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To Odessa,
Dang Colonel, you don't age much! First picture looks much like the last. Thanks for you service.
Karma and Trouble have busses, and there's always an empty seat.
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US Army, '87-'90, 63E20H8, Gulf 1
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U.S. Army 1968-71
100BO Rotary Wing Aviator
RVN 1970-71, Tay Ninh, with visits to Cambodia
187th AHC, Crusader Two-Zero
28 awards of the Air Medal
Long time ago, and no regrets.
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US Navy
2002-2006
Cytological Technician - Interpretive.
Me
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USMC, '57-'64 1st Mar Div.
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I managed to serve in between wars going on.. I was always ready to go and got all the training the military would allow me to get, considering peace time.. just in case I was ordered into a combat zone..
Like any sane person, I am thankful I did not have to see combat..
I am proud to have served my country... but to all you guys who actually had to put your fannies on the line in real combat, I stand in awe and appreciation to YOUR service to our country...
I also admit, my step dad, advised me if I could avoid going to Vietnam, to do so, anything short of being a draft dodger...
He is a retired Air Force 0-6, who spent a total of 49 months in combat service in Vietnam...6 months was spent flying F 4s on his last tour of duty...
all of his other flight time was flying C 130 Black Birds in Special Ops... NO markings on the Aircraft...no rank or insignas on their uniforms, and the only weapons allowed to be carried for self defense were communist made weapons or WW 2 surplus items..
he was shot down 13 times during his 49 months in Vietnam.. and only one of those was in S. Vietnam, and that was at Khe Sahn after flying in supplies, trying to take off... in 68...
the other 12 were behind enemy lines...
a further 40 C 130s were so shot up on missions, that they were just junked for parts instead of being repaired...
I remember the C 130s from Pope AFB were he was stationed in 66, 67 and early 68, you'd see one of the squadrons returning from a TDY tour of Vietnam, all of their aircraft had been repaired so much from being shot up, you frequently couldn't even tell what the original camouflage colors were on them..
nothing matched and many panels of just bolted on plates covering sections of the fuselage.....
I was just amazed! so the guys who have been in combat for this country... God Bless each one of you...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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1985-1989 Active USAF
1989-1994 USAF Reserve
1991 Active USAF Desert Storm
SSGT Photo Intel, Target Intel, Intel Ops.
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� Navy '49�'53 (regular active-duty enlistment) � Class 8-50 (Feb�Aug 1950), Navy school of photography, Pensacola � '50�'53, Naval Photographic Center, DC � microfilm-editor for Naval intelligence � production crew, NBC-TV documentary Victory at Sea and many other Navy-made films � processor and inspector for Navy footage (WW2 and Korea) released to civilian studios ( e g: Warner Brothers) for use in theater productions � brief PIO TAD @ naval academy, Annapolis � deck-maintenance specialist  ( IOW, REMF!)
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Ken, I used to enjoy watching Victory at Sea, the US Army's show - The Big Picture, and the USAF had a similar show, forgot the name, but watched it too.
High Brass - guess I just started out looking old!
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Archibald Rutledge
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� much later �
'74�'78 writer-editor (civil service), Army � Dugway Proving Ground (Utah)
wrote and edited beaucoup Army documents on nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare � including Army encyclopedia of biological and chemical warfare.
( � and, surprisingly, Army documents on environmental and ecological research.)
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Ken..have the videos..many congrats on your works..Victory at Sea a great piece of work and always very special for my Dad!!..TNX...
FLEM
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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Yep, I have the "Victory at Sea" DVD set, one of a very few reasons for me to turn on the TV.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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Got a draft notice in '65, joined the Navy. Went ot basic and 'A' school in Great Lakes. (Never been so cold in my life). From Tampa, Fl. to great lakes---what a shock.
USS Rushmore LSD 14, Little Creek, Va
USS Shadwell, LSD 15, Little Creek, Va.
USS Bordelon DD 881, Charleston, SC
NAS Pensacola, shore duty
USS Sacramento AOE1, Bremerton, Wa.
Med criuses, North Atlantic cruise, Unitas criuse, Wespac cruises.
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62-65, US Army, 101st, 82nd, and 5th SFG. Dominican Republic. 32 NITE blasts.. Was out befor Nam really got cranked. Lost a brother over there in 67.
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� I was a diver recovering test torpedoes. Mk 45 Mod 1, by any chance? I did a bunch of manuals for that ol' fish � left Big W (Baltimore) for a better job just before the prime contract was awarded for the Mk 48. The Mk 45 Mod 1 ("ASTOR") was quite a fish! Very deadly! I assume that the Mk 48 was even meaner.
"Good enough" isn't.
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� My uniform does have six gold hashmarks which proves I never got caught. One of my buddies (SN when I knew him) wore six hash marks on his sleeve, but they certainly weren't gold!
"Good enough" isn't.
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US Army Supply Clerk, 1981-84. "Death From Documentation!"
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --H. L. Mencken www.oregonfirearms.org
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US Army 30 Nov 1987 to present.
Expat
"There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men." - Robert Heinlein
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The tag bellow about says it all. the bages is fire fighter/ I was rescue.
Last edited by gotlost; 08/16/10.
If you cann't stand my spelling use the ingore feature.
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US Army 1973 to 1976. White hat MP duty at Ft. Sam Houston and then to Nuclear Security B Btry 1/43 ADA (Nike Hercules) Ft. Richardson AK.
Rejoined the Iowa National Guard in 1985 and spent 13 years as a UH 1H crew chief and the last 4 as a Platoon Sgt. Two activations. Desert Sheild/Storm. Did Aero Medevac from Ft. Knox Ky. and Ft. Hood Tx. Activated in February of 2003 and went to work for the 160th SOAR doing phase maintenance for the Night stalkers. I retired out as a Platoon Sgt. Sept. 2005.
My only overseas job was in Afghanistan for 5 months in 2009 mentoring with the Afghans Border Police and National Police. kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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