06-16-2009, 09:51
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RIP Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: The Ozarks
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I got a flash for 2/7 in '83 and retired out of 3/7 in '94.
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06-19-2009, 17:39
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Florida
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7th Group
I completed the 91B course and got my "S" April 18th, 1969 and reported to "B" company, 7th SFG, 1st SF (ABN) the next morning. Not much ceremony in those days. You got your flash and had it sewn on the beret you wore all through training. After all that, you had a real good shrink fit. There used to be a sign in our dispensary that reminded you on proper beret wear - always tilt it opposite the way your balls hang. After the mandatory re-enlistment "chat" I returned to civilian life in 1971.
Group C.O. Col. Shungle
Company SMJ Fred Davis
Team SMJ Frederick "Robby" Robinson.
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06-19-2009, 17:58
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
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Originally Posted by Erenagh
I completed the 91B course and got my "S" April 18th, 1969 and reported to "B" company, 7th SFG, 1st SF (ABN) the next morning. Not much ceremony in those days. You got your flash and had it sewn on the beret you wore all through training. After all that, you had a real good shrink fit. There used to be a sign in our dispensary that reminded you on proper beret wear - always tilt it opposite the way your balls hang. After the mandatory re-enlistment "chat" I returned to civilian life in 1971.
Group C.O. Col. Shungle
Company SMJ Fred Davis
Team SMJ Frederick "Robby" Robinson.
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Please post your intro as required for all new members here for your 1st post....
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06-23-2009, 17:49
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#214
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: WV
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Hi,served in A/2/7(ODA 744)18B
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08-04-2009, 10:03
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Quiet Professional
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Location: MA
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41 years and 7 months 
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40 years, 2 months
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09-22-2009, 09:24
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Location: Kenansville, NC
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40 years, 2 months
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31 years 4 months
744 1978-80
743 1980-84
1/1 SFG(A)Ft Lewis 1984-1985
MFF-SWC1985-1989
712 1989-91
B710 1991-92
My how time flies when you are having fun.
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09-22-2009, 10:42
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: USA
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ODA 742
ODA 742 12B4S, 80 -81, presently in Afghanistan with 20th as a 18C.
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10-20-2009, 13:27
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Potomac, Md
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Another 7th Grouper
Hey to all, I read the whole tread...damn what a memory walk.....Served on 725 (Mott Lake) 80-81, returned in 84-86 on "The Plantation"...does anyone really know who killed the SGM's pig?! Grenada MTT, now that was some money (well those of us who got it legal). Again as 1SG HHC, 92-94.......Ranger R's PT program for group HQ's......CSM's Rich T, Bob H, Mac (fondly refered to as "Sybil") and of course CSM..Bill R. S-3 SGM Leroy.....What a time during all of those assignments. thanks for the memories, CSM-H
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10-29-2009, 19:14
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
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Looking back ... and forward
You know, it's incredible, but I just took a look at my contributions to this thread (2 posts) and they were written months after I arrived for my first assignment at 7th SFG. It has been exactly six years since that day now (I got to 7th SFG on October 2003; my posts here were a few months later). I spent just four months shy of five years in Group and I'm just months away from returning (believe me, I dream of the day I walk back in with that red flash on my beret).
It's amazing! I feel so honored and fortunate to have served with such heroes on a daily basis and I'm just so excited to be afforded the opportunity to do so again. A lot has happened since I first walked into the B/3/7 ops room for assignment to a team. I traveled to some terrific places, conducted some challenging missions, went to combat and actually fought alongside the men. We saw men do some really heroic and amazing things and we also saw some men die. I helped recover our dead on the battlefield and experienced a total of nine memorial services at the FOB.
But, I look back and I feel so fortunate. In a way, being a Special Forces Soldier was nothing like I thought it would be - it was way better for it was a priviledge to serve with such elite men. Earlier today I was trying to rate all the fellow officers that served with me when I was a team leader and, later, an XO in combat. I was just thinking about them and I tried to figure out how they stacked-up. I could not rate them; they were all excellent officers and I brag about them when I can - they were amazing! I feel the same about the NCOs.
Before typing this thread, I went back and looked at the posts I wrote here six years ago. I was so different back then. I'm glad you guys put this forum together.
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10-31-2009, 20:08
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Fayettenam
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Currently in B/1/7
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11-06-2009, 22:07
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Monterey, CA
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Still kicking
Life is good
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11-06-2009, 22:19
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Location: Free Pineland
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Life is good
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Welcome back, hermano.
Doin' good stuff out there!
TR
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11-11-2009, 10:56
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Stayton, OR
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Where it began...
Assigned to ODA-725 (81-82 at The Lake) right out of SFQC.
Then 724 and 725 (82-83 - Smoke Bomb Hill) until I transferred to 3/1 SFGA (1983) when 1st SFGA at Fort Lewis was reactivated.
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01-24-2010, 11:14
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Location: Nashville
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Remember Korea well...
723 and 724 '75-79 Korea was a big item then for a while. We all smelled like Garlic....
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03-16-2010, 18:28
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Florida
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Here we go....
So who has more consecutive 7th Group Team time. I won't count the 83-85 time since its not consecutive. Sep 1987 to Sep 2000, 13 years. Any takers?
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