03-05-2017, 11:54
|
#16
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 13,080
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by JJungle
Ivan W? 1960-1963 circa?
|
That's him Old as dirt and still kicking strong.
No, TS, not "that" Ivan.
|
|
Pete is offline
|
|
|
03-06-2017, 08:27
|
#17
|
|
Asset
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 6
|
Ivan
Got him. He's on the master roster.
800+ and counting from 1956-1990.
Can you get his permission and address for contact?
VR
Last edited by JJungle; 03-06-2017 at 08:30.
|
|
JJungle is offline
|
|
|
03-06-2017, 10:57
|
#18
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 13,080
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by JJungle
...Can you get his permission and address for contact?
VR
|
I'll ask him.
Might take a few days.
|
|
Pete is offline
|
|
|
03-06-2017, 17:32
|
#19
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Harmony Church
Posts: 2,634
|
Quote:
|
I met Pat Mac about a year and a half ago. Great guy.
|
Went through the SFQC with him and he's definitely a character.
Heard a story one time that MG Suddath visited Det - A in Berlin in the '80s and told them that their hair was too long.
Last edited by mojaveman; 03-10-2017 at 22:34.
|
|
mojaveman is offline
|
|
|
03-06-2017, 20:19
|
#20
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Western WI
Posts: 6,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mojaveman
Heard a story one time that MG Suddath visited Det-A in Berlin in the '80s and told them that their hair was too long.  |
LMAO - hell everyone at Andrews said that. But we didn't do that "disappear into the local populace" thing as neat as they did.
Just got my copy today (now to finish the depressing last couple hundred pages of Foote's civil war trilogy). I did cheat & look at the foreword, preface & pics. Nice cross-section in the photos.
__________________
"Civil Wars don't start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards."
The coin paid to enforce words on parchment is blood; tyrants will not be stopped with anything less dear. - QP Peregrino
|
|
Badger52 is offline
|
|
|
03-07-2017, 06:21
|
#21
|
|
Asset
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 6
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mojaveman
Went through the SFQC with him and he's definitely a character.
Heard a story one time that MG Suddath visited Det-A in Berlin in the '80s and told them that their hair was too long. |
Suddath was Commander of Berlin and got a very extensive briefing / dog & pony show from the Det before he went back to take over SF at Bragg.
Yes, he said the hair was too long but after the brief he appreciated what the unit and the men were all about.
DOL
|
|
JJungle is offline
|
|
|
03-07-2017, 06:23
|
#22
|
|
Asset
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 6
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger52
LMAO - hell everyone at Andrews said that. But we didn't do that "disappear into the local populace" thing as neat as they did.
Just got my copy today (now to finish the depressing last couple hundred pages of Foote's civil war trilogy). I did cheat & look at the foreword, preface & pics. Nice cross-section in the photos. |
Hope you enjoy it! Not everything made it through the censor's review but that's what they're there for I guess....
|
|
JJungle is offline
|
|
|
03-10-2017, 17:31
|
#23
|
|
Auxiliary
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Canada, when I have nowhere else to be.
Posts: 91
|
I'm also very much looking forward to reading this one, in part with the hopes that it ties in at points with material from other historical accounts (Bearden, Mitrokhin, etc.).
|
|
Maple Flag is offline
|
|
|
03-24-2017, 15:49
|
#24
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Western WI
Posts: 6,824
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by JJungle
Hope you enjoy it! Not everything made it through the censor's review but that's what they're there for I guess....
|
[Redacted], lol. Yes, all-in-all, it's easy to draw the context. 1/2 way through now and am thorougly enjoying what is, for my bookshelf, a balancing piece in SF history with its different theater emphasis, etc., along with the incredible time span covered. And, yeah, plenty of funny shit at no extra charge.
I actually remember thinking about them during the initial AyatollahAssaholah time - by then working a multi-point TTY circuit in the puzzle palace with some [Redacted OGOs]. Pouring another cup of coffee on what always turned out to be a 12 to 14-hour shift and thinking "bet there are some folks spun up right now no one's thinking about and they're not out at the Imbiss on Finckensteinallee." Buddy asked me where I went for a moment & what I was thinking about.
"Currywurst."
Solid read for anyone's bookshelf - 2x thumbs-up. Thanks for your efforts.
__________________
"Civil Wars don't start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards."
The coin paid to enforce words on parchment is blood; tyrants will not be stopped with anything less dear. - QP Peregrino
|
|
Badger52 is offline
|
|
|
04-01-2017, 13:55
|
#25
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NC
Posts: 135
|
I finished the book Thursday evening. It was a book that I would have to force myself to put down and get back to work or go to bed. It was a fantastic read and I was sad when I finished it. Should be a required reading for the 4th BNs.
__________________
“There’s only SF, there’s no SF equivalents. That’s idiocy. SEALs are not SF. MARSOC are not SF and SF are not SEALs. ... Those people who are throwing that [term] around certainly don’t understand what they’re talking about.”
|
|
Amato is offline
|
|
|
04-30-2017, 18:39
|
#26
|
|
Consigliere
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland (at last)
Posts: 8,767
|
I just finished the book. Really enjoyed it, particularly the section on COL Moroney. A real Quiet Professional, that man.
JJungle, welcome to the Board!
|
|
Roguish Lawyer is offline
|
|
|
05-03-2017, 05:23
|
#27
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Finland
Posts: 400
|
Got the book some weeks ago, only got started on it today.
Pretty good to read after just finishing
"The Secret War: Spies, Codes And Guerrillas, 1939–45" from Max Hastings
__________________
RECON - Always a step ahead
Last edited by Tuukka; 05-03-2017 at 11:10.
|
|
Tuukka is offline
|
|
|
06-26-2017, 15:06
|
#28
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Western WI
Posts: 6,824
|
__________________
"Civil Wars don't start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards."
The coin paid to enforce words on parchment is blood; tyrants will not be stopped with anything less dear. - QP Peregrino
|
|
Badger52 is offline
|
|
|
06-26-2017, 16:41
|
#29
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,222
|
Good article....glad the history isn't being lost...just talked to 'Ironman' the other day.
|
|
PRB is offline
|
|
|
07-05-2017, 20:02
|
#30
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: May 2011
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1,423
|
https://www.c-span.org/video/?429564...old-war-berlin
1 hour long C-SPAN video on DET-A Veteran James Stejskal, author of the book Special Forces Berlin.
I never thought I would ever put the words C-SPAN and exciting together in a single sentence. Haha.
Cheers for writing the book and providing even more context with the video presentation Mr Stejskal!
|
|
Flagg is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 10:16.
|
|
|
