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Post by crashtest on Jun 15, 2007 4:48:27 GMT -5
I think he became a Redskins fan after the cheerleaders visited on a USO tour.
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Post by tbone421998 on Jun 15, 2007 15:38:01 GMT -5
I can certainly understand why.
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Post by Coach on Jun 15, 2007 15:50:06 GMT -5
I can think of 2 "big" reasons.
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Post by jamesa46 on Jun 19, 2007 20:51:33 GMT -5
Here's my son down on the farm in "The Sand Box". No cheerleaders unfortunately. Just showing off a 30 MM shell.
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Post by texiban001 on Jun 22, 2007 7:57:03 GMT -5
All my respect and thanks to your son. That is one hell of a shell there. From a former sailor.
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Post by tbone421998 on Jun 22, 2007 14:45:11 GMT -5
Thank you for your service texiban.
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Post by texiban001 on Jun 27, 2007 15:18:32 GMT -5
You are more than welcome. I enjoyed my time for the most part.
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Post by crashtest on Jun 30, 2007 15:17:41 GMT -5
Ken called to say he was in the thick of this a couple of days ago: www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSISL14926420070628I asked him if he found much use for the Gamin GPS I had bought him for Christmas prior to his deployment. He said, as a matter of fact, it saved his life during that incident and that it was the best Christmas present I ever got him. Somehow the Army communication system didn't work as well as his "private" GPS. Security reasons prevented him from going into the details (Iranians monitor the cellphone lines), but it will be interesting to get the scoop later. Many heartfelt thanks to James and Spuds for their advise when I asked about it in the AD forum last year. It paid off in spades!! God bless you both.
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Post by Coach on Jul 2, 2007 23:58:17 GMT -5
I have a Garmin e-trek GPS that I would gladly donate to one of the men in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Post by Coach on Jul 6, 2007 21:42:45 GMT -5
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Post by hembo36 on Jul 21, 2007 15:57:47 GMT -5
one of my cousins is going back to Afghanistan..He is a tactical air controller. He is more or less assigned to a group that goes out and coordinates air strikes and even cruise missile attacks on those goat fckrs hiding in caves...Anyways, he is a good guy...
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Post by crashtest on Aug 5, 2007 20:03:24 GMT -5
Baseball is soothing to the American soul: Photo from A-stan, but it could have been Geronimo Park at Apache Junction circa '62 ~Crash
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Post by tbone421998 on Aug 15, 2007 10:11:18 GMT -5
We just found out that Jeremy will be going over in January. He said plan for 12 months and hope for 7. His other two tours were both for only 7 months.
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Post by Coach on Aug 15, 2007 10:32:13 GMT -5
I was hoping Jeremy wouldn't ever have to go back to that litter box of a country.
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Post by crashtest on Aug 15, 2007 18:29:13 GMT -5
This is a picture of Kenneth's great-uncle Ted. His C-47 was shot down by Japanese Lt. Col. Shigeo Nango on August 15, 1943. I am posting his picture today in his honor on the 64th anniversary of his sacrifice. Ted was a crewman on a C-47 whose mission it was to supply a secret air field that was built just over the Owen Stanley mountains at Tsili Tsili, New Guinea. Its purpose was to stage men and materiel to attack the japs who were entrenched on the northern shores. The enemy discovered the base and sent a force of fighter planes and bombers to try to destroy it. They were driven off by our stellar fighter pilots, but not before shooting down two C-47s who were in a landing pattern. Here is a picture of Shigeo Nango, the leader of the 59th Sentai of Ki-43 "Oscars" which was credited with the kills. Nango was killed in a dogfight with Bob Dehaven in January, 1944 over Moem, New Guinea. And life and wars go on and on......
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