04-19-2014, 16:50
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Area Commander
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Page/Lake Powell, Arizona
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239 years, today.
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05-01-2014, 18:48
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#1232
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Midwest
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Wow, that is good news Hopefully...best wishes to your Dad and your family.
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05-02-2014, 16:43
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: State of Jefferson
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Moved sheep to our new residence this morning. Got them in the trailer a couple minutes after I showed up. Learned a bunch and saved money in the process! Persistance pays off 
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05-09-2014, 17:29
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#1234
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: State of Jefferson
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Got 18 in by 10! Played a good round and had a good morning with my Dad!
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05-15-2014, 14:07
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 680
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Just got an email saying that my Bravo Company upper receiver group has shipped.
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I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere, than in any city on Earth. -Steve McQueen
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05-28-2014, 18:21
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
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Sitting on the bench outside the Pleasant Hill library over in Contra Costa County waiting for it to open this morning and I hear the unmistakable thrum of radial engines overhead. Looking up, I watch a B-17 fly over on a NW heading towards the nearby coast range. Five minutes go by and I hear radial engines again, this time from a B-25 heading in the same direction. Another 5 minutes and a B-24 flies over. I sat there for awhile hoping there would be a fighter escort coming over shortly, but no luck. Made my day.
Richard
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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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05-29-2014, 05:22
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Maryland
Posts: 450
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Going to Grandson's graduation today.
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05-29-2014, 14:38
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Area Commander
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cochise Co., AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Sitting on the bench outside the Pleasant Hill library over in Contra Costa County waiting for it to open this morning and I hear the unmistakable thrum of radial engines overhead. Looking up, I watch a B-17 fly over on a NW heading towards the nearby coast range. Five minutes go by and I hear radial engines again, this time from a B-25 heading in the same direction. Another 5 minutes and a B-24 flies over. I sat there for awhile hoping there would be a fighter escort coming over shortly, but no luck. Made my day.
Richard
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My wife and I were having a brew on the patio of the 94th Aero Squadron in Van Nuys when 2 B-25s taxied to the runway, ran up their engines, and took off one at a time. Beautiful sound! The ambiance of the 94th AS added to the experience.
Pat
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"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager
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05-29-2014, 17:43
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,693
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I was contacted to advise that my HHG's and Truck are departing FL my way......
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05-31-2014, 13:43
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Area Commander
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Carolina in the rainforest,4000' along the Eastern Cont. Div.
Posts: 1,427
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Upper Gunnison Valley Beyond Mt CB
Snow melt is raging with several rivers at flood stage. This part of the country is looking good...
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06-01-2014, 10:56
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Area Commander
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Carolina in the rainforest,4000' along the Eastern Cont. Div.
Posts: 1,427
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Quote:
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At this end water is gushing out of the ground and looks like there is more left.
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"It is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly...that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again." Sir Francis Younghusband
Essayons
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"In the school of the wilds,there is no graduation day"Horace Kephart
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06-06-2014, 19:22
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
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Enjoyed my lunch today while sitting at a picnic table under the port side wing of a C-124 Globemaster and looking at a C-47 named "Okie Dokie" painted in D-Day markings.
To the men of WW2 who established the legend and traditions of the US Paratooper which inspired so many of us to follow in their footsteps, "Airborne!"
Richard
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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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06-18-2014, 21:47
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Area Commander
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Page/Lake Powell, Arizona
Posts: 3,434
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Day 5 of vacation.
Only have to work 4 days (2 on either side of the 4th weekend) out of a 44 day stretch.
Half price Absolut at the grocery store.
and...I GOT CARDED!!!
Cashier said he had to ID anyone who "appeared to be under 30 years of age."
(Must not have noticed those six grey whiskers.)
Sigh...
This feeling will go away the next time my granddaughter asks for "Grampa Erik".
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Waiting for the perfect moment is a fruitless endeavor.
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06-19-2014, 06:36
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Sandy, Utah
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Sitting on the bench outside the Pleasant Hill library over in Contra Costa County waiting for it to open this morning and I hear the unmistakable thrum of radial engines overhead. Looking up, I watch a B-17 fly over on a NW heading towards the nearby coast range. Five minutes go by and I hear radial engines again, this time from a B-25 heading in the same direction. Another 5 minutes and a B-24 flies over. I sat there for awhile hoping there would be a fighter escort coming over shortly, but no luck. Made my day.
Richard
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I heard that sound a couple of weeks ago and new immediately what it was. I stepped out on the back deck, looked up and watched as a B-17 flew over. Couldn't help but smile.  I think those engines run on testosterone.
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