01-25-2005, 21:02
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I do. I had a PLatoon Sergeant that was one of them. He was an E7 and couldn't read or write. I did his resume for him to work in the Forestry Service when he retired. Good guy though.
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NDD and I had a Battalion CSM who I believe was one of the 100,000.
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01-25-2005, 21:08
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I do. I had a Platoon Sergeant that was one of them. He was an E7 and couldn't read or write. I did his resume for him to work in the Forestry Service when he retired. Good guy though.
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Interesting, so it did work, somewhat...
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01-25-2005, 21:10
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NDD and I had a Battalion CSM who I believe was one of the 100,000.
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That's funny, I think!
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01-25-2005, 21:19
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That's funny, I think!
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It wasn't when we were in the battalion.
We laughed at a lot of the stupid stuff he did, but were subjected to his poor judgement and decisions.
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01-25-2005, 21:41
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It wasn't when we were in the battalion.
We laughed at a lot of the stupid stuff he did, but were subjected to his poor judgement and decisions.
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Yup, and that poor judgment and decision making could have gotten someone killed!
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01-26-2005, 00:32
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Has anyone read Dereliction of Duty , by Col. H.R. McMaster, warrior and Ph.D., commander of 3rd ACR Brave Rifles (who became involved in the case of one of his soldiers whose "picture" appeared in a paper - on another thread here). It's on my reading list for hopefully this summer, and I believe it focuses on McNamara among other advisers in Pres. Johnson's administration.
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01-26-2005, 01:04
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Da fish
K, vsvo ....... A Yellow Tang...... a Flame Angel (which my wife at the time named flame .... ya don't want to know how she named the other fish. I can't enlarge the pic/avatar.... doesn't matter really, cause I just can't remember the names of the other two. BTW, is that a pic of your aquarium? And to think while in FL, I collected lil' fish for aquariums and shipped them north.
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01-26-2005, 01:14
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By the way..... to get this thread back on topic....... TR said it all........
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01-26-2005, 06:44
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I remember McNamara's 100,000 and believe I commanded a whole company of them at Fort Campbell. Just as we thought it couldn't get anywore we went thru the VOLAR craze where it was more important to give the soldier a desk, a rug, and a lamp for his barracks room than it was to provide the training and resources on how to fight. It took years to recover from this idiot's decisions.
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01-26-2005, 09:20
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K, vsvo ....... A Yellow Tang...... a Flame Angel (which my wife at the time named flame .... ya don't want to know how she named the other fish. I can't enlarge the pic/avatar.... doesn't matter really, cause I just can't remember the names of the other two. BTW, is that a pic of your aquarium? And to think while in FL, I collected lil' fish for aquariums and shipped them north.
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12B4S, sharp eyes! It's my little 45 gal. reef. There are 2 yellow tangs in there, one's angled a little bit in the pic. You got the flame angel, there's also a coral beauty angel and a maroon clown not in the pic. The little blue fish is a blue stripe neon goby. He's a cleaner fish, the tangs will pull up to him and line up and he'll comb over them picking/eating up the parasites growing on their skin.
That's pretty neat you used to harvest fish for aquariums, I read about your diving in the other thread. The ones I have are pretty common, I believe most of them are tank-raised at fish farms.
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01-26-2005, 11:54
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I remember McNamara's 100,000 and believe I commanded a whole company of them at Fort Campbell. Just as we thought it couldn't get anywore we went thru the VOLAR craze where it was more important to give the soldier a desk, a rug, and a lamp for his barracks room than it was to provide the training and resources on how to fight. It took years to recover from this idiot's decisions.
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Concur, couldn't agree more!!
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