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BQZip01 is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia later this year. He is currently in military flight training which doesn't allow much time for Wikipedia, though he may make the occasional edit here and there.
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Texas Aggies
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I am a 29 year old, Captain in the United States Air Force. I am waiting to begin Combat Systems Operator training (formerly known as Undergraduate Navigator Training [UNT]) at Randolph Air Force Base. I was previously assigned as a Communications Officer in the 16th Special Operations Wing (now the 1st Special Operations Wing) at Hurlburt Field, Florida. I have two deployments to the Middle East, four lengthy assignments to Air Force schools, and am a graduate of the Dynamics of International Terrorism class taught at the Air Force Special Operations School. Prior to that assignment, I spent 5 years at Texas A&M University, a Senior Military College, where I graduated in 2002 with a degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics.
I was born at Carswell Air Force Base (in an interesting coincidence, it was named after a fellow Texas Aggie Horace S. Carswell, Jr., Texas A&M class of 1938, a Medal of Honor recipient) in Fort Worth, Texas. My father was a member of the Air Force in the Strategic Air Command where he flew the F-111, B-52, and RC-135 S & X models; he retired as a Colonel and now works as a vice president of the Syracuse Research Corporation. From the place of my birth, my family moved around quite a bit: first to Sacramento, California, then Omaha, Nebraska, then North Pole, Alaska, back to Omaha, on to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and finally San Antonio, Texas. During this time, my mother became involved with Bible Study Fellowship and she now works as their Executive Secretary. In addition, my brother was born at Mather Air Force Base. He also went to Texas A&M and serves in the Air Force as a Civil Engineer. We are both married to wives who graduated from Big 12 schools and have far more education than us. I now have two sons with the most recent being born on 27 August 2007.
For those interested in my name, BQ stands for, historically, "band qualified" or, colloquially, "band queer" in the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band in the Corps of Cadets. Zip is a nickname for a senior in the Corps and 2001 is my class year at Texas A&M University.
For those interested in the discrepancy between my graduation date and my class year, at Texas A&M, it is customary to be assigned your class year based on when you entered the school (i.e. the freshmen starting in Fall of 2000 are the class of 2004). Nothing you do changes that class year, even if you graduate "late." I graduated late because my degree plan required 135+ hours and my ROTC credit hours (28 of them) did not count towards that degree.
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Crud
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[edit] Good quotes
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The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong Delta. An overheated private removed his flak jacket, revealing a t-shirt with an iron-on sporting the Mad slogan 'Up with miniskirts!'
Well, we all had a good laugh (even though I didn't quite understand it). But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed Charlie to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the states, but <sigh> they just can't get the spices right.
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Just remember...no one's right...and no one's wrong...
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—Homer Simpson
The Simpsons
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[edit] Interesting Facts
I have been within 10 yards of a bear in the wild; I was not protected by anything...and I was 10 years old at the time.
I am one of a limited number of westerners who has been to North Korea. I did this when I visited Korea in 2000 as a cadet in the Joint Security Area [1].
In my 28 years, I have experienced air temperatures as low as -78°F and as high as 132°F. These are not windchill or heat index temperatures and represent a range greater than from water freezing to boiling. It's 210°F of difference, folks!
[edit] Big 12 Questions/Comments
Zero Ulink
- Why name your teams after people who were, by definition, land thieves?
- Why abbreviate 'University of Oklahoma' OU?
- Why doesn't Texas slip into the Gulf of Mexico? 'Cause Oklahoma sucks!
Baylor Universitylink
- Cubbies
- Only place in the world where premarital sex is discouraged because it might lead to dancing...
- A rewrite of their Alma Mater, as sung by the Aggie Bandsmen the week before the annual Battle on the Brazos:
- That Good Old Baylor Line!
- We're forty points behind
- We're gonna lose another game
- Our team's a waste of time
- The coach is drawing plays
- We hear the churchbells chime
- But all our prayers won't end our fears
- That Good Old Baylor Line!
that overglorified junior college in Austinlink
- t.u., teasips
- At least our mascot isn't, by definition, castrated (admittedly, ours is an inbred bitch)
- We all know that the real UT is a school in Knoxville, Tennessee
University of Kansaslink
- Can this football coach honestly tell his players how to get in shape?
University of Coloradolink
- Rocky Mountain High
University of Nebraskalink
- N is for knowledge
- As bad as Cornhusker is for a team name, it is still a step up from the former team name: The Bugeaters
Texas Techlink
- techies, sand fleas
- Known for their spelling ability...(take a close look at the picture)
[edit] Need to add
- Kansas State
- Iowa State
- Missouri
- Oklahoma State
Any additional information to add to the back-and-forth banter amongst good natured rivalries would be greatly appreciated
[edit] My to do list
[edit] Not yet done
[edit] Completed
Visitors, if you have any suggestions, feel free to add them to my list.
[edit] Locations in my life
* Bold indicates places I have been for more than 3 consecutive months or 6 non-consecutive months. Italics indicates places I have been for more than 5 consecutive days or 10 non-consecutive days
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Places I've Been |
| States, Districts, and Territories |
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky , Louisiana , Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma , Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Countries |
Bahrain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, North Korea, Qatar, Romania, South Korea, United States |
| Colleges and Universities |
Texas A&M, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Baylor University, Creighton University, Kansas State University, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State University, Trinity University, Texas Tech, Texas State University, University of Florida, University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas at San Antonio, that overglorified junior college in Austin |
| Stadiums |
Kyle Field, Superdome, Independence Bowl, Alamodome, Cotton Bowl, The Meadowlands, Floyd Casey Stadium, Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium , Notre Dame Stadium, Boone Pickens Stadium, Memorial Stadium (University of Kansas), Memorial Stadium (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium insert joke about this stadium's name here, Jones AT&T Stadium, and the stadium at that overglorified junior college in Austin |
| Other band notable performances |
Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl Parade, Alamo Bowl, Kickoff Classic, Big XII Championship x 2, Battle of Flowers Parade x 3, Carnegie Hall, Houston Stock Show and Rodeo Parade, Blessing of the Fleet (Galveston) x 2 |
[edit] Other User Boxes
Writing Customs and Courtesies
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This user considers ain’t standard English usage. |
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. |
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This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
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This user understands the difference between less & fewer. |
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This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help. |
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This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
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This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. |
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It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
to / too
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This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
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This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling! |
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This user is addicted to semicolons; he or she uses them frequently. |
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This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
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Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
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This user's been known to screw up the occasional sentence and make the occasional typo, but is otherwise pretty accurate with regards to English. |
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Hobbies
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It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but this user is all out of gum. |
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This user is a poker legend. |
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This user drinks occasionally. |
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This user would rather drink tea than coffee. |
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This user enjoys rifle shooting. |
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This user enjoys pistol shooting. |
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