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Message: [QUOTE="The CDR-Ret, post: 3757204, member: 10751"] When I was teaching calculus-based dual credit Physics over at Warren Central H.S. (student population 3800), my Science Department Chair had a son in the Marines. She used have fun saying that the Marines were in the department of the Navy, "The Mens Department!" Just so you know, I never lost an athletic competition to my Marine counterpart in football, basketball, volleyball or softball. Not that I would challenge the active duty folks at this point, but my last win was when I was 44 years old and those Marines were fresh off of demobilization with three months of volleyball on the beach after they "stomped Hussein's Republican Guard" and I had a make-shift group of Navy reserves who practiced for one hour. Sad to say, that I was the best the Navy had to offer, but it was enough to win two games out of three. I am very gravitationally challenged these days, but back in the day, I could hit my elbows on the basketball rim from a standing start or get my shoulders above the net in volleyball. [/QUOTE]