Choose Your Rate, Choose Your Fate

I went in the Navy right out of high school. It was my fastest path out of a town with no jobs and no real future for anyone in the high tech field. I came in contact with a lot of very interesting people who had a very unique way of saying things.
One of the oddest things I heard was “Choose your rate, choose your fate.” I never thought much about that little saying until yesterday when I had lunch with a friend of mine who retired from the Army. He’d never heard it, and he thought it sounded good, …read more