Another All Time Best

Thank you Fishdude (hey.. drop by and we'll go fishing.. dude ) and Grant. When duty calls you just answer the door and go along for the ride regardless of where it takes you.

[gad5264]

SARGE..g-47, the little stars in the upper corner are of no significance to most people here. However the STARS and HEART you posess mean EVERYTHING to AMERICA.


A TRUE AMERICAN HERO, I SALUTE YOU!

[fishdude123]

As has been said so eloquently by others Thank you for your service to our country! I appreciate all that men like you have done to protect us.

Thank you DK... at one time when I was young "I lived for danger" and "lived to work". As one gets older, I find "I live to navigate around danger" and "work to live".

Aging and having teen-agers can turn an attitude in a full circle. ha.. ha...

[dkerfoot]

Sarge... That is some serious hardware. Not sure if most people realize just how rarely those stars are awarded - especially to the living.

Folks, we tend to toss the word "Hero" around pretty loosely. Medals like those go only to people that have done things that lifelong professional soldiers consider heroic and amazing. These require a lot more than just getting shot at and shooting back.

Many of us have served. Only a few went looking for trouble, found it in spades and lived to tell about it. By the looks of it, Sarge made a habit out of doing just that.

My hat is off to you.

In all three cases of hard-ware... team leader of a 6 man Hunter-Killer team.. P Co. 75th Ranger Regiment VN.. that encountered from 10-1 to 30-1 odds against us. Wrong place at the right time.. very quick decisions based on logic and d*amn lucky in all three cases IMO as we managed to keep our cool.

Out-gunned in numbers but not in a positive attitude toward survival. The team leader carried a single shot Remington 700 match grade sniper rifle.. scoped and Marine issue.. assistant a semi-automatic match grade M-14.. 3 team members M-16 with silencers and the PRC-25 radio man a 9 shot Mossberg pump shot-gun. Saddle up.. travel light.. hit hard and quick and make all shots count.

Details would take forever as much happens quickly in combat. Did I mention lucky... d*amn lucky?

Bad News I .... out!

[RAFlorida]

SARGE, I along with many others think you do

great on the forum with what you do in your shop and otherwise. After seeing that someone had hit you with a single star, I got back on last night and hit the five star and added a comment. Don't know why whoever hit the one star, but you got all five from me. And thank you for serving and protecting our people and freedom!

[LinuxRandal]

A relative found another forum, that interested her. As computer literacy, doesn't apply to all members of my family, they found the star mechanism in their forum, and used it, thinking it was a reminder/subscription to that post (for refinding her interests).

Unless there is a way to see how many people gave something 1 star, I don't worry about it. As stated, it could be an accidental click, or a person with no forum software experience. I was new here once, myself.

[Ed62]

Not knowing if you saw my post in the other thread, I'll re-post it too.

You said it very well, Sarge. Thank you. And thanks for your service. It means a lot.

Ed
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[poolhound]

Sarge,

As your post quite rightly now gets "best of forum" I will repost my comments from the earlier thread.

All your posts are valuable beyond what a mouse clicked star could measure. As many here have already mentioned I didnt even realize there was a post star rating

As your photos show there are stars (and hearts) that mean much more to you and all of us. I for one appreciate what they mean and thank you. If you ever felt like sharing how you came by them we would all be happy to listen.

Here are 5 stars for you.

Thanks

[DUD]

sarge

I salute You, I am one of the people on this forum that is always trying to learn.

Continue posting, I appreciate it. Bill

[footprintsinconc]

i also want to thank you for taking the time and care into each thread or post that you have posted. i personally have picked up pointer by reading your thread and from the help that you have given me.

so thank you once again for everything that you have done for us, beyond ww.

[cgallery]

Holy crap, Sarge, that is quite a display! I don't even want to know what you did to deserve those. Let's just say that I hope you didn't have to take-up woodworking to replace missing body parts!

While saying "thank you" is hardly enough, I'm gonna say it anyhow. Thank you for your service to this country, Sarge!

[Tom Slick]

I never even noticed the star rating system before your posts about it. I always enjoy your posts.

That is an impressive display. A single bronze star is impressive. Two bronze stars are even more impressive. One bronze star with an oak leaf and the other with a Valor device shows that you gave alot and expected nothing. Add a Purple Heart and all I can saw is Thank You. It was people like you that inspired me to serve also.

[Black wallnut]

Folks as Sam once did to one of my posts I feel this post by Sarge is one of the best I've seen. It explains why some of us come here to read and post. Hats off to Sarge a real American Hero!