Aircraft I Have Worked On

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I worked on aircraft for over 38 years.

Cessna 150, Cessna 150 Aerobat, and Cessna 172.

General Dynamics F-16 A, B, C, and D models as Airframe Repair specialist and Cross Utilization trained as Crew Chief, all systems qualified.

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark: Serviced and Launched

Lockheed T-33: Aircraft Battle Damage Repair school

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress: Simulated Aircraft Structure in USAF Tech school in Rantoul, Illinois. Tied for First Place in Tech school.

Northrup Grumman E-8 Joint STARS

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: Started at Boeing working on….

Boeing KC-46 Pegasus

Boeing 747 100, 200, 300, 400, SP, -8, and VC-25 or Air Force One.

Boeing 767

Boeing 777

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Allan Bloom on History

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History, sharing Greek origins with political science, also has elements of the ancients-moderns identity crisis, in addition to the other problems of the strictly modern social sciences. As already mentioned, both participants and observers are unsure whether it is a social science or one of the humanities. Its matter is resistant to the techniques of the behavioral sciences, since it is particular, and therefore not easily generalizable, deals with the past, and is therefore beyond controlled experiments, but it does not want to be merely literature. I believe that none of the other social sciences includes history as part of the social science schema, with the exception of that part of political science which is concerned with political practice as opposed to social science, e.g., some aspects of American politics and of international relations. History until the nineteenth century meant primarily political history; and it, unlike political science, was not refounded in early modernity. Its traditional role was enhanced during the new foundings because it told what happened, as opposed to old political science, which told what ought to have happened. Therefore history was understood to be closer to the truth of things. History had to wait until the nineteenth century for its modernization by historicism, which argued, as it were, that being, certainly man’s being, is essentially historical. Historicism appears to have been a great boon for history, a radical step upward in status. But the appearance is somewhat deceptive. Historicism is a philosophical, not a historical, teaching, one not discovered by history. Rather than the prestige of philosophy adhering to history, the reverse occurred. All humanities disciplines are now historical—not philosophy, but history of philosophy, not art, but history of art, not science, but history of science, not literature, but history of literature. Thus history is all of these, but also none of them, because they are discrete disciplines in the humanities. History became the empty, universal category encompassing all the humanities, except insofar as it remained its modest, narrow political self. But because it does not have an anchor in political passion as does political science, it could float easily away from that dock under the influence of the prevailing winds, as politics was depreciated by so many other things, especially historicism. So, history, a wonderful, useful study, full of most learned individuals, is as a whole a medley of methods and goals, six disciplines in search of a self-definition.

The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom, c 1987, p 366-367, fn 17.

Graduate School status

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Try as I might, I cannot get any account working at Walden University, even though “You have accepted Walden’s offer of Admissions to the MS in Psychology – Tempo Learning® Program” A Competency based MS in Psychology.

My Liberty University account seems to work fine and they have “zillions” of degrees to choose from.

My American Public University account is working and my status is “Graduate Courses for Transfer” which means that I cannot make up my mind.

Afranius SyagriusGallo-Roman Consul

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  • BIOGRAPHY
    Flavius Afranius Syagrius (floruit 369-382) was a Roman politician and administrator. He was a member of the Gallic-Roman aristocratic family of the Syagrii, which originated in Lyon. In the same years in which Flavius Afranius lived, another Syagrius is attested (he was consul in 381), but it is not always possible to distinguish the career of the two Syagrii.

    In 369 he is attested as _notarius;_ in that year the Roman Emperor Valentinian I removed him from his office after a failed military operation, and Afranius dedicated himself to private life.

    He continued his career under Emperor Gratian, possibly because of his friendship with the poet Ausonius. Afranius was _magister memoriae_ in 379, when a Theodorus succeeded him. However, that same year he became Proconsul of Africa. Between 18 June 380 and the spring of 382 he is attested as Praetorian prefect of Italy. In 381 he was also _praefectus urbi_ of Rome and Consul in 382.

    A daughter with the rank of a _clarissima femina_ (‘most illustrious woman’) and her husband, named as Ferreolus, would have a son Tonantius Ferreolus, Praetorian Prefect of Gaul.

This is the farthest I can trace my family tree back to (so far).

340 AD

Clarification(s)

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I have yet to complete even one week of any Graduate program.

I have several honorary degrees and I have what I call two Place-Saver degrees: an MA in History and a PhD in Philosophy. Place-Saver degree means that I cannot put them on any resume, nor can I use them to obtain employment. They can be verified, but they were, in fact, never “earned” in the traditional sense.

I have a full set (BA, MA, PhD, and DD) from Abide University and all in the venerable field of Metaphysics. I would recommend that anyone interested read Metaphysics by Aristotle.

Road to Six Figures

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This is the Short Road to Six Figures:

CompTIA.org

CompTIA Certs: ITF+, A+, Network+, Security+ and beyond.

Cisco certs: CCST, CCNA, CCNP and beyond.

There are many other certifications available, but people usually start with CompTIA A+.

I have been a mechanic my entire life and the above method appeals to me most.

Codecademy.com

For $240 per year (Pro level) you can learn anything having to do with Programming or Coding.

Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer, Computer Science, IOS Developer, and Data Scientist are the main career paths.

This method appeals to my intellectual side more.