Hey...pssst... That one guy is here!

11E2T was my primary, Sheridan crewman but my secondary was 11D Cav Scout, I have a CIB because of that, I think the new designation is 19D

 

Bases were know for taking incoming,some more than others. Mortars weren't that big of a deal unless one landed on you. The Katusha rockets were the worst because the could be fired in mass.

You had the suicide bomber at the H4 DFAC.

I've got video of Kalzo getting hit with rockets. One of them hit one of our trailers in the Class IV yard.

I always lol at this video. Here is what us happing. The soldiers can here an Incoming alarm for an area of the base near them. If the can hear it,it is right next to them. The Incoming warning starts to go off for the section. The white cement structure in front of them us their bunker.

 

I live in an area that breeds SO (Airborne Rangers, Recon, Snipers, even a few Seals and at least one Green Beret I have personally met) the way Washington state grows apples, and even I have only personally clapped eyes on an operator four times in four decades of life!

For all the media attention given to Spec Ops, those guys are almost as rare as hens teeth on the ground. Those lunch counter heroes need to come up with a better line.

Besides, as far as I'm concerned, ANY between is a hero! In an all volunteer military, it takes a special kind to sign the paperwork (EVERY military marches on paperwork!) and take the oath.

One of my college buddies was an Iraq combat vet (Marine, no I don't know what unit) from Iraqi Freedom. He was dating a friend of mine. I told her three separate times to NEVER wake him up suddenly. She failed to listen. Until the morning she hit a wall. Whined at me, I looked at her and said "I ####ing told you so!"

Both of my neighbors are Viet Man vets. I do firearms training with both of them. One Army (two tours, one in infantry then one in motor pool), the second did one tour Marines. I can't STAND people who try to ride my neighbor's sacrifice for their own "glory"!

 

This is why I don't wear anything depicting my time with the U.S. Military or where I may or may not have been.

 

Isn't life funny, I was OPFOR in Ca and we used Sheridan's to act as Russian's.

I was a Combat Engineer at the same time you was there.

 

Funny ! After I got out, I joined the Guard for awhile in a combat engineer unit, I was on a CEV. The MOS was 12F

 

My classic reply to online sf/seal/delta/sot

Sad fact is, most of these guys are extremely easy to pick out

 

My beloved uncle served two tours in Vietnam. He had a ton of stories. Wish he would have recorded them or at least wrote them down. I got out of the Marines in April 1990 but was recalled to active duty in February 1991. War was over in 100 hours so I was sent home. My uncle took me to breakfast and the people in the restaurant all came over to thank me for being a fricken hero even though I never left the states. My poor uncle told me after, he came back to being called a baby killer and spat on. I had no idea.

Worked with a Marine gunnery sergeant in my construction days, he finally talked about his Vietnam days with me one day. Said he got assigned door gunner duty for a while escorting CIA types across the border into Loas and Cambodia. He got shot in the leg and opened up his shirt to show me a huge scar across his chest from enemy bayonet.

 

nice. i was a 12N but in a Bravo unit as well

 

"The real hero's are the ones left back on the battlefield" thats what all the real soldiers say, most special forces people i know keep a very very low profile they certainly don't go around bragging about all their missions, sounds like some wanna be that just wants attention.