Veterans Day at AZB
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In 31 May 68 - Retired 1 Aug 90 (1SG, USA)
Strange when I think about that in 2 yrs I'll be retired for as long as I was in.
My son is pushing 18 yrs of service. I'm thankful that after 4 years with the 160th TF and frequent
trips to places he couldn't divulge he got promoted and transferred to a new job as an instructor
at Ft Rucker. Nice not to wonder where in the world he's at anymore.
Strange when I think about that in 2 yrs I'll be retired for as long as I was in.
My son is pushing 18 yrs of service. I'm thankful that after 4 years with the 160th TF and frequent
trips to places he couldn't divulge he got promoted and transferred to a new job as an instructor
at Ft Rucker. Nice not to wonder where in the world he's at anymore.
To all I served with and those yet to serve it was an honor.
Curt Bergeest
USMC 1984 - 1993
Sgt.
Curt Bergeest
USMC 1984 - 1993
Sgt.
Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans and pool players!
Sean F. Leinen
U.S. Navy Data Systems Technician
7 years active duty
USS Briscoe, DD-977
USS Coontz, DDG-40
"Line of Death", Gulf of Sidra (Libya), 1986, 1989
Muammar al-Gaddafi: "I dare you to cross the Line of Death!"
USS Briscoe: "OK!" (And did so three times, pushing the Line of Death from 200 miles from the Libyan coast, to the NATO-recognized 10 miles from the coast, taking out scores of enemy vessels that tried to intercept the USS Briscoe.)
Sean F. Leinen
U.S. Navy Data Systems Technician
7 years active duty
USS Briscoe, DD-977
USS Coontz, DDG-40
"Line of Death", Gulf of Sidra (Libya), 1986, 1989
Muammar al-Gaddafi: "I dare you to cross the Line of Death!"
USS Briscoe: "OK!" (And did so three times, pushing the Line of Death from 200 miles from the Libyan coast, to the NATO-recognized 10 miles from the coast, taking out scores of enemy vessels that tried to intercept the USS Briscoe.)
George Everett "Bud" Day(born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S.
service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. These are his words.
Here is his Medal of Honor profile: http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,MoH_George_Day,00.html
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I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.
After I returned in 1973...I published 2 books that dealt a lot
with "real torture" in Hanoi . Our make-believe president is
branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has
no idea what torture is.
As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond...
pistol whipped on the head....same event.. Couple of days later...
hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got
shot and recaptured. Shot was OK...what happened afterwards was not.
They marched me to Vinh...put me in the rope trick, trick...almost
pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a
little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot,
unbroken hand a pulp.
Next day hung me by the arms...rebroke my right wrist...wiped
out the nerves in my arms that control the hands....rolled my fingers
up into a ball. Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger.
So I started answering with some incredible lies.
Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.
Hanoi..on my knees....rope trick again. Beaten by a big fool.
Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.
Much kneeling--hands up at Zoo.
Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.
Several more kneeling events. I could see my knee bone thru
kneeling holes.
There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior
Officer of a large building because of escape...they started a mass
torture of all commanders.
I think it was July 7, 1969...they started beating me with a car fanbelt.
In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes...then stopped counting
because I never thought I would live thru it.
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent
part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees...
fan belting...cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke. opened up
both knee holes again. My fanny looked like hamburger...I could not
lie on my back.
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape...and
that my 2 room-mates knew about it.
The next day I denied the lie.
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of
the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October
1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe
president has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of
torturers...Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they
catch us...because that is what the U.S. does.
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks
that pouring a little water on some one's face, or hanging a pair of
women's pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE.. He is a meathead.
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron,
in jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States . Please pass
this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the
stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after
effect...is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ...
hurrah for the guy who poured the water. end quote
Being a Viet Nam Veteran myself and having known men who went through similar torture I agree 100% with Bud Day! My oldest son was in the Navy, a first responder on the USS Carl Vinson, and later they were deployed to Iraq. My youngest son just recently announced his decision to join the Marine Corp and will be leaving in February. Pray for our kids who serve this country with honor and don't ever forget them!
USAF Retired - 1966 to 1989
Please permit me "once again" to honor my friends and acquaintances who gave the ultimate sacrifice on this day of remembrance:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=2113509&postcount=108
Please permit me "once again" to honor my friends and acquaintances who gave the ultimate sacrifice on this day of remembrance:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=2113509&postcount=108
at the Evening Parade 8th & I at our 2010 reunion in August
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Happy Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day........ God Bless all the men & women pass & present who have served in our Military.
US Army 1974-76 and proud of it.
Happy Veterans Day........ God Bless all the men & women pass & present who have served in our Military.
US Army 1974-76 and proud of it.
~*A veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life wrote a blank check made payable to
'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor*~*
'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor*~*
Happy Veterans Day
1/10 Infantry, 4th Infantry Division.
I am very lucky I never had to serve in combat so I will say a very big thank you and salute to all my brothers that did. Without your bravery, America would not be the land of the free. Happy Veterans Day.
'Harmony Church' Georgia. 1986
1/10 Infantry, 4th Infantry Division.
I am very lucky I never had to serve in combat so I will say a very big thank you and salute to all my brothers that did. Without your bravery, America would not be the land of the free. Happy Veterans Day.
'Harmony Church' Georgia. 1986
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USN 3/69 - 7/77 EM1(SS)
Fall 69, briefly in Vietnam and served on the USS Constellation for a few months. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/026440.jpg
Much of my service was aboard the USS George Bancroft SSBN643.
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Fall 69, briefly in Vietnam and served on the USS Constellation for a few months. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/026440.jpg
Much of my service was aboard the USS George Bancroft SSBN643.
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I was sworn into the Marines and headed for bootcamp on my 17th birthday in 1962.
I don't know how to post pictures and I couldn't find any really good pictures anyway. All that I could find were:
Me peeling potatoes
Me scrubbing a garbage can
Me with my jaw wired closed
Me leaving the brig
Me in front of an A-6
IYAOYAS
Doug
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We miss you, Doug.
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U.S. Army Air defense Artillery 1984-1992
Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm
I can't believe I've been out almost 20 years. Time flies.
Hey Cyrex, One9Marine
First, let me also say thanks to the vets and to those still in military service to our country. God bless you!
Hey Cyrex, my brother...I, too, am an Army, 4th Infantry Division grunt. We were the 1st/22nd, "Regulars By God". What's the Harmony Church, GA location? Back in my old days the 4th Infantry Division was at Fort Carson. Colorado. Met my first rattlesnakes and Mexican burritos there. Still not sure which had the worst bite. :grin-square:
One9Marine; you mentioned that you were an 8th & I alum. For anyone who is not aware, The 8th & I is one of the most amazing outfits in all the military. They are stationed at the first Marine Barracks in Washington, DC at 8th Ave & I Street (or visa versa), hence, 8th & I. This is where the Commandant of the Marine Corp lives and is home to the US Marine Band as well as the US Marine's elite silent drill team. My oldest son was a member of a very successful silent drill team during his high school ROTC in SC, in fact, his group were the Southern US champions for his junior and senior years. He would always elude to the 8th & I drill team who were heros to these boys. My son went on to become a US Senate page for Senator Strom Thurmon (R-South Carolina) and at the end of that summer, when I drove down to DC to pick him up, he urged me to go with him to 8th & I's evening parade. We arrived, took our bleacher seats in the impeccable courtyard and soon we were being seranades by the Marine Corps Band (lots of wonderful patriotic Souza music). Then they left, it became real quiet like you can hear a pin drop (or better yet, as my old boot camp drill sergeant would say, "so quiet I can hear a mouse pissing on cotton" :grin
. Then the silent drill team comes marching out from an archway with such absolute precision wearing perfect uniforms, gleaming shoes, white gloves and their bayonette-fixed rifles. They file into formation and without a single spoken command, these guys proceed to put on a show that gave me goosebumps, and, truth be told, a tear in my eye. The one marine who is in charge goes down the line of soldiers in the role of inspector and what ensues is a precision drill like no other you can imagine. Suffice to say, rifles are spinning and flying high in the air, thrown behind backs, and no-look catches, all are part of the show.
Hey One9Marine; what role were you in at 8th & I?
Those guys were the sharpest of the sharp soldiers.
Then there were the grunts, the ground pounders. :wink:
I was a dual MOS 76Y30 small weapons repairman (up to 50 cal) & quartermaster supplyman. Nothing quite like being a 'procurement specialist' in an infantry unit. I ended up a supply sergeant. Was in '75 - '78.
Below is a photo from Tank Hill, Fort Jackson, SC where I was for basic training. You Army vets may remember some of the really fun boot camp songs such as: "This is my weapon, this is my gun, this is for killing, this is for fun". Ahhh, those were the days.
In the photo, I circled myself in red.
I've also included a picture of a nice medal the State of CT sent me a few weeks ago honoring vets.
Stay safe current soldiers, thanks to all who have served, and a big thank you to all who support our country's military members, past and present.
Best,
Brian kc
SGT, US Army long retired
First, let me also say thanks to the vets and to those still in military service to our country. God bless you!
Hey Cyrex, my brother...I, too, am an Army, 4th Infantry Division grunt. We were the 1st/22nd, "Regulars By God". What's the Harmony Church, GA location? Back in my old days the 4th Infantry Division was at Fort Carson. Colorado. Met my first rattlesnakes and Mexican burritos there. Still not sure which had the worst bite. :grin-square:
One9Marine; you mentioned that you were an 8th & I alum. For anyone who is not aware, The 8th & I is one of the most amazing outfits in all the military. They are stationed at the first Marine Barracks in Washington, DC at 8th Ave & I Street (or visa versa), hence, 8th & I. This is where the Commandant of the Marine Corp lives and is home to the US Marine Band as well as the US Marine's elite silent drill team. My oldest son was a member of a very successful silent drill team during his high school ROTC in SC, in fact, his group were the Southern US champions for his junior and senior years. He would always elude to the 8th & I drill team who were heros to these boys. My son went on to become a US Senate page for Senator Strom Thurmon (R-South Carolina) and at the end of that summer, when I drove down to DC to pick him up, he urged me to go with him to 8th & I's evening parade. We arrived, took our bleacher seats in the impeccable courtyard and soon we were being seranades by the Marine Corps Band (lots of wonderful patriotic Souza music). Then they left, it became real quiet like you can hear a pin drop (or better yet, as my old boot camp drill sergeant would say, "so quiet I can hear a mouse pissing on cotton" :grin
. Then the silent drill team comes marching out from an archway with such absolute precision wearing perfect uniforms, gleaming shoes, white gloves and their bayonette-fixed rifles. They file into formation and without a single spoken command, these guys proceed to put on a show that gave me goosebumps, and, truth be told, a tear in my eye. The one marine who is in charge goes down the line of soldiers in the role of inspector and what ensues is a precision drill like no other you can imagine. Suffice to say, rifles are spinning and flying high in the air, thrown behind backs, and no-look catches, all are part of the show. Hey One9Marine; what role were you in at 8th & I?
Those guys were the sharpest of the sharp soldiers.
Then there were the grunts, the ground pounders. :wink:
I was a dual MOS 76Y30 small weapons repairman (up to 50 cal) & quartermaster supplyman. Nothing quite like being a 'procurement specialist' in an infantry unit. I ended up a supply sergeant. Was in '75 - '78.
Below is a photo from Tank Hill, Fort Jackson, SC where I was for basic training. You Army vets may remember some of the really fun boot camp songs such as: "This is my weapon, this is my gun, this is for killing, this is for fun". Ahhh, those were the days.
In the photo, I circled myself in red.
I've also included a picture of a nice medal the State of CT sent me a few weeks ago honoring vets.
Stay safe current soldiers, thanks to all who have served, and a big thank you to all who support our country's military members, past and present.
Best,
Brian kc
SGT, US Army long retired
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