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To: neverdem
Brigadier General Vincent K. Brooks was my platoon leader in the 4.2" Mortar Platoon, Combat Support Company, 1/504 Inf, 82nd Airborne Division in 1981.

You had a BGEN as a mortar platoon leader, and he hasn't gotten a promotion since '81? He must have really pissed somebody off.

20 posted on 03/26/2007 10:04:05 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy
You had a BGEN as a mortar platoon leader, and he hasn't gotten a promotion since '81? He must have really pissed somebody off.

He was really, pretty good. How many LTs have you had that tried to teach you how to recognize Cassiopeia? I can't believe that I'm remembering this stuff. He had just graduated from the USMA at West Point before he was assigned to my platoon, IIRC.

21 posted on 03/26/2007 11:37:28 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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