Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 I got on the plane to Ft Benning. Quite a ride. Lit’s of memories. Good and bad
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 Where did the years go? Ou sont les neiges d'antan...? More than one of us here pondering that one.....
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 I'm headed to FT Benning in December. Man, I haven't been there since 1997. I spent three summers there for basic training, AIT, and airborne school. It will be like returning to the scene of a crime.
Buckshot Bear Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 56 years ago I was still crapping in a diaper. (see I used an American 'word'......we call diapers nappies here....least you fella's can do is use the metric system)
Buckshot Bear Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 p.s you're the spittin' image of your Dad
Hashknife Cowboy Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 In my mind you are what is right with America! Thank you for serving.
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 56 years ago I got married. Thanks for your service, Bob, and may we never forget those that didn't come back.
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 You beat me in by two and a half months. You're right, lots of memories...
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 Bob Thank you for your service and sharing your experience. Looking at the aerial for the camp. Looks like bulldozers cleared the perimeter and built the wall. While doing that wasn't there a high risk for enemy attacks? Thanks Ike
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 26, 2022 Author Posted October 26, 2022 2 hours ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said: Bob Thank you for your service and sharing your experience. Looking at the aerial for the camp. Looks like bulldozers cleared the perimeter and built the wall. While doing that wasn't there a high risk for enemy attacks? Thanks Ike That’s why they call them “Combat” Engineers. But they are not hanging out there un protected. Before a firebase is put in, the infantry battalion will swoop down And secure the area. After any enemy resistance is suppressed, the headquarters, communications and artillery units will move in as the engineers push a perimeter berm up around the base. Then in a week or two, we do it all again.
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 16 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: 56 years ago I was still crapping in a diaper. (see I used an American 'word'......we call diapers nappies here....least you fella's can do is use the metric system) so you want us to go to the metric clock system? A day has 10 hours, an hour has 100 minutes, and a minute has 100 seconds. French used it for awhile in 1793
Buckshot Bear Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 22 minutes ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said: so you want us to go to the metric clock system? A day has 10 hours, an hour has 100 minutes, and a minute has 100 seconds. French used it for awhile in 1793 That must have been the reason around then that everyone got so p#ssed off they brought out the guillotine!
PowderRiverCowboy Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Funny how some dates seem to always come around 9 Years ago today was the last Time I left Kuwait on a combat Tour and 8 years ago I was clearing to start terminal leave on the 28th
watab kid Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 red g is right about that - more than one of us pondering that , 56 years ago seems like an eternity today , yet like yesterday in so many ways , \ive been here for 40 years , longer than ive ever been in any one place before , but 56 years ago i was starting a process of moving that put me in 14 different places in under 10 years , at one time i moved 7 times in three years , i got to thinking nothing would ever be permanent , i guess i proved that less than correct for now ,
Cholla Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Are those Garands or M14s? Those PBR cans look like punch tops. They are collectors items now.
Pat Riot Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 On 10/26/2022 at 2:31 AM, Buckshot Bear said: 56 years ago I was still crapping in a diaper. (see I used an American 'word'......we call diapers nappies here....least you fella's can do is use the metric system) So…what’s changed? Besides your nappies, I mean.
Pat Riot Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 UB, you have a great collection of photos there. I was 5 years old then. Thank you for your service.
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 On 10/26/2022 at 11:03 PM, Dumpre said: Grateful for your service, love the AK on the shirtless photo I have one just like that. .... You have a picture of a shirtless Uncle Bob holding an AK too ??? ......
Buckshot Bear Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 5 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: So…what’s changed? Besides your nappies, I mean. Got some pubic hair on my face.....besides that....not much else
Texas Jack Black Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Brings back many memories some good some not so much. Best Wishes Bob TJB
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 28, 2022 Posted October 28, 2022 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: ................................................. yes ............
Trailrider #896 Posted October 28, 2022 Posted October 28, 2022 Well, lessee... Fifty five years ago, my bride and I had been married about 6-1/2 months, and I was spending my spare time riding around Montana in a set of green jeans, in a blue truck, making sure the Strategic Alert light on the launch officers' (capsule drivers, we maintenance types called 'em) panels stayed green. Thanks to all of you who served!
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