It’s always a fun day when I get to wear my U.S. issued Breitling navigation pocket watch from circa 1952...and heckle USMC, USAF, USA and USCG vets at my volunteer shuttle driver job at the VA...
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It's gonna be awkward when some geezer Korea vet shows up and demands HIS watch back.It’s always a fun day when I get to wear my U.S. issued Breitling navigation pocket watch from circa 1952...and heckle USMC, USAF, USA and USCG vets at my volunteer shuttle driver job at the VA...
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Oh...they do.Im sure they get their digs in as well.???
You mean, COMNAVAIRKIT??The bad news: The wife unit has ordered me to secure and stow my original Hasbro GI Joe Adventure Team Commander w/ like-like hair from the early 1970s. He is seasonally utilized as a Christmas ornament above our fireplace...and the wife unit claims that Christmas is over.
The good news: It’s Phlieger Phriday...with my generic mechanical ETA 6497-1 that I built at AWCI Build A Watch School.
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COMNAVAIRKIT?You mean, COMNAVAIRKIT??
Kitchen?COMNAVAIRKIT?
Commander Naval Air...?
Little slow today...I’m not getting the “KIT” part at the end.
Kitchen!Kitchen?
I know I’m such a chauvinist.?
This is why @mad dog is all about the outer box and outer, outer boxPresented without comment...except please “watch” this video. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-veteran-collapse-on-antiques-roadshow-when-h-1841273902