12-20-2010, 18:36
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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 Warrior, 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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12-20-2010, 18:45
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Gold Star Father
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Littleton, Colorado
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Rest in Peace, Sir. Thank you for your service, your sacrifice and your example. You will ALWAYS be missed and NEVER forgotten.
molon labe
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12-20-2010, 19:58
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Currently FT. Bragg
Posts: 622
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RIP thank you for all you have done
Prayers to family and friends
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There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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12-20-2010, 20:08
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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RIP, and thank you for your service, above and beyond the call of duty.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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12-21-2010, 01:32
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 243
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Melvin Biddle, MOH
Rest in Peace Mr. Biddle. Thank you very much for your service.
Sincerely,
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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." William Ernest Henley
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12-21-2010, 05:59
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,673
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Rest in Peace you service will always be cherished and remembered.
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12-21-2010, 07:35
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Occupied Pineland
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Rest in peace. Thank you for your service and the example you set for the rest of us.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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12-21-2010, 07:44
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Buckingham, Pa.
Posts: 1,746
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Rest in Peace. His Medal of Honor citation:
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He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy near Soy, Belgium, on 23 and 24 December 1944. Serving as lead scout during an attack to relieve the enemy-encircled town of Hotton, he aggressively penetrated a densely wooded area, advanced 400 yards until he came within range of intense enemy rifle fire, and within 20 yards of enemy positions killed 3 snipers with unerring marksmanship. Courageously continuing his advance an additional 200 yards, he discovered a hostile machinegun position and dispatched its 2 occupants. He then located the approximate position of a well-concealed enemy machinegun nest, and crawling forward threw hand grenades which killed two Germans and fatally wounded a third. After signaling his company to advance, he entered a determined line of enemy defense, coolly and deliberately shifted his position, and shot 3 more enemy soldiers. Undaunted by enemy fire, he crawled within 20 yards of a machinegun nest, tossed his last hand grenade into the position, and after the explosion charged the emplacement firing his rifle. When night fell, he scouted enemy positions alone for several hours and returned with valuable information which enabled our attacking infantry and armor to knock out 2 enemy tanks. At daybreak he again led the advance and, when flanking elements were pinned down by enemy fire, without hesitation made his way toward a hostile machinegun position and from a distance of 50 yards killed the crew and 2 supporting riflemen. The remainder of the enemy, finding themselves without automatic weapon support, fled panic stricken. Pfc. Biddle's intrepid courage and superb daring during his 20-hour action enabled his battalion to break the enemy grasp on Hotton with a minimum of casualties.
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12-21-2010, 09:05
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Currently FT. Bragg
Posts: 622
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Thanks for posting the citation..Truly amazing.
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Originally Posted by rubberneck
Rest in Peace. His Medal of Honor citation:
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There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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12-21-2010, 09:15
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Pineland, Northern Province
Posts: 600
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Originally Posted by Jgood
Thanks for posting the citation..Truly amazing.
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Agreed,
Rest in Peace Melvin Biddle. God bless you and your family....jd
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
Vannevar Bush
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12-21-2010, 12:46
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 419
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RIP Warrior
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Sometimes you must do dark things to get to the light. "unknown"
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12-21-2010, 12:52
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
Posts: 6,922
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God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior........... 
Big Teddy
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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....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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