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Its on my list.

The reviews for this book have been across the board good.

You know I do realize that, Billy.

I have no idea if ours were handpicked or not. They could have been. Vol's at least I am pretty sure.

Now not that all were water walkers. But usually that...

"Dec 66 with 2/5 when it was beautiful, green terraced paddy's, really the place of angels, a few mortor rounds now and then but not too bad"

In June 1966 when we went up there for the first time...

"Did you kick that corksuckers ass Lynn?"

Hardly. Just a voice on the radio.

Now I am pretty sure the snake was just a harmless snake. But at the time who knew for sure?

But when I got back...

I was not a cheapskate. It was always at least a pack of smokes----it was the early days before the prices went up---later it may have been closer to a carton.

But I had in fact stopped going by...

Nothing but props for those crews.

But late one night we called for an extract----our ARVN scout had been bitten by a snake----and despite my best John Wayne cutting and sucking etc----I was not...

"Al, I guess you wingers being pizzed at us grunts was why you made us jump from a moving chopper 12 feet of the ground when we hit a hot LZ."

Ours was far from a hot LZ. But when we made the...

"Damn, I feel like a Doc now"

You know posing just so you can do short arm inspections is considered bad form among the real pecker checkers.

"God love ya. Nobody else would."

Surely you are not suggesting that those hookers were lying to me?

D----O---C---S

Yep I think you got it right

Good work for a Marine :-)

Has anyone actually been able to get this link to work?

I will suggest that one thread is educational. As many as you are posting is-----spam.

You signed a contract for a MOS or for one of three MOS?

What were the other 2?

Nothing to add just curious

I have only been to one full on BN reunion.

But there were 3 massive standing ovations at our dinner.

#1 The family members of our MOH awardees---all KIA

#2 The Corpsman

#3 A Marine made...

Billy, can't agree more.

And at the risk of having someone who cannot read all that well claim I am attacking the Wing-----we Reconners loved the Wing.

They saved my life and the life of my...

Hey quit being so sensitive.

You can mention using 3 of them but I can't mention we wore none? Sensitive sensitive.......overly so it appears.

There were plenty of times I would have loved a...

A flak jacket? I did see Marines wearing those from time to time. So I do know what they are.

And that is my entire experience with a flak jacket. Other than the fact that one hung unworn...

"I still have those tog tags or at least my son does now. I can assure you what is not on mine. What in fact was removed at my request from my old ones. And I was not the only one." Nor the first...

Billy, I have no doubt you saw exactly what you saw. But in truth you and I would not have been hanging out in the same hardback tent at night when back in the rear.

The tents were in fact...

And what else do I remember?

The patrol winding down and us tired really really tired from almost no real sleep within the past 5 days. A vision of-----food.

Food as in warm chow cooked by...

No expert on this. But 10% means money as far as I know. Somewhere around 120 USD a month. Maybe with back pay?

I have never heard of 10% or above not come with money.

But again its not an area...

Saying that "all" those catching crap while in a fighting hole are not believers is not the same as saying their are no believers in those holes.

There are plenty of both.

And that is the...

Asking what a firefight is like is like asking what sex is like. Well it sort of depends.

You know a 14 year old with a wandering finger vs a 30 year old in the middle of a wild group. Its all...

We operated in that exact area but in 1966. We were pretty much the first Marines to start patrolling in that area.

But the nature of our work was such that we could be in one place one week and...

And at least one of those drafted ended up running patrols on a USMC Recon team for 13 months.

A heck of a Marine

Why tell them anything?

Right now its all talk.

Join. Earn the title. Then tell them what you have done not what you are thinking of doing.

Talk really is quite cheap.