Posted on 03/08/2015 7:06:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That is an error in the article. My red passport is an "Official Passport."
Diplomatic passports have a black cover.
Another interesting tidbit. The photo in my Red Official Passport has me in uniform but wearing ‘Signal Corp Brass.’
When I went overseas the first time, I donned ‘Unassigned Brass.’
Being an old Army vet, you know what ASA stands for.
ASA Vet beat the draft the way many of us did. I beat it by about 3.5 years by enlisting in the Navy.
Thanks for your service and ASA’s service and all of our vets who enlisted or got drafted.
“I did end up in the Navy and on a 1959 Westpac Cruise my Mother had written the CO asking why the FBI were pounding on her door wondering why I hadn’t registered for the draft.
Made it ‘worse’ as I had a TS Clearance so there should have been some kind of ‘crossing the wires there’.”
BOL!
I was a CTI in the US Navy, a crypy linguist from 1980 - 1986. Worked a desk involved with Med/ME/NAfrican intell.
Made it ‘worse’ as I had a TS Clearance so there should have been some kind of ‘crossing the wires there’.”
BOL!
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To make matters even ‘worse’ they (FBI?) almost had to start my BI when I started Boot Camp as I went to school at Imperial Beach (CT’R’) and one needed a clearance to start it.
Hell, we may have to form an Old Vet's Armed and Dangerous Assault Brigade if this Obama crap gets any more anti-Constitutional.
We need to take our Country back!
“Let me remind you that Richard Nixon, Republican, was elected President in 1968.”
Pelly, Pelly, Pelly. You have to remember that Democrats play hard ball. In the late ‘60’s - 1970’s, the media, together with Bubba’s mentor Fulbright, Ted Kennedy and others savaged Nixon every day. Congress was controlled by Democrats and they had their way with the country. If Nixon got a bill passed, Congress would override Nixon. Remember, Pelly, those were the Watergate days, Nixon could do no right.
But, why tell you. Your mind is made up.
Perhaps you ought to remove your blinders and read some of the actual history of what happened back then.
Re your ctr clearance, were you one who never moved until you joined,and your parents lived in one place?
“But, why tell you. Your mind is made up.”
Good to see that high school wit is still popular. It never gets old.
“In the late ‘60’s - 1970’s, the media, together with Bubba’s mentor Fulbright, Ted Kennedy and others savaged Nixon every day. Congress was controlled by Democrats and they had their way with the country. “
And so we learn that you think that harsh words negated Nixon’s authority as Commander in Chief while he was President.
That’s an interesting albeit confused theory which at least explains your fantasy that the Democrats controlled the conduct of the war while Nixon was President.
But I’m sure that you must have a truly illuminating theory as to who exactly was the acting CIC from 1969 to 1974, since it evidently wasn’t Nixon.
Was it Speaker John McCormick? Carl Albert? Majority Leader Mike Mansfield? C’mon, inquiring minds want to know who was in charge! Don’t keep such valuable information to yourself!
“Perhaps you ought to remove your blinders and read some of the actual history of what happened back then.”
Don’t have to read it. I was alive and saw it occur in real time. I’m quite certain you didn’t.
Thanks!
Vietnam bookmark
Interesting about Diem’s assassination, the same month that JFK himself was killed, 3 weeks later.
Enlisted 68 as 22yo. 108thMI Newark.
The silent warriors of the team.
Re your ctr clearance
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NO NO NO.........<:
I always used to say my father was one skip ahead of the rent man.....I had amassed 18 DIFFERENT addresses by the time I was 17.
The Navy was the first ‘home’ I had.
(On my first cruise in late 57 or so got called into the CO’s Stateroom and he asked if I had any problems. I said ‘No Sir’ and he pulled out an envelope that had several checks in it.....I didn’t realize that in addition to feeding you, clothing you and giving you a job, that you also got paid.........(HA HA<: <:)
Guess the only saving grace was kept in a pretty close area around Southern Tier of NY (and a dip into CT) but the only constant being basically going to the same school from 1-9th grade (a Catholic HS++)
Sounds like some place a little closer to home, today.
“Hell, we may have to form an Old Vet’s Armed and Dangerous Assault Brigade if this Obama crap gets any more anti-Constitutional.”
We could get the membership list from the Obama administration’s potential domestic terrorist list.
“Hell, we may have to form an Old Vet’s Armed and Dangerous Assault Brigade if this Obama crap gets any more anti-Constitutional.”
‘We could get the membership list from the Obama administration’s potential domestic terrorist list.’
Without any great imagination, old vets posting on Free Republic are probably on some list in the 3 letter agencies, including some of us who were might have been semi affiliated with one or more of them.
My TS was a little different. From my 7th grade until after college my parents lived in the same town.
Apparently, when I went to college and worked out of state during the summers, after graduation from college and until I got married, my background check was like a black hole. I told them where I had lived but there was really not that much history outside of my hometown. The investigators could do police checks but there was no one in those areas, who knew or remembered me with the exception of a couple of professors.
I was informed about this in later years as newer/current background checks were run. By then I was married, a dad and a home owner with neighbors, no more black holes.
“My father was of the opinion that had Kennedy not been assassinated, we likely would have gotten no further involved.”
I was on active duty before and after Jack was killed.
Jack would have probably got us more involved without the stupid ROE’s that LBJ forced on our troops, Air Force and Navy.
Our Navy and Air Force if released to kill communist in North Nam and throughout Nam would have made their cities and infra structure look like Japan and Germany did after WW II. Then, our Army and Marine Warriors would done what they did in W WII, kill and destroy the enemy soldiers until they surrendered.
Remember how USN/UMSC used to ‘love’ us ‘Catholic School People’ as we were ready made for boot camp?
After the Nuns ‘working one over’ for 8 or so years Boot Camp was a breeze..<: and had figured out no matter how ‘hard’ they threatened you, chances are they wouldn’t kill you.
As to the BI and all the addresses, given the times, I imagine the ‘word’ from 8 yrs worth of Nuns probably carried more weight than neighbors.....plus never in one place long enough to make ‘real enemies/adverseries’.....
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