My Christmas present, a custom inlayed wall hanging, from the wife, son and daughter arrived 2 days late. It's worth the wait.

Semper Fidelis

We done, THANK YOU for your service

My Mother was one of these 1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_group_of_Women_Marine_Officer_Candidates_1943.jpg

Dad retired as a CWO3 in 1955 (Master Sergeant, 2nt Lt, 1st Lt, Master Sergeant, the the Warrants

… … ._. ._ …. !


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AMERICAN dominated Canadian ice hockey is a fun and wholesome game to play.

SSRAH?

Sierra Hotel

Been awhile since i copied code.

Was up to 35 gpm about three lifetimes ago.

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2621

I had to learn 12 gpm by stick. My MOS was Non-Morse intercept operator. lol

A present of which any Marine would be proud.

there is something about that image that makes one come to attention and salute...

display it proudly...

and thank you for keeping us safe during your time of service...

Here is the oldest known Royal Marine;

The church of St Bartholomew at Longnor in Staffordshire was rebuilt in the 18th century and stands on foundations at least 800 years old. It has an embattled western tower with pinnacles and contains a Norman font, though on the whole it is a rather grim looking building. Its churchyard contains the grave of a William Billings who following his birth in a cornfield, saw the capture of Gibraltar, suffered wounds at the battle of Ramillies and later saw action against the Stuarts in both 1715 and 1745 and finally expired at a grand old age of 112 years.

My brother is the Vicar there and each year a detachment of Royal Marines visit the grave for a service. Lagopus.....

My first duty station was at Edzell Scotland. We did a lot of joint activities with the Royal Marines. I've never met a finer bunch of people.

Getting hammered?




They must have been buying.



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Who cares who wins.

an as to the Jacobite risings...

many other clans beside Stuart and including MacAdam, rose up in those efforts to throw off the yoke of british tyranny...

and then there was the rising of 75, where it was confirmed...

"he's no king of mine"

Yer gonna get Stan fired up, ed.


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Had Royal Marine instructors at OCS. Had some kind of neck issue. Would watch us and shake their head.

roads, remember, small people discuss other people...

Right on, ed.

Just sayin’ yer gonna trigger Stan with that talk of yokes, tyranny and Bunker Hill.


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Mike, if you get the chance you should check out Adak. You’d dig it. Go fishing or hunt caribou.

? lets take it private...

Edd just asked lonesome roads out on a date

ROTFLMAO !!!!!!!

MC...

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Mike, if you get the chance you should check out Adak. You’d dig it. Go fishing or hunt caribou.


My Dad hated Adak. He said Hawaii was an expensive rock, and Adak was just a rock. You really didn’t want to get him started on Diego Garcia.

Best,
Ted

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But, if the comparison is to Detroit, anything might be better.....

F.cking guy like anywhere he was stationed?


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Go brush your tooth, Stan.

Home with his family no doubt

Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Colorado, Alaska. Didn’t have much good to say about the East Coast.

Guessing you might have loved Diego Garcia.

Best,
Ted

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If he ever uttered anything about Detroit, I missed it.

MOS?


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Don’t forget to floss, Stan.

Which decade?

You got 3 to choose from.

Best,
Ted
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How’d your date with ed go?

All three I guess.

Didn’t care for LeJeune, eh?



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Visit the dentist every 6 months, Stan. Keep your pearly white healthy.

Only number I remember was 1101. His favorite spots aligned with the time he spent recruiting. He instructed marksmanship to reservists with 7th rifle corps at NARTS (naval air rocket test station) prior to that.

Was orphaned at birth in 1929. Came out of boot camp a PFC. I suspect he felt he had something to prove.

Loved his Corps. Wasn’t a drunk.

Best,
Ted

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I was the kid in the backseat of the Olds, moving to a new assignment/duty station.

No wonder you’re so f’ed up.

Pretty interesting career there.

He get over to ‘nam?


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And you decided to go the Teamster route, eh?

Yea, he did, in unusual fashion. Detached with the Coast Guard, prior to the beginning of festivities. The Coasties were sounding the rivers, and started taking fire from the commies. The cutters were unarmed. They tried a mortar on the bow, but, figured out right away that it didn’t work as well as a jarhead with a rifle on each end of the boat. Short deployment, 12 weeks, I think. He didn’t talk about it. Wasn’t supposed to.

Dad really didn’t want his kids in the service. Said he did enough for all of us, and told me to find a job where I wasn’t doing a mental cost/benefit analysis of my career choice, with bullets wizzing past me.

Teamsters kept me out of that.

Best,
Ted

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Kept me out of bungholes like Adak and Detroit, too.

My MOS was 2631 in the Corps. I ETSd and after 8 years and no future at home I joined again. They decided not to live up to the contract I signed so I joined the Army for 17 years. 98K MOS in the beginning and finished as a 98U. Stationed in Pensacola a few times, huachuca arizona, Aurora CO, Ft Lewis in the states and Edzell, Augsburg German, and Menwith Hill England twice.

Would have been ironic, don’t you think, if just after taking a long pull off your bottle of High Ten (you keep it in the glove box or under the seat?) on your way to your Teamster job a Molotov cocktail came winging through the window of the Olds during the riots in that bunghole town you live in.



And you get a government pension just like pops. Win win!


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Commies. Pops fought ‘em, you work for ‘em.

Mike, Johnny Cash in 1953 was a USAF staff sergeant with a similar MOS to yours. He spent his duty in postwar Germany monitoring the Soviet's CW transmission and was the first American to learn of Stalin's death after listening to code transmissions throughout the night concerning his health and ultimately his death. You and LR obviously reached the skill level of hearing words rather than individual letters in CW. I never got beyond 20 wpm listening and at about the same speed sending (with a readable fist) with a straight key. I keep my head in the game by occasionally "sending" in my head roadside signs, etc., and have small QRP battery powered transceiver (Elecraft KX1) hooked to a random wire and counterpoise and monitor 40 meters. A lot of 35 wpm CW is sent on a computer keyboard and decoded on a computer and fewer and fewer ops use keys or bugs to send. Gil

Like most things, you’ve got it backwards. The commies run the university, the unions are just happy to be there. Teamsters are out of my little corner of it, January 1st. Just be the GCC at that point. The Olds doesn’t go to work, and various people right here will tell you I haven’t touched hard stuff in 40 bird seasons.

Hey, you get a government pension, me too. People in glass houses...

The irony is Dad saw what was happening to his Corps 50 years ago, and suggested there were better alternatives for his own kids, and still loved his Corps. Said he wouldn’t change a thing, except, maybe moving further west, but, he had job offers right near the area he grew up in. When he became a reservist in 1969, he picked up a job at the State, that he worked for 21 years. Triple dipper, State, Federal a SSI pensions, should get your blood pressure up just thinking about it. My mom was the real winner, it was easy to find lifers in my Dad’s circle who hadn’t given a minutes thought to the future, who checked out one day, and left momma with nothing. Surviving spouse benefits were a big deal to Dad.

Opportunities are were you find ‘em. The orphan did OK.

Best,
Ted

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RIG is looking OK at the moment. Who da thunk?

I think I know why King ignored you.

Yer a f.cking idiot.


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Still holding that turd, eh?

ps: orphan did ok? you mean knew how to milk the system. not judging. just sayin’. (credit to Stan for “just sayin’)

pss: are you ready for some football?!

King didn’t ignore me. He didn’t ignore anybody.

You were just enough of an idiot to milk the same system, apparently. Just sayin’.

Football is for idiots. I get it, you are ready. If I owned an RBL, I’d be ready to watch football, too, I suppose.

Best,
Ted

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Been an excellent year for pheasant hunting. The Vikings are keeping the idiots out of the field.

Hey Lonesome and Ted, if you two have a bone to pick with each other please do it somewhere else. You two are dragging this off on a personal tangent. Please don't do it on my posts.

Sorry.

Michigan getting smoked.


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Should’ve gone pheasant hunting.