The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cambodian Incursion (5/1/1970) - Aug. 26th, 2004

FIRST TEAM MAGAZINE | Summer 1970 | SSG Ron Renouf

[stand watie]

GM!

hugs, duckie/sw

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Good choice for a zoomie flag-o-gram. Now for a Foxhole shameless plug:

The FReeper Foxhole Profiles - Major Richard I. Bong - Top American Ace of WWII - August 8th, 2003

[E.G.C.]

Morning, folks.

Yesterday the Automatic Updates once again offered to donwload and Widnows XP SP 2. I respectfully turned it down by removing the check box and closing the Window.

There was a report last week that a Danish computer found some security holes in XP SP 2. Later found another problem with IE. We'll have to see how all this is responded to.

I would encourage everyone to use their own descretion on installing XP SP 2. A good start would be to go to Yahoo and type in "Windows XP" and then click on news to read the latest headlines on it.

You can also type in "Windows XP" in the Fr search and read some threads on the subject. It contains information on some freepers experiences with XP SP 2.

My best advice with regards to XP SP 2; use you own descretion. If you encounter problems after installing, have a tech look at your computer and see what he or she can do to fix the problem.

[alfa6]

Thanks for the cool daily pics aomagrat.

A question for you if you would not mind. Do you happen to know the rational for the midship turret on the Fletcher class destroyers. It seems, at least to this landlubber, to be of limitied value, good only for broadside action.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[SAMWolf]

Kerry's "distinctive" service includes deliberately involving himself with propagandists who used the media to undermine troop moral and public support while we were at war. 30 years later Kerry's stripes haven't changed a bit.

Morning tomball. It sure feels good to see so many of the Veterans fighting back and not sitting there "taking it" this time.

[SAMWolf]

Morning aomagrat.

This is the first time I can remember seeing a Fletcher Class DD with some of the main gun turrets removed. I didn't know that they had converted the armament on them.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks E.G.C.

For now I'm going to avoid any protential problems by not installing it.

[alfa6]

I was just wondering the samething SAM, notice that the pic was taken in the 50s so it is quite possible that the Philip had undergone postwar modernazation. I did not see anything in the history of the USS Philip about that in this online history.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd498.html

Have taken a break fron the aeroplane for a few days but will get back to work shortly.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Darksheare]

Morning!
I'll be back in a bit.

[CholeraJoe]

Skytroopers were able to boast of being first in Manila, Tokyo, Pyongyang,

The 1st Cav may have been first into Manila and Pyongyang, but by golly they weren't first into Tokyo. The 187th Airborne Infantry (Rakkasans) landed at Atsugi Air Field shortly before dawn on 30 August, 1945. The first foreign troops to set foot on Japanese soil in 2000 years.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Glad to oblige, Sam. After all, you *were* singing the song yesterday. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Morning Darksheare.

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Sam was there ya know. Really there.

I have a feeling I'm going to be in trouble for this one....

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Good morning feather.

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Good morning aomagrat. Still in CA?

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!!!!!

hugs back atcha!

[Rakkasan1]

thanks for that post, I appreciate that.

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

off to work. DRAT!

free dixie,sw

[PsyOp]

Is this the same Cambodia that's seared into Kerry's brain?

[Darksheare]

Morning!
Nothing much going on here at the moment.
Just heard about a Naval Undersea museum supposedly not too far from you just across the way in Washington.
Didn't catch the name of it though.
Has the US Navy's Trieste II on static display.
(Yes, giving ideas for future threads..)

That ammo dump going up looked rather pretty in the topic pics.
Of course, I'm partial to that sort of thing.