McKenzie 1st MRB

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Holy Hell Dillon, nice to see another old timer like me who can't stay away for his own good! Nice to see you again buddy, hope to see you around more often.

Hello 1st MRB, I know some of you may know me, many of you may not. I'm McKenzie, been with the MRB a long time (retired once, then came back). I reenlisted last year, and then some things kind of went south for me, and I ghosted. First, let me say, to all those I know and who I ghosted on, I'm sorry. For those of who you don't really know me, I joined the MRB originally on Thanksgiving of 2009, 7 years ago. I was heavily involved for a long time, during my time with the USMC. I was stationed and became fast friends and eventually enlisted with Capt. McDowell. I was involved, all the way up to, and through my deployment to Afghanistan in 2011, and then kind of fell off. I had a lot of shit going on, between personal life and dealing with shit from deployment, that while I hung around, I kind of was a non entity. I felt lost, and alone, and started drinking a lot. This wasn't made any better when I got out of the Corps in 2013, and started going to school. I was pretty heavily drunk all the time that I wasn't either at school or headed to work, so days off were bad. It got to the point that my wife almost left me in the middle of 2014, so I started to clean my shit up. I stopped cold turkey, thinking I was ok, and for a while, things were great. I rejoined the 1st MRB after retiring, reenlisting in July of last year. It was shortly after I reenlisted however, that I found out that one of my good friends from my time in the Corps shot himself in the head and killed himself, another attempted suicide by overdose, and a third was in a coma from a bad fall down a flight of stairs and they still aren't sure if he'll ever walk again. I kind of lost my mind there for a while, and went back to my old ways. I was able to hide it from friends and family, and I started to spiral. It started bringing up past bad memories, and it got out of hand, especially my drinking. I am fortunate that my wife was there with me during this time, as she was pretty much the one thing that brought me out of a tail spin. She got me back into counseling, made sure I finished my degree, got me into a treatment program and turned my shit around. I owe a lot to her. I also owe everyone here involved with my return an apology for my ghosting. I should have said something, but I always felt too ashamed to say anything. My main point with this post is this, over all: If you ever need help with anything, or you feel that you are in crisis, please reach out. I know a lot of you may not know who I am, and probably have no reason to trust me, but I just want to make myself available to anyone who might need a hand or an ear. If you think things are going sideways, and you need someone to talk to, let me know. I don't sleep much, and I get up early for work, so I am always kind of hanging around. This might be a better topic for the Morale Office, I don't know, but I just wanted to post it where a lot of folks could see it. I am glad to be back, despite my long absence, and I hope to see you all in the server soon. *Salute* SSgt C. McKenzie

If you can give the model type of the laptop, I can find you a replacement screen. Replacing isn't that hard, just a matter of being careful and taking your time to properly unclasp the bezel and unscrew the monitor. I can do it myself if you are uncomfortable performing the task, you would just have to order the screen and send it to me, I would replace it and return it. I'd need to know what kind of device it is first however. As for the monitor not working, did you switch it over to Monitor mode? A lot of newer laptops have a FN key combo that requires you to hit the buttons together to switch it out to a monitor. If you did that and it still didnt work, your video card could be shot. It would depend on how it fell and how bad it is damaged. Pictures would help in this situation.

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It's not a matter of WHO recruited me, as much as what... That what being drunk on Thanksgiving in 2009 with Mickey D aka McDeezey aka McDowell, and fucking around on the pub server since we were both apart from our families on Thanksgiving and we were hanging out together. Ended up talking to Parker I think it was, back when he was just a wee little O-3, and signed up a couple days later. Didn't start getting ACTIVE until a few months later as I was doing L4D2 tournaments for ESEA at the time.

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