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To: usmcobra
While I tend to agree that a Presidential inaugural ball is an appropriate event for military personnel to attend in dress blues, the current AR670 requires retired officers wear the appropriate shoulder sleeve insignia on their left sleeve.

Failure to wear the authorized shoulder sleeve insignia today could be construed as a violation of AR670.

231 posted on 08/04/2006 11:49:16 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: mac_truck
You mean to tell me that they actually have a special patch that says in effect "don't salute me, I'm just a retired guy running around in an Army uniform pretending I'm still on active duty"?

Wouldn't it be easier to say when you're dead we'll bury you in your uniform for the rest of eternity, but you can't wear it one second before that time once you get out.
234 posted on 08/04/2006 12:04:03 PM PDT by usmcobra (Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
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To: mac_truck; stand watie
Be honest with me.....

You've read STAND's posts for years, even cataloged a mini autobiography of his claims,

Does the face match his writing style?

Is this the face of a full blooded native American of Cherokee decent?

or is this the picture of someone willing to be anything and say anything to get unearned respect?

From the short time I've bumped heads with him, he has been an overbearing oaf who demands all sorts ridiculous forms of respect, for example you cannot capitalize "STAND WATIE" since for some unknown reason never proved by STAND himself, it is disrespectful to capitalize any part of a Cherokee's name.

In all other matters STAND mysteriously has some aspect of his life that makes him an instant and irrefutable expert on everything from EOD to law enforcement to air conditioning, and yet he can barely use the Internet and depends on others to post pictures and links for him. And while he harps on me for not posting links to my opinions, he hasn't posted a single link in any of his last one hundred to two hundred posts or more.

And his behavior: charming one second then borderline psychotic the next, all the while saying he would willingly abandon and disown the country that granted him the authority of an Officer and a gentlemen in our armed forces, and he would break the very oath he swore to uphold with his life for the sake of a failed rebellion that disintegrated and the dead democrats that spawned it over a hundred and fourty years ago.

Can you imagine attending a Republican political function and standing next to STAND while he went on a little tirade about Lincoln and how the southern democrats was right. Why just saying "Lincoln was right" in front of him would be like whispering "nixon's the one" to Hunter S. Thompson and waiting for the drug ladened hormones to kick into hyperdrive.

236 posted on 08/04/2006 1:15:16 PM PDT by usmcobra (Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
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To: mac_truck
actually, once more (SIGH),. you express an OPINION which is just plain WRONG & about subjects of which you know ZILCH.

sleeve "patches" (of ANY sort, unless you want to call CHEVRONS "patches"-they are NOT "patches", but rather badges of RANK for Enlisted Members.)are NOT part of ARMY DRESS BLUES & NEVER have been.

you LOSE again, due to IGNORANCE.

free dixie,sw

241 posted on 08/04/2006 2:39:34 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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