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welcome home brother. Lets hope you shot a moon to Pleiku on the way out! gary
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I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life. I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition.
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I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life. I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition. tell him to stay warm over there! That place has the nicname of "Little Korea." gary
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Question for you folks that are in the club known as "Combat Vets":
How many of you belong to the VFW, DAV, and other veterans organizations? Many of us here also Belong to the American Legion, but the VFW is unique to a certain segment of veterans. gary
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I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life. I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition. Thank you to your son for his decision to serve. Is he going to become an MP?
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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Charlie my oldest son is an MP , hes on his way to Afgan. Zack just left today he'll be a missile tech
Thanks you too for your service
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Charlie my oldest son is an MP , hes on his way to Afgan. Zack just left today he'll be a missile tech
Thanks you too for your service my grandson just got back from Afghanistan. He was eleven bush gary
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this is not political or anything like that, but kinda gets under my skin a little bit.
** Seems that our friends at Walmart and Sams Club have followed suit with Target and Lowes by refusing to allow Veterans to conduct their Poppy Drives on their property. But they do allow just about everybody else to do their own will. I used to spend a lot of money at Lowes and Walmart, but they now will have to get by without the money they get from me. gary
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My VFW Post (7032) will be having our annual Buddy Poppy drive at several stores in town this coming weekend, to include Wal-Mart and K-Mart, the USPS main branch, several grocery stores, etc. We could have it at Lowe's as well, but we don't have enough members in the post and auxiliary. I don't know about national policy for Lowe's and/or WalMart, but the local store's in eastern NC sure support the VFW as well as other veterans organizations (I see the VVA at my local Lowe's every six months). Lowe's has made huge donations to several ARNG units and their families during OIF/OEF deployments too.
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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US Army Active Duty 1976 to 1978 WA National Guard 1978 to 1979 MN National Guard 1979 to 1981, 47 AVN Brigade USAR Ft Snelling MN, 1981 to 1982. 5501 General Hospital Basic: Ft Sill OK MOS: 91 B Basic Combat Medic, Ft Sam Houston TX 91 C Clinical Specialist, Madigan AMC, Ft Lewis WA 91 S Occupational Health Specialist, Ft Lewis WA 54 E NBC Warfare, MN NG. and Military Dependent, 1952 to 1974
"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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Thanks everyone, for all you have done ! Happy Vets day
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went to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball last night by a personal invite (I'm Army). Boy what a party!! Some showed up in their dress blues, and really looked strack! Had a huge birthday cake, and a young Marine in his blues had the honor of cutting the cake. He made a three or four minute speach that was often interrupted with cheers. Told how the dress blues were never pressed and why. Then cut the cake with (your gonna love this) with a captured WWII Japanese sword! gary
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to all my friends with us and those departed but never forgotten.
Welcome home brothers! gary
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My name is really.....David Walter! Went delayed enlistment in Nov 1976 Active duty 1977 Keesler AFB, MS RAF Alconbury, UK Grand Forks ND Nellis AFB, NV University of Akron, OH Enlisted Electronic Warfare Technician until 1987 Commissioned 2LT in April 1987 Pope AFB, NC Eielson AFB, AK got out as a Capt in 1992 Entered Reserves 2001 Capt - Youngstown Air Reserve base Major - McChord AFB, WA Commanded USAF Reserve Civil Engineers Sqdn at McChord 2007-2011 Commanded 506 expeditionary Civil Eng Squadron at Kirkuk, Iraq Lt Col - present Air Guard at Camp Murray, WA
Seen and met a ton of fantastic people. Loved every minute of it, even the frozen north, and the oven heat in Iraq. Learned a lot about me, and the quality of young men and women we're raising and I'm comfortable the Republic will endure in good hands.
Thanks to all the vets, and to all the folks who've trusted us with your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and moms and dads.
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“Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” - General John Stark.
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My name is really.....David Walter! Went delayed enlistment in Nov 1976 Active duty 1977 Keesler AFB, MS RAF Alconbury, UK Grand Forks ND Nellis AFB, NV University of Akron, OH Enlisted Electronic Warfare Technician until 1987 Commissioned 2LT in April 1987 Pope AFB, NC Eielson AFB, AK got out as a Capt in 1992 Entered Reserves 2001 Capt - Youngstown Air Reserve base Major - McChord AFB, WA Commanded USAF Reserve Civil Engineers Sqdn at McChord 2007-2011 Commanded 506 expeditionary Civil Eng Squadron at Kirkuk, Iraq Lt Col - present Air Guard at Camp Murray, WA
Seen and met a ton of fantastic people. Loved every minute of it, even the frozen north, and the oven heat in Iraq. Learned a lot about me, and the quality of young men and women we're raising and I'm comfortable the Republic will endure in good hands.
Thanks to all the vets, and to all the folks who've trusted us with your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and moms and dads. welcome home gary
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1974 to 1994 USAF Civil Engineers here there everywhere
It was great times miss it some days don't on other days
Psalm 16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
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“Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” - General John Stark.
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1974 to 1994 USAF Civil Engineers here there everywhere
It was great times miss it some days don't on other days welcome home gary
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USAF 1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983 USAF 919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994
1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983 919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994
"Manus haec inimica tyrannis / Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem" ~Algernon Sidney~
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USAF 1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983 USAF 919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994 were you with the guys flying the C130's and C121's that were painted flat black with enough bumps and blisters to make you think the plane needed a penecillen shot? Those guys were the ones that flew "Bright Light" and a couple others a few years prior. Wecome Home gary
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