{"id":26332,"date":"2023-11-17T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26332"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:19:18","slug":"guest-contributor-arthurincali-17nov2023-the-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/guest-contributor-arthurincali-17nov2023-the-old-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; ArthurinCali &#8211; 17NOV2023 &#8211; The Old Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to write up my memories of those times pre-insanity. Joined in 1998 and it was a whole different world in the military. I have a few sea stories on Substack but it\u2019s hard to describe how different it was then. Think of Stranger Things \u2018upside down\u2019 world compared to ours. People were real, you didn\u2019t hold back on opinion\u2019s amongst one another. 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