Posted on 09/19/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT by Mo1
You're a Marine?!?!?!?
Yes...did I say I was promoted in 1999? I meant 1991. I retired in 1999! My last duty station was Camp Pendleton. I was with I MEF during the first Gulf war.
I see you are in AZ.. Are you in Yuma? I lived there twice...once from 76-77 when I was the PX Officer at MCAS and then again from 1980 to 1987.
Taco looked a lot like that 2 years ago when he had surgery for fibrosarcoma. Two years later he is doing fine!
Now if kitty would just let you groom her so she wouldn't have the knots in that long fur..she wouldn't end up looking like a poodle.
Wow. My brother was with the amphibious assault vehicles in Saudi in 1991. He helped liberate the Kuwaiti Airport... he was only in his early 20s. He was at 29 Palms then, now he's near Camp Pendleton. He retired about six years ago, but since then has been in the Reserves the whole time.
Outstanding.
To make full bird is something else.
Thank you.
He must have been with 7th MEB.
We are in Tucson, about three hours from Yuma. We go through there a few times each year. I love those sand dunes. Prior to moving here, I was stationed in Death Valley for five years with the Park Service. Going up to Ridgecrest/China Lake next month for a friend's retirement party from the Navy... haven't been there in so long.
Impressive - you even know which unit/division(?)! Well, I remember he had to lie in the trenches for eight months like a good Marine :) prior to seeing any action. Back then, the only cable news was CNN and Wolf Blitzer, and we'd watch every night in Death Valley. At least now we have a variety of news sources.
The day that war ended there was a most beautiful rainbow over all of Death Valley. We had put yellow ribbons on all the palm and mesquite trees all winter.
Well at the time I was the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-1 (personnel) and within the IMEF at that time were 7 major subordinate commands and the 7thMEB was one of them.
Oh yes I remember the CNN with Christiane Amenpour...and Wolf Blitzer and that other guy..whats his name..
We would be in the lounge at the end of the day watching it well into the night. I dubed it The Wide World of War ( sort of like the wide world of sports). We couldn't tear ourselves away.
I didn't go over.. our unit was deployed on a specific call from the CG over there. Basically they needed triger pullers not a lot of "heavies" ( meaning senior officers).
I won't even tell you what the causalty estimates were then. Remember we were afraid that Saddam was going to use chem warfare...
Oh, really? I always thought he retired then went back in, but I believe you (we speak another language at home and something must have gotten lost in the translation). At any rate, he went to PLC at UCLA and was planning to be a Marine his entire life. He was a Marine even in my mom's stomach! He was a Recruiting Officer at UCLA after 29 Palms. At some point, he was in Somalia; his lung collapsed there and he was evacuated to Germany. Then, he got married to a stewardess (I refuse to be pc and say flight attendant) - the marriage didn't last but she made him leave the Marines... and take a desk job. He was miserable, needless to say. The more action he sees, the better. He went to Afghanistan for about eight months right after 9/11.
It's just hard on us, and especially my parents... but we've always been ever so proud of him. Thank God, IMHO, people are more patriotic now too, so there is more support. During the Persian Gulf War, not that many seemed to care or understand. And, thank God I have you guys now.
That stinks what happened to you... :( Are you still in SoCal?
That's exactly how we were - I would go over to a neighbor's house and we would drink blue/pink/red thingies and could NOT tear ourselves away from CNN. Wolf just stood there in the vast wasteland with his mike. I think my brother was a 2nd Lieutenant then and we kept hoping for a glimpse.
Oh, that's right - I remember now and that is why we (my family) were in a chronic state of fear. The casualty estimates... We were a bit better for all his other assignments. He was bummed he didn't get to go to Iraq last year.
(I refuse to be pc and say flight attendant)
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Try on the term "Sky waitress."
Those are so great; thank you!
Oh, that's just wrong. LOL!
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