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Old 10-13-2007, 03:07   #1
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OSS vets give it one last shot
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=274853


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Old 10-13-2007, 05:13   #2
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OK BMT you had your chance

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=274853

From todays paper

BMT beat me bad, over in General News
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Old 10-13-2007, 05:40   #3
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Ahhh, shucks
I posted the link in the other spot - you beat me again.

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Old 10-13-2007, 06:40   #4
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Thanks for posting the article.
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Old 10-13-2007, 08:39   #5
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Thanks guys..........
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Old 10-13-2007, 08:43   #6
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I wonder if the OSS radio operators got a chance to see the new commo equipment?

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Old 10-13-2007, 08:55   #7
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Oh I'm certain that there was a static display somewhere..........They have probably seen so many by now, they must know some of the equipment better than some guys in the Q ................
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Old 10-14-2007, 13:38   #8
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You guys would have been jealous of all the stuff we laid out for them. TSE and up. They did not let us shoot the .50 for them so we blew the car up with a gas bomb.
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Old 10-14-2007, 13:48   #9
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From the last line of the article:
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It’s just unbelievable what’s available
If you ask me, what's more unbelievable was what those men were able to accomplish with what they had. Big time Thank You to QP past, present, and future!
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Old 10-25-2007, 04:54   #10
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Follow up article
Here is a second story on the OSS

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=275726

Fills in another little piece of the story.
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Old 10-28-2007, 06:25   #11
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Another on the subject
Here is another story in the fayetteville Observer about the OSS and the Special Operations Museum

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=276148
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