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Sorry Marine -- You're Too Old
Smoke Signal (Vanity) Times | 10-3-01 | CHIEF negotiator

Posted on 10/03/2001 4:21:45 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator

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To: AppyPappy
Well...some of us have a problem with reality, the rest of us enjoy it. :-)
81 posted on 10/03/2001 6:31:43 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: timydnuc
Happy Birthday Ranger!!! Think we should flood Bush?
82 posted on 10/03/2001 6:35:14 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: beowolf
Cram it up your beo, wolfie.
83 posted on 10/03/2001 6:39:21 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: timydnuc
"yep, a medic..corpsmen"

SALUTE
to one of the unsung heros
84 posted on 10/03/2001 6:40:03 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: MissAmericanPie
We'll leave the army, navy, and air force behind, for your protection.
85 posted on 10/03/2001 6:42:45 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: COB1,LadyX
"I might have to call on you for help."

If I need help in spelling, I'll be calling you,lol
True Story: I met with the Flotilla Commander for 3 hours today and after the initila "interview" and before the "paperwork" he gives you what the Coast Guard Auxiliary is and is not. At one point he said "The Auxiliary is NOT a yacht club." I started laughing and when he looked at me I said "I know a bunch of people that can tell you I don't even know how to spell yacht." LOL
86 posted on 10/03/2001 6:47:36 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: timydnuc
"It's my birthday today."

Happy Birthday!
87 posted on 10/03/2001 6:49:23 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: CHIEF negotiator
Throw in a few very angry Boy Scouts and it's a deal.
88 posted on 10/03/2001 6:52:34 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: timydnuc
I salute you, sir.
I didn't get the eye injury on the battlefield.
I was between Korea and VietNam so I didn't see any combat.
I'm honored to associated with those of you that did.

I'd still like the chance to use the good eye looking through the sights of one of these:


89 posted on 10/03/2001 6:56:00 PM PDT by COB1
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To: D Joyce
Yep! There's a difference between GUNG-HO and stupid.
90 posted on 10/03/2001 6:56:27 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: COB1
Let's hear it for the M-1!!!!
91 posted on 10/03/2001 6:57:55 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: MissAmericanPie
LOL!...............deal
92 posted on 10/03/2001 7:00:20 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: Mr. Lucky
The sooner the brass to re-emphasizes the warrior tradition and restores a traditional uniform, ie: the one warn on VE Day, (OK, and does something about the girlie boot camp), the sooner we can all sleep better (and Osama can sleep eternally).

They can't. A soldier like that might just shoot the shit out of Dan Rather if they crawled up on a beach to Dan's lights and cameras...

93 posted on 10/03/2001 7:00:52 PM PDT by go star go
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To: SauronOfMordor
I wish it worked that way.
94 posted on 10/03/2001 7:07:33 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: Mr. Lucky
Maybe we'll see why you're named as you are. This isn't the time for that horseshit, old bean. Strongly suggest you put a cork in the Army vs. USMC drivel for the time being.
95 posted on 10/03/2001 7:08:27 PM PDT by Snickersnee
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To: CHIEF negotiator
"Let's hear it for the M-1!!!!"

THE most dependable shoulder weapon ever invented !!

96 posted on 10/03/2001 7:10:58 PM PDT by COB1
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To: CHIEF negotiator
How old is the limit? I got out last year after 10 1/2 - Im only 29 and am considering going back in.
97 posted on 10/03/2001 7:14:37 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks! No salute necessary, we did our jobs, and then some. We were no different from y'all, just the same. We just had a different job.

We didn't know it would effect us so much. That job, in combat, made me a doctor in later life. I didn't even want to be a doctor when I was in Nam. I'm very happy now, thank the Lord. The war that claimed lives also elevated the souls of the men that served there, and survived. The sheer courage that was needed to fight that war grew courage in the men that served. When I meet these men I am humbled by the responsibility that they bear on their shoulders daily. They are calm, and cool, and collected, but there is a slow boil in all of us. We are long to anger, but we short to meet out justice. We're the guys you just don't want to mess with. We are the guys that have a bad dream on occasion, we are the guys that live with that. We are a coiled spring, ready to go off. Now, they've given us a reason to "go off". You don't want to see what we are capable of. It's not nice, it's not even civilized.

If war is about breaking things and killing people (and it is), we are your best "hit man". We've been there, done that, and we're still trying to forgive ourselves for it. To do it again for the "right" cause would vindicate our souls. One more time before we die!

Note to the enemy: You have pissed off the wrong bunch of folks. Not just the American People, but a bunch of Nam Vets who are still ready to fight. May Allah have mercy on your miserable souls!

98 posted on 10/03/2001 7:15:52 PM PDT by timydnuc
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To: CHIEF negotiator
There is only one "p" in liposuction; why don't you use the extra one on the recruiter?
99 posted on 10/03/2001 7:18:25 PM PDT by Old Professer
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