04-26-2008, 15:07
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That would be Preacher H? Please tell me that there was not two of them  |
The one and only. He would overhear NCOs talking about the behavior of other NCOs at the NCO Club or the Rod and Gun or wherever and write down what he'd heard in his ledger which he kept in his desk...then he'd bring these things up later when he was on a rant about something or if you were on the carpet for something totally unconnected. Everybody steered clear of him and he had little clue of what we were really doing.
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04-26-2008, 17:27
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How many know how he, "Preacher", got his "religion"? 
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04-26-2008, 19:32
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An acquaintance of mine from SOG for "Religion" on his dog tags had 'F-4 Phantom'...
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04-26-2008, 20:29
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Georg Scott, God rest his soul, was the most religious SF soldier that I ever met. He didn't wear it on his sleeve and try to proselytize but lived it through his actions.
Before we would infil on an FTX George would tell me, "Jim, I just talked to God and He said things were going to be all right." and everything did seemed to go like clockwork. Then when he didn't go with us to wherever, it was like a circus of maniacal clowns was following us around.
Other than Georg, a person's religion was something that was the last thing on anyones mind.
Like LBJ said to his Protestant constituency in the south to assuage their fears of voting for JFK, a Catholic, (paraphrased) "Nobody was asking him his religion when he was pulling your boys out of the Pacific."
But then again that is politics, the second oldest profession in the world and not much different than the oldest.
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04-26-2008, 21:10
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That said, on an A-Team you’d get more grief for your choice of beer then your religious preference.
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Or music...Dave Titsworth (RIP) was a classical music afficiando...he would play it pretty loud, if he made to his team room before the other guys...and would laugh like a hyena when the griped about his taste...
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04-26-2008, 22:54
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If you weren't a country music fan in Group, it was best to stay quiet...
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04-27-2008, 01:13
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I ask this as I am in a minority religion, Judaism...
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If you were a Taoist, Scientologist, Wikkan, etc. maybe I'd agree that.
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04-27-2008, 05:05
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"Jim, I just talked to God and He said things were going to be all right." .
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I had a radio operator at Ben Het that, on days we were not getting new bunkers dug by NVA rockets, would come up out of the commo room, stand on top of the TOC roof, spread his arms, look up into the heavens and shout, "Dad, thanks for another beautiful day". One day after he did that, he went back down into the commo room, sat his butt into his chair, started to hit the speed key when a short in the generator sent him careening across the commo room floor. I told him it was a lightning bolt
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04-27-2008, 05:47
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An acquaintance of mine from SOG for "Religion" on his dog tags had 'F-4 Phantom'...
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I used "TAC Air" on the religious preference line of my ID tags...until they made me replace it in OCS. I told them TAC Air always answered my prayers but they insisted it wasn't a recognized religious belief as listed in the regs. From then on I had "Christian."
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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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04-27-2008, 11:05
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LMMFAO!
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If you weren't a country music fan in Group, it was best to stay quiet...
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I used to go out to country & western; bars/clubs all the time! 
Stay safe.
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04-27-2008, 11:08
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I had Barbarian for years until the same complaint was made by a SGM, "not recognized religion".
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04-27-2008, 11:36
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My tags always said "no preference".
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04-27-2008, 13:21
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My second team sergeant had Druid on his.
Yes, you will take crap from your teammates over your religion, your age, your appearance, your physical abilities, your sexual preferences, and every other thing possible to try and annoy another person about, and you will do the same to them, because they are your brothers.
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04-27-2008, 15:41
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Before getting out in Sept '70 after 2 RVN tours, I got to spend 6 months in 7th group.
I remember CSM Hodge and a few of his rants about the "Big Ranger in the sky." Heard a couple stories about his "conversion."
Wierdest experience was all the young highly trained troops all revved up with nowhere to go due to SF withdrawing from RVN.
There was a Medic, real smart guy, who was a devout Mormon.
He announced during a barracks bull session that he would never kill another human.
Name was Dyrood or similar. Wierdest thing I ever heard.
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04-27-2008, 20:21
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Mike- You are exactly right about being all revved up. I was one of those young guys ready to kill a Commie for Christ. I finally ended up w/ 46th Co for 2 years but that was the closest I got to Vietnam...
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