments feel free to give them.


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Anonymous #2

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #7399222 - 09/12/07 12:52 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

damn. Do you want to leave? I hope your shit passes. Good luck and let us know how it goes!


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Anonymous #3

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #7399232 - 09/12/07 12:56 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

good luck man.


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Anonymous #1

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #7399248 - 09/12/07 12:59 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Well, it's kind of a mixed blessing. I mean, I'm ready to move on, but it sucks that all of the benefits go out the window when I'm already halfway through my enlistment. But I would be glad to close this chapter of my life, I guess. And I do enjoy welding, I'll probably just go to a civilian welding job and get my certs for stick, mig, oxy-acetylene (I'm a tig welder). I figure if I just talk to whoever I'm trying to get a job with an explain the situation that they'd probably be understanding. Like I said, what I do in my off time shouldnt matter if it doesnt effect my work performance, which it doesnt.


I met this 65 year old guy at a fest a few weeks ago that I talked to for a while, and I think he offered to take me to Canada. I didnt pursue it though.


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Anonymous #4

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #7400658 - 09/12/07 01:03 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

You can make some badass money if you are good at welding, though it is hard on your body. Can you cut an aluminum soda can in half and then tig it back together? If so, you are set, no matter what happens.


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Anonymous #5

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #4]
    #7401010 - 09/12/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

just make sure everything's ventilated real well, esp. with aluminum, you can get yourself is died real fast breathing that crap in.


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Anonymous #1

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #5]
    #7402464 - 09/12/07 08:51 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I've never tried welding two aluminum cans together. My weld school instructor could do it, or so I heard (never saw it). Apparently he could do it with two cans standing side by side and weld them up the middle. Now that's fucking badass.

I dont know the thinnest aluminum I could weld, it'd depend on the quality of the metal. If it's shit metal then it will suckback real easy and even if it does get welded the weld will be pretty shitty. My cert is for 0.050" Aluminum, but the smallest I've welded is probably around 0.024" maybe a little bit thinner. Alum. is a real bitch to weld though if the metal is shit, like I said, I've welded some real shitty aluminum before. Depends on what the alloy is.

As long as you dont have your face stuck right on top of the weld area I dont think fumes are a very big hazard for the metals I mentioned. I know with titanium fumes are a hazard, supposedly with galvanized steel as well, though I've heard/read conflicting stuff on galvanized steel.


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Anonymous #5

Re: Confessions of a stranger in a strange land. [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #7402990 - 09/12/07 10:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

galvanized steel is real dangerous, and TIG/MIG welding aluminum can put off a lot of ozone.. and some alum. alloys have a lot of magnesium in them, and that's no good either


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