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To: Beave Meister

Hey this guy graduated from West Point, was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne and was the CEO of P&G! One could give him a pass on saying he was “Special Forces”.


34 posted on 02/24/2015 8:50:51 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: kenmcg
Yeah, no kidding.

The Eighty Deuce- was the tip of the spear of the Rapid Deployment Force, which was established after the Iranians stormed our embassy in Tehran. Not to mention the grand history of the unit. I was at Ft Bragg, in 1983, when Operation Urgent Fury went down. I was attending tryouts for the USAPT. We were about a quarter mile from the end of Pope AFB. Cattle trucks and C-5's thundered in and out of the base for a solid 12 hours.

The U.S. Army's Rapid Deployment Force (1st, 2nd Ranger Battalions and 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers), U.S. Marines, U.S. Army Delta Force, and U.S. Navy SEALs and other combined forces constituted the 7,600 troops from the United States.

That's some pretty good company right there.

FU- scum gotcha' media!

36 posted on 02/24/2015 9:29:29 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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