Greetings and Salutations from California

I just wanted to post a quick introduction while I have time. I have browsed ATS for number of years but have finally concluded that it was time to become an actual member. My interests are pretty varied but I try to avoid the political leaning ones only because I tend to dislike and distrust all politicians equally.

I tend to be most interested in topics related to the military (I served as an 11M from 1989-2000), ancient civilizations (I have a bachelors degree in anthropology), education (yes, I taught high school science for 2 years), cryptozoology and the paranormal.

I am looking forward to some interesting discourse in the future.

Welcome, we are lucky to have someone with such varied experience and knowledge here. Look forward to seeing your input =)

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Thank you for the welcome, Crystalibra. May I ask what part of Oregon you are from? I grew up in Portland and went to the UofO. My parents still live in central Oregon.

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Welcome to ATS! I too am very interested to see how your background will help you to weigh in on posting. Glad that you have decided to join!

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Welcome Loki
Glad you joined, always nice when this place expands. Hope to read about your military experiences one of these days, i'm sure you have some stories to tell!

Roos

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Matin75,I love your cat picture. I am a long time animal lover (in fact, spent some time in Idaho studying wildlife biology) with a house of 5 cats and 2 dogs. They are just as loving (and mischievous) as children.

hello mate

welcome to ATS....

now through me and you...california and london are that much closer

peace and god bless the internet

Here's a hand up from an ATSer in the Bay Area. Welcome, and we're glad to have you, here. Your knowledge of anthropology will apply to many, many ATS threads and forums.

If you haven't checked it out yet, visit Signal's Post a Funny Pic thread. It's one of ATS's finest, IMHO, and a good way to lighten up after browsing all the serious and sometimes disturbing threads.

Welcome!

-Grace

Welcome to the site. Hope you don't choose a cat avatar.....There are too many cats on here already.

Hello and welcome!

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Hi there Loki and Welcome to ATS !

Enjoy !!!

Welcome Loki and enjoy your stay! Looking forward to your thoughts in the threads.

Hey there! Welcome to ATS

We should get along just fine with your interests.

If you are interested in Ancient Civs you might like these members threads:
Slayer69
Skyfloating
Kantzveldt

They have some really good threads in this forum. I wish I could make such indept threads on such topics like these three! Slayer has some really awesome ones, but be prepared to read and spend some time on them. I don't know how he does it!

Welcome to the tribe!

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You can spend months in the ancient civ.forum.We probably have the best one on the web.

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I look forward to your first thread. See you around the forums!

welcome aboard hope you enjoy and do not feed the trolls

what is an 11m?
welcome, i was born in portland, went to reed and degreed from u of o..stats methos and sociology.

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Darkstar57, it's always good to run into someone else from Portland (and a fellow Duck to boot). An 11M is army MOS of mechanized infantry. It has now been done away with and all infantry (except for mortars) are 11B. I actually only did infantry "stuff" for 3 years with the remainder being on staff doing plans and operations at the division and battalion level.

Welcome and California uber alles!