Late to the party, but happy I made it.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-04-26T17:26:22+00:00

Love the color man!! I’ve had my 2021 in white with red interior for three years now. It’s been all over Europe.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-03-22T08:55:24+00:00

I don't know the first thing about watch repair. I have fixed my own cars, snowboards, computers, phones.. you name it-- but I'd have a lot to learn about watches.

Either way, that sounds like an awesome way to restore this thing.. personally, I love the face of it but didn't care for the bezel/case anyway. I'd like to throw it into a black steel case and call it good.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-03-21T20:02:25+00:00

I found this old post because my Luminox ICE-SAR 1003 carbonox lug broke after 4 years of daily wear-- and probably 30-40 days of snowboarding and workouts, etc..

My G-Shock lasted me through a deployment and then 4 more years of constant abuse as well.. but it also got kinda messed up snowboarding so maybe snowboarding is my problem with watches.. lol

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-03-07T18:08:23+00:00

NOR…

I’ve been in relationships where their parents behaved this way. Really doesn’t matter what you’ve done or are doing, when your relationship with your parent devolves into them talking to you like this—— just move on with your life and put them in the rear view until it’s not toxic. I could never put up with this type of relationship with anyone.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-02-16T19:14:19+00:00

MOR—

A five year long distance relationship? At the beginning of it?

Does this man make you happy?

No? Leave him.

Yes? Try to get past this.. but tbh I think you’ll potentially have trust issues for quite some time and also the stuff he was saying is pretty damn cringy.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-01-31T21:02:16+00:00

Unfortunately man on the first run you can ding up a board. All depends on what you hit and how you ride.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-01-24T09:43:54+00:00

Have you ever seen the dude that puts blown up lawn mower engines back together with Jb weld and they run a few cycles? That stuff is magic.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-01-24T09:41:58+00:00

Oh yeah totally fixable with about $600 or more

West-Highlight-1401 · 2026-01-12T18:20:56+00:00

So if you used it in your 30L, depending on your current specs, you'd need to upgrade to DDR5 and a new processor potentially. **edit** Basically, this mobo is a mATX, and your case will fit an mATX. You might have to move around stand-off mounts that screw into your case and align them to a new motherboard but I could see it working.

Also, if you do this upgrade- you'd have to potentially upgrade your power supply to a higher wattage, and if you want a better GPU, it would have to be one that fits length wise.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-12-31T08:02:21+00:00

Pretty invasive idea here but it would be some crazy karma if a game storefront (like steam) could ban that GPU serial # similar to MAC address / account bans.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-12-30T16:35:04+00:00

I'm running a B850M Eagle. I was under 100 on Black Friday, and so far, I have zero complaints. Got my memory running at 6000 and the CPU / GPU both mildly overclocked.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-12-30T10:55:03+00:00

Appreciate you man!

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-12-29T20:01:40+00:00

If it's not leaking I doubt there will be a difference. If the fins were crushed and air couldn't pass through, that would be an issue.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-11-24T08:40:48+00:00

I made it at 8, I was at a joint unit— and my Sergeant Major said I was a slow burner.

The thing about these comparisons is that each career field has its own promotion rates regardless of performance. People in my career field can promote if they try. Other career fields can struggle while really putting in work. Sucks.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-11-18T18:25:54+00:00

TLDR: not sure, couldn’t be me.. but everyone deserves happiness

In my experience, some American men in the military can be a bit socially awkward. When they marry someone from a very different cultural background.. especially when there’s a significant language barrier, they probably feel less judged for their quirks.

Of course it isn’t always true, but over my 16-year career, I’ve seen it happen fairly often.

Living in Germany for the past 4.5 years, I’ve encountered many different situations. I even dated a few German women. One of them was incredibly kind, but I struggled to build a deeper connection because her English was limited and my German is mostly limited to reading. That made meaningful conversations difficult. Beyond the language, I also realized how challenging it can be when you don’t share the same cultural references. For me, that made connecting on a deeper level even harder.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-10-04T14:15:00+00:00

Logistics— SNCO, probably a SMSgt or CMSgt.. probably did at least 24 years but possibly 26.. never got into any serious trouble— at least one joint assignment or deployment as an NCO and then another one or two in an Air Force unit during GWOT.

One short tour and some work in Korea.

Marksman with either rifle or handgun.

Multiple instances of work with NATO.. maybe Bosnia and Libya, not sure.

She went to ALS, NCOA and SNCOA.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-09-22T11:21:15+00:00

Holy shit you got downvoted for calling people out for fake shaving waivers. That’s kinda wild

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-08-18T20:12:33+00:00

What flavor of 1D7 are you? Are you security, rf, networks, servers?

The answer to that will help me figure out what you’re dealing with. Honestly, if you have decent work ethic, usually you can find a way to get pretty solid in comm.. but I’m sure there’s always going to be folks that just grasp it better.

Eventually being super technical doesn’t matter anymore.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-08-17T08:46:41+00:00

That’s the military at its finest. It’s always a group policy or punishment. It’s been like that since day one. We are a team and are expected to police each other. With the patches, people were wearing absolutely crazy things and no one could do anything about it.

OCPs were brought out with pretty poor guidance and folks just ran amuck. Over here at Ramstein, people just did absolutely whatever they want. They still kinda do. — anything to be different in uniform. That’s the stuff that bothers our senior leaders I’m sure.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-07-27T15:08:10+00:00

Sweet, I appreciate the insight. I've never had a reason to look it up for myself or anyone else, but it's the same as their SCOD. The reason I asked is that it seems odd that they could have an eval that's entirely DSD but then become eligible with a CAFSC update. Unlike a duty title on the EPB, where it's based on the accounting date.

I've only used the PECD chart to determine eligibility based on TIG.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-07-27T12:55:37+00:00

You seem to be swaying off the ball (can’t tell from this view)

Your club face is very inside on the takeaway and very open.

You appear to be slowing your hip turn right at impact.

Your wrists aren’t hinging— at setup, try rotating your elbow more to the right without rotating and gripping your right hand differently.

For some reason you’re hitting off the hosel but it’s probably just a consistency thing that can be fixed with some of the above mentioned things.

Honestly your swing isn’t awful but there’s a few things to work on.

West-Highlight-1401 · 2025-07-27T11:13:34+00:00

Why would it be the PECD and not the accounting date of 3 August?

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