Back in ancient times we kept the vehicles running with a driver inside to move it away from jumpers if required.
This seems to be happening a lot if SM is to be believed.
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This seems to be happening a lot if SM is to be believed.
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I was part of a drop zone detail to recover the air pallets and load them on a lowboy with my 10k back in '00 I think it was. The area in East Range where PLDC, DOL, and Air Assault school has a drop zone that we weren't told was also part of the land nav course with pickets as points. This was in Oahu near both Schofield and Wheeler. So I pointed it out and asked if I should remove them with my 10K, and was given the go ahead. Minutes later several C130's dropped a Bn down.
I cannot believe they gave the go ahead to drop on a field with still pickets in them, lol.
Oh yeah, now I remember everything. They dropped one of the pallets with all of their MRE's for their field problem down into one of the ravines. From the Bn commander on down into the deep we formed a line and got it all back up and had a wrecker brought in to recover the pallet.
It was only supposed to be me and my guy to ground guide me from supply company for the forklift, and an M870 for my 10k along with an M872 for the pallets being recovered from our transport company. Had to get our maintenance company to come out and recover the pallets so we could get them on the lowboy, heh. Was out there all day from what was supposed to be a few hours.
I cannot believe they gave the go ahead to drop on a field with still pickets in them, lol.
Oh yeah, now I remember everything. They dropped one of the pallets with all of their MRE's for their field problem down into one of the ravines. From the Bn commander on down into the deep we formed a line and got it all back up and had a wrecker brought in to recover the pallet.
It was only supposed to be me and my guy to ground guide me from supply company for the forklift, and an M870 for my 10k along with an M872 for the pallets being recovered from our transport company. Had to get our maintenance company to come out and recover the pallets so we could get them on the lowboy, heh. Was out there all day from what was supposed to be a few hours.
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This is why appeasement never works. Whether it's here on the site, in your schools, on the streets, in your national politics, or in international relations, the many have to stand up against the aggressive few.
Agreed. When on DRF 7/support cycle, as DZ medics, our FLAs were always ready to move.
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posting this just because of the shocking number of combat stripes on the CSM.
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Six and a half years? I can believe it. RCP for an E-9 is what, 32 years? Not checking my math here but Just Cause, GW1, Gothic Serpent, OEF, OIF, and the stuff afterwards in Syria and Iraq does add up.
I'm counting nine service stripes on his left sleeve, so that indicates 27-30 years of service so far. Close to a quarter of that downrange. Wow.
Didn't leave to run for senate?
I looked up his bio. He joined in Oct. '91 and his first deployment was to Somalia.
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I sometimes get jealous of all the things I never got to experience being single before getting married for like infinity.
My wife locked on to me after just three days after reporting to Fort Hood after reclassing from Ft Lee, lol.
My wife locked on to me after just three days after reporting to Fort Hood after reclassing from Ft Lee, lol.
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