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Beware of thieves, scammers and dishonest members on the "Fire" classifieds. Ya there is a thief here too. Whatever!!
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Repaired radars in F4-J and F-4S. School at NAS Memphis? I was there from July 76 to May 77. I was there six months earlier enjoying an ice storm and watching people try to drive. You shoulda been there for my winter. Barracks B-6, right across the street from the chow hall. Musta been January (1977) but I can't be sure...Had a room on the third floor with the window facing west. It's Saturday morning and I'm sleeping in, but I am awakened at around 8 AM by a commotion outside. I look out the window to see that there were maybe 100 Marines on one side of the road and maybe 100 Sailors on the other, and they are having the most glorious snowball fight you ever saw. Call it a war. I opened the widow to make sure I missed nothing. Before long, the JOOD in his grey AMC Hornet (remember those?) comes up the road right into the middle of the battle, so the tempo of warfare diminishes. The JOOD steps out of his car, and several shore Patrol show up in their grey Dodge pickups. Peace breaks out. The JOOD stands there a moment, I suppose he is admiring the effects of his imposing presence while this one Marine stoops over and begins building a snowball. He packs it good and makes sure he's fabricated the finest of ordnance. He then advances toward the JOOD who's standing there, seemingly unaware or maybe not believing what he's witnessing, and the young Marine takes aim and lets fly with his snowball---smacking the JOOD but good, right in the middle of the chest. Then ALL HELL breaks loose. The war is on and has gone nuclear. Shore Patrol decides they're going to impose peace and they're charging the lines of both sides, and the combatants from both sides begin to retreat in no particular order except as quickly as they can. A platoon, perhaps, of sailors is running toward the structure from which I am witnessing all this and on their tail is a grey Dodge Shore Patrol pickup...and he's coming fast. The driver of the grey Shore Patrol pickup realizes he's going waaaaay too fast, so he locks up the brakes. Too late. The grey Shore Patrol pickup literally SLAMS into the building from which I am observing. How it did not inflict more serious damage to the building I'll never know, but he did smack it pretty hard. I think I have about a dozen favorite memories from the Navy, and that one definitely ranks up near the top.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Thanks for your service all. And a special thanks to my WWII Vet father whom guided me & answered my many questions during the VN years that I might have been involved in.
I've neve forgotten some of the things he said & told about war & being there.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Retried Staff Sergent, US Army. Uh,,,,,,, retried ?? So you did 20yrs in the National Guard? Now collecting a retirement check from government for doing 20yrs of service??
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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Sept 1976 to Dec 31, 1982. U S Army Medical Corps.
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2 Years Hospital, Madigan AMC
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2 Years 5501 MASH
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Simply amazing what some of you have done.
My deepest respect on this holiday..
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Originally Posted By: slumlord
people that text all day get on my nerves
just knowing that people are out there with that ability,....just makes me wanna punch myself in the balls
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Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
For why should my freedom be judged by another man's conscience? - 1 Corinthians 10:29
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