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by F50LRRP
February 6th, 2008, 2:29 pm
Forum: Recruitment Process
Topic: Question about my recruiter
Replies: 6
Views: 2234

Re: Question about my recruiter

'I started running and dieting, and lost over 70lbs (from 305 to 231lbs)". I hope that you are still running and dieting. I went to Vietnam at 6 feet - 1"and 220 pounds. (as a former heavy weight wrestler). I spent 3 months humping the boonies and then attended the MACV Recondo School. Whe...
by F50LRRP
February 6th, 2008, 1:53 pm
Forum: The News Dump
Topic: CMH for Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers
Replies: 21
Views: 9432

Reconsideration of Awards

During the Clinton administration a number of DSCs were upgraded to CMHs because the recipients were minorities.

RLTW

Mike
by F50LRRP
January 27th, 2008, 6:00 pm
Forum: The News Dump
Topic: CMH for Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers
Replies: 21
Views: 9432

CMH for Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers

Here is an on-line petition to have Major Winters DSC upgraded to the MOH. Major Winters was a platoon leader in the 101st ABN, who became acting company commander when landing at Normandy in WWII. He was featured in the "Band of Brothers" TV series. http://www.petitiononline.com/Winters/p...
by F50LRRP
January 27th, 2008, 10:03 am
Forum: Introduction Archive
Topic: Introduction
Replies: 32
Views: 7951

Congratulations, "young" LT. You've completed an awsome task but now the tasks get harder (and worth much more). LEADERSHIP! The officers above you and the men below you in your chain of command will expect much more out of you because of your TAB. Don't let them down and don't ever quit i...
by F50LRRP
January 22nd, 2008, 5:51 pm
Forum: Reconnaissance
Topic: Howdy
Replies: 14
Views: 11935

RangerRon wrote:Good old Ft. Ord........... I took Basic and AIT at Ft. Ord in the winter of 68-69. (Shortly after Washington crossed the Delaware) :lol:
I was an SF recruiter at Fort Ord fro January until June, 1969.

Mike
by F50LRRP
January 18th, 2008, 8:57 am
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: Kids learn by example
Replies: 33
Views: 9607

My son, Chris was four years old when a work crew brought a large dump truck into the park next door, loaded it and started to back up. Naturally the "beep, beep" of the back-up alarm sounded and Chris asked me about it. I told him that when oversize vehicles backed up they sounded an alar...
by F50LRRP
January 11th, 2008, 10:00 am
Forum: Weapons of War
Topic: Remington model 870
Replies: 19
Views: 10165

The Remington model 870 is in my opinion (8 years-11F4SVS and 24 years civilian L.E.), the finest home defense weapon available. It is powrerful. easy to shoot (point and pull the trigger), rugged and has a long history of reliability (over 60 years). I have never experienced a malfunction with the ...
by F50LRRP
January 7th, 2008, 5:57 pm
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: Clintons
Replies: 2
Views: 881

Clintons

A man walked into a cowboy bar and ordered a beer just as ex-President Clinton came on the TV. After a few sips he looked up at the screen and mumbled, "Now there's the biggest horse's ass I've ever seen." Immediately, a customer at the end of the bar got up, walked over, decked him, and l...
by F50LRRP
January 4th, 2008, 4:49 pm
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: Little Johnny After School
Replies: 4
Views: 1814

Little Johnny After School

Johnny and his parents moved to a new home and Johnny's mother was worried about what the neighbors would think when they met Johnny for the first time. Johnny's mother was especially worried about Johnny swearing in front of the neigborhood women. Her solution was to invite all of the neighbor wome...
by F50LRRP
December 29th, 2007, 2:39 pm
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: What the Rangers Think of the Marines
Replies: 4
Views: 2174

What the Rangers Think of the Marines

A little boy was standing in front of a mirror in the restroom at John F. Kennedy Airport, when in walked a Marine staff sergeant, dressed in his dress blues. The little boy turned to the Marine and said, "Wow! Are you a Marine?" The Marine replied, "Why, yes I am, young man. Would yo...
by F50LRRP
December 29th, 2007, 12:12 pm
Forum: Reconnaissance
Topic: Longest Recon
Replies: 147
Views: 97192

Can't believe I just spent 45 minutes reviewing a 2 - 3 year old thread. I have got to get a life. Jim, I'm glad that you did, otherwise, I'd have miised this thread altogether. F Company Lurps worked in 6 man teams and usually conducted missions for up to 7 days. The first mission that I went on w...
by F50LRRP
December 26th, 2007, 4:32 pm
Forum: Medical Issues
Topic: Head On
Replies: 4
Views: 3628

The Vietnamese take a brass coin and rub their forehead to cure headaches. They swear by this remedy. I wonder if just rubbing your forehead will cure a headache...
by F50LRRP
December 24th, 2007, 5:03 pm
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Everyone likes getting mail, right?
Replies: 8
Views: 2550

Christmas, 1967, I was at a fire support base in War Zone C, when I received a care package from some Catholic Nuns from Maryland. Included were ten packages of pre-sweetened Kool-aid, two cans of Vienna sausages, some broken cookies, six pairs of athletic socks that had been died OD green, tooth pa...
by F50LRRP
December 23rd, 2007, 9:30 am
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: Items for the FNG's
Replies: 16
Views: 4954

When I was in a mech Infantry unit they used to send newbies to S-4 for cans of "track tension" or sky hooks.

Mike
by F50LRRP
December 22nd, 2007, 7:05 pm
Forum: The News Dump
Topic: One of the Last World War I Veterans Dies at 109
Replies: 6
Views: 2921

When I was a boy living in Lawrence, Kansas my dad used to have three gentlemen come over for dinner evry once in a while. One was a former Union Soldier who had fought Quantrill's Raiders. The other two had fought in the Spanish American war. My dad (a WWII OSS officer) and they used to sit around ...

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