06-13-2005, 05:12
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I WOULD DO IT AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT
Damn!!! Time flies when you were having fun. Fifty years ago today I was at MEPPS Jacksonville, Fl. eating my last breakfast as a snot nose kid.
I think I would follow the same path that led me to SF.
BMT
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06-13-2005, 12:05
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Happy Anniversery Brother
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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.
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06-15-2006, 17:17
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I was first in the door at MEPS and the last to leave with an 11x ABN/Opt40 contract. I'll never forget the "duck walk" or the stack of papers I had to fill out. Something tells me this isn't the last I have seen of paper work. 
CONGRATS ON YOUR ANNIVERSERY! I guess this would be 51 years(been reading old forums).
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06-15-2006, 17:43
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06-15-2006, 17:47
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You young guys take good team pictures every year or so and write a few notes down on their backs. You'll be glad you did.
Pete
Edited to add Jump School in 74
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06-15-2006, 17:47
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Been 18 years since I went to Airborne School...damn you're old!
Congrats!
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06-15-2006, 17:50
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I WOULD DO IT AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT
WM is a newbie, jump school in '64.
BMT
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06-15-2006, 17:55
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WM is a newbie, jump school in '64.
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That's gonna leave a mark, LOL.
Another newbie here. Jump School in '79.
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06-15-2006, 18:47
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July of 80
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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.
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06-15-2006, 18:56
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+ however many that makes
ABN Aug 1980, SFQC Aug 1983 (start) now I feel like a youngster again!
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06-15-2006, 19:05
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Jump School 65, SFQC 67- x sf med, you should now feel like a pup!
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06-15-2006, 19:07
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Congrats on your 50+ years.
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06-15-2006, 19:13
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COL M - thank you Sir! I'll take the pup, and fold. Lets get a few of the real FNGs to post - because each of us went through the "last hard class"
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06-15-2006, 19:16
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COL M - thank you Sir! I'll take the pup, and fold. Lets get a few of the real FNGs to post - because each of us went through the "last hard class"
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That's true. They didn't give us a chute until jump five, or maybe that was we didn't see the chute until we finally opened our eyes during jump five 
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06-15-2006, 20:33
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jump school completed June '72,,,thirty years ago today, i was lost in Uwharrie during Phase I...i don't remember specifcally where i was lost at on this day thirty years ago, but i guarantee you i had, at best, a vague recollection of my whereabouts...
in 1964, i was a snot-nosed kid in West Berlin...
congratulations, BMT...
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