well, two years later, Cliff Strickland lost his life doing that...

i suspect you won your case...

Yeah, I know. But what a price for a soldier to needlessly pay to prove a point. Perhaps if I had been able to deck that clown and got court-martialed to bring it to the fore maybe Cliff would never had to pay for such idiocy. When I heard about that I got that sickening hollow feeling in my gut-just one of the many shadows that crop up from time to time.

Hmmmm, was that the Flintlock where all the rough terrain teams that I trained were put out by the MC-130s over sugar beet fields? :munchin

The other Col, I believe, was Col Ed Catulo (sp?) and was memoralized at The Fort by naming the Latrine after him, "Dead Ed's Head". :boohoo

Hmmm, that was a bit ago. I was stuck on "controller/grader" duty for an NG team that did very well. Even though they got screwed on jump in. Got hammered by the Rough terrain Teams in England for their jump in as they stated they were the only teams that DID NOT go in teh trees. I told them that the beets were rough enough. :D

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO ALL OF YOU 10th GROUPERS!!!!

Bad Tolz June 1982 - July 1985

The very best assignment I ever had to date.

C/3/10th ODA 332 73-75. I BC'd HIPSHOT on a different thread and we knew each other and others from the team house a long time ago. He is probably one of the few that I actually remembered although I meet an old Team SGT at an SFA national convention afew years back.

I knew Cliff - he came back to C/2 for a bit, then went back to 1 Bn, good guy.

i believe Cliff was with 3rd Battalion when the accident occured...he wasn't with 1st then...

Col M,
Wasn't it a year later when we Skyhooked Mark LaRochelle back to Skulthorpe? He was luckier than Cliff and made it only to be killed in a chopper crash a few years later.

Craig

Craig,
That was the incident I was talking about. When I found out that they had decided to hook out Mark, Duke Snider and I went to SOTFE and I went toe to toe with some LTC whose name escapes me now. The LTC made an effort to call for a couple of the brit MPs who where walking by when Duke grabbed me around my chest and hauled me off before I did what he wanted to do but realized that it was a no win situation. We made it out to the PZ and I went over all the equipment to make sure in my own mind that it was straight. I can still see Mark sailing over the treetops and not missing them by much when that bird snatched him. I quess the moral of the story is that SGMs often provide the adult supervision that officers tend to need from time to time:D

As I recall, Duke was the ONLY SOB in the company big enough to grab you around your chest and haul you off!;) :lifter

Craig

Dai-Ui I am old and my brain has lost elasticity, old names come back into my head, and I misplace them occasionally. Where's my walker?

right next to the tequila...

In the dumpster behind the Howl at the Moon, last time I saw it.:D

TR

based on when you attended jump school, you are at least five and maybe ten years younger than me...cherry...:p

Along with SGM C's walker, we left them there together, and TR why didn't you come out and play in Orlando?

Now, Sir, that's gonna leave a mark. Aren't you one of the DZO's that ran the Gardner Lake jumps? Gear up, Load UH1, jump, splash, swim to zodiac, drop chutes run zodiac chase, repeat as needed until all chutes in the rigger shed are wet, hang chutes, laugh that the riggers actually would have some work to do for the next week......


No love, no love at all!!!!

nope...never ran Gardner Lake...i did run some RT jumps on the short leg of Turner...gear up, load UH1, put guys in the trees, get them down, load them up again, repeat as necessary until chutes were pretty badly mangled, then go to the rigger shed, shake the shrubbery out and hand them off to the riggers...did that three or four times...

So that was you.
Thanks, Sir.
Really loved the "lets get bashed up by trees, and poke an eye out" jumps. Loads of fun, a zillion laughs. Really loved the prep for a great PLF while protecting your assets and making sure your elbows were tight to your sides with your chin tucked up tight to your chest..... and then realizing, after you finally get the chute out of the friggin trees that you have to run the length of Turner to make your next jump - just to do it all again. :eek:

Damn, I miss that shit!:D

:munchin I bet you don't miss the mosquitos there during those evening and night jumps. They drank more than some of the guys did at the Cinema Lounge in Leominster.

Those weren't just any mosquitos...they were Mosquitos on STEROIDS...

Satanic mosquitoes from Hell, the size of C130's.

until you've jumped on Husky DZ at Eielson AFB in Alaska, you ain't seen mosquitoes on steroids...some of those puppies have their own zip code...:eek:

if it was me, i was a SSG at the time...pre OCS days...:D

Robert
 

A Co, 2nd Batallion Team 213 from 82-84. The golf course was wonderful and it only cost $3 with equipment included for eighteen holes. (for my rank it was that cheap). Motorcycle accident leaving post drunk, and a lot of drinking at the Trojan club, A good time was had by all.

good memories
 

interested in talking with anyone who served 1963-1965. I was in company C, Lengries Kaserene, about 10Ks from Badtolz.

Mustang:

This is not the Introductions thread that you are looking for.

TR

interested in making contact with old team members, sfod 109 and 110, co. C Lengries Kaserne, when Col. Jerry Sage was Group Commander. Those were the days!

1982-1985 1-10th and USASOF(E)

I'm the moderately new echo on ODA 015.

Welcome to Germany. I´ll buy you a beer next time I´m up in Böblingen. My Grandmother still lives up there. ;)

Greetings
 

Greetings All: I am Joe US Army retired in NM. I grew up in a Special Forces Family in the 50s and went to the field as a teenager with FA-1, 10th GP. After jump school at Ft. Bragg (1961), I went to TNG GP and became a (911.73) SF Medic 91B4S29 Class 63-7. From there to E/7th SFG, A/3rd SFG, A/10th SFG MedOps and ran the Med Lab/Med Supply in Lenggries and Toelz. From there to Flight School and DS 46th SFCo. I later helped set up the High Altitude Winter Training Site at Eagle, CO for the 10th GP and flew for the HATS which I also helped organize. I retired in 1996 as a CW5 and was the First CW5 (not 180) in the 1st SF Regiment. See Ya.

Welcome Sir ! Bad Tölz has changed a little...

Mike
 

Thanks for the welcome (Danke fur das wilkommen). sorry but ich habe keine umlaute. Yes, I know all about the big changes at Flint Karserne, but I guess that's progress.
By the way mike-munich, I finished High School at Munich American High School.

Joe, gern geschehen ! Ja, ich weiss, amerikansiche Tastaturen haben keine Umlaute. Kein Problem ! :cool:

Munich American Highschool, the Mustangs ! The MP unit I worked with (218th MP) used to pick up the kids from there (after they had too much Augustiner Bier.... LOL).

As for Flint Kaserne. I didn´t need the progress there. I was OK the way it was until 1991...:(

Stay safe Sir !

Edit: Photo added

Mike

5th SFG 1990-1998, Yuma 1998-2001, 10th 2001-2003 and back in '05 after two years at SF Branch HRC. Glad to be onboard.

Welcome aboard! We'll chalk up your time in 5th as youthful indiscretion. ;)

Glad to see you on the forum, enjoy.

I'll go along with that...

10th Grp, 1986-92. Anyone remember LTC Calvert, 2nd Bn Cdr? I was in C-2-10.

Tom, you need to review the registration message, fill out your profile, and introduce yourself in the proper place.

I know Ron Calvert, and worked for him on Bragg.

Good man. Nice car, too.

TR

knew Ron Calvert when he was the SFD(A)E S3 and later the C-1-10 commander...when i left Toelz he was the Bn. XO...TR, did he still have that red Porsche Targa?

i was in C-2-10 thirty years ago myself...God, that hurts...:eek: