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- February 6th, 2008, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Recruitment Process
- Topic: Question about my recruiter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2246
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...
- February 6th, 2008, 1:53 pm
- Forum: The News Dump
- Topic: CMH for Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
Reconsideration of Awards
During the Clinton administration a number of DSCs were upgraded to CMHs because the recipients were minorities.
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- January 27th, 2008, 6:00 pm
- Forum: The News Dump
- Topic: CMH for Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
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...
- January 27th, 2008, 10:03 am
- Forum: Introduction Archive
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8082
- January 22nd, 2008, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Reconnaissance
- Topic: Howdy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12751
- January 18th, 2008, 8:57 am
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: Kids learn by example
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9668
- January 11th, 2008, 10:00 am
- Forum: Weapons of War
- Topic: Remington model 870
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10220
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 ...
- January 7th, 2008, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: Clintons
- Replies: 2
- Views: 897
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...
- January 4th, 2008, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: Little Johnny After School
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1840
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...
- December 29th, 2007, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: What the Rangers Think of the Marines
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2190
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...
- December 29th, 2007, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Reconnaissance
- Topic: Longest Recon
- Replies: 147
- Views: 101148
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...
- December 26th, 2007, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Medical Issues
- Topic: Head On
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3639
- December 24th, 2007, 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Mosh Pit
- Topic: Everyone likes getting mail, right?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2576
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...
- December 23rd, 2007, 9:30 am
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: Items for the FNG's
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5008
- 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: 2944
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 ...