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incommin
04-19-2007, 12:08
From a wall at Ft Benning:

"I’ll tell you what used to piss me off about Special Forces. We would deploy to some third-world hole in the wall country on a classified mission. We would ruck for days over mountains and through jungles to reach a village populated by “stone-aged throw-backs to evolution”, and when we got there, there would be a “Green Beret wearing SOB”, sitting there drinking hot coffee and reading that morning’s edition of the Fayetteville Observer Times."



SFC Pete St. Pierre, US Army Rangers

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Received this e-mail. couldn't resist sharing it.

Jim

Ret10Echo
04-19-2007, 12:47
Not to mention the huge per diem check he's gonna get....

Thanks for the chuckle

shadowwalker
04-19-2007, 13:45
Thanks, that was delightful and from what I hear appropriate.

The Reaper
04-19-2007, 14:04
LMAO.

Classic.

Max Per Diem.

TR

Peregrino
04-19-2007, 14:35
The only kind of foreign "conflict" worth showing up for - three ribbons (lots more now days), two promotions (has to last long enough for the misadventures to assume mythical status), and max per diem with a rental car and a room in a 5-star hotel (at least on the weekends). :p The GWOT is giving the "Good Old Days" a real nostalgic glow. Peregrino

kgoerz
04-19-2007, 18:03
It gets ruff for SF at times. One time HBO was not included in my Room Bill. Also we had to stop using Avis Car Rental, because their cars didn't have CD Players, that sucked big time:(

Monsoon65
04-19-2007, 20:31
We had unit coins made up that said, "Low Threat, High Per Diem".

We had to take that off, but it didn't stop us from spray painting it on the side of our tents.

lksteve
04-19-2007, 20:46
Max Per Diem.i knew Max...he was a 10th Group guy....:p

Hipshot
04-19-2007, 21:34
i knew Max...he was a 10th Group guy....:p
:confused: I thought that was 7th Group???

lksteve
04-20-2007, 07:33
I thought that was 7th Group???the situation was undoubtedly 7th Group...but Max was 10th, through and through....