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Just returned from a vacation in DomRep and didn't hear about this until yesterday.

Jim, you have always been there for me and I wish you all the best. Start sitting up and taking nourishment, especially liquid refreshment!

Prayers out from here.

God Bless You Jim!

........ if you are unfortunate enough to spend time in the re-education camps :lol: Couldn't help myself arsomething, from what I hear, RS is much less intense than formerly. I also would emphasize water. Do NOT, as mentioned above, add anything to your water besides the purification tablets. Jim,...

Good points in the Allen West article, on point and rather disheartening. Orwellian newspeak at its finest.

CSM Voyles, one of the most memorable Rangers I ever encountered, has been added to my lengthening prayer list. As I have written many times, he was the toughest of a tough group of Ranger instructors for my class (13-70) at Ft. Benning. On one of the first days he told me to take charge of the plat...

Thanks to everyone for once again reminding me how old I am. I carried a PRC-25 in Viet-Nam. As did we all, plus the extra battery. Hard to keep water out of the handset during the monsoon and in deep water crossings. Baggies/shrinkwrap you say? Good luck finding those in-country. Even tried the em...

What happened to the grenade throw? I remember getting five attempts to throw an iron dummy grenade at a steel pipe in the center of several concentric rings. The closer to the pipe or inside the inner ring gave you the max score. Once, and only once, I managed to do the old Zen thing and was able t...

Telling the poor OC he has 2 hrs. to set up an ambush 7 km. away and he has 20 min. for an OPORD and 10 min. for a WARNO - hey , at least it wasn't 3am in a downpour trying to take notes under a poncho with his flashlight.

Also saw that Red Arrow patch (32d Div.) dude had to be from WI or MN

I remember back in the day we had a number of senior NCOs in 6th Group who could barely speak English, and not because they were wetbacks from south of the border.

"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" I not going to say what the movie was about, because everyone here pretty much know. What I will say it was a great movie, and that there is no way for someone to leave that theater with some questions on their minds with two of those questions ...

I was told by a USAF officer that Bob Hope never stayed overnight in VN. Anyone verify this?

Was gonna respond but forgot what I was gonna say.....

Up in my neck of the woods it is all about meth, which is getting worse. Hard to think of that stuff in the great northwoods, but all the glossy state tourist brochures extolling the attractions of the lakeside homes and the hunting & fishing are just a shiny veneer over the hard realities of th...

Similar to some places I slogged through in the Central Highlands. When crossing one of those little waterways you never knew how deep they night be. Crossed one once that felt soft with vegetation on the bottom when I suddenly broke through and sank into pure water underneath. It was only the quick...

Your ambition is admirable and your introduction was decent. Read and heed whatever guidance you are provided on this site. You must be absolutely determined to never ever give up. Only you know what is in your heart and how determined you are. Where do you reside and which school is conferring your...

Prayers out. Hope it goes well, quickly, and with complete recovery.