12-16-2008, 15:10
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NC
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MSG Richard (DicK) Reardon Gross
Born 12/16/1935
Died 12/23/1999
My Beloved Father, But never forgotten, for your deeds are well known with those that served with you and those that fought you.
On this day, I remember your memory with the fondness of my heart, your blood carries on in your sons and grandsons.
Rest now my father, for you have fought the good fight.
Bronze Star with 20 LC/V
7 Purple Hearts
MSM
ACM
GC
Parachute tester
Combat Halo Jump Wings
CIB
Master Parachutiset
Special Forces
Delta Force
RT California
"A" Det, Berlin
Once in lifetime
a light shines so bright,
so pure…That darkness is defeated in its presence.
Once in a lifetime
will an individual,
beyond all odds,
rise to meet the challenge.
Once in a lifetime
we will be given the opportunity
to honor them.
Let it not pass us by…
Let us shine brightly…
Once in a lifetime.
Let us help all to remember…
That within the human spirit lives the ability to rise up and overcome all odds…
if but once in a lifetime.
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12-16-2008, 15:16
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Quiet Professional
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I knew your Dad in the A/2/7th when he was a TM SGt. A pic of him demonstrating the STABO harness is in my RT Team Leaders Handbook. He was a damn good man. 
Richard's $.02 
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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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12-16-2008, 15:26
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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RIP, MSG Gross
Vaya con Dios
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Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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12-16-2008, 16:04
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Rest In Peace MSG Gross1
Thank You For Your Service!
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12-16-2008, 19:01
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Area Commander
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Rest in Peace MSG Gross.
SRGross I'm so very sorry for your loss...
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12-16-2008, 19:07
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Rest in Peace MSG.
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12-16-2008, 19:33
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Area Commander
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RIP, MSG Gross
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Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies. The Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield
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12-16-2008, 20:42
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Peace MSG
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LOYALTY - HONOR - INTEGRITY
Understand the problem; pull your weight. Appreciate. Be completely honest and trustworthy in all things. - Jeff Cooper
Practice honesty and integrity; rescue the man who has been wronged from the hands of his oppressor; do not exploit the stranger, the orphan, the widow; do no violence; shed no innocent blood in this place. Jer 22:3
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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12-16-2008, 23:30
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Rest in peace brother,
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12-17-2008, 07:01
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Condolences for your loss SR....RIP to your father.....
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12-17-2008, 08:48
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RIP, MSG Gross.
SRGross - thank you for honoring your father's memory here. Lest we forget...
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"I took a different route from most and came into Special Forces..." - Col. Nick Rowe
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12-17-2008, 10:23
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Area Commander
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In pace requiescat MSG Gross.
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti Amen.
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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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12-17-2008, 10:48
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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RIP,Warrior............ 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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12-17-2008, 15:54
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RIP, MSG Gross
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 Colonel Crealock speaking to Colour Sergeant reporting from Isandlwana, " One most remain calm during times of stress". From the movie Zulu Dawn
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12-17-2008, 16:48
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Area Commander
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Rest In Peace. Blue Skies MSG.
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