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Buffalobob · 08-24-2006, 12:13

Well, Hello

Being feeble minded I just keep my one name everywhere I go so I don’t have to remember who I am on what forum. Buffalobob was the character on the old Howdy Dowdy Show. Back in about 1980 I drew a once in a lifetime buffalo hunting permit for the Henry Mountains of Utah. An interesting story for another day there but being as I first registered on a hunting forum and not many people ever get to hunt buffalo it was a good name for me. So that is why I am Buffalobob.

I grew up in north Alabama on a small farm. I went through ROTC at U of Alabama. I was the sole graduating class cadet to request Infantry Branch so it was then off to Ft Benning for IOBC and Jump School. Couldn’t get into Ranger school because it was full of the graduates from WestPoint so it was up to 10th SFG and ODA 32 as XO/ CO and then back down to Bragg for SFOC. While I was at Bragg in SFOC, 5th SFG was pulled out of RVN as the war started closing out. Suddenly being an SF officer was the safest job in the Army. To my best recollection, no one in my class was assigned to RVN. The only way to get to RVN was to volunteer for a transfer out of SF. So what had to be done was done and I and my friend wound up in the Americal both running Recon, he was it for 1/46 and I was it for 2/1.

I am recently retired from 30+ years of professional treehugging. My job was trying to clean up the rivers so they are fit for the fish to live in and clean up the air so it is fit to breathe. When I came back from RVN, I was pretty well convinced I wanted an job that had something to do with the outdoors and, in particular water, so environmental engineering graduate school was what I did with my G.I. Bill and money I had saved in RVN.

So that is how it was long ago and far away.

08-24-2006, 12:13	#1538
Buffalobob Quiet Professional Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Potomac River Posts: 925	Well, Hello Being feeble minded I just keep my one name everywhere I go so I don’t have to remember who I am on what forum. Buffalobob was the character on the old Howdy Dowdy Show. Back in about 1980 I drew a once in a lifetime buffalo hunting permit for the Henry Mountains of Utah. An interesting story for another day there but being as I first registered on a hunting forum and not many people ever get to hunt buffalo it was a good name for me. So that is why I am Buffalobob. I grew up in north Alabama on a small farm. I went through ROTC at U of Alabama. I was the sole graduating class cadet to request Infantry Branch so it was then off to Ft Benning for IOBC and Jump School. Couldn’t get into Ranger school because it was full of the graduates from WestPoint so it was up to 10th SFG and ODA 32 as XO/ CO and then back down to Bragg for SFOC. While I was at Bragg in SFOC, 5th SFG was pulled out of RVN as the war started closing out. Suddenly being an SF officer was the safest job in the Army. To my best recollection, no one in my class was assigned to RVN. The only way to get to RVN was to volunteer for a transfer out of SF. So what had to be done was done and I and my friend wound up in the Americal both running Recon, he was it for 1/46 and I was it for 2/1. I am recently retired from 30+ years of professional treehugging. My job was trying to clean up the rivers so they are fit for the fish to live in and clean up the air so it is fit to breathe. When I came back from RVN, I was pretty well convinced I wanted an job that had something to do with the outdoors and, in particular water, so environmental engineering graduate school was what I did with my G.I. Bill and money I had saved in RVN. So that is how it was long ago and far away.
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