08-30-2004, 23:25
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Asset
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
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A salute to the Best.
You new guys in Group are the best. This country is
proud of you and what you are doing and have accomplished.
I consider it an honor to be on this forum, and wish you
all God speed and safety In Harms Way.
Feel a little introduction is in order. Joined SF in 1962
and remained in Group untill 1973 and my retirement.
Retired as an E8 and served in many assignments, such
as Instructor Commel Dept, 8th SFGA Panama, 5th SFGA
RVN, very short stays with the 3rd and 6th SFGA enroute to
a job with the Jumpmaster committee in IMA. Was NCOIC of
the Commel Dept prior to my retirement. Attended HALO in
1963 and O&I in 1970/71. Enough of this boring stuff. I
never met a man in SF that I did'nt like. Once again you
guys are the best and the cream of the crop. Honor,Duty,
Country.
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08-30-2004, 23:28
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Gun Pilot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa and New Mexico
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Patrick:
Welcome aboard.
Nice introduction.
Terry
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08-30-2004, 23:47
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
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Welcome aboard Patrick.
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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.
Still want to quit?
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08-31-2004, 03:27
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Central Florida
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Welcome to the board!
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"Are you listening or just waiting to talk?"
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing."
Optimus Prime
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08-31-2004, 05:52
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Thanks!
Uh Oh, another Oregonian!
Mr. Harsey!!
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
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08-31-2004, 06:45
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Williamston, SC
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Welcome!!
I must have been one of your students in '63. 
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08-31-2004, 07:11
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vermont
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Welcome aboard.
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Wenn einer von uns fallen sollt, der Andere steht für zwei.
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08-31-2004, 07:24
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Thank you Patrick and welcome aboard.
As a former 5th Gp SF soldier in the early eighties I like to think we were taught by the best, the SF Vietnam Vets!
TS
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08-31-2004, 07:38
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Williamston, SC
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TS: perhaps the operative word is "WERE". We were the best at what we did at that time. Times and missions change and the new troopers are the best at what they are doing now. Hell, I don't think I can even ride a foogin camel. 
I sometimes worry that today's recruits think that they are joining a pentathalon or orienteering team but I think the likes of The Reaper and the rest of the training committee dispel that rapidly.
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08-31-2004, 08:05
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets
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Good to have you here Patrick, Hope your chasing some chinooks down on the Rogue River. Bill
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