01-07-2009, 16:45
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Guerrilla Chief
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SFC STEFEN SAMMONS
Just recieved this email from WV. It has since been confirmed through USASFC.
SFC Stefen Sammons from 2/19th SFG (A) passed away yesterday while at Camp Atterbury pending deployment.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Please keep SFC Sammons family in your thoughts and prayers.
We will inform you of Service arrangements as they come available
Ill post further details as I recieve them.
TM
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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01-07-2009, 16:47
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Quiet Professional
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Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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RIP, Vaya con Dios
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Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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01-07-2009, 16:51
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Quiet Professional
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RIP, hermano.
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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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01-07-2009, 16:51
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Quiet Professional
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Rest in Peace...
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01-07-2009, 17:42
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Peace.. my deepest sympathies to the family and friends.
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A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny ~ Aesops Fables; The Lamb and the Wolf
Am fear nach gleidh na h-airm san t-sith, cha bhi iad aige 'n am a' chogaidh
"He that keeps not his arms in time of peace will have none in time of war" Old Gaelic
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Thomas Paine
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01-07-2009, 21:08
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RIP
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There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
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01-08-2009, 00:46
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Quiet Professional
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Rest in Peace.
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"I took a different route from most and came into Special Forces..." - Col. Nick Rowe
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01-08-2009, 04:38
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Area Commander
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Rest in Peace SFC Sammons.
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01-08-2009, 07:02
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Area Commander
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Rest In Peace!
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01-08-2009, 09:28
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Area Commander
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Rest in Peace.
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Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies. The Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield
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01-08-2009, 09:31
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Auxiliary
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"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:13
RIP
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01-08-2009, 09:54
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Area Commander
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In pace requiescat SFC Sammons.
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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01-08-2009, 11:28
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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RIP,Warrior........... 
GB TFS
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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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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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01-08-2009, 12:09
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Rest in Peace my Brother !!
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01-08-2009, 13:01
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Guerrilla
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Rest in Peace SFC Sammons
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Is not this the fast that I have choosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Isaiah 58:6,7
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