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I know it's a day early but some of the younger folks might need some extra time.
What happened on this day, August 31, 1973?
You FOGs please give the younger people a chance to answer. I know all of you know it.
CoLawman
08-30-2008, 08:08
I know it's a day early but some of the younger folks might need some extra time.
What happened on this day, August 31, 1973?
You FOGs please give the younger people a chance to answer. I know all of you know it.
Pete I am a FOG and I am stumped!
Pete, did you see the Car pic I posted? It was right down that alley.
IWhat happened on this day, August 31, 1973?
How the hell did you know that I was sitting on a MAC flight at Anderson AFB awaiting a taifun to blow by so we could continue on to Clark enroute to Ton Son Nhut and Don Muang. :rolleyes:
Or were you asking about something else? ;)
Richard :munchin
Director John Ford died. Damn, seems like only yesterday. :(
Pat
Red Flag 1
08-30-2008, 09:11
Benedict Arnold agreed to sell West Point to the British!!
No ....wait...that was before, right?
RF 1
Kyobanim
08-30-2008, 10:55
Benedict Arnold agreed to sell West Point to the British!!
No ....wait...that was before, right?
RF 1
Are you speaking as a witness to this fact.
:p
JumpinJoe1010
08-30-2008, 11:11
The first thing that came to mind was the end of the Vietnam War, but when I looked it up, the information given was August 29, 1973. But then I came to my senses and realized it was where the Confederates defeated the Union at the Second Manasses/Bull Run. :)
Skelepede
08-30-2008, 12:51
The Egyptians were preparing for the Yom Kippur War.
Red Flag 1
08-30-2008, 14:34
Are you speaking as a witness to this fact.
:p
Sophmore in High School, as best I can recall.
RF 1
Hint
Think in North Carolina
2018commo
08-30-2008, 18:00
Hot in the summer, cold in the winter, makes you want one of a different color...
10 mins on Google.:munchin
I am but a Jr FOG, still in uniform though.
Hot in the summer, cold in the winter, makes you want one of a different color...
10 mins on Google.:munchin
I am but a Jr FOG, still in uniform though.
"A Horse With no Name" hit #1?
Pat
From The Achives of the Fayetteville Observer
Aug 31, 1973: All airborne-qualified personnel on jump status and assigned to airborne units on Fort Bragg are required to wear a maroon airborne beret.
And a little tid-bit for you freefall guys.
Aug 30, 1973: After 1,785 freefalls over a period of 11 years, Fort Bragg Command Sergeant Major Henry T Belton becomes the 60th person in the United States to record 12 hours of freefall time. Belton receives the United States Parachute Association Gold Freefall Badge for achieving this goal.
And going way back - a bit on our brothers in AF Blue.
Aug 31, 1958: Master Sgt. Thomas E Hicks becomes the first Pope Air Force Base NCO to attain the new grade of Senior Master Sergeant. He is one of 2,000 Master Sergeants throughout the Air Force selected for the newly-created garde.
JumpinJoe1010
08-31-2008, 08:06
Thanks for the answer Pete, because I exhausted what little Googlefu skills I had. :D
Yeah...and we had a formation with our brand-new headgear...some units wore wings with backgrounds, some wore unit crests for about a day or two until the higher ups decided on the crests...except for the 509th that continued to wear wings and rank until Bernie Rodgers took the beret away in 1978...
And as I recall, some of the young bucks in the Division decided to paint the fez on Bronze Bruce a shade of raspberry, as well...
Ah, yes...the good old days...:rolleyes:
... we take little notice of maroon berets.
A joke floating around Ft. Bragg at the time has a little old lady with her college bound grand-daughters at Raleigh-Durham Airport, getting ready to board a flight. She sees some soldiers approach, some with green berets and some with maroon berets, all of whom swarm around the grand-daughters.
She pulls one of the SF soldiers to the side and asks: "Sonny, I know what a green beret means, President Kennedy was my favorite, but why are some of those men wearing red berets?"
And the SF soldier leaned over and quietly said: "The Army makes them wear those red berets ... those are the men with syphilis."
Team Sergeant
08-31-2008, 12:16
I was there in 78 when the order came down to "Remove" the Red Beret and wear leg hats, I was also there when we were ALL ordered to the stadium and given the order to trash the leg hats and resume the wear of the Red Beret.;)
I was there in 78 when the order came down to "Remove" the Red Beret and wear leg hats, I was also there when we were ALL ordered to the stadium and given the order to trash the leg hats and resume the wear of the Red Beret.When I first arrived at the Nickle-Oh-Nasty (509th) in 1979, I was issued a maroon beret ( in spite of the directive issued by GEN Rogers)...we were required to carry it in the cargo pocket of our cammies when in the field, particularly when we were training with other members of the ACE (Allied Command Europe) Mobile Force. I remember running into some of the guys when the beret was reauthorized and they griped about the requirement to wear it with a unit crest/rank and flash, instead of with wings, background and rank...there is no pleasing some folks...