Army Memories

[scmhogg]

Early Saturday morning, I heard a voice that I had not heard for 45 years. A comrade from my days in the 101st Airborne. He worked with me, computing triangulation surveys, using seven place logarithms, and a pencil.

My friend stayed in the Army for 33 years. He went from Private to Full Bird Colonel.

He sent me a pic of the two of us on the mess hall steps in 1962.



I'm the one in khakis. Look at those jump boots!

Any of you brave enough to show pics of yourself when you were young?

Steve

[Pappy]

Any of you brave enough to show pics of yourself when you were young?

Steve

I would, but those precamera stone engravings are too hard to get on the scanner!

[Uncle Cracker]

I would, but those precamera stone engravings are too hard to get on the scanner!

Beat me to it, Pappy!

[SARGE..g-47]

Holding an M-14 before entering the mess hall... huh? Food must have been really bad!

I would post pictures as I have never tried to convert any of those old polaroid shots into suitable for computer but.. I will take Pappy and Uncles Crak's note of it isn't easy to bay as I am no computer guru to begin with and wouldn't know how to start.

BTW.. I still have the jump boots and they still have spit shined toes and heels.

Regards...

[dbhost]

I'm gonna have to dig in some boxes of photographs. I was never able to get into the military so nothing quite so good as a mess hall photo or anything like that. I do have a pic of me in my early 20's sitting on my Toyota Celica on the overlook of Hoover Dam.

[cabinetman]

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[JR]

SP4 JR holding up the wall on the generator room, USA commo compound on the Bundeswehr kaserne in Philipsburg, Germany, 1977. Signalmen are somewhat less interested in spit shined boots than some other soldiers.

[Norm in Fujino]

Me at Camp Pendleton, the day (I think) I graduated from Field Medical Service school, August, 1971.



Receiving a meritorious mast on board the USS New Orleans (again, if memory serves ), sometime in 1972 (2/4 battalion, 3rd Marine Division).

[Bruce Cohen]

I'm a graduate of the "don't ask, don't tell school of Contract Employees.

Bruce

[JSUPreston]

I looked into joining the military. Had a sweet offer from the Army, but my eye sight killed the deal. My understanding is that since then, they have relaxed the vision requirements, but having 3 knee surgeries would keep me out now.

[Alex Franke]

Here I am on base at USAG Heidelberg. Dapper little man, if I do say so myself.

[SARGE..g-47]

Here I am on base at USAG Heidelberg. Dapper little man, if I do say so myself.

Ya need a bigger belt buckle to be truly "dapper".. ha..ha..

[SARGE..g-47]

With assistance from the lovely who does know a few things about computers! Probably too large..

Outside our luxury base-camp suite just after returning from 28 days in the "boonies" at LZ Sharron just outside Quang Tri Firebase just below the DMZ in Dec. of 1968...

"Bad News I" hunter-killer team.. "P" Co. 75th Ranger Reg.. I Corp Vietnam..

Third from left.. third from right (center) kneeling on front row. And a "good time was had by all"... yeah, right!

[Bruce Cohen]

Third from left.. third from right (center) kneeling on front row. And a "good time was had by all"... yeah, right!

Hey Sarge,

You kinda look familiar, ever remember getting into a punch out with a "civilian" looking guy in a bar just outside of Chu Lai early '69.

If that was you, I humbly apologize, and my jaw still hurts at times.

Bruce

[cabinetman]

Hey Sarge,

You kinda look familiar, ever remember getting into a punch out with a "civilian" looking guy in a bar just outside of Chu Lai early '69.

If that was you, I humbly apologize, and my jaw still hurts at times.

Bruce

Bruce...there are times you shouldn't blink.
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