Go Back   Professional Soldiers ® > And Some Gave All.... > In Memory Of

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-13-2020, 09:14   #1
Uman
Quiet Professional
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Texas
Posts: 286
SGM Richmond Nail

RIP

https://soldiersystems.net/2020/09/1...chmond-j-nail/


https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fa...&pid=196780676
Uman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-13-2020, 10:33   #2
cbtengr
Area Commander
 
cbtengr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,810
Rest in Peace SGM thank you for your service!
__________________
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
cbtengr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-13-2020, 16:29   #3
Badger52
Area Commander
 
Badger52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Western WI
Posts: 6,817
What a life lived that others should contemplate his example and what he's left behind.
RIP, Sergeant Major. Well done.
__________________
"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   Reply With Quote
Old 09-13-2020, 20:40   #4
PRB
Quiet Professional
 
PRB's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,221
SGM Richmond Nail was a hoot...and a damned fine soldier... he, and his unique kind, are missed.
PRB is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-13-2020, 22:40   #5
Roguish Lawyer
Consigliere
 
Roguish Lawyer's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland (at last)
Posts: 8,765
RIP DOL
Roguish Lawyer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2020, 09:43   #6
Dean Jarvis
Quiet Professional
 
Dean Jarvis's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Sandy, Utah
Posts: 214
I worked out at Camp MacKall for a short time when he was there. He had a small Chihuahua that was paralyzed and he made a harness with wheels on it so the little guy could get around. He was a good man and a professional. RIP
__________________
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like....victory!
Dean Jarvis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2020, 11:36   #7
SF_BHT
Quiet Professional
 
SF_BHT's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,627
Rest In Peace SGM. You will never be forgotten.
SF_BHT is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2020, 20:28   #8
doctom54
Quiet Professional
 
doctom54's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northwest AR
Posts: 489
Requiescat in pace SGM
__________________
"For exercise I recommend vigorous walking... and carrying a gun. The gun’s weight will increase the level of exercise and the possession of a gun on a walk produces real confidence."
Thomas Jefferson
doctom54 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-16-2020, 09:26   #9
Hacksaw
Quiet Professional
 
Hacksaw's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Virginia
Posts: 134
All I can say is Holy Fucking Shit this dude was awesome. I was a 19 year old super wannabe in 1986 at Phase 1, I failed out of landnav and was recycled by COL Potter (only 8 of us were recycled for some reason) and I ended up as slave labor at McCall rebuilding those old red tarpaper huts. This old one eyed guy would come into the huts during lunch with Nick Rowe (both in black pajamas and I had no idea who they were) and see who wanted to put money up on a chicken shit contest. You put a dollar up, wrote your name on a small piece of paper, put it in a small pen with a chicken, and whoever s name was shit on first got the pot of money. This was my intro to SF and it was SGM Nail's bad ass persona that inspired me to stop bitching about failing landnav and make it through the Q course eventually. I remember him pulling his eyeball out and talking about fucking fat girls he called roadhogs I think.
He was the example I used when I explained the kind of men that really created our Regiment. Very sad he passed but he is an example of a man that REALLY lived.
Hacksaw is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-16-2020, 17:54   #10
7624U
Quiet Professional
 
7624U's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,461
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hacksaw View Post
All I can say is Holy Fucking Shit this dude was awesome. I was a 19 year old super wannabe in 1986 at Phase 1, I failed out of landnav and was recycled by COL Potter (only 8 of us were recycled for some reason) and I ended up as slave labor at McCall rebuilding those old red tarpaper huts. This old one eyed guy would come into the huts during lunch with Nick Rowe (both in black pajamas and I had no idea who they were) and see who wanted to put money up on a chicken shit contest. You put a dollar up, wrote your name on a small piece of paper, put it in a small pen with a chicken, and whoever s name was shit on first got the pot of money. This was my intro to SF and it was SGM Nail's bad ass persona that inspired me to stop bitching about failing landnav and make it through the Q course eventually. I remember him pulling his eyeball out and talking about fucking fat girls he called roadhogs I think.
He was the example I used when I explained the kind of men that really created our Regiment. Very sad he passed but he is an example of a man that REALLY lived.
He had us make a huge pile of pine needles so he could cook his chicken under a can this was during SERE so we did not get any.

RIP SGM Nail
__________________
"Make sure your plan fits the terrain or you will be slurping mud puddles”

"Me"
7624U is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-16-2020, 18:16   #11
Razor
Quiet Professional
 
Razor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 4,509
Quote:
Originally Posted by 7624U View Post
He had us make a huge pile of pine needles so he could cook his chicken under a can...
I remember him showing us that technique (and us not getting any of the chicken) as well.
Razor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-16-2020, 23:23   #12
PSM
Area Commander
 
PSM's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cochise Co., AZ
Posts: 6,175
Rest in Peace, SGM Nail!

The stories of the men who knew and served with you are a tremendous tribute to you and a service to those of us who didn't.
__________________
"Hector Lives!"

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass

"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H.L. Mencken
PSM is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-17-2020, 07:13   #13
JJ_BPK
Quiet Professional
 
JJ_BPK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
Posts: 11,901
RIP SGM Nail!

Vaya con Dios
__________________
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh

"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
JJ_BPK is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-17-2020, 08:09   #14
Pete
Quiet Professional
 
Pete's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 13,080
The way he told the story of losing his eye was so dead pan everybody was like "Holy Shit".

RIP SGM
Pete is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-18-2020, 09:05   #15
mark46th
Quiet Professional
 
mark46th's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Orange, Ca.
Posts: 4,941
Rest in Peace SGM. He was one of my TAC's in Phase I in Feb 1971. He kept us on our toes.
mark46th is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump



All times are GMT -6. The time now is 15:30.



Copyright 2004-2022 by Professional Soldiers ®
Site Designed, Maintained, & Hosted by Hilliker Technologies