Thats Right
Dec 10, 2022 10:50:45 #
Dec 10, 2022 11:30:48 #
soba1 wrote:
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The infantry sure were.
Other MOS I did not really deal with except Helicopter pilots, they were brave as well.
Dec 10, 2022 11:40:28 #
Architect1776 wrote:
The infantry sure were.
Other MOS I did not really deal with except Helicopter pilots, they were brave as well.
Other MOS I did not really deal with except Helicopter pilots, they were brave as well.
Texas Roy P. Benavidez springs to mind. Quite a story.
Dec 10, 2022 12:11:12 #
A long time ago, but wouldn't trade the experience, or friendships made. Airborne!!!!
Dec 10, 2022 13:46:15 #
Effate
Loc: El Dorado Hills, Ca.
soba1 wrote:
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Doesn’t need to stop. My “neighborhood watch” shot. Just a joke for one of my neighbors.
Dec 10, 2022 14:49:53 #
Effate wrote:
Doesn’t need to stop. My “neighborhood watch” shot. Just a joke for one of my neighbors.
muy lol
Dec 10, 2022 15:37:06 #
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Dec 10, 2022 15:56:23 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Are you talking to the brave Libs in the Attic?
lol noooooo
Dec 10, 2022 19:11:23 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Architect1776 wrote:
And think of the few WWII vets in wheel chairs could have been a ranger on D Day or a Marine in Okinawa.
My dad was the latter, infantry, and you would never guess looking at him at 96 years old.
And think of the few WWII vets in wheel chairs could have been a ranger on D Day or a Marine in Okinawa.
My dad was the latter, infantry, and you would never guess looking at him at 96 years old.
I was a grunt in Vietnam. You could not look at the worn, overweight 76 year old that I am today and see the 17 yr old that scored 480 points out of a possible 500 on the PCPT or lugged a 70 lb ruck plus a radio and a couple of 200 rd belts for the M-60 through the jungle as an 18 yr old.
My granddaughter asked me to come to the Veteran's Day parade at her school and 'bring my bling.' Not able to walk the route around the school building, my daughter-in-law pushed me in a borrowed wheel chair. It was an humbling experience. If I ever thought I was a badass, I know for sure that I am not now.
Dec 10, 2022 19:24:46 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Architect1776 wrote:
Wow, that is pretty amazing.
Mine just made sure the enemy died for their emperor.
What was that system, do you know?
Mine just made sure the enemy died for their emperor.
What was that system, do you know?
As Patton once said, your goal is not to die for your country, but to give the other son-of-a b__ch the maximum opportunity to die for his.
Dec 10, 2022 19:37:44 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Architect1776 wrote:
The infantry sure were.
Other MOS I did not really deal with except Helicopter pilots, they were brave as well.
Other MOS I did not really deal with except Helicopter pilots, they were brave as well.
Exceedingly so. Although bullets would, and frequently did penetrate the sides of the Huey, IMO it took a backbone of steel and cojones of stone to fly into a contested LZ with nothing between you and them but a bunch of plexiglas.
Dec 10, 2022 20:31:35 #
Dec 11, 2022 09:11:17 #
As a youngster, I served my country for 5 years in the U.S. Navy. I entered a boy and emerged a young man. I can attest that a man may leave the military, but the military never leaves the man. The words of patriot Stephen Decatur move me: "My country, right or wrong."
Dec 11, 2022 10:43:49 #
anotherview wrote:
As a youngster, I served my country for 5 years in the U.S. Navy. I entered a boy and emerged a young man. I can attest that a man may leave the military, but the military never leaves the man. The words of patriot Stephen Decatur move me: "My country, right or wrong."
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