In October of 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
There was no expiration date.

Bill F.,

Interesting, that's the same time I took the same oath, in Chicago, for the US Army. What a coincidence!

And just 2 short years before I took mine for the US Navy, I took my oath in the Pentagon from my dad who worked there at the time. Both my dad and his boss the General were beaming from ear to ear.

23 Oct. 1963 for me. I was still in high school and joined the Army National Guard. From there I cross-service transferred to the USAF in Dec.'64 -- to the 1st Air Commando Wing, which became part of what is now known as the USAF Special Operations Command, in '74. The 1st SOW was based both in Hurlburt Field, Florida and in England AFB, Louisiana, where I was.

Thank you for your service.

Yes thanks to everyone for their service!!!

Yes Thanks to all who have or are serving. Just 7% of the population have stepped forward and raised our hands and written that blank check.

If researchers are hoping to keep people interested in partaking in distributed computing projects using BOINC or another platform, then people need to be kept in the loop and know why they are being asked to run their computers, what results are being had and highlighting anything found by a particular member.
It is shoddy to not keep your contributors informed.

There are some recente publications of Milkyway:
"The Milky Way's Shell Structure Reveals the Time of a Radial Collision" or "An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing"

But are not advertized in home page, for example

Still wish we could get badges for participation beyond ten years. :)