06-27-2005, 10:16
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Texas
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Good day everybody. I was told of this site from USParatroopers.org so I decided to check it out and I see some familiar names here. I am not a long tabber, so I will mostly lurk, but thank you for allowing me to be a guest in your home. I am a Paratrooper that served from '96-'02 before a jump injury cut my career short. I am currently finishing up my degree in Finance, and I can't wait to be done. University's drive me crazy with all the liberals running around there. My brother reports to 3rd Group tomorrow and I am quite happy for him to get the opportunity he has. I will pass this site on to him. Out.
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06-27-2005, 10:32
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Consigliere
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland (at last)
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Originally Posted by CAL
Good day everybody. I was told of this site from USParatroopers.org so I decided to check it out and I see some familiar names here. I am not a long tabber, so I will mostly lurk, but thank you for allowing me to be a guest in your home. I am a Paratrooper that served from '96-'02 before a jump injury cut my career short. I am currently finishing up my degree in Finance, and I can't wait to be done. University's drive me crazy with all the liberals running around there. My brother reports to 3rd Group tomorrow and I am quite happy for him to get the opportunity he has. I will pass this site on to him. Out.
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Welcome, CAL!
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06-27-2005, 14:35
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Florida
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Hello, Gentlemen
First off I would like to thank all of you for your service.
Second... great site!
I stumbled across it over at Socnet, & I'm glad I did.
For those of you from Socnet, it's good to see some familiar faces over here.
I do not post much there, & probably wont here either. I prefer to lurk, unless of course something jumps out at me & demands I put my .02 in.
Until then, I'm heading back to my cave...
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06-27-2005, 17:47
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Southern Puget Sound
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Welcome fellow Paratrooper, Cal.
bdmc, welcome to the site, glad to have you here.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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06-28-2005, 09:51
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Virginia
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Apolagies all, Lets try this again. So much for first impressions. 
Don't expect to hear from me much (if at all), I'm just here to poke about and maybe learn a thing or two. I'm a college student / Guardsman (29th Infantry), I plan on going active after graduation. Heard about the site off of armybasic.org.
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06-28-2005, 17:58
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Central Europe
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1st post
Hello to everybody, nice to join your community 
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06-28-2005, 18:47
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
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Originally Posted by Fonzy
Apolagies all, Lets try this again. So much for first impressions.
Don't expect to hear from me much (if at all), I'm just here to poke about and maybe learn a thing or two. I'm a college student / Guardsman (29th Infantry), I plan on going active after graduation. Heard about the site off of armybasic.org. |
GTG. Welcome to the board.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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06-29-2005, 14:10
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 12
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Good morning from the Land of Sand
Hello all, my name is Shawn. Currently serving in Iraq, as my convoy commander puts it, as a POAG REMF. Just a generator mechanic looking to fix generators. So, the Army being what the Army is, it was decided I would be more useful as a .50 gunner on a Gun Truck. To say the least, it has been an experience.
This war is not at all what I expected war to be; admittedly though, my view has been somewhat fostered by bad 80's movies such as Red Dawn and the Rambo series. (Although, they are fun to watch for some reason....)
I will not disgrace the memory of the fallen by attempting to understand what it is that you men have gone through and what it is you still go through daily. But as a soldier, and more importantly, as a citizen of the US, I wanted to thank you for doing what can conceivably be the hardest job I can fathom.
To leave behind family and familiarity to face the dangers of an everchanging world with the manner and professionalism you do, bears true credit to what it means to sacrifice.
I do not intend to try and feel what it is you feel, nor do I wish to second-guess your motivations for what you do. All I know is that when I go to sleep at night, when I think of my home and my life back in the States, I know who it is that I am thanking. I know upon whose shoulders most of that weight rides.
I am going to go out on a limb just once here, and that is to say that you are men who do not need thanks, but merely do what needs to be done. For that, there is no thanks that would be appropriate except to continue living the American way.
There was an article ( http://www.ipocministries.org/sheeps.htm) written that talked about Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs.
You are my favorite Sheepdogs.
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"The hardest thing I have ever done is shut my mouth and listened." - Me
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06-29-2005, 15:30
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Casper:
Thank YOU for your service.
You are doing your job every day for your country and your fellow soldiers, and that is enough. There is glory enough in doing your job to the best of your abilities.
I think that was one of the best Intros I have read here.
Welcome aboard.
TR
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06-29-2005, 16:20
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Castle Rock, CO
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To leave behind family and familiarity to face the dangers of an everchanging world with the manner and professionalism you do, bears true credit to what it means to sacrifice.
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you fall into that category...welcome and thanks...
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""A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.""- GEN George S. Patton
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06-29-2005, 16:42
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DFW Texas Area
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Originally Posted by Casper
Hello all, my name is Shawn. Currently serving in Iraq, as my convoy commander puts it, as a POAG REMF. Just a generator mechanic looking to fix generators. So, the Army being what the Army is, it was decided I would be more useful as a .50 gunner on a Gun Truck. To say the least, it has been an experience.
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From your Profile:
"I was doing a search for information about Special Forces training and information ."
Welcome aboard, the above sorta adds up to, you're looking at going SF?!?!
Well, all of the information that you could ever hope for is either in here, or available upon request.
Thank you for your service, Good Luck, and do take care !!
Later
Martin
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06-29-2005, 18:00
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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You are my favorite Sheepdogs.
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Welcome aboard Shawn.
Keep your eyes open and head clear while manning the .50.
Let me know when you return to Arizona, I'll buy you a beer.
Team Sergeant
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06-29-2005, 18:21
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets
Posts: 3,886
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Welcome aboard Casper,
Stay safe and Thank you for your service.
Bill
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06-29-2005, 18:37
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Welcome Casper. Listen to the TS, he knows things...
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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06-29-2005, 18:41
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Midwest
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Casper...heartfelt thanks for your service from a grateful civvie.  Stay safe and take good care. Welcome aboard!
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