ARVN Ranger

bdqadvisor · Post by **bdqadvisor** » October 2nd, 2007, 4:58 pm

Greetings. I enlisted in '64. Spent a year as an advisor to an ARVN Ranger Bn. Second tour was as senior advisor with ARVN Division Recon Company. Due to a brief, but very unpleasant, encounter with a landmine, the Army decided I would make a pretty good clerk. I decided I would make a pretty good civilian. Took a year of hard work, but I recovered enough to spend over 30 years as a state trooper. Fifteen years after I left AD, I felt the Army deserved a second chance, so I joined the reserve, and retired as a First Sergeant with a total of 20 years service. Spent an additional 5 years overseas as a civilian employee of my Uncle, training coppers for various third-world shitholes. Best job I ever had.

Hope this is enough to avoid any nasty "introduce yourself" messages.

Ranger Bill · Post by **Ranger Bill** » October 2nd, 2007, 5:22 pm

Welcome. It is good to have another seasoned FOG in the AO.

IDon'tCare · Post by **IDon'tCare** » October 2nd, 2007, 5:28 pm

Welcome bdq. Damn RTO didn't get here first.

Glad to have you here.

RTO · Post by **RTO** » October 2nd, 2007, 5:40 pm

IDon'tCare wrote:Welcome bdq. Damn RTO didn't get here first. Glad to have you here.

I was fixing dinner!

Welcome Ranger, and thank you for your long term service on the Military and LEO sides of the house.

Rock Island Ranger · October 2nd, 2007, 5:50 pm

Yet another older than me fucker which makes you MORE welcome than the other fucks.

Glad your here. Pull your land mined ass up, tell us some shit about you. Someone will come along from that era, and Im sure your eyes will roll back and youll speak in tongues like some of them do.

42L5V · Post by **42L5V** » October 2nd, 2007, 7:09 pm

Welcome here, Sir. Pull up a stump.

Hoover · Post by **Hoover** » October 2nd, 2007, 8:20 pm

Welcome....Glad you found us.

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » October 2nd, 2007, 9:46 pm

Welcome to the Patrol Base, Sir.
Thanks for leading the way.

rgrpuck · Post by **rgrpuck** » October 2nd, 2007, 10:00 pm

Welcome

Chiron · Post by **Chiron** » October 3rd, 2007, 2:45 am

Welcome to the site.

McD · Post by **McD** » October 3rd, 2007, 3:27 am

Welcome!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » October 3rd, 2007, 5:27 am

Welcome. There are a couple of us here. Karl will be along later.

Ranger Ron · Post by **Ranger Ron** » October 3rd, 2007, 6:56 am

Welcome! It is always nice to know that there are still several of us FOGs around.

Thanks for your service to our great country. You have certainly done your share.