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Originally posted by JustinTimberline:
Judging by the war stories it looks like ISS is a guy you don't want to piss off. Ooops to late.... if it were not for him taking his free hand off the wheel and patting himself on the back he probably would have ran me over

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Mark, hit the ignore button. Better yet, tell me what you have done to serve your country. Or have you just positioned yourself on the sugar tit and let men like me fight and die for you?

Rich
DRSS

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Phil,

Two big differences.
1. I was never in it for the money. E-6 over three, $428.35 a month plus room and board and free ammunition.
2. I never wounded an enemy soldier and then tortured him before killing him. All my shootings were face to face and clean, except two.

One of the funniest things you ever saw. In late 1970 we got tasked to deal with an issue up on the DMZ. It was custom for the US forces there to play the Star Spangled Banner at daylight and display the colors. In the evening they played Taps and lowered the colors. There were a few NVA bunkers a couple hundred meters across the wire. They developed this pernicious habit of standing on the one bunker roof and mooning the flag. Couldn't allow that. They picked half a dozen of us to static line off a Chinook about fifty clicks east and north of the DMZ. We night marched to within half a click or less behind that one bunker. Comes daylight, they play the music, the flag goes up, and these three gooks drop trou. Two of us each took a target, and we popped them off the bunker. The NVA knew we were inside their perimeter, but they had no clue how many. We lit the place up for a few minutes and then split before the cavalry arrived. It never happened again.
I would have loved to seen their faces. See, when you die violently, you void your bladder and bowels. So, here are these three dead guys, who fell over and then posthumously pissed and shit all over themselves. you probably had to be there to really appreciate the moment.

regards,

Rich
Co2/Co G 75th Inf Abn

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Originally posted by JustinTimberline:
Judging by the war stories it looks like ISS is a guy you don't want to piss off. Ooops to late.... if it were not for him taking his free hand off the wheel and patting himself on the back he probably would have ran me over

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Mark, hit the ignore button. Better yet, tell me what you have done to serve your country. Or have you just positioned yourself on the sugar tit and let men like me fight and die for you?

Rich
DRSS

Mark might be able to hit the ignor button, many of us cannot.

So can we please lay off whatever you or anyone else has done in your lives that has nothing to do with African hunting?

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Originally posted by FOsteology:
Post a copy of your DD Form 214

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In '69 I was at the University of Texas taking graduate classes in anthropology under the first of my four student deferments. Mostly I was smoking grass and banging the coeds. I had my Eureka moment at a young age, I knew enough not to join up with the baby killers and get my head permanently f___'ed up.

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historically may be one of the US's greastest mistakes makes me more than a little nauseated.

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Originally posted by FOsteology:
Rich,

I served my country proudly as well. I also "grew up" within the military as my father was a lifer. He bled OD green.... and was a Ranger.

I've known and been around numerous men who fought for our country (Korea, Viet Nam, Desert Storm, etc). Many of them Rangers and Special Forces.... my experience and exposure has led me to form the belief that those that brag about it, bring it up at any opportunity, and have grandiose stories of their bravery and machismo.... well, 99% of time they're full of BS.

I don't believe your claims. I honestly don't care either as you're no more than endless source of amusement and entertainment here on AR.

However, if you want everyone to STFU....

Post a copy of your DD Form 214

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Looking an armed man in the face and coming out on top is the ultimate challenge. You kill him, or he kills you. Nothing else ever compares. What have you experienced in your life that compares to that? I do not expect you to answer this. I already know. Nothing.

Rich
Warrior in the ultimate connotation

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Originally posted by Mark Sullivan:
(T)o walk up and let that magnificent animal decide how he is to die in battle is great hunting. If you lack courage that is something I cannot help you with. But to condemn me because I have the courage you lack is unfair and unjust.

Mark Sullivan
Professional Hunter

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Rich,

Don't send me any PM's. I want whatever you say to me to be in public.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that perhaps Rich was separated from Mark at birth?

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Rich
Warrior in the ultimate connotation

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Originally posted by Jack D Bold:

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Originally posted by SteveGl:
So how does one go from being a war hero to being an annoying twit? That's quite a tumble.

I'm just curious. No offense intended.

: : :

+1

Pretty simple really - some people just have an unhealthy need for the attention and approval of others. See the iterations of the fancy cars boasts, inane twitter, etc. Not to mention THE most annoying "signature" block, ever.

Best way to deal with it is to pay no attention. JDB Ignore List - Pop. 1

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Rich,

Sometime back it was requested that we lay off you eventhough you threatened the lives several AR members and told me a graphic story about putting a knife in someone and watching the lights go out in their eys as the shit ran down their leg. Lovely!

As I could have predicted your recent rant(s) about MS have quickly degenerated into you telling everyone what a great warrior you were. Well as a veteran myself I need to tell you that you do not make me proud. I knew some real heroes and not one bragged about his service. In fact most once out of theater had some serious reflection on what they had done.

As for you or I protecting anyone's freedom that's pretty much BS as Vietnam basically got 50,000 of the best the US had killed an accomplished nothing. If you remember we lost the war. It was my generation's war and all it makes me feel these days is very sad. For you to brag about your role in what historically may be one of the US's greastest mistakes makes me more than a little nauseated.

Mark

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Phil,

Two big differences.
1. I was never in it for the money. E-6 over three, $428.35 a month plus room and board and free ammunition.
2. I never wounded an enemy soldier and then tortured him before killing him. All my shootings were face to face and clean, except two.

One of the funniest things you ever saw. In late 1970 we got tasked to deal with an issue up on the DMZ. It was custom for the US forces there to play the Star Spangled Banner at daylight and display the colors. In the evening they played Taps and lowered the colors. There were a few NVA bunkers a couple hundred meters across the wire. couple hundred meters across the wire. They developed this pernicious habit of standing on the one bunker roof and mooning the flag. Couldn't allow that. They picked half a dozen of us to static line off a Chinook about fifty clicks east and north of the DMZ. We night marched to within half a click or less behind that one bunker. Comes daylight, they play the music, the flag goes up, and these three gooks drop trou. Two of us each took a target, and we popped them off the bunker. The NVA knew we were inside their perimeter, but they had no clue how many. We lit the place up for a few minutes and then split before the cavalry arrived. It never happened again.

Rich
Co2/Co G 75th Inf Abn

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
BaxterB,

be happy, you wouldn't sleep without the light on for a month if Saeed would let me post pictures.

Rich

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Originally posted by ForrestB:
I don't have any of Rich's early pics but here's one of him after "Nam" but before he turned grey...

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Originally posted by ForrestB:
I don't have any of Rich's early pics but here's one of him after "Nam" but before he turned grey...

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Looking an armed man in the face and coming out on top is the ultimate challenge. Nothing else ever compares.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Rich,

Sometime back it was requested that we lay off you eventhough you threatened the lives several AR members and told me a graphic story about putting a knife in someone and watching the lights go out in their eys as the shit ran down their leg. Lovely!

As I could have predicted your recent rant(s) about MS have quickly degenerated into you telling everyone what a great warrior you were. Well as a veteran myself I need to tell you that you do not make me proud. I knew some real heroes and not one bragged about his service. In fact most once out of theater had some serious reflection on what they had done.

As for you or I protecting anyone's freedom that's pretty much BS as Vietnam basically got 50,000 of the best the US had killed an accomplished nothing. If you remember we lost the war. It was my generation's war and all it makes me feel these days is very sad. For you to brag about your role in what historically may be one of the US's greastest mistakes makes me more than a little nauseated.

Mark