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This is an Old Sarge update.

Ping all who needs to know.

Just got a phone call from my Dad, he got an e-mail from the Old Sarge. I am posting snips from it, leaving out thing that may not need be repeated on the Internet.

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> Hi, Dad...
>
> My day typically starts at 0400 as well... gives me a chance to get to an
> open computer and do the email and Free Republic, before chow at 0530 and
> on to duty at 0600.
>
> I do a 12-hour shift, then back to the barracks. The bicycle I found
> helps out - I just need to do a lot of work on it. The brakes are fine,
> but the seat is a killer, and the chains and gears aren't the best. It's
> powerful exercise in 110+ heat.

snip.........

> The work is interesting, and it's important,..............
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>they can't
> hide from me. We've never fought a war like this, with eyes all over the
> place - nothing escapes us.

snip...

> I'm right in the thick of things, in the belly of the beast, and I
> couldn't be happier. This is what I've lived for, to fight a battle
> alongside troops like these.
>
> Boxes and packages keep pouring in from the Canteen people. The guys I
> live with don't know what to make of it, they're just happy to see boxes
> marked, "For Sarge's Kids". And they tear into them like locusts. They
> sent carpenter's stuff, books, some food, and goodies that don't spoil in
> the heat. What an operation they dreamed up.
>
> Time for chow, and for work. I'll write again later. And, wanna know
> something, Dad? I like the late-night chats, too.

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When Dad can't sleep, he e-mail's Old Sarge. Dad just joined FR. Look for Skyrader. Those are the air craft he worked on on the USS Essex during the Korean War. Dad tells stories about night watch in SD, CA. And what it was like aboard ship on night watch. With the ship pitching back and forth, the tie downs of the air craft had to be maintained.

If there is any Navy out there that knows VC-35 - VAAW35, ping up Skyraider. In his 70's, he's salty at the PC but can get around.

Well, that's all I have. Old Sarge is busy, but the Canteen folks make him AND THE SERVICE PEOPLE HE IS WITH, feel right at home.

Long live our FreeRepublic.

WUAV