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Old 02-03-2009, 07:44   #31
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If my killing can be time-deferred, I may take you up on that!
I don't know. . . the safe is pretty much full of heads!
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Old 02-03-2009, 08:14   #32
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He said he had "a rusted coffee can to piss into"
I wish I had that same luxury of staying dry... But then again my leg was the only warm part of my body at times, and with out that I would have been a lot colder.
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Old 02-03-2009, 11:14   #33
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SERE wasn't a part of the curriculum when I went through Training Group but we had to go through a 'training program' honchoed by Ike Camacho and Jesse Black down on Eglin somewhere prior to deploying to SEA. Never considered it to be 'torture' but it sure confirmed to me that I did not want to be a POW of the NVA/CT crowd.

NDD said it all about this guy.

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Old 02-03-2009, 12:07   #34
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Flashback
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I was sure that my captors, who wore Warsaw Pact-style uniforms and spoke with thick Slavic accents. . .

I wonder if this captor had
. . . a
. . . Beard.

Oh. . .
my . . .
Gawd!

NOOOO!!
Dozer,
I was in a store last year and swore to myself I saw HIM!!!! I turned around and went down a different aisle, to only bump into this fellow again. All I could think to do was automatically get lower then him and ensure I didn't stand over him. Flashbacks are a B!TCH some times.
My wife thought it was pretty comical at the time......
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"The Bearded one" I haven't heard that name in ages. Oh! The memories I have. Two things about Mrs. Morris (Prefix intentional) are apparent. One, he learned nothing in SERE and two he is a vagina.
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Old 02-05-2009, 08:42   #36
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"The Bearded one" I haven't heard that name in ages. Oh! The memories I have. Two things about Mrs. Morris (Prefix intentional) are apparent. One, he learned nothing in SERE and two he is a vagina.
Now that just gives vaginas a bad name.
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Old 02-05-2009, 09:50   #37
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he will, no doubt, end up as someones congressman......
OH? Is he from Minnesota?
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"The Bearded one" I haven't heard that name in ages. Oh! The memories I have. . . .
There I was, it was FOGGY, and dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
I was assigned to SWC DOT-D in the mid 80’s. It was great job, I met awesome folks, learned a lot about how the other side of the Army operated (TDA V. TOE) got to work on some interesting projects and meet awesome folks yadda, yadda; etc, etc.
One of the great things, then, was that every year you got to go and get “re-greened” – - Leave the Center and go do “something”. My first year, I scored the Canadian Jump Bivouac at Pettawawa, Ontario. The next year, I went to the Q-Course. When year three rolled around I had BIG expectations. (I was hoping for HALO.) (note to all: this is VOLUNTARY training.)

SEZ HE: “I have a great one for ya” . . . “it’s at FT Benjamin Harrison. . . That’s in Indianapolis . . . Where they hold the Big Race, . . . The Indianapolis 500? "
SEZ ME: “O . . . Kay. What’s the Course?”
SEZ HE: “It’s great. . . Cutting edge stuff. . . In a few years you will be SO happy to have this one. . . “
SEZ ME: “O . . . Kay. I was sorta, kinda, hoping for, you know, something like HALO?”
SEZ HE: “Ohhhh yeah, well . . . no slots available . . . sorry. BUT!!! This is a GREAT school and you will really like it.”
SEZ ME: “O . . . Kay. What is it?”
SEZ HE: “Computer school.”
SEZ ME: “O . . . No! No thanks, though. I have seen those guys in the basement. I don’t want to be like them. EVER. And, if I go to computer school, the Army will know about it and they will make do computer stuff. No thanks. Do ya got ANYthing else?”
SEZ HE: “Well, I do have SERE.”
SEZ ME: “I’ll take it.”
Without giving away too much, let me say the “S” part is interesting and really fun. The first “E” is really, really fun. The “R” part is not fun. The “R” part is so NOT fun in so MANY way that time seems to stop. After one particularly VERY NOT fun interrogation I was trying to get myself back together in my cell. My neighbor did what all good neighbors do, he messaged me. “HOW. . .R. . . U”.
I was in a very honest mood at the time, “B. . . A. . . D”.
He started with a long message that was very hard to keep up with. It was “AT . . . LEAST. . . U. . . R. . . NOT . . . IN . . . COMPUTER . . . SCHOOL.”
I started giggling. I couldn’t stop. So I earned another VERY NOT fun session.
But I did not care. Because, now, I just reminded myself where I wasn’t!
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After one particularly VERY NOT fun interrogation
You mean, after one particularly VERY NOT fun interview
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Old 02-05-2009, 14:14   #40
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You mean, after one particularly VERY NOT fun interview
oh . . . Oh . . . OH! right, yeah, we wuz just talkin'. . . sure
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SERE wasn't a part of the curriculum when I went through Training Group but we had to go through a 'training program' honchoed by Ike Camacho and Jesse Black down on Eglin somewhere prior to deploying to SEA. Never considered it to be 'torture' but it sure confirmed to me that I did not want to be a POW of the NVA/CT crowd.

NDD said it all about this guy.

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I did not go through SERE when I went through my Training Group either. But, I think NDD was right about this guy..................

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It was “AT . . . LEAST. . . U. . . R. . . NOT . . . IN . . . COMPUTER . . . SCHOOL.”
I started giggling. I couldn’t stop. So I earned another VERY NOT fun session.
But I did not care. Because, now, I just reminded myself where I wasn’t!
Sir, as I sit in a dark room, staring into the flickering blue light of a computer screen, wired up with a microphone and voice-to-text software, I will reflect on this.
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OH? Is he from Minnesota?
Well deserved. Ouch!
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Old 02-06-2009, 17:08   #44
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"The Bearded one" I haven't heard that name in ages. Oh! The memories I have. Two things about Mrs. Morris (Prefix intentional) are apparent. One, he learned nothing in SERE and two he is a vagina.
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OH? Is he from Minnesota?
OUCH! C'mon now!
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