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03-04-2009, 05:47 PM | #3381 |
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Lol, nice story Oliver.
So you were thisclose to being a marine.
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03-04-2009, 05:54 PM | #3382 |
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Oh hey, nothing but love for your boys in the sky. My brother flew for the Air Force. But it's like my grandfather said to him when my brother told him he was joining the Air Force, "Well, Son, that's nice. You would have been a good officer, but the Air Force is a fine place to make a living." My grandfather earned two bronze stars and a purple heart in WWII as an Infantry Officer... he wasn't kidding at all when he said that.
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03-04-2009, 05:57 PM | #3383 |
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The Marines are great, but in retrospect, I think I made the right decision for me.
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03-04-2009, 05:57 PM | #3384 |
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Yeah, the Air Force is kind of "looked down" upon by the "real" soldiers.
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03-04-2009, 05:59 PM | #3385 |
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Yeah, it was what I thought I wanted for a long time. I was all pumped up about it. One of my best friends in high school had joined the Marine Infantry the year before. My Grandfather had a long talk with me about it.
The Marines are great, but in retrospect, I think I made the right decision for me.
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03-04-2009, 06:03 PM | #3386 |
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It's a wonderful tradition... there are so many things about the Marines that are RIGHT. For me, being raised around the Army, the Army just feels like home. If my dad had been in the Corps, I'm sure I would feel that way about the Marines.
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03-04-2009, 07:13 PM | #3387 |
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how many joes are from florida i know pathfinder and blowtorch and copperhead are all that i know
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03-04-2009, 07:38 PM | #3388 |
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Oh hey, nothing but love for your boys in the sky. My brother flew for the Air Force. But it's like my grandfather said to him when my brother told him he was joining the Air Force, "Well, Son, that's nice. You would have been a good officer, but the Air Force is a fine place to make a living." My grandfather earned two bronze stars and a purple heart in WWII as an Infantry Officer... he wasn't kidding at all when he said that.
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03-04-2009, 09:47 PM | #3389 |
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Hey guys,
pretty big news... Larry Hama is on facebook and he and I are now friends on facebook... seriously. Anyway, I spoke with Fogger1138 about this and he suggested that I write him a message and ask his permission to send him an email with some questions... So, I think I'm going to do that. I'll mention this thread and talk about our discussion. I'll invite him to check it out. And if he says he'll answer a few questions for us, then we're money. So I thought we could sort of pull together and figure out about 5 questions that we would like answered. I think we should stick to inquiries about the Old stuff - and not try to get any information from him about recent/new/upcoming stuff. But I think he might be willing to answer some file card type questions about the old days. I'll know for sure once I send the email to ask him permission. If he's agreeable, this could be huge... we would be the only thread on the forum to land our own interview with Larry Hama. And that would be pretty sweet. So, I'm thinking we should ask about some qualifications... for example: Mr. Hama, we know you did a great amount of research about the military qualifications for each Joe, but space on the file cards was limited. Could you tell us which Joes were supposed to be Ranger qualified, and Special Forces qualified? or something like that. Anyway, I wanted y'all's help and I figured it could be fun for the thread to work on this together... plus we're always smarter together than we are apart. Let me know what y'all think.
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03-04-2009, 09:52 PM | #3390 |
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I like the qualifications questions. Can add (as part of it), Which Joes did you treat as differently then what their qualifications were listed?
I'm on Facebook too. Should be easy enough to find, just look for a Troy in Concord, NH (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one, lol)
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