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67 Friday shattered the 1880 record and 70 on Saturday broke a 1990s something record. A few more days of this and then reality sets in.
Made my reservations for the reunion.
Great, Gary. Judy and me are looking forward to seeing you and your bride then!
Happy Birthday Ben.
Speaking of Valentine’s day, I think Ben Buehler was born on this day several years ago. Happy birthday, Ben.
I wish to thank my groupies for their Valentine wishes. Have a great day..
Expecting a foot of snow in Albany NY today and tomorrow. Happy Valentine’s Day to all the wives!
Bill,
I am hurt deeply. I know Trump holds power but we are still a country of equal opportunity & non discrimination of gender. You didn’t wish me a Happy Valentine Day!
I am so sorry, Bill……Happy VD to you, too.
Bill,
Happy VD, Now, that’s a good one, intended or not.
Yes…. intended as a joke.
As long as we’re talking about weather, here on Long Island, NY we had this. 62 degrees on Wednesday, Feb 8.. 14 inches of snow on Thursday. Good for me. I’m a school bus driver and got two days off with pay because it is such a mess.
AHHHHH–FINALLY GETTING TO 80 DEGREES TODAY, BEEN A ROUGH WINTER. YOU GETTING WARM CHUCK ?
I have a buddy and his wife out from Chicago. They are sucking up the sun rays. I’ll give you a call later next week and maybe we can hook up.
It’s 87 here in sunny SE Colorado today! Poor ole Doc Capone up by Boston is in a blizzard.
Haven’t been on here for awhile but looks as if ya’ll been yakking a bit. Since the reunion in Sept. we’ve been busy chasing grandkids around.. I thought when retirement came around it meant more time to do things. Wrong! I’m thinking more travel this year but I’ll have to check with my boss on that one. Hope all are well, take care.
OMG! How did Atlanta let that one get away!
Made reservations for Sept.
See you then
Great Dennis, will see you and Barbie there!
Made hotel reservations for September reunion hope we have
great turnout.
Great, my brother. It should be a really good turn out we are already headed to 20 guys that will be there. Hopefully many more to commit.
Ouch! Green Bay took cheese to Atlanta that turned out to be a very stinky limburger! That’s what happens when you put Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and Sanu up against Greenbay’s young inexperienced seconday! Who ever they play in the Super Bowl is going to have their hands full. Ate a lot of crow on this one!
GO BEARS>>>>>>>>
When and where?
Chuck,
It took the CUBS 108 years. Live long enough & the BEARS can do it.
Remember the Superbowl Shuffle in 1985….
Those guys made a video & fortune on that! Whatever to Refrigerator Perry/. Remember him coming in as a running back in a game & scoring a touch down!
Crow is best served with BBQ sauce.
Larry. Once again, i don’t know where Iput your mailing address. Please send it to me at jimintravia@gmail.com
I promise to put it in my rolodex this time. Interesting old guy thing. Went to staples to buy rolodex cards and they didn’t hve them in stock but more interesting was that they didn’t know what they were!
You are in trouble with your rolodex. What are you going to do when you wear out the bearings? It is probably a Amazon or ebay shopping to find your cards.
That’s sad!
Sorry, it was Sam that got me and yes he stay over night and I came back on next flight back , lucky he fought off those hillybilly germs he got from me. I don’t remember snapping my weapon, but always was up front walking with my pointman and Marty in middle try to keep 1st plt as safe as I could. Hope you understand that. I thought this was safe site
Lt Shepherd:
You are correct it was Sam who took a piece of you. Just having some fun.
Also it was correct about you flipping your weapon from semi to auto walking behind me.
You did a pretty good job when I was with your platoon. Do you remember bunking at the 48th Scout Dog?
Hope to see you at the reunion.
By the way Carlos Sam’s handler stay in the Army went to OCS and retired a captain and is leaving well in Mexico on a Army pension.
I have been sending reunion notices out to everyone. If I have your email address, you should have received a notice of the reunion by email. Tomorrow I will get the last dozen or so notices sent by snail mail. If you did not get a notice, let me know.
Every year when I send out invitations I get letters and emails that bounce back to me. The mail returned to me as unable to forward was Mike Iehle, Lamar Burrage and John Anderson. The only ones of theses three I had information on was John Anderson who had moved in with his daughter in Tijeras, NM. Does anyone have any information on any of these guys?
BULLWINKLE–TO THIS DAY I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW YOU GOT WARLOCK TO AGREE TO HAVE A PICTURE TAKEN WITH BILL YOUNG. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY,VERY SHORTLY AFTER WARLOCK DUG A HOLE AND “RELIEVED” HIMSELF.
Greg:
Warlock generally like most Grunts but there were those he rather taste. He almost took the face off a Congressmen who was visiting Baldy. He thought he could walk right up to him. Sam who was Carlos dog hated everyone except Carlos. He lost most his teeth because he would bite rocks when he got pissed off and could not get to whoever!
Wow! How about Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers! Talk about a great ending to a great game! Bring on Atlanta!
GO PACK!
I just got off the phone visiting with Plowboy Jr. (John Brown). He sounded good, but he has a hard road ahead of him. He had a stroke and is unable to move his left arm and leg. He is hopeful of a recovery. He has been in the hospital for over a month.
I told him that some people did not remember he was Plowboy Jr. He said Roger Huffman was Plowboy and a few of them was talking one night when someone called Roger Plowboy. John spoke up that they shouldn’t be calling him Plowboy. Roger Wilson said he was just another Plowboy so he added the Jr. on his nickname and he became Plowboy Jr.
I know Plowboy Jr. would love to hear from his buddies. I think it lifted his spirits that I called him. He is in the Charles George VA Medical Center 1100 Tunnel Road CIC Unit Room 248 Asheville, NC 28805. The phone number at the center is 828-298-7911.
Thanks for placing John Browns contact information on this site Larry…I spoke to him this morning and we had a really good conversation, his voice is strong and clear.We spoke a little about our lives,familys and klds and his 4 legged son.As Larry said a phone call to him means alot …The guy has been thru alot and has alot to face in the future, so lf you can spare a few minutes of your time give a fellow brother a call,even lf you didn’t know or serve with him He will appreciate It.
Plowboy, Jr. is much improved and is now in Room 248 at the CIC unit of the Asheville, NC VA hospital.
The nurses better watch out for smoke bombs as his wife Pat says he’s got his sense of humor back.
One of my missions with Warlock was with the USMC. Spend a night on a “Gator” ship and in the morning landed on a island. Four (4) Marines were shot on the beach. The nearest gook was a mile away. Running off the landing craft guess they had their weapons off safe. Smart! Unless your were up front what the f____!
happy new year to all my brothers! JUST REMEMBER: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE AN OLD MAN WHO IS ALSO A VIETNAM VETERAN!
LOVE YAH GUYS
Another war story about semi & automatic settings. When I was new guy carrying the M-79 I was walking with the company on a mountain trail in single file with my thumb on the safety, finger on the trigger, & a canister round in the chamber. I tripped on something, probably a root in the trail, stumbled with my thumb pushing the safety off & my finger firing the canister. I was lucky I did not kill the guy ahead of me. All the shot when in the ground. From that day forward I kept the safety on & my finger off of it.
When I finally got an M-16 I always kept the safety on & semi-automatic because I remember firing automatic in AIT & everybody lost control as the barrel started raising up.
Toward the end of my tour they sent a clerk out who had made someone mad in the rear. We were walking in single file & he was behind me. I happen to look around to see his M-16 all rusted & it rusted on shut on automatic. I took it away from him while we were walking but could not free it so I took the clip out & cleared the chamber. When we set up for the night taught him how to clean his weapon.
I rigged a sling for my M-16 which held it upright, underneath my arm pit. It always had one in the chamber and the selector switch on safe, but I could carry it with my finger on the trigger and thumb on the switch while keeping my left hand free. That was really handy when walking point.
Good job on “The 12 Days” Jim. Also on the glossary, explanations and credits. I can only imagine how a platoon of spirited grunts would sound on that. At full volume it might have been better than claymores for keeping bad guys away.
Best wishes for Xmas and a good new year for all. Get well Plowboy. When I got to third platoon he was kind of the voice of experience for many. When he got a rear job I felt like we lost a major resource. As always, capable others stepped up and filled the bill.
larry & greg
thanks for your help larry, I know that marty was plt sgt, jim jackson my rto, but cant remember medic name . the day we were hit was the day after thanksgiving we came back from dinner down by the tracks and got clean dry clothes , but time we got to night larger we where soak . we move to next hill and hit the booty trap. 1st was lead and next day was day smith was killed another bobby trap so it must have been 28 /29 nov. 69
You know I left the field just in time. Got back to the world on 11/23/69. My last major action was Aug, 69. Thought for sure would hit some major deification before I left. Even stayed an extra 17 days to get an early out. You guys ran into some stuff the next several months after I left.
Lt. Shepherd:
Still walking behind the Dog handler flipping you weapon from semi to full auto?
Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle
Still remember when Warlock got a taste of Shepherd.s arm….
Had to take Warlock to the vet for a shot!
Merry Christmas to all my brothers and there families.
From Pat Brown about Plowboy, Jr.:
Update: John has had a good day. He had dialysis first thing this morning. They are looking for a bed for him at the VA Hospital. Don’t have one yet. So we are still at Mission Hospital. He got to sit on side of bed two times today I think it made him feel better. Feeding tube was taken out this afternoon. He is still having trouble moving the right side of his body. But considering all he’s been through I’m extactic. God has been so good to us. Prayers would still be appreciated. Thanks to all of you my friends. We love each of you!!!!
Merry Christmas to my fellow Grunts and their families, our fallen brothers then and now, and the best in 2017 for you and your family.
The newspaper published our “12 days of Christmas, 1969” yesterday.
Here is the link to it.
https://www.longislandadvance.net/3995/12-days-of-Christmas-in-Vietnam
I tried to get a picture of you guys instead of just me but the “photo” section of the website wouldn’t cooperate.
I hope everyone is happy with it. Three of those (1st, 5th and 10th) were for sure. the others I had to make up but I think they were OK.
Merry Christmas to you guys and families.
Excellent!
Nice job Infantry…..
HOOAH !!