Doin' it right?!

[CPOBull@Comcast.net]

a charra
dia duit
I must make my introduction so as to make my bona fide's properly. Perhaps it is that I do not get off on the right foot because I am straight forward. So be it.
I am W.A. Bullard Jr. [CPOBull], or just plain "Bull" onboard ship. Call me anything you want, just don't call me late to supper, or late for watch.
I am a retired CPO, EMC/SW[USN], an Underway Engineering Officer of the Watch 1200lb. steam qualified.
A former friing member of the All USN Navy Rifle Team 1990-1992, I am a Distinguished RifleMan, twice Bronze; the first one I received from Gunn'y Hathcock, [and hold an Expert's rating with Master's points,] the highlite of my rather undistinguished career.
I have served two tours in VietNam, the first was brown water, and the second when some fool on the DMZ put 10,000 tax free dollars on tha table in front of me. I went fire support CruDes.Pac. on my second tour. Spent two years in "neutral duty" [actually spent more time at sea than on land] as a Shipboard Engineering Inspector under the PEB [Propulsion Examining Board].Twenty five years at sea with my last tour onboard USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16 as Engineering Department Senior Enlisted, and last shore tour at Great Lakes pushing "boots". Sailors belong on ships and ships belong at sea.
I am AllNavy; my wife is AllNavy she spending 20 years as a Yn1 in Res's.
My son is AllNavy; he is CO of USS Constitution in Charlestown, Mass., a Desert Storm veteran, Iraqi Freedom Veteran and when the COLE was blown to bits he went onboard and coordinated salvage and repair.
I am a Drum Major for the best pipes and drums corps on the East coast, the AOH NewPort Pipes and Drums Corps/. We have a Jacobite or two or three or four in our Corps and we love'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to date we have marched in South Boston and will march next year in NYC on St. Patrick's Day, then we shall conquer the world!!!!!!!!!!
I am Irish through my Great GrandMother who was Irish also being born in Glasgow, a "Glasweggian". Scotland has a special place in my heart and I thrill when "Bonnie Dundee" and cry when "Langueval" is played. I also cry when I hear Anchor's Away or the Marine Corps Hymn! I am Celtborn and Celt bred; and, some day I shall go to the valley of Dunoon and hear the pipes in the mist. I play the pipes and am in a kilt at least three days a week, pipe lessons, pipe band practice and leading my mob on a March. I wear the traditional Saffron of the London Irish Rifles and the Ulster 36th Division, both famous, in DM duties. I also wear other different kilts, the O'Keef [my clan], the Edsal Blue [USN Tartan], and Irish Diaspora [Blood Tartan] as well as Black Stewart, Hunting Stewart Small Set [they are the most beautiful Jacobite tartans yet] and Irish Green. I pipe military funerals and will eventually pipe weddings. My number of kilts lets my client/s exercise their wishes about the esthetic aspect of their affair.
I am a cancer survivor, and not particularly PC; if I want to "shoot you" I'll shoot you right between the eyes because I want you to see it coming and I want you to know why and who's doing it.
When not piping or studying piping I write poetry, Celtic in nature. The Celtic race is an ancient magnificent race, a race of Saints, mystics, patriot soldiers, heroic handsome women, and poets. From Burns to Joyce and Isla St. Clair we are the best!

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CPOBull

Anchor'sAway/Semper Fi

[BEEDEE]

Great intro. from coastal North Carolina.

Brian

[McFarkus]

from Chicago

[Spc. Scott]

Bull! A fine intro if I do say so.

Good to have you here.

[Jock Scot]

Welcome,from Inverness-shire. Can I offer a friendly word in your ear, not all Scots are as enthusiastic about the Jacobites as you are! I mean no offence and I hope none is taken.

[JRB]

Welcome from Albany, NY!

[fudgeman]

from Charlotte, NC

[BoldHighlander]

...from the far nw corner of Washington state!

Welcome,from Inverness-shire. Can I offer a friendly word in your ear, not all Scots are as enthusiastic about the Jacobites as you are! I mean no offence and I hope none is taken.

As one old Scot from the north country told me, they had better PR in the music halls during the Victorian era

[Dr Mac]

from Bryan/College Station

[Livingston]

My grandfather was CPO at GLNTS during WWII and on a tincan during WWI. Dad was on the Pennsylvania at the end of WWII while his brother was a pilot off of one of the carriers in the Pacific during WWII. He got the Navy Cross before being rotated home.