Veteran's Day

[les snyder]

although the day is almost over ... a thank you to all veterans, current and former, for your service and sacrifice

Les
6918th Security Squadron, Hakata, Japan
6922nd Security Group,  Clark AB, Philippines
Joint Sobe Processing Center, Sobe, Okinawa
6924th Security Squadron, Ramsun Station, Thailand

[Big Frank]

A little bit late but I'll second that.

[billt]

They do something nice out here in Lake Havasu on the holidays, like yesterday. Most all the houses have a piece of 1" PVC buried flush with the ground out in the front, next to their driveways. There is a group of people, (I'm not sure if it's the VFW or the Lions Club), that come around early in the morning, and put a nice American flag on a pole in it. They then come late in the day, or the next day and pick them up.

If you go down the main drag of town, they have them placed every 50' or so on both sides of the street for the whole length. And most store owners have larger one's hanging on their own poles out front. I see more American flags out here than I ever saw in the city.

[alfsauve]

Les, we may have crossed paths.  In and out of Clark from 70-72 usually on board C5s

[tombogan03884]

77-80  USMC   2nd FSSG
89 - 92  NH ArNG   A Battery 3rd Battalion 197th FA

[Sponsor]

[les snyder]

Alf... I got to Clark in March, 72... my operations area was next to the USAF Jungle Survival School on NW corner of Clark... the big ass antenna was 6922nd......

[alfsauve]

Most of my time was spent on the ramp, nursing a sick airplane back to health so I could get out of there. 

My team, which traveled with C5s, weren't technically "flight crew" (that way they didn't have to pay us flight pay), but we weren't exactly TDY to Clark either, so they put us up in Clarkview.   Quite an education there.

I remember every base for the food.  At Clark I lived on Chili and rice.  At Kadena it was chicken fried rice (at least they said it was chicken).   At Yokota, Mama-san told me, "don't ask what's in it, just enjoy"

[Rastus]

Thank all of you guys.

Let' also remember and help support Mr. Richard Hopkins a Marine who works for the USPS in Erie, PA, and who blew the whistle on backdating mail in ballots.  He spent 3 hours being interrogated without an attorney or union representation by an IG fed who told him to "update" his story.  So certain is the swamp of their scare tactics it was printed (Washington Post) and repeated by the US House of Representatives that Mr. Hopkins recanted his story---HE DID NOT RECANT.  He is home on non-pay status from the USPS while, most likely, they are building a case to discredit and fire him.

Damn "them" who would do this to a veteran.

[tombogan03884]

Rastus, The same people who always f#ck the Police and military, until they need a distraction.
Democrats.

[Big Frank]

It wasn't a hot war but I did what I could.

   U.S. Army
  1979-1985
"Never Again"