11-12-2009, 12:05
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
Posts: 15,370
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Saluting American Valor
Interesting web-site.
With his Green Berets in a kill zone, he fired Javelin missiles that took out an Iraqi column
During an early April morning in 2003, not long after the start of the invasion of Iraq, the 22 Green Berets of the 3rd Special Forces and their Peshmerga (Kurdish) allies were surprised by the appearance of an Iraqi armored column.
http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/156
Hawaii Green Beret and his Special Forces team scored a key victory against the Taliban
From a ridge outside Tarin Kowt, capital of Oruzgan province, a nine-man U.S. Special Forces team, accompanied by a few dozen guerrillas and commanded by Capt. Jason Amerine, directed Navy F-18 air strikes against the approaching enemy convoy.
http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/308
His helicopter riddled with bullets, he completed multiple rescue missions in Afghanistan
Engulfed in the fury, Chief Warrant Officer Sean Laycox was determined to land his Chinook and insert Special Forces soldiers near a village where several high-value Taliban leaders were meeting.
http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/164
Richard's $.02
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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