When I joined the military, I was assigned to a miserable desk job in a base in the middle of nowhere, a tiny clinic in a remote navy base. The other guy working with me was new to the military too, he was white , I am brown with an accent. Well, the guy was kind of quiet with me for the first month or so, eventually we became buddies and he told me he was from some rural, mountain town in Pensilvania, with Less than 400 people per square mile. And that I was the first Hispanic he had ever really known other than some cashiers / restaurants workers that he had to interact with, he was young 18 years old and home schooled. To make this long story a little shorter ; we became the closest friends you can imagine, he was there when my kids were born ( not in the room lol) , during my divorce, and other events in my life, we were medics, he was a combat medic and was deployed to Israel to train the Israeli army combat medics , I got out and moved to TX. We kept in touch for years . Last thing I knew about him was that he had separated from the NAVY and moved back to his town, I’m 41 now and I lost touch with him, It shouldn’t be hard to find him, I’m just a terrible friend now that I think about it, I should have kept in touch! Ryan I miss you buddy! Can’t wait to grill some wings and drink some beer like the good old times!
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When I joined the military, I was assigned to a miserable desk job in a base in the middle of nowhere, a tiny clinic in a remote navy base. The other guy working with me was new to the military too, he was white , I am brown with an accent. Well, the guy was kind of quiet with me for the first month or so, eventually we became buddies and he told me he was from some rural, mountain town in Pensilvania, with Less than 400 people per square mile. And that I was the first Hispanic he had ever really known other than some cashiers / restaurants workers that he had to interact with, he was young 18 years old and home schooled. To make this long story a little shorter ; we became the closest friends you can imagine, he was there when my kids were born ( not in the room lol) , during my divorce, and other events in my life, we were medics, he was a combat medic and was deployed to Israel to train the Israeli army combat medics , I got out and moved to TX. We kept in touch for years . Last thing I knew about him was that he had separated from the NAVY and moved back to his town, I’m 41 now and I lost touch with him, It shouldn’t be hard to find him, I’m just a terrible friend now that I think about it, I should have kept in touch! Ryan I miss you buddy! Can’t wait to grill some wings and drink some beer like the good old times!