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Veterans Day

Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 5 months ago to The Gulch: General
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Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow Vets.
USN. Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, 8409 Aerospace Physiology Technician

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 5 months ago
    I give a well deserved thank you to all of our vets in the Gulch. I did not have to serve, and therefore didn't. There was a brief time when I made nuclear bombs at the end of the Cold War. It was an interesting job, but now that I have read AS, I am no longer proud of it.
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    • Posted by $ root1657 9 years, 5 months ago
      If you were making them for our side, why wouldn't you be proud of that? Nuclear deterrence is what kept the looters from 'over there' from coming here in mass back then. You and your kind, as much as any of us, acted in direct defense of our freedom. I thank you, sir!
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  • Posted by $ WillH 9 years, 5 months ago
    Thanks to you too.

    D-Btry 5/5 ADA 2ID South Korea US Army
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    • Posted by richkinley 9 years, 5 months ago
      Wow...a fellow air defender! 6/56 ADA (Chaparral/Towed Vulcan).
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      • Posted by $ WillH 9 years, 5 months ago
        Avenger here. Man that Vulcan must have been a riot.
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        • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 5 months ago
          Hey, me too! 2/67 ADA Vulcan/Stinger (1st ID). And yes, going to the range was a blast. I remember one time I was the range OIC when we went for qualification fire and there was an infantry company doing "night fire" with M16 on a range close by. They barely made sunset when they started firing. We, on the other hand, waited until it really started to get dark. When we opened up with a tracer every 3rd round, it looked like lasers going down-range. When they hit the targets, they splashed everywhere. As soon as we began firing, the M16 range stopped firing. I can just imagine their jaws dropping and the sense of awe that they had watching that sight. AWESOME!
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          • Posted by richkinley 9 years, 5 months ago
            I was tdy to 2/67 ADA for REFORGER 77. Back in those days, I think we were all at 75% strength and they needed a couple of LTs for Platoon Leaders. I was assigned to a Chaparral Platoon, and those 3-4 weeks were memorable, in a good way.

            My Jeep was hit by an M-60 tank, crunching the radiator, and I was stung by a bee in my left temple while setting up a CP...my eye was swollen shut for two days. My Platoon Sergeant found a Dutch aid station, and I traded a few of my jump wings for a variety of Dutch berets and a British field jacket.

            Professionally, it was a great experience. When I returned to my battery (C Battery 6/56 ADA at Hahn AB), I would be the only PL to pass an ARTEP for the next 12-15 months.

            Later, I got to play XO along with my regular job as Maintenance Officer in a Battery level ARTEP. For my efforts at covering for the BC (who was a great staff officer, just keep him away from troops), I got the worst OER of my career. Good old ADA, whose motto is "we eat our young."
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            • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 5 months ago
              Interesting experience. I arrived at the battalion the week before Christmas, after they had been training for REFORGER '86. Was told that I wouldn't be going with and would be part of the stay behind contingent. 3 days before departure, they changed their mind and I had to be rushed through processing to get deployed. Spent the entire month sitting in a potato warehouse as part of HHB, doing nothing. Like you say, eating their young.

              On the other hand, I went on REFORGER '88 and was the liaison officer to an AF radar sight. Those guys know how to live. Beds with mattresses (we had to use our own sleeping bags, boo hoo), hot food cafeteria, etc. My NCO driver/relief and I found every different way to get back and forth between the battalion HQ and the AF site, stopping at every gasthouse for weinersnitzel mit pommes frittes that we could find. Almost made up for the first experience - almost.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 5 months ago
    Oh yea, let's all go get our free hamburger!
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    • Posted by NealS 9 years, 5 months ago
      Free Hamburger? I went last night, and when we got there they said the free Vet dinner was always served on the closest Sunday but the cook wanted to honor us anyway. I'm sure glad I wore my Vietnam Vet hat.

      I got a free Cashew Encrusted Tilapia with a Buttered Rum Sauce served over Sweet Potato Risotto accompanied by Thinly Sliced Carrots and Crisp Green Beans. Mmmmmm, it was really good, so were the Whiskey Sours on the Rocks.
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  • Posted by comsguy 9 years, 5 months ago
    We would not be anything without you. Thank You So Much and God Bless You All.
    Special shout out to Dad, USN WW2 Tanker Gunner in the Pacific. You talked me out of enlisting after high school. I admire and miss you.
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  • Posted by kathywiso 9 years, 5 months ago
    Thank You to ALL the Veteran's here in the Gulch and sorry I was a day late. You all deserve the honor and I appreciate what you did for your country.. I'm proud of you all and Thank You.
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