Posted on 09/03/2004 12:39:28 PM PDT by pdxbandit
http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/jul2004/a072004a.html http://www.milehighcaf.org/leader.asp
http://biography.lotsofgoodbooks.com/us_bio-item_id-0826330134-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html
Affectionately know as "Top", was a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps. Top Shablack during his service was awarded the Silver Star with Valor, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Purple Heart just to name a few.
In Memory of Aviation Ordnanceman John Shablack: Affectionately know as "Top", was a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps. Top Shablack during his service was awarded the Silver Star with Valor, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Purple Heart just to name a few. Top served as a Chapter 22 Board of Director as Vice President of Chapter 22. Our Aviation Ordnanceman of the Quarter (AOQ) Program is named in Honor of Top Shablack.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq, July 20, 2004 — The 1st Infantry Division Commander, Maj. Gen. John R.S. Batiste, awarded the Silver Star medal with Valor, one of the highest military decorations, to Staff Sgt. Raymond Bittinger, an infantryman from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment and attached to the 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, according to 1st Infantry Division officials.
After jumping out of airplanes for four years, I decided it was time to try flying them. In the Army’s Warrant Officer Candidate program, the top ten percent of the initial training class are offered fixed wing training. I completed their fixed wing program and, after a transition course in the Dehaviland Otter at Ft. Ord California, in 1967, I was off to Viet Nam. I became the company’s standardization officer, flying direct support for our Green Berets in the delta. I flew over 1,100 hours that year, I was awarded 23 air medals with an oak leaf cluster, I was shot down once and awarded the Silver Star with valor. Upon completing my military obligation, I was hired by Continental Airlines in 1969.
An Accidental Soldier: Memoir of a Mestizo in Vietnam
Garcia's "tour of duty" ends when his squad is ambushed, two of his men die, and he is seriously wounded. Garcia tells us about the irony of receiving a Silver Star with Valor for his actions in that ambush. "I was given a Silver Star for failing to read an ambush. I was responsible for my squad members being wounded or killed because I failed to read that ambush. .... I was responsible for our walk into that mess and I was only trying to get us out. It was a mistake, not valor."
In the end Garcia throws his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnamese Cross of gallantry, and Purple heart on to the lawn of the White House. I witnessed a similar act in ...
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MSG Ricardo A. Garcia. Served 7th Cav, and later the Americal. Fought in The battle of the Ia Drang Valley with LTC Hal Moore. Richard earned a Silver Star with valor,was badly wounded there. Served three tours in Nam. He never really came home
That's it, YOU'RE GONE!!!
Re: pdxbandit
He's dead, Jim.
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Hmm your name is a term used by phone hackers when the raid a main switch or at least when the use to be able to.
Whats worse is that you take the Memory of John "Top" Shablack an outstanding Marine and Ordnanceman and use his outstanding actions during his service to validate what has been proven a lie... Shame on you.. I have forwarded the source you took this from and the link Back to the Avaition ordanacemen association home page and forward to the national chapter so they are aware that your are mis-using their informations. I happen to know the story of TOP as do all Navy and Marine Ordanacemen. How dare you use it for political purpose.
Thanks, Meek. Notify the pavers, I'll plant his sorry carcass when I get home tonight. (All my best plants are on my home PC!)
LOL!! Michael Moore's little sister??? :)
Yikes! Another one; buh-bye, troll!
Yeah, I found it on Google, "kitten with knife" and then I saw it.
Did you make that "Wake Up....To The Truth!" thing?
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