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I'll have you know I was completely "trustworthy" Friskie. I could always be "trusted" to do something...........be it right, wrong or indifferent, which often took a degree of resourcefulness .

 

Yea, it's kinda hard to swap sea stories from a keyboard and there's a real possibility that you could find yourself drinking alone. :beer

 

We could revive it if folks start posting there again.

 

It really helps if you got a relaxing switch built in to begin with. I've always considered myself an undercover lazy shiftless bum just waiting to break out so retirement became an inevitable outcome. Not many people I know are like that and try to copy but are total failures, they keep thinking of things to do.

 

:cornut: Wow(!), did you jump into Korea with the 187th RCT? Just curious................

Jason

 

:cornut: Could have been all for the better. My Coastie friends tell me that there is no more dangerous place to be than on a boat at the mouth of Columbia River where it enters the Pacific with a vengeance and that's perhaps where you would have been stationed.

Jason

 

:cornut: You have got to have friends in high places. How in the heck did you ever secure an Army posting to Brussels, Belgium? :drool:arf:

Jason

 

:cornut: Ah yes, the politically correct Arabian Gulf NEVER to be called the politically incorrect Persian Gulf which steps on politically sensitive toes. Man we had to put up with a lot of 'stuff'.:crazythanks for your service and this wasn't directed at Gil-galad)

Jason

 

:cornut: Just drive on soldier, we love ya. Hope I didn't blow any covers but then as a soldier you'd forgive me after the shouting stopped.:lol::lol:

Jason

 

:cornut: Yes I saw that a lot with the elderly(hey that's now me:lol gentlemen that I saw in civilian private practice. I'd say don't worry about it, you could have gotten killed and they'd say, " but what do you tell your grand children on Memorial Day when the big parade goes by and they ask you why you weren't in the service." I couldn't answer that one.

Jason

 

All of our choices lead us good/bad to where we are TODAY I feel the exact same way about one of the best choices I've ever made, Erik! ....GOD puts us where he wants us. if this offends anybody, well, let me know who you are and I will seek you out (if you're at MOTD) and I'll give you a hug just because!!! My MINI friend...

 

:cornut: 6ft 6in of Hippy passed right out on me when he saw his own blood being drawn for the first time. Now as I look back it was hilarious, the 1st 6mos of the Army until one was acclimatized so to speak.:lol::lol:

Jason

 

:cornut: That is the Medal Of Honor. In the US there is no higher medal. It can be worn as a ribbon(shown above) or a lapel rosette but the medal itself is never worn in miniature. That medal can be worn any time or any place at the awardee's leisure. The citation usually begins with the wording, " For conspicuous Gallantry and Intrepidity at the risk of his own life and above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in combat............................................" To be described in those words.............................. Yeah your friend was/is a true hero and unfortunately many of those Heroes never escape the demons.

God Bless Them,
Jason

 

I had no idea until the end of my senior year in college... even after the incident with the cops. He gave it to me when I was moving out of the dorms and he had just found out that he had passed his last organic chemistry final exam. My room was empty, so I left the ribbon on my desk, sitting in the open, so I wouldn't forget it. A friend of mine who was deep into ROTC came by to say goodbye, saw it and flipped out.

I asked him about it a few years later. I didn't get much out of him about what happened. From what I could piece together, he was the only one of his 10-20 person unit to come back from whatever happened... and that for years afterwards, he thought that they were the lucky ones.

We kept in touch after graduation, with a phone call every year or so. I tried to call him last year and the phone number had been turned down. A google search turned up the obit.

 

:cornut: The problem with them is that when they are loaded up, they must be used within an hour and they can't be loaded for one or two people. One loads them and gives 20-50 shots or it's all wasted. Have to give three shots, you use syringes. Comprende?

Jason

 

This was all before the problems associated with aids....
I'm guessing they moved away from this technology if there is the chance that blood will be sprayed....

 

I'm not sure, but from the assembly line process I'm hearing, I'm not 100% sure that they were even switching needles... Or was the compressed air blowing the vaccine through the skin?

BTW: The 'fire the vaccine through the skin' approach has made it to commercial use. My wife and I got a flu vaccine a few years ago from a device where they loaded the vaccine vial (single dose) into a contraption, cocked it (requiring a wall mounted device with a long handle for leverage), and fired it into your arm with no needle involved. Unfortunately, it left a large, tender lump on both of us at the injection site that stayed (and hurt) for a month. Screw that... I'm liking needles more and more!

 

:cornut: That also happened with Swine Flu during President Ford's watch. Several public health types said that the Swine Flu out break at a Basic Training post meant that those trainee's had brought the virus there from all over the US and great numbers of citizens nation wide must be vaccinated with the available but untested vaccine. So President Ford bought off on it, many people died from it, and no Swine Flu epidemic ever materialized. That flu was only on that base and not nation wide. Those public health types were quietly fired.

Jason

 

We use to stand in formation every morning and they would make sure we had our injectors and pills. At the beginning they use to makes us take them in front of them.

The one they use to to give in the butt check was the killer, not to mention all the boosters that followed. It felt like they were injecting you with cold liquid lead, you couldn't walk right for about two days.:frown2:

 

Only thing that saved my bacon twice was the fact that we were so busy with work and kids we both forgot it. Longest lapse was near 3 weeks.