08-06-2015, 08:33
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The ol "Gabe TM"
http://weaponsman.com/?p=11967
Blast from the past. Some of you ol FOGs may recognize some of these guys...
I knew all but two of them....the good ol days, check out the "staches"...lol
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08-06-2015, 09:05
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I've seen that clip before. Wish it was on YouTube when I was in high school. Very cool.
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08-06-2015, 15:00
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After my time. I did pull "Smoke Eater Detail" more than once....
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08-06-2015, 15:20
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One of the five in uniform. First is one was Game Day, second was Rehearsal. Both showing my best side.
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08-06-2015, 15:21
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After my time. I did pull "Smoke Eater Detail" more than once....
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Ok, well maybe "not that far" in the past...lol
But it seems like it to me... 
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08-07-2015, 01:14
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I'm certain that video's been posted on here once before.
Drank beer with a few of those guys. 
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08-07-2015, 07:50
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Does anyone know of a video of the full "start to finish" Gabriel Demonstration?
MR2, that looks exactly like my team would have looked in 1976.
[Hey, I may steal the photo :-)]
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08-07-2015, 08:31
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Does anyone know of a video of the full "start to finish" Gabriel Demonstration?
MR2, that looks exactly like my team would have looked in 1976.
[Hey, I may steal the photo :-)]
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Yeah, I was there in 83 don't recognize any of them. Lt's on a team? I never saw that. I'm guessing that was not mid 80's but late 70's or very early 80's.
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08-07-2015, 08:40
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My XO on A20 in the 46th Co was a 1Lt. We were pretty hard on him. This was in 1973. It wasn't uncommon to have a 1Lt as an XO. IIRC, Richard was a Detachment CDR as a 1LT.
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08-07-2015, 09:01
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I'd say '84. Notice the SF Tabs.
I knew about half the NCOs on that team. One of them, Ricky Ervin, came to us in B/1-7th as a CPL out of SFQC in '82 IIRC and was still there when I left in June '83, so it would have been after that time.
As for LTs in Group - they weren't plentiful, for sure, because branches at that time were telling them SF wasn't such a good idea, but two of us in 1-7th were prior service SF NCOs commissioned from OCS and Det Cdrs as 2LTs, and about 1/3 of our ODAs had 1LT XOs. Later, as a 1LT Det Cdr, I also had a recent SFOC 1LT grad as my Det XO for 4 months to prep him to take the ODA (a SCUBA det) prior to my moving to become the ODB XO for MAJ Jones.
Such were the times.
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08-07-2015, 09:20
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We had three or four LTs in A-1/7 in '83. The Company XO was one, he was waiting for his broke leg to heal so he could go BACK through the Q; he broke it on the Obstacle Course in Phase 1. 
We did the Gabe demo about two-three times in '83-'86.
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08-09-2015, 20:12
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I knew several of those guys. I'm certain it was made sometime during the first quarter of '84.
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08-10-2015, 05:54
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I think this article is written by our HOGNOSE??
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About Hognose
Former Special Forces 11B2S, later 18B, weapons man. (Also served in intelligence and operations jobs in SF).
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https://www.professionalsoldiers.com...mber.php?u=674
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08-10-2015, 07:39
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That was pretty cool. They should use something like that in a movie. 
I'm just wondering, how many cans of spray starch that young Capt. used on his BDUs?
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08-10-2015, 07:57
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That was pretty cool. They should use something like that in a movie.
I'm just wondering, how many cans of spray starch that young Capt. used on his BDUs? |
I can remember "struggling" to get into my 107's. The legs & arms were glued together with starch. And frequently, the cleaners would crush the buttons on the fly, which you didn't find out about until you "broke out" a new set..
Along with taper to fit, the starch uniform 107 was about the stupidest thing "someone" dreamed up..
LMAO
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