04-05-2011, 11:20
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Quiet Professional
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LTG Jack Mackmull
LTG Jack Mackmull, former CG of SWC, 101st Abn, and XVIII Airborne Corps passed away Sunday AM.
BMT
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Don't mess with old farts...age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience.
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04-05-2011, 11:24
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior..................... 
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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04-05-2011, 11:33
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RIP, Big Mac!
You hadn't lived until your SCUBA Det was tasked to run a water DZ for the Big Mac and had to pull him into a Zodiac.  That was work! 
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“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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04-05-2011, 11:37
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Rest in Peace, LTG. Thank you for a lifetime of service and sacrifice. Your influence and professionalism can never be measured, but has had a profound effect on so many. You will ALWAYS be remembered and NEVER forgotten.
molon labe
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04-05-2011, 11:45
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RIP LTG
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04-05-2011, 11:46
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RIP LTG
RIP LTG
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04-06-2011, 03:12
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RIP Warrior, Vaya con Dios..
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"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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04-06-2011, 07:42
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Rest In Peace and Thank You
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"Men Wanted: for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” -Sir Ernest Shackleton
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” –Greek proverb
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04-06-2011, 07:48
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Rest in peace Sir.
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"Latine dictum, sit altum videtur" (What's said in latin always seems to be more interesting)
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04-06-2011, 19:55
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RIP LTG. Great man and thankful for having the oppurtunity to work for him, even for a short time. God Bless you Sir! Prayers out to family and friends.
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 Colonel Crealock speaking to Colour Sergeant reporting from Isandlwana, " One most remain calm during times of stress". From the movie Zulu Dawn
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04-06-2011, 20:15
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RIP, General.
Thank you for your service.
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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04-06-2011, 20:26
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Rest In Peace Sir!!
Thoughts and Prayers out to Family and fellow Brothers.
Martin
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04-12-2011, 09:21
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Area Commander
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Rest In God's Peace LTG.
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04-12-2011, 11:16
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RIP General, thank you for your service.
Blue skies and soft landings Sir!!
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"Berg Heil"
History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
COLONEL BULL SIMONS
Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
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04-12-2011, 11:51
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Rest in Peace General and thank you for your years of distinguished service.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
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