Finally back on the Gulf Coast

[flags]

I've been away for several years. The Navy decided I needed to be in VA instead of FL so they sent me to the Hampton Roads area. That was the 4th time I got stationed there and I hated it every time. They can't send me there anymore though! I finally retired after 25 years of active duty and left VA exactly 24 hrs after the paperwork was done. I decided it was time to let the younger guys take the reins.

I'm just across the state line in Robertsdale, AL. living in my 5th wheel and have an interview with the FL Dept of Transportation for a position at the truck weigh station on I-10 outside Pensacola next week. I hope the job comes through because the wife and I really enjoyed Pensacola when I was stationed there from 2006-2010. If it does we'll be buying something in the area.

I contacted the guy that owns the land I used to hunt north of Crestview and he said I'm welcome to hunt again. All he asks is a couple bags of corn for the feeders. I'm too late to make a play for the quota hunts so I'll hit the private land this fall.

All in all, it is good to be back!

Flags

[treefarmer]

Hey Flags,
Let me say "Welcome back to Florida", even though I wasn't here when you were 1st on FOHAF. Our pastor is a retired Navy pilot out of P.Cola. We call ourselves living in LA (lower Alabama), actually Washington County, 'bout the middle of the Panhandle.
Sounds like you got it going with an invitation that calls for corn to fill a feeder. Even with the price of corn that beats all the mess I've read about folks trying to get to hunt on the WMAs here on the forum.
Treefarmer

[sam03]

Thanks for your service and welcome back to Florida!!!

[JBUG308]

Bravo Zulu shipmate!

[9dawgs]

Welcome home Flags! I was the same way when I was traveling around in the service. I did 23yrs in the USCG and decided enough was enough retired in 2002 and headed home. It's a good feeling to be living on the GOM again! I grew up in the panhandle and was stationed in Mobile for a while at the air station there and would head out to Dauphin Island every now and again to fish and lay in the sun. I'd hunt up in the 3 rivers area off 65. I shot a really nice doe up there one time. There's some good hunting in LA.

Thank you for your service brother.