06-30-2008, 19:46
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: NC
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Rest In Peace
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06-30-2008, 19:59
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#32
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona
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RIP and thank you SSG
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06-30-2008, 20:43
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Western Pennsylvania
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RIP SSG Hunsberger. Thank you for your selfless service.
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
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06-30-2008, 21:27
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,205
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Rest in Peace!
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
Neville Chamberlain
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06-30-2008, 22:16
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Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Delaware
Posts: 1,425
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In pace requiescat SSG Hunsberger.
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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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06-30-2008, 22:39
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Pineland, Northern Province
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God bless you and your young family brother......
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
Vannevar Bush
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06-30-2008, 23:03
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tampa
Posts: 42
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RIP, brother, my sincerest condolences.
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. . . This is another type of warfare; new in its intensity, ancient in its origin, warfare by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him.
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07-01-2008, 15:04
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Texas
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Rest in peace Travis. May your family someday find peace with your passing, and may pride in your service become a salve for their suffering. You are remembered in my house.
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El Diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo.
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07-01-2008, 15:47
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#39
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RIP
Rest in Peace Brother.
"Lo Que Sea, Cuando Sea, Donde Sea"
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07-02-2008, 10:27
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: NYC
Posts: 66
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Rest In Peace
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"The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectivness man has achieved" Norman Mailer
"Now go do PT" Surgicalcric
"You can cry, just don't quit" Andy Petranek
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07-02-2008, 10:42
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Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,478
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Rest In Peace SSG Hunsberger
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07-13-2008, 17:06
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Der Vaterland
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RIP
14 Jul 08
Memorial Service 1230hrs at JFK Chapel
Internment 1400 Sandhills Veterans' Cemetery
Fayetteville Observer 12 Jul 08
Travis K. Hunsberger, 24, of Fayetteville, died Friday, June 27, 2008, in Lamay, Afghanistan, after striking a pressure-plated improvised explosive device while on foot during combat reconnaissance patrol.
Services will be held at 12:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2008, in JFK Chapel on Fort Bragg, with Chaplain Scot McCosh, Pastor Paul Commons and Pastor D.L. Govan officiating. Burial will follow in Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery in Spring Lake.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 13, 2008, at Adcock Funeral Home in Spring Lake.
Travis enlisted in the U.S. Army four years ago and was on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. He was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha senior communications sergeant assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He volunteered for the Army in 2004 as a Special Forces candidate. In 2006, he earned the Green Beret.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal; Army Commendation Medal with “V” device; Purple Heart; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon; Army Service Ribbon, NATO Medal; Combat Infantryman Badge; Parachutist Badge; and the Special Forces Tab.
Travis is survived by his wife, Hannah Hunsberger; parents, Steve and Ronda Hunsberger; brother, Kyle Hunsberger; sister, Kelsey Hunsberger; and grandparents, Kenneth and Ruth Bemiller, and Kelly and Deanie Hunsberger.
Memorials may be made to the Travis Hunsberger Memorial Fund at Fayetteville Bible Chapel, 414 Country Club Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28301.
Services entrusted to Adcock Funeral Home of Spring Lake.
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07-16-2008, 18:46
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fayetteville, NC
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R.I.P.
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07-24-2008, 15:03
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
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R.I.P.
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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......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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07-24-2008, 17:29
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Pacific NW - Puget Sound
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RIP Brother
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De Oppresso Liber - RLTW
"To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife" -TE Lawrence.
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