Hello

Steve1/75 · 02-15-2005, 11:44

It’s been a while since I’ve been here or seen some of you so I just wanted to say,
“Hey There”

**Roguish Lawyer** · 02-15-2005, 11:48

Hey

Gypsy · 02-15-2005, 12:45

Hey Steve, tell us a story!

QRQ 30 · 02-15-2005, 13:04

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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer

Hey

Are you from NC/SC territory? Being originally from CA it took a long time for me to realize the signicance of "Hey".

I remembered back to a time I was in Scotland. A man kept asking me what the "tame" was. I didn't understand until he pointed to my watch. Lo and behold! he meant "Time". It was merely the Scotish brogue. There is a high concentration of Scots in SC/NC and the word "Hey" started out as a scotish brogue of saying the word "Hi!".
That's my story and I'm stickig to it being third generation Scot.

Steve1/75 · 02-15-2005, 13:16

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Originally Posted by Gypsy

Hey Steve, tell us a story!

About who?
Do you want it rated “G” or “XXX”?

**Pete** · 02-15-2005, 13:20

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Originally Posted by QRQ 30

Are you from NC/SC territory? Being originally from CA it took a long time for me to realize the signicance of "Hey"

A lot of people take that "Hey" the wrong way when a person is typing on the net.

As T. said for all you non-Carolina boys out there it's a soft "Hey Bob" as in "Hello Bob"

The only true Bar-B-Que is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Hush puppies and slaw on the side.

Have a good Carolina Day.

Pete

Gypsy · 02-15-2005, 13:21

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Originally Posted by Steve1/75

About who?
Do you want it rated “G” or “XXX”?

A funny "No sh**, there I was story" of course. Because of the professionalism here I'll leave the second question to your discretion.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 02-15-2005, 13:24

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Originally Posted by QRQ 30

Are you from NC/SC territory?

Nope. Born in Philly, raised in AZ and have lived in CA since 1986.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 02-15-2005, 13:28

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Originally Posted by Pete

The only true Bar-B-Que is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Hush puppies and slaw on the side.

Not sure it is the "only true" BBQ, but I had the chance to try this a while back and boy was it good!

vsvo · 02-15-2005, 14:08

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Originally Posted by Pete

The only true Bar-B-Que is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Hush puppies and slaw on the side.

I'll second that! Learned that a couple of years ago. Much better than the ketchup/brown sugar/molasses concoction that passes for "BBQ" around here.

Steve1/75 · 02-15-2005, 14:17

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Originally Posted by Gypsy

A funny "No sh**, there I was story" of course. Because of the professionalism here I'll leave the second question to your discretion.

Ok here’s a never told true story.
No shit there I was USMC S/S School 1985. We had a field exercise prier to graduating.
We were given this the night before and the mission would start the following night and end 12hrs later at day break.
The OpOrder highlights.
Obj. the 1000 meter tower at the KD ranges.
Us, 2 man Sniper team
STA Plts will be out there looking for you.
You will insert by truck at 123456 (Which gave us a 9km movement) but if the gate to the range was still locked you’ll be dropped off at 987654 (Which gave us a 2km movement) (Wheels turning on that point). At either drop off we’d have to go around a waterway inlet (Definite danger area surely the STA guys would be there).
So the plan just came to me like a bolt of lightning and at the time my Sniper buddy just looked at me with an “Oh shit” face.

To be continued got to work now.

PETE
It’s true
The only true Bar-B-Que is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Hush puppies and slaw on the side.
minus the hush puppies

**Roguish Lawyer** · 02-15-2005, 14:22

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Originally Posted by Steve1/75

minus the hush puppies

NO! The hush puppies are key.

**The Reaper** · 02-15-2005, 14:41

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Originally Posted by Pete

The only true Bar-B-Que is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Hush puppies and slaw on the side.

Have a good Carolina Day.

Pete

AMEN!

None of that catsup blasphemy from those non-believers in the West.

TR

Steve1/75 · 02-15-2005, 17:45

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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer

NO! The hush puppies are key.

Hush puppies are just nasty bread.

OK.
The plan was pretty strait forward and we didn’t have to give an OpOrder or anything so it went pretty much like “The gate must stay closed and we can’t hit the danger area”.
Mission day. We had our POVs there so at lunch I snuck out to the PX and bought a inflatable boat the kind for kids about 6’x3’ with plastic oars and a pump for $12 and on the way back I stopped by “The Gate” and put Shoe-Goo (The do everything stuff for Snipers) into the key hole. It was still locked so all was as planned. We load up in the trucks and go. At our drop off point the gate was still closed go figure. We get out all happy and started our mission. We were to cross the inlet at a wider point where the STA guys would hopefully not be, so we get to the crossing point with no contact but we’re both Rangers and almost S/Ss so we’re stealty no big deal. We breakout the pump and inflate the boat standing on this bank with only about a 500 meter crossing ahead of us at this point my Sniper buddy starts to express reservations about my idea (Basically cussing me up and down), at that point my mission changed from the tower to fucking with this guy as much as possible. So we put our rucks with not much in them in the middle and I start to see that the boat isn’t really as big as it appeared in the photos, he straddles the front and me in the back, now it looked really small (He was still cussing me). We start across the boat was barely out of the water at one point I remembering looking down and seeing water coming out of the boat into the inlet and my buddy was on a roll at this point. Just after we stared across a Civilian boat goes by with a spot light shining on the banks but they don’t see us, my buddy says “what are they doing?” (We were at Camp Lejeune and they had watch out for alligator’s signs on all the rivers and water but I never saw one, he was from WV. I was from Miami and I swam with them before so I really wasn’t all that concerned but knew he was) I said “They’re poaching alligators and if they see us they’ll probably shoot us”. He went ballistic on me and I was trying not to laugh. He was searching all over for gators form that point on. We get to the other side and deflate the boat while he kept telling me I was an idiot. We came up from behind the ranges and no one goes back there so it was the most god awful crap of bushes I ever been in and day break was coming up. We get about 200 meters from the target mounds and started to hear the crack of bullets over us, bad planning on the schools part a Battalion of Marines started using the ranges. We haul ass to the side of the range thinking we can’t get compromised from anyone and we get about 25 meters from the street in front of the ranges which we had to cross and there were Marines everywhere we sat there thinking now what, then a Company in formation goes by and we run out as they pass and get behind them like we belong, they go by the tower and we cut into the tree line. We make it to our shooting position over looking the tower thinking “I can’t believe we made it”. About 10 minutes later we get radioed “Mission over come in”. We were right by the school so we get there and ask if anyone got compromised, all negative then the instructors tell us it was all BS about the STA Plts. We all graduate and go home.
My Sniper buddy was in A1/75 with me and always brought up the boat thing. I got out and he went to the Super Friends, about 8 years later I was up at Bragg and saw him and the first thing out of his mouth was “I’ll never forgive you about that fucking boat idea”.

I had the boat in my attic and sent it to him after that. I’m sure he burnt it.

Gypsy · 02-15-2005, 18:18

LMAO now that's what I'm talking about, that's awesome Steve...almost better than an XXX rated.

I bet he saved that boat...you'll probably get it back for a present on your 75th birthday or something.

That BBQ pic is making me hungry...