{"id":10642,"date":"2005-06-07T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/83\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T22:51:09","slug":"83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/83\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brain Teaser (or, Observations on My Professional Life)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, when we were discussing where I would be likely to be assigned next, my husband made an interesting observation.  He said I was due for a &#8220;K&#8221; base.  Here are the bases I&#8217;ve been assigned to in chronological order:<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>ackland  (Basic Training\/Tech School)<br \/>\n<strong>M<\/strong>almstrom (Electronics Technician\/Quality Control Evaluator)<br \/>\n<strong>L<\/strong>ackland (Basic Electronics Instructor)<br \/>\n<strong>K<\/strong>eflavik (Electronics Technician)<br \/>\nFt. <strong>M<\/strong>eade (Electronics Technician\/Implementation Engineer)<br \/>\n<strong>L<\/strong>ackland (Officer Trainee)<br \/>\n<strong>M<\/strong>axwell (Information Management\/Network Administration)<br \/>\n<strong>M<\/strong>anhattan College (ROTC Instructor)<br \/>\n<strong>K<\/strong>elly (Director, Communication and Information\/Commander, Warrior Bravo while deployed to Kuwait)<br \/>\n<strong>L<\/strong>angley (Chief, US&#038;Allied Messaging\/Watch Officer in Bahrain&#8211;the only letter that doesn&#8217;t fit\/Division Chief)<\/p>\n<p>Note the consistency in me being assigned to K-L-M bases?  I&#8217;d never noticed it before, but he&#8217;s right.  He just picked the wrong letter.  Obviously, I was due for an &#8220;M&#8221; again, since I&#8217;m returning to <strong>M<\/strong>axwell&#8211;as an instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Upon closer examination, I really was due for an &#8220;M.&#8221;  Can you see the pattern?  What letter comes next and why?<\/p>\n<p>L<br \/>\nM<br \/>\nL<\/p>\n<p>K<br \/>\nM<br \/>\nL<\/p>\n<p>M<br \/>\nM<br \/>\nK<\/p>\n<p>L<br \/>\nM<br \/>\n?<\/p>\n<p>Note:  There is no right answer (I have no idea what my next assignment will be in three years or even if I will have one).  There is no wrong answer, just reasonably defend your choice.  I AM curious to see what answers people choose and why.  Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, when we were discussing where I would be likely to be assigned next, my husband made an interesting observation. He said I was due for a &#8220;K&#8221; base. Here are the bases I&#8217;ve been assigned to in chronological order: Lackland (Basic Training\/Tech School) Malmstrom (Electronics Technician\/Quality Control Evaluator) <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/83\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}