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Last time at NTC 2002 w/ 278 ACR!!

4 yrs active spent at Ft.Bliss Tx and deserts of SWA............3rd ACR -- mos 19k
11 yrs. TNguard---missed shooting a tank------->target!!

Desert Shield-19k10
Desert Storm-19k20
TnGuard-19k30

Went last month to SRP to go back to Iraqi,they kicked me back cause of a bad knee....
Had to watch all the young soldiers I've trained for years
go off to liberate the people of Iraqi <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I pray for them alot......Trp F 2/278th ACR

"If you not Cav your not ......" Quoted to me by a fullbird
over a beer...........at Fort Knox.(Fiddlers Green)

Thanks to all Veterans <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" /> young and old

"....And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee,
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to fiddlers Green."

hahahaaa I remember picking up my CSM from that same place while I was his driver. Him and all of his buddies were yelling the same thing. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

I love that quote. Several years ago, an obviously agitated individual eyed me (white) and my girlfriend (black) as we were fueling up the Amigo, and he made a few disparaging comments to his friend. He had a big pickup truck, Dixie flags, and big lettering(*) "If you're not a redneck, you ain't ....something." As we were getting in the Amigo to go and he was still fueling, I pointed out to my girlfriend that using logic, his sign meant that all rednecks were ".....something."

The Amigo's not fast, so I got out quick and changed direction when we were out of sight. Discretion is the better part of valor, and cowardice is (sometimes) the best part of discretion, and running fast/hiding deep is the better part of cowardice.

I'd use even more coward....er, discretion in front of a full bird Col. bragging about his job. . <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />
I've been a private and scrubbed my toilets and am in no hurry to do it again!

(*) my disclaimer: I take no offense and have no problems with non-racist interest in Confederate lives and times, and the Jeff Foxworthy definition of Redneck (of which I've been accused myself as I drive around with spare parts and fluids in back). That's *not* what this person was advocating. (Added since I seem to get misunderstood so much and cause so much trouble.)