Forum: Vietnam
04-29-2006, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,771
Rode in a couple or so
of the early morning...
Rode in a couple or so
of the early morning mine-sweep and resupply convoys up to one of our platoons stuck up halfway from Tam Ky to DaNang. Our officers considered us "sufficiently armed"....
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Forum: Vietnam
11-29-2005, 10:20 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,251
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Forum: Vietnam
11-29-2005, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,251
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Forum: Vietnam
11-29-2005, 09:47 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,251
Feeling a bit guilty, hearing this shit.
9th...
Feeling a bit guilty, hearing this shit.
9th Engineers, 1st Mardiv. We had our base camp just outside the airbase on the wrong side of the road. Used to run our security patrols down to the river...
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Forum: General Posts
11-29-2005, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,799
1. The Lone Ranger
2. Bobby Kennedy
3....
1. The Lone Ranger
2. Bobby Kennedy
3. Clairol (guess)
4. PLA?
5. Could be Truman, confident character
6. Mr. Clean?
7. ?
8. Puffed wheat
9. The Kingston Trio (loved the "Tiajuana Jail")
10....
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Forum: General Posts
11-29-2005, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,063
Drove up to Minn.
For Turkey-day. Nice trip...
Drove up to Minn.
For Turkey-day. Nice trip up - good scenery aroung the Mississippi. Coming home - blowing snow. For the record, the far-north boys in Mn and Ws are no better at first-snow...
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Forum: Family
11-26-2005, 10:18 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,893
Boys will kill you.
Single parent of four of...
Boys will kill you.
Single parent of four of them:
When you come home from work and three are on the roof "cleaning the gutters", the fourth is probably tied to a tree in the back.
When...
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Forum: General Posts
11-19-2005, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 849
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Forum: General Posts
11-19-2005, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 868
Deer vs. People in Minnesota
Thanks a...
Deer vs. People in Minnesota
Thanks a bunch, that's encouraging. I'm taking my son up to Minn. for Thanksgiving to visit relatives. No game-boy for him - he's on deer watch. Actually, we're...
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Forum: General Posts
11-12-2005, 07:42 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 3,441
Okay,
Twice I came up saving/destroying the...
Okay,
Twice I came up saving/destroying the world: Einstein. Says nothing about brains (or lack thereof), just personality. Sounds like I need to stick to the books and find a Truman to make the...
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Forum: General Posts
11-08-2005, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,115
Typical of the Marines.
Not only getting an...
Typical of the Marines.
Not only getting an early start but stealing a march - Nov. 11th is a holiday, right?
Used to tell my kids (when they ticked me off) "Techinically, the Marines are...
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Forum: Vietnam
11-07-2005, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,343
Purely for fishing, here.
Clear the local...
Purely for fishing, here.
Clear the local kids out of the water, throw a couple and let the kids bring home supper. Carried some on security patrols at night but didn't like the idea too much -...
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Forum: General Posts
11-07-2005, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 785
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Forum: Family
11-07-2005, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,857
When all your kids are male,
There's nothing like a grand-daughter tuhttp://images.kodakgallery.com/servlet/Images/photos1534/2/69/88/48/59/9/959488869205_0_BG.jpg?a=0rned two.
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Forum: Vietnam
11-05-2005, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,187
Hold out for Captain.
Green-bar would...
Hold out for Captain.
Green-bar would dissapoint your congregation at home. And you'ld get stuck with whatever the chaplains do instead of burning stuff. And don't listen to the 'troopers. Keep...
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Forum: General Posts
11-04-2005, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,788
The French
never seem to have had too much...
The French
never seem to have had too much of a problem with the racial thing. Algeria did give them something to worry about with Muslims, though they didn't mind them as trading partners (did...
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Forum: General Posts
10-30-2005, 08:01 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,254
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Forum: General Posts
10-30-2005, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,268
okay, now that's scary.
Especially since the...
okay, now that's scary.
Especially since the general profile for perverts is "normal looking, normal-acting and personable". You know, the next door neighbor. Like John Gacey. Got 6 sons (1...
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Forum: General Posts
10-24-2005, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 914
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Forum: General Posts
10-14-2005, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,019
And does anyone
remember Orville Faubus (sp)...
And does anyone
remember Orville Faubus (sp) blocking the entrance of kids to a Little Rock School and Eisenhower trumping him by federalizing the Arkansas NG and sending in the 82nd to give a...
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Forum: General Posts
10-14-2005, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,495
My so
worked at a local restaurant before he...
My so
worked at a local restaurant before he became another dumb jarhead. Brought home an Indian head penny one day - 1875. A year before Custer's Last Stand. Keeps it in his wallet as a "good" luck...
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Forum: General Posts
10-10-2005, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 3,525
Hey Trav
you got great fishing spots...
Hey Trav
you got great fishing spots year-round ( if you got a fur-lined jock). Wadda ya need with a sports team?
Sorry 'bout that LT. I suppose your current "short" frustration with the...
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Forum: General Posts
10-08-2005, 09:35 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 3,525
Not to worry.
The Cubs, White Sox and the...
Not to worry.
The Cubs, White Sox and the BoSox take the long view. Kinda Oriental, y'know. They don't think in terms of dynasty - more in terms of century. 'Cept my Cubs might be thinking...
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Forum: General Posts
09-30-2005, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,211
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Forum: General Posts
03-03-2005, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,928
What Stick said!
Wait 'til he/she/they?...
What Stick said!
Wait 'til he/she/they? recognize your voice - you'll know you're in heaven!
Plus the bonus: You look at the cute smiling face, crawling over to you, drooling on the rug, dog,...
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