1 posted on
07/11/2006 4:56:36 PM PDT by
SandRat
To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
Now THAT'S family togetherness.
2 posted on
07/11/2006 4:57:15 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
Redstone and Huntsville are the very best.
3 posted on
07/11/2006 4:58:46 PM PDT by
MamaB
(mom to an Angel)
To: SandRat
4 posted on
07/11/2006 5:02:44 PM PDT by
A message
(We who care, Can Not Fail)
To: SandRat
5 posted on
07/11/2006 5:03:02 PM PDT by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: SandRat
6 posted on
07/11/2006 5:06:36 PM PDT by
proud_yank
(Truth to liberals is as useful as a snowblower in hell.)
To: SandRat
Two weeks away from her 40th birthday, she is now known as Pfc. Cindra Smith, a Soldier in C Company, 832nd Ordnance Battalion, 59th Ordnance Brigade, where she is attending AIT to become an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. Wow. She's going to be EOD, too.
My hat is off to her!
7 posted on
07/11/2006 5:07:35 PM PDT by
groover
(Alter ego of an alter ego.)
To: SandRat
Now that is a military mom..unlike another I could mention.
8 posted on
07/11/2006 5:10:08 PM PDT by
D1X1E
To: SandRat
While attempting to rappel off Victory Tower, a 65-foot obstacle, Smith fell and fractured her hip in five places.Ouch. But I thought Victory Tower was only 40 feet tall (well, at least at Ft. Jackson) ? Well, Benning is a tough place, as it should be. They say Basic Training will eliminate (or at least dampen) your fear of heights. I guess I will find out first hand.
9 posted on
07/11/2006 5:14:03 PM PDT by
tlj18
(Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
To: SandRat
Man, they used to call me "Grandpa" in basic and I was only 32!
A year later some Top was out to get me for unknown reasons. I had just transfered into that battery and didn't know him at all so I never knew why. But during the PT test he stopped the E7 who was counting my pushups halfway through. "Start him over! He's not doing it right." The E7 objected saying I was doing them better than the two E5's on either side of me, but the Top ordered him so the E7 apologized to me and started over. It was obvious the 1st Sergeant was on some kind of agenda.
Afterward the Top came over to tell me what kind of restrictions I was on for failing PT. Restricted to base, extra PT, etc. I waited for him to get through, then explained.
"But Sergeant, I still passed my PT Test. For my age it's less pushups. See the birthdate on my ID card?"
The purple faced NCO strode off angrily while the E7 barely kept himself from bursting into laughter. A few days later both of them transfered out.
10 posted on
07/11/2006 5:21:08 PM PDT by
\/\/ayne
(Give me Liberty or give me the ACLU)
To: SandRat
WOW! We need more women like this in the good ol' USA. They don't make 'em like this much anymore!
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