Stupid Questions

[jarheadbigdaddy]

To Kavoom

Glad to hear from another jarhead. Also glad you like the signature. I was radio chief for "B"ravo Battery 1/13 105 howeys in Vietnam from mid 67- Jan 68 while in Phu Bai. Did a few FO runs as a substitute. We covered 2/26 3/26 1/9 2/9 and parts of convoys to Da Nang. Spent a week at Phu Loc on the coast between Phu Bai and Da Nang with an ARVN Arty group covering convoys in a TOA dead spot for arty coverage. Got out on a 3 year hitch as a Sgt with about 9 months in grade with 2 meritorious masts. Loved the Corp while I was in. I guess that's why the saying "Once a Marine always a Marine" lives on
Yeah, about the guy looking for a job, that's what is wrong with our government too. Not enough people in our country today have any IDEA what military people are capable of doing. If they knew, they would give more consideration for employment over some of the fools coming out of college.

Thanks for the come back

Shot -- Over

[Kavoom]

I spent about 9 months in the carribean and the med. Was great fun until the Turks invaded Cyprus... One of those things no one knows about... Try being sonic boomed by a plane 500 feet over your head in a ship. Sittin in a chopper with the M-60 locked and loaded ready to go do a little FO op for naval gunfire with 16 of my best friends squids and Marines to do a little sightseein from a little hill about 1000 meters in front of the projected perimeter for the battalion of grunts laying in rows on the flight deck. We were dead men walkin...and then they pulled the plug in their little international game of chicken and spoiled our fun. I got two meritorious masts in three months to Sergeant at 19 for pointing out that the nature of the hill would allow two M-60's to have an overlapping field of fire and 8 claymores spaced just right would give us two chances to really mess up somebody's day if they decided to come visit. And what do you know, they had the 60's in the ship armory (Thank you naval gunfire officer) and we always had some of our little friends around. And they even let me have a M-14 as I really couldn't hit anything with the little 223 hose, but could shoot the eyes out of a snake at 500 yards with a real rifle (249 out of 250 with an M-14). But the liberty after in Barcelona and Regio de Calabria after was wonderful... Oh, to be 19 again with not a brain in my head.

The best time I ever had was firing 4.2 mortars... 106 millimeters of living **** for the person on the receiving end of things... WE were able to get 64 of em in the air before the first one hit the ground... WE got to test em when they were reconsidering their re-deployment. Anything within five miles should quake in their boots...

How bout a little Willy Pete?

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