05-30-2008, 09:56
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BG Don Blackburn - RIP
RIP General (Former CO 77th SFGA). Click on below link for obit.
http://www.legacy.com/HeraldTribune/...onID=110564291
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05-30-2008, 10:18
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The Nation is poorer for his passing. RIP Sir
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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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05-30-2008, 10:22
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RIP General.
Thank you for your service.
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05-30-2008, 12:02
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Rest in Peace General you be sorely missed.....
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05-30-2008, 14:35
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Rest In Peace General Blackburn!
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05-30-2008, 15:19
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RIP
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05-30-2008, 15:29
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05-30-2008, 15:39
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RIP Sir.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Crip
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05-31-2008, 06:30
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BG (Ret) Blackburn
I heard BG Blackburn speak at the JFK Center in 1972. He was a contemporary of Charlie Norton who had also served as an Alamo Scout in the RPI during WW2. Blackburn was also the 1st Chief-SOG (with Bull Simons as his OPS-35 director) and also Special Assistant for Counter-Insurgency and Special Activities on the Joint Staff in 1970-71 and initial approving authority for the joint planning group's ("IVORY COAST") concept for "Operation Kingpin" (the Son Tay raid). He was a quiet but powerful speaker and--like COL Bank--rich with first hand antidotes about CI and UW ops.
Richard
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06-01-2008, 17:05
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In pace requiescat Sir.
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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11-04-2008, 12:20
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BG Donald Blackburn
FYI.
Brigadier General Don Blackburn, one of the early pioneers of the U.S. Army Special Forces, died this past May 24th at the age of 91 and will be buried at Arlington Cemetary on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. The Ft. Myers chapel service and burial ceremony will begin at 1100, with a reception to follow at 1245 at the Officers' Club in the Abrams Room.
I just received the newest edition of Veritas yesterday and there is an excellent article in it about Blackburn-- Donald D. Blackburn: World War ll Guerrilla Leader and Special Operations Plank Holder.
Some highlights:
At the outbreak of World War II, he was serving as an advisor to a battalion of the 12th Infantry, Philippine Army. Upon the fall of Bataan in April 1942, he evaded capture and until October 1945 conducted guerrilla warfare on the island of Luzon. During this latter period, he reorganized and commanded the 11th Infantry, Philippine Army, which was integrated in October 1945 as a regular unit in the Philippine military establishment.
In 1957, he was assigned to MAAG, Vietnam, and served as the senior advisor to the commanding general, 5th Military Region (Mekong Delta).
In October 1958, he was assigned as commanding officer, 77th Special Forces Group (now the 7th SFG) where he was instrumental in initiating Special Forces operations in Southeast, Asia. He served as deputy director of developments for special warfare, Office of the Chief of Research and Development from 1961-1964, and then was reassigned to the office, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations as director of special warfare. He was commander SOG (Studies and Observations Group) Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, from May 1965 to May 1966. He was the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activites in the Office of the SECDEF and was the 'architect' for IVORY COAST (Son Tay Raid).
He retired in 1979.
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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11-04-2008, 12:29
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Another Giant among men has left us. God be with his family.
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11-04-2008, 12:29
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RIP, General Blackburn
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11-04-2008, 12:37
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Rest In Peace Sir
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11-04-2008, 12:47
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Rest In Peace Sir
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