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1. bought at PX immediately after BT at FT Benning GA in '86.

2. watch then attended Airborne School, FT Benning GA.

3. Watch then survived 1-1/2 yrs attached to a '60 gunner in weapons squad, 1st Plt., B Co. 2/325 A.I.R., 82d Airborne Div. (Honduras, Panama, "Creative Dispute Resolution" at Rick's bar in beautiful downtown FayetteNam, and weeks on end in Area J, baby!)

4. Watch then PCS'd to old 3rd I.D. Long Range Surveillance, Delta Company LRSD 103rd M.I., surviving four years special ops in USAREUR: International Long Range Reconnaisance Patrol School classes in Weingarten, endless humps across Europe for Operations Schindterhannes, Longstrike, Pegasus, TriStar, the Pruden Competition, countless river crossings/helocasts/parachute jumps (fixed/rotary wing and dirigible), bangs, bashes, dents, bumps and slams, until ETS'ing in '92.

5. Watch entered employ of Columbia SC Fire Department, Rescue Company 1, and became the proud new owner of a locking Jubilee stainless band. Spent 6 years in heavy technical rescue timing high-and-low-angle rope rescues, swiftwater rescues in Class V rapids, aquatic helo rescue, trench and confined space rescue, HAZMAT Ops, elevator rescues, vehicle extrications, and banging out primary searches in structure fires of varying degrees of severity.

6. Watch now continues to do same with Knoxville TN FD.

7. No rebuilds, no seal replacements, or other work; runs great (loses about 7-8 min a week), will get seals/crystal/bezel replaced when I give it to my son in a couple of years. It (and he) deserves no less.

- Jeff

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