08-02-2010, 08:13
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Special Operations Forces - DOD 1984
For anyone interested in the state of SOF circa 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjtgqNfJSAg
The 5th SFG 'Gabriel Detachment' presentation will surely bring back memories for anyone who has ever been detailed for a Gabriel Demo - seeing a film of ol' Willy Chun and Ervin brought some good memories and a smile this morning. 
Richard
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08-02-2010, 11:13
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I love it when the one dude claims "... and I have a basic working knowledge of English."
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08-02-2010, 11:14
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I love it when the one dude claims "... and I have a basic working knowledge of English."
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You would have loved a 10th Group walk-on...
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08-02-2010, 12:23
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Lodge Bill?
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08-02-2010, 12:34
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Even way after that with all the guys who literally risked life and limb to escape from the former Ostblock oppression...and then you can add the follow-on Asian and Latino enlistees who continued to find their way into SF.
Richard 
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08-02-2010, 14:52
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Lodge Bill?
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And a Japanese orphan who was adopted by an American GI with a Polish surname, a Korean adoptee, a Russian immigrant, the child of Hungarian immigrants, a refugee from Belfast, a several of us from the Blue Ridge with a "working knowledge of English"...not to mention all the Pilgrims from New England with heavy accents...
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08-02-2010, 17:35
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Thanks for the post Richard.
It was nice seeing the old 5th Group flash again.
Regarding the Gabriel Team; I've drank a few beers with Soter, Deklemaker, Gregory, and McGuiness.
What memories...
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08-16-2010, 15:51
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Gabriel does bring back memories. I remember doing a couple of Smoke-eater details. We would wear civilian clothes, have a foreign weapon, sit at a fire and tell the tourists we were eating skunk.
That was a nice article in The Drop about James Gabriel.
Does anyone remember the deer faun named "Peanuts" the guys had as a pet? She would follow anyone who had coffee and doughnuts...
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01-25-2011, 15:28
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Foreigners...
I went to O&I in 1985 and sat next to a former Yugoslav with a nice STRONG accent. I spent a lot of time "translating" for him in the class. He was an SFC in 7th married to a Korean, as I recall he had a a challenging homelife LOL...
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02-17-2011, 09:20
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Richard- I just noticed you mentioned Willie Chun- Same as in the 46th Co?
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02-17-2011, 09:35
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Yep - same Willie.
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02-18-2011, 06:50
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Wow....that brought back some memories. Thanks Richard.
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02-18-2011, 12:41
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I love it when the one dude claims "... and I have a basic working knowledge of English."
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You wonder if he didn't just try to slip that one in!............
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02-18-2011, 13:16
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Lodge Bill?
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Not just the Lodge Bill but the menagerie of WW2 guys that were in the 77th Grp..... They had Carlson's Raiders,Darby's Rangers,1st Special Services Force,Merrill's Marauders,and on and on!.............. The reason we even had the opportunity to join them in 1956 was Colonel Banks didn't want all that experience to go to waste.......
What an experience for us 18 years olds.............
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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......
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03-20-2011, 02:00
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I saw my first Gabriel Demonstration while waiting to go out to Camp MacKall for Phase I. At the conclusion of the demo, it became obvious why we were there. We did the police call and picked up all the leaflets from the leaflet drop.
While on the Strat Recon Committee '84-'87, we had responsibility for the rappel tower demonstration. We usually got a female clerk to volunteer to ride the strecther.
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