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There are DOD ID numbers, but they've updated the forms to just ask for both.

I will say that I take issue with the fact that several of the more popular trails/areas where permits are issued by lottery. Recreation.gov charges a $10 lottery fee, which you pay even if you don’t get a permit, on top of the fee for the actual permit.

Navy or Marines?

Oh there will be plenty of beers consumed to balance out all the sport.

Well, I have time to read.

Yep, that's the one thing I got started on quickly.

I'm looking into paramotoring or potentially gliding.

I'm running into the issue of not having won the lottery when I think about the things I'd like to do and the cost of doing them.

I wish I were back in San Diego, I'd love to get back in the water. Sadly I'm in the gulf coast, so not much here in the way of surf. I'm thinking of building a longboard though.

I really need to ship my mountain bike out here.

Hiking the PCT is absolutely a bucket list item. Sadly, the on-call part means I have to remain local. I'm definitely planing to explore though.

In my experience astrodynamics was always taught (undergrad) by ignoring the mass of the spacecraft entirely, since when calculating the forces the mass of the spacecraft and fuel was negligible compared to the mass of the planets.

I mean if research also shows that switching times twice a year doesn't save money either, then it probably makes sense to transition for quality of life purposes.