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About haiki
Current City: Frankfort
Current State: Illinois
Gender: Male
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Occupation: retired
Interests Art: veterans advocate

I don't think he's intitled to...

I have to go with Doc on this one – two years after getting back from Viet Nam I swelled up in three joint (knee, hip & big toe) it hurt like hell and I couldn’t put pants over the knee or hip. That...

Every Marine is an infantryman first, the trade is secondary. I was a radio repairman with a tank platoon and our tank platoon (me included) supported operations with and without tanks.

Our platoon did a beach landing and the Navy told the the Tank Commander "Pop Kelly to disembark. He did and submerged the tank. Jerry Burrell, the driver, nearly drowned, later Jerry recounted the...

This thread took a direction that I had not anticipated – as threads often tend to do. So I placed the photo in “My Info” Picture gallery section under the title “My Brothers Photo” so it would...

My younger brother was a Navy Corpsman who saw action with a platoon providing security for a small village (I think he referred to the mission as CAG duty). My brother and I don’t see each other...

I have used the screen name Blues65 for quite a few years posting on various MOPAR hobby boards. Blues because at the time I was performing in bay area Blues bands. I learned to play guitar while in...

I never gave dying any thought until we went on our first combat mission; we were aboard the Gunston Hall. They took our platoon (out of our tanks) and flew us up to mountain top by helicopter to...

I went VA 30 years ago, interest rates were very high then ~17 % (if I remember correctly) I was glad seller paid it (he wasn’t). Don’t think that’s much of an advantage in this market.

I think...

Maybe Boot Camps different today, the first evening after being assigned to a platoon the drill instructor gathered everyone in the Quonset hut and asked “Who’s the toughest SOB in the hut. Almost...

I assume a CAR is the Combat Action award; I didn’t have one listed on my DD214 either. One of the guys in my platoon told me that the Combat Action award and two Presidential unit citations were...

I have the Marine's hymn as my ring tone, every time my phone rings everyone who hears it comes to attention and stands a little taller.

No question about it Manila,Philippines
When we pulled into port there was big city skyline. My buddy Jim Raney (Ontose Mechanic) and I went into the marketplace in the heart of
Manila looking for...