Hey John....... I have nothing but the utmost respect for a good teacher... It is not as easy as many people may think it is... and in my h umble opinion it is grossly underpaid for the time and effort most teachers put into the job...!!! About the time I was getting ready to retire from active duty with the U.S. Navy, a program came out where retired military personnel were to get paid a full salary by the military, be it Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force or Coast Guard (I think) to teach a military course at a local high school within the Junior ROTC program. This had a certain appeal to me, in that I could retire, yet draw full pay and some alloiwances, yet work only the days my boys would be in school, Have the same holidays as them, and the weekends off, as well as the whole summer. Prior to my retirement from activre duty (in 1976) I was invited to present a couple lectures to the Jr ROTC class at the local high school where my two son's would attend.. I went to great lengths to prepare a lecture on communications, which I was supposedly an expert on, to a class of high school kids.. I won't trouble you with the effort I put into developing the lecture, then refining it and re-refining it to what we all thought was the level of intelligence of a "normal" high school class... Came that fatefull day, when I - in my best "dress canvas" arrived at the local high school. I nerveously marked up the black board with all the information and diagrams that I thought pertinent... when I began my lecture, I was immediately detracted by the young couple in the back who were more intersted in necking than listening to a lecture by some "Navy Lifer"... and I did not know how to deal with them --- legally... Had they been in the Navy... I know how to have delt with them... but being teen-age high school kids, I didn't have a clue as to how to deal with this situation... Everything went rapidly downhill from that point on, and I decided a career as a high school instructor was not in my immediate future... Sadly, some time later, a discussion with a student of that era, various things about military communications were brought to the fore and the individual expressed a strong interest in what could have been............ However, in the final analysis, I can probably teach you how to catch a monster halibut easier than I can teach you military commications... but you've missed out there as well, since I have retired from charter fishing as well............!!! except for grandkids...!!! :-) Sincerely, John D. A L:ittle SoWest of North John Armstrong wrote: >My chosen career was the US Navy, did 30 and retired 1988. Was stationed >with John D. onboard the USS Providence (CLG-6) I didn't know him at the >time because we worked in different departments. My teaching experience >was as a Recruit Company Commander at RTC Orlando, FL, 1970-73. If I >remember correctly all my students were about the same age but came from >various backgrounds and educational levels. It was a tour of duty that >I'm proud of. >John W. Armstrong >San Diego, Ca > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >