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Veterans, where did you serve?
Blowpipe Sam:
--- Quote from: JPSAXNC on October 30, 2024, 11:14:28 PM ---68-70 11th Armored Calvary Regiment E troop, Vietnam and Cambodia. It's to bad some stories can't be told.
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A couple of our NCO's in 5/1 Cav in the early eighties were 11th Armored veterans. You guys were our Heros.
If you ain't Cav. . . . . .
JPSAXNC:
--- Quote from: JPSAXNC on October 30, 2024, 11:14:28 PM ---68-70 11th Armored Calvary Regiment E troop, Vietnam and Cambodia. It's to bad some stories can't be told.
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I deeply regret some of the things I did, but none of the things I learned. I was medivac out to Japan for surgery with a smashed hand. I was in a BIG ward with guys that had missing legs and arms, I felt guilty because I only had a smashed hand. These guys were running back and forth in the ward playing tackle foot ball, on crutches and in wheel chairs. They took there meals in the ward. I went down stairs to a mess hall in another building to eat. You had to sign in on a ledger to enter the mess hall, a "big mess hall", my name was always the only name on the ledger.
NorCal David:
Thank you to all who served - especially to those who fought and sacrificed.
I had it easy being on an icebreaker. Worked at and above Thule Air Base in Greenland. The B-52 that crashed 7 miles from the base carrying four hydrogen bombs caused a radiation event. 56 years later, the VA sent us a letter saying we are entitled to VA healthcare due to radiation exposure. This was the first official notice about it. I wonder if that contributed to my cancer. The captain and chiefs would be around 100 years old or more now, so they missed out on the free benefits.
Also made two trips to Antartica, then search and rescue on a different ship. Enjoyed the sea and the work. Operated a commercial salmon trawler for a while after I got out. Life is good, no complaints. The chief bos’n would say, “Back when ships were wood and men were steel…” So I would do it all over again, the good and the not so good. It takes all of it to bring each of us to where we are now.
Be well, hold course, shoot straight, and do good.
Hoosier Daddy:
--- Quote from: NorCal David on April 02, 2025, 07:23:47 PM ---
Thank you to all who served - especially to those who fought and sacrificed.
I had it easy being on an icebreaker. Worked at and above Thule Air Base in Greenland. The B-52 that crashed 7 miles from the base carrying four hydrogen bombs caused a radiation event. 56 years later, the VA sent us a letter saying we are entitled to VA healthcare due to radiation exposure. This was the first official notice about it. I wonder if that contributed to my cancer. The captain and chiefs would be around 100 years old or more now, so they missed out on the free benefits.
Also made two trips to Antartica, then search and rescue on a different ship. Enjoyed the sea and the work. Operated a commercial salmon trawler for a while after I got out. Life is good, no complaints. The chief bos’n would say, “Back when ships were wood and men were steel…” So I would do it all over again, the good and the not so good. It takes all of it to bring each of us to where we are now.
Be well, hold course, shoot straight, and do good.
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Don't sell youself short!
Ice Breakers ain't easy!
My biological Father served On the "Steady Eddy" AGB-2 USS Edisto while my Mom , also in the Navy, was at Bethesda giving birth to me.
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