10-22-2006, 14:36
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Fort Sam Houston, US Army North, Security Assistance Management...I think...I get the feeling they aren't telling me everything yet.
Posts: 69
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Howdy,
My name is Mike Dinesman. Went through the 18E and 18D course in the 80's and 90's. Got out when Slick Willie took over. Saw some friends of mine get screwed over and decided to quit moaning about how poor officer leadership was and do something about it. Was an Infantry Officer in 3ID before going to the 18A. Complained a lot about ankles and knees, got some surgery, lost 1/3 ROM in my right foot, and found something else to do. Am now a 35D. Just finished up the most rewarding year of my last 20 in Colombia as a Senior PATT in SATMO. Am now working J2 NATO in a Rapid Deployment unit, that isnt so rapid and doesnt deploy. But hey, I get to live in Valencia, Spain for 3 years! 
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10-22-2006, 14:39
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#1697
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vermont
Posts: 3,093
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Welcome aboard Mike.
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Wenn einer von uns fallen sollt, der Andere steht für zwei.
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10-22-2006, 15:42
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#1698
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Welcome aboard
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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10-23-2006, 11:12
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Asset
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 36
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Introduction
Greetings everyone,
I am a 91W with a Light Infantry BN. We are headed down-range soon and my primary focus is on TC3, aid-bag load plans, and any field medical tips and tricks.
I look forward to learning from everyone here.
Respectfully,
~Eric
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10-23-2006, 13:32
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 20,929
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Originally Posted by soldierdoc_2005
Greetings everyone,
I am a 91W with a Light Infantry BN. We are headed down-range soon and my primary focus is on TC3, aid-bag load plans, and any field medical tips and tricks.
I look forward to learning from everyone here.
Respectfully,
~Eric
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Welcome Doc.
Let us know if we can be of any assistance.
Team Sergeant
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10-25-2006, 20:37
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SE U.S.
Posts: 207
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Greetings.
hello all,
Ive been a lurker here for a while. Up until recently i was posting on another site but i advertised an mwr-like soldier event too many times and have since been suspended...indefinitely.
Anyways...hello and I will go back to lurking, listening, and learning.
Little background.
Enlisted, SGT.
PLDC @ Graf.
I'm a communicator (Sig).
Deployed once, Bosnia.
I hate cold weather.
Believe that the US is the best (not perfect) country in the world.
I decided to serve bc (in no particular order):
1. grandfather immigrated here, served 3 years in WWII (Africa,Belgium,France, & Germany)
2. wanted to do my part.
3. good training opportunities.
4. commraderie.
5. Father served 22 years.
6. All uncles serve(d).
7. Because i can, and not everyone is able. Take pride in the fact that none of my HS buddies served but i did, doing my part and theirs.
8. For the great pay and benefits!!! : ), sarcastism here
Stickey
Last edited by stickey; 10-25-2006 at 20:51.
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10-26-2006, 06:49
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#1702
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In transit somewhere
Posts: 4,044
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Stickey-
Although you are a communicator, your written English sucks - please try to use proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and usage. You will find that it will gain you a lot more respect, on this board, in the Army and in the civilian world. I'm not the only QP that feels this way - just ask.
Thanks for your service, welcome.
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Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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10-26-2006, 13:33
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Asset
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Posts: 28
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Warriors,
I’ve been lurking around for a few months and would like to introduce myself. I returned from a deployment in Afghanistan in June 05 with a NG Task Force conducting Force Pro. I consider it a privilege to serve and was happy to be home. I also had the chance to become friends with a few great guys I’d never had the chance to meet up with anywhere else. One guy in particular was previously involved on the active side with QP’s, watched my back, and I did the same for him during our tour. I miss being out of the fight but I wish our entire organization still at work the best.
Keep on Keepin on
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10-26-2006, 14:17
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Asset
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Dallas
Posts: 39
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Welcome. Nice to see other Iowans aboard. I thought it was just CPTAUSRET and I for a moment. 
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10-26-2006, 19:49
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Asset
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Peoria, IL
Posts: 2
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New Member
I am 23 years old and in May of 2006 I graduated from college with a
Bachelor's of Science in mechanical engineering. I accepted a position
as an associate engineer in transmission development with Caterpillar,
and I've been working at Cat since June. I am seriously considering
joining the Army and volunteering for Special Forces. I have some questions and would really like some input.
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10-26-2006, 19:54
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Gun Pilot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa and New Mexico
Posts: 2,143
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Originally Posted by Neo
Welcome. Nice to see other Iowans aboard. I thought it was just CPTAUSRET and I for a moment. |
There may well be others onboard!
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10-26-2006, 20:16
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Ft Campbell
Posts: 555
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Hello everyone, just wanted to start off on the right foot I'm pretty much just going to lurk in the dark and listen. As for me I'm at fort campbell on the 101st division honor guard, but I'm getting out in Dec after 13 years just cant take the new kind of soldiers coming in.
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10-26-2006, 20:24
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,818
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Originally Posted by chance
Hello everyone, just wanted to start off on the right foot I'm pretty much just going to lurk in the dark and listen. As for me I'm at fort campbell on the 101st division honor guard, but I'm getting out in Dec after 13 years just cant take the new kind of soldiers coming in.
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Welcome Chance. Thanks for your service.
Before you punch out, you might consider the check that will be yours every month for the rest of your life if you can take a few more years of it.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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10-26-2006, 20:27
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Castle Rock, CO
Posts: 2,531
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Originally Posted by chance
Hello everyone, just wanted to start off on the right foot I'm pretty much just going to lurk in the dark and listen. As for me I'm at fort campbell on the 101st division honor guard, but I'm getting out in Dec after 13 years just cant take the new kind of soldiers coming in.
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if you think the new kind of soldier is hard to take, wait 'til you start working with his civilian counterpart...that took more getting used to than i ever thought i had...
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""A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.""- GEN George S. Patton
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10-26-2006, 21:13
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Ft Campbell
Posts: 555
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The Reaper and lksteve ,thank for the warm welcome. TR I have'nt given up the ghost just yet, I'm working with a MSG from 20th group so i hope to be going in that direction soon. Oh I also want to find one of the selection books that i heard of.
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