Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

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BarnBuster said:
"I sat on a flak jacket in the vague hope that a slug coming up through the ship’s soft aluminum belly wouldn’t make me a eunuch."
thewarhorse.org

I Volunteered for This Mission. I Could Take Photographs That Might Outlive Me.

Drowning in fear and self-loathing, I reminded myself why I was here. Why I was in Vietnam. On this helicopter. Why I had volunteered for this mission.
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My UPT instructor used to tell me that you sat on your flak jacket and you knew someone had been around awhile if he had two flak jackets, one to sit on and one to wear. LOL he had two and lost one when he rode his B-24 down on the French coast. Luckily the underground got him out and he was returned to fly test at Edwards and the rest is history LOL.
 
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D Day Thank You.jpg

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"The original estimate for Allied casualties was 10,000, of which 2,500 were killed. Research by the National D-Day Memorial has confirmed 4,414 deaths, of which 2,499 were American and 1,915 were from other nations."
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"Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor."
—BBC message for French Resistance fighters, informing them that the invasion was on. June 6, 1944

"This is a very serious business."
—Photographer Robert Capa on Omaha Beach. (Capa landed with the first wave of troops. Although he took over 150 photos under sustained, murderous enemy fire, only a few of them were ultimately successfully developed. A impatient darkroom technician back in London tried to rush the process overheating the negatives and causing the emulsion to melt, ruining and blurring the photos. BB)

"You get your ass on the beach. I’ll be there waiting for you and I’ll tell you what to do. There ain’t anything in this plan that is going to go right."
—Col. Paul R. Goode, addressing the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, before D-Day.

"I’m sorry we’re a few minutes late."
— Lord Lovat, arriving with his commandos to relieve the British airborne troops holding the Orne River bridges, 6 June 44.

"The first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive. . . . The fate of Germany depends on the outcome. For the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."
—Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, 22 April 1944.

"We’ll start the war from right here."
—Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant commander of the Fourth Infantry Division, upon finding that his force had been landed in the wrong place on Utah Beach.

"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate."
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio broadcast, June 6, 1944
 
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Some interesting Military reading (links) if you're so inclined, most free.

U.S. Army | Infantry Magazine

www.moore.army.mil www.moore.army.mil
www.dvidshub.net

DVIDS - Publications - Field Artillery Professional Bulletin

www.dvidshub.net www.dvidshub.net

Army Publishing Directorate – List of Professional Bulletins

armypubs.army.mil armypubs.army.mil

CONTENTdm

cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org
press.armywarcollege.edu

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters | Parameters and Associated Collections | US Army War College

<p><i>Parameters</i> is a refereed journal of ideas and issues. It provides a forum for mature thought on the art and science of land warfare, joint and combined matters, national and international security affairs, military strategy, military leadership and management, military history, ethics...
press.armywarcollege.edu press.armywarcollege.edu
www.dvidshub.net

DVIDS - Infantry Magazine, U.S. Army Infantry School

www.dvidshub.net www.dvidshub.net

Urban Warfare Project - Modern War Institute

mwi.westpoint.edu mwi.westpoint.edu

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org archive.org

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cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org

also more links at this thread (disregard title of thread)

Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

It's ANZAC Day here in Oz & NZ. I haven't attended a dawn service in a long time - 'just can't face it. Not from a lack of balls, just.....something.......I can't explain. You know what I'm talking about........ Edit: There was footage of an old bloke on the news this evening on the phone to...
rollitup.org
 
curious2garden

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raratt said:
They are retiring my mistress, I follower her to some beautiful places, and some real shitholes for 15 years. She will always have a place in my heart.

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Yeah I'd heard they were refusing to order sensor packs and the guys were having to cobble shit together. As they brought on the drone tech. A friend is out at Det 42 finishing out with her. Matt came in with the C-141 and went out with her. Your weapon system will always hold a fond place in your heart :hug:
 
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