Permission to Come Aboard?

haparnold

Lifer

Aug 9, 2018

1,561

2,390

Colorado Springs, CO

• Aug 9, 2018

• #1

Afternoon all,
I'm a long-time lurker who's been smoking a pipe for about 7 years. I'm a USAF veteran currently working on my PhD in economics.
As I write this, I'm breaking in a new Morgan Bones bulldog with some GLP Westminster. Looking forward to discovering more English blends, as well as entering the world of Virginias.
V/R
haparnold

 

techie

Part of the Furniture Now

Jul 20, 2018

589

10

• Aug 9, 2018

• #2

Welcome! Thank you for your service to this great country.

 

A

aldecaker

Lifer

Feb 13, 2015

4,407

42

• Aug 9, 2018

• #3

Welcome. Bombs away, my friend!

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

41,210

60,459

• Aug 9, 2018

• #4

Welcome aboard. Quite a few vets on the site. I'm USN '68 to '72, enlisted. Have a college senior graduating next year in statistics who might be tending toward economics, unless medical research gets him first. We'll see if he's pulled to grad school or a job ladder ... hopefully first one then the other.

 

pipestud

Lifer

Dec 6, 2012

2,010

1,750

Robinson, TX.

• Aug 9, 2018

• #5

Welcome! (US Army 1972-1974). I accepted an invitation from Richard Nixon to be inducted in the draft of 1971.

 

puffy

Lifer

Dec 24, 2010

2,511

98

North Carolina

• Aug 9, 2018

• #6

Welcome

 

jaytex1969

Lifer

Jun 6, 2017

9,520

50,598

Here

• Aug 9, 2018

• #7

Hello, haparnold.
Happy to have you here!
US Army 86-93
That Westminster is good stuff.

 

mikethompson

Lifer

Jun 26, 2016

11,337

23,495

Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Aug 10, 2018

• #8

I thought there was another fan of Black Frigate here judging by the thread title!
Welcome to the forum!

 

cwpiperman

Can't Leave

Jun 15, 2018

382

2,434

• Aug 10, 2018

• #9

I thought there was another fan of Black Frigate here judging by the thread title!

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Exactly what I thought. Welcome to the forum. These folks are GREAT!
CW

 

anantaandroscoggin

Part of the Furniture Now

Sep 9, 2017

651

1,013

70

Greene, Maine, USA

• Aug 10, 2018

• #10

My birthday's draft number was something like 285, so I figured I was pretty safe, but I succumbed to the idea of my bunk and the Galley/Mess Deck always being where I was sent, and spent 1972 to 1982 in the U.S. Coast Guard. Took up the pipe in '73 while I was in GM class A school on Governor's Island, New York Harbor. (While there, during one barracks inspection, myself and one other had pouches of chewing tobacco in our lockers. The Inspectors remarked that it was the first time in years they'd seen students with the stuff.)
Kinda figured what with all the extra "work" involved with a pipe, I wouldn't be spending all my days and nights with a cigarette sticking out of my face like so many shipmates.

 

james72

Starting to Get Obsessed

Aug 30, 2017

155

27

• Aug 10, 2018

• #11

Welcome to the forum, bud. There are a few former Air Force pilots in my family.

 

bnichols23

Lifer

Mar 13, 2018

4,131

9,554

SC Piedmont

• Aug 11, 2018

• #12

Welcome, Hap! Aim High! (Yeah, I know it's not the motto any more, but I like it.) And *I* thought it was more BF too!
Bill

 

pastorpiper

Lurker

Dec 16, 2016

43

0

• Aug 11, 2018

• #13

Welcome aboard! Great group of people here.

 

ravkesef

Lifer

Aug 10, 2010

2,926

9,503

82

Cheshire, CT

• Aug 12, 2018

• #14

HapArnold is a great name for an AF vet. Welcome Aboard. I’m a retired U.S. Naval Officer, and I installed a pipe rack on the bridge so I could keep my pipes handy while I was on watch. Great, except during heavy weather.

 

haparnold

Lifer

Aug 9, 2018

1,561

2,390

Colorado Springs, CO

• Aug 12, 2018

• #15

Eric, that's genius! Unfortunately the DoD is a little more anti-tobacco these days. I can get away with a discreet chaw on occasion, but I've never smoked a pipe in uniform. Quite a far cry from MacArthur, Chesty Puller, LeMay, etc.

 

bnichols23

Lifer

Mar 13, 2018

4,131

9,554

SC Piedmont

• Aug 13, 2018

• #16

For a while during WWII seemed like every senior officer (O-6 & up) used a pipe. I'm almost certain I remember a picture of Vinegar Joe Stilwell poring over a battle an with a stem clenched.

 

magicpiper

Part of the Furniture Now

Jul 9, 2018

580

1,537

MCO

• Aug 18, 2018

• #17

Pipestud...was nice of Nixon to invite you. My old man got one of those invitations in ‘66 from

Johnson. He used to say he grabbed his extra underwear and left home for good. Got two free round trips to Vietnam. What a deal!

 

scooterdoo

Might Stick Around

Jul 18, 2018

64

0

• Aug 18, 2018

• #18

Welcome aboard.
USMC 2009-2015.
Would love to hear thoughts on the bones pipe.