'War Stories' Have Some Facing Prison

The Oklahoman (via Military.com) ^ | August 18, 2008 | unsigned

[colorado tanker]

I don’t think they’ve caught him, yet. But it’s only a matter of time because one store that didn’t believe him caught him on a surveillance video that was made public. Not exactly the kind of video he was looking for. :-))

[colorado tanker]

always a king, never seen anyone claim to be descended from a stableboy

One of my wife's ancestors was British aristocracy. She came to America because she literally ran off with the stable boy. :-))

[Tax-chick]

I was born at Fort Ord.

My high-tech teens are fascinated when I tell them about the ancient technology I used in the Corps in the mid-1980s :-). “Wangs?!? I thought those were fiction!”

[patton]

Now, there are occosions when the senior guy may be wrong about PX medals.

When I was up for the E5 Board, the CSM said, “Soldier, you are out of uniform! You are wearing only one expert medal!”

“Yes, CSM! I am out of uniform!”

“Why?” Glancing at my 201, he read for a few moments, and said, “Nevermind - you can’t even buy a ladder rung for an FPK. Or most of the others you are qualified to wear.”

In other news, some talk, some don’t. Me, I never got shot at. So I got nothing to talk about.

(What’s in a truck?)

[A.A. Cunningham]

There was a Chief at my last command who wore the Combat V on his Bronze Star until he got called on it. That was the same reason Boorda shot himself.

A myth perpetuated by the unknowing. Boorda quit wearing the Combat V device on his Navy Commendation Medal and Navy Achievement Medal, not the Bronze Star, over a year prior to shooting himself. Also, Boorda was being treated by a private physician for depression, unbeknownst to his superiors which was a violation of Naval regulations, at the time he killed himself. Claiming that you definitively know why Boorda shot himself makes you look just as foolish as those idiots in the liberal dominated mass media.

[puppypusher]

I never saw a medal, all I got was the ribbon.

That's funny while I was serving in the Air Force during my six years I was never told what ribbons I was allowed to wear.I didn’t finally find out until I read my DD214 upon my D.O.S.

[Army Air Corps]

Don’t know about other wars, but my father and most of those in the World War II generation talked very little about their service.

I had a great uncle (may he rest in peace) who was a Seabee. He would rarely say anything about his service. He did once say that he saw things that he wished he had not.

[razorback-bert]

Yes, but he was too busy writing to fight.

[driftdiver]

Ha Ha, I got mine with 2 devices. I think two devices. Cant remember.

[driftdiver]

“It has been my life long experience that the ones who did the service and faced the hell, don’t talk about it.”

yep, of course if you wanna talk about the time the really pretty north korean spy tried to make friendly with me I’m sure I could open up.

[vetvetdoug]

I served stateside. I helped move the Agent Orange onto the incinerator ships August 1974. Spring of 1977, March 17(?), I volunteered with a Dr. Byrd, Pathologist, from Keesler to help at Dover AFB with the bodies (Tenerife Accident)...one week of horror and taught me about volunteers. I worked the Geigers when someone came in claiming to have been picked up by Aliens....vis a vis October 11, 1973 at Pascagoula. Even though my service was stateside, I had more than enough experiences to tell...the saddest was unloading Marines and Soldiers coming to Keesler via the DC-9 Nightingales at night to be at a hospital close to home. These wounded were the last injured to come home from Viet Nam and Far Eastern Hospitals. I have great respect for those that were in combat but am proud of my service also.My ND, GCM, SAM, OUC, TnANG, and other non combat medals to me are priceless...but I don’t need to pad it...

[driftdiver]

Wasn’t he Jimmy Horton’s brother?

[Interesting Times]

I know one who constantly talks of being at Khe Sahn. I know he wasn’t because he is a couple of years too young. Know any way to check that besides age?The guy actually was in the Corps.

If you're really curious, you should be able to request the basic outline of his service from the St. Louis archives. It should have his entry and exit dates, if not much else.

[patton]

I hate c-9’s.

[VietVet]

Got you all beat. I charged up Cemetary Ridge with Garnet AND defended it with the II Corps...

...in the movie “Gettysburg,” as one of 3,000 extras;-)

[04-Bravo]

When I settled into a desk job at my duty station in 1973, we still had a few manual typewriters (I think they were Royals). We joked that only real men used manual typewriters.

[freema]

The geigers registered nothing, right?

[Tax-chick]

My high school was using manual typewriters in 1981. It certainly teaches a good clean keystroke!

[Graybeard58]

I was A.F. also ‘63-’67. that was a long time ago and my memory is not the best but I don’t recall any medals at all, only ribbons.

I while back I got a copy of my dd214 and it had on it what all was authorized.

[vetvetdoug]

As a living historian, I was at Cash's Battery on the swing team on a six horse hitch at Cemetery Ridge at 125 years to the second of the Pickett's Charge and watched the Confederate enactors march toward me. I was at Brice's Crossroads and Britton's Lane 125 years to the second on horseback as a 7th Tn member, I was at Shiloh 125 years to the second on the April 6th anniversary at the Sunken Road. At Grierson's Raid 125 Years to the second, I was at Parker's Crossroads 125 Years post battle to the second, at Corinth 125 years to the second, at Hatchie Bridge 125 years to the second, at Iuka 125 years to the second, at Chicamauga at the location of the breakthru to the 125 anniversary, at Stone's River at the 125th anniversary to the second, and at Franklin at the Columbia Pike at 125 years to the second...and those were just the ones I can remember. In North & South I am on horseback at Charbrusco, First Manassas, Petersburg, and Appomattox.