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mcfez
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Will geeze....aint this week full of adjustments on the ol pecking order!
I have become "Super Nomad" today. Do I get a cape or a parking spot next to the "higher beings"?
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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bajacalifornian
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Don't know. I can't see light yet.
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DENNIS
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Another star is born. That's all ya get. 
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sanquintinsince73
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Four-star General. Do I still have to salute if I have a Pacifico in my right hand?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
Four-star General. Do I still have to salute if I have a Pacifico in my right hand? |
Never. Waste not....Want not. That's the Military way. 
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sanquintinsince73
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
Four-star General. Do I still have to salute if I have a Pacifico in my right hand? |
Never. Waste not....Want not. That's the Military way.
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That reminds me, one day at MCRD San Diego another recruit and I were walking back to our squad-bay as two officers approached our location. The guy I
was with saluted with both hands at the same time. I guess you had to be there.
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Fred
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Damn, I thought Dennis was Super Nomad everyday. Give me and him another beer.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
That reminds me, one day at MCRD San Diego another recruit and I were walking back to our squad-bay as two officers approached our location. The guy I
was with saluted with both hands at the same time. I guess you had to be there. |
Good story...no doubt true.
I was somewhere once driving a 3/4 Ton truck way in the boonies with an OCS Lieutenant who wouldn't stop raggin on me about how much he knew of
security here and there, telling me this and that. I saw forward a Deuce and a Half coming my way so I stopped and told the jerk I had to take a
leak.
Flagged down the big truck driver and jumped in with him leaving Lewie way out there all by his insecure self.
I have no idea what happend to him.
Hope he made it back alright. [actually, I didn't care then and I don't care now]
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sanquintinsince73
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That is classic!!!!!!
Personally, I couldn't stand those 90-day wonders.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Fred
Damn, I thought Dennis was Super Nomad everyday. Give me and him another beer. |
Well, thank you, Fred. I went right by this. SALUD, Amigo.
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sanquintinsince73
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If'n y'all were in my presence I'd open up Anthony's for y'all all night, no charge......for anything or anyone.
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sanquintinsince73
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I shouldn't be posting while 23152 v.c.
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sanquintinsince73
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Hey Dennis,
We were once humping the hills of Camp Pendleton and one of the jarheads in my platoon sprained his ankle. The corpsman we had with us took out this
plastic bag with blue liquid in it. The stuff that has a packet of something in it and you squeeze it to break it and it turns the blue liquid to ice.
He was reading the instructions and the first lewie takes it from him and reads the instructions. The first lewie then proceeds to take his K-Bar, he
ripped a hole in it, and poured the liquid on the Marine's ankle. How stupid is that? Gotta love them college boys playing Marine.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
The first lewie then proceeds to take his K-Bar, he ripped a hole in it, and poured the liquid on the Marine's ankle. How stupid is that? Gotta love
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Leadership is a wonderful thing.
I watched one of our intrepid leaders stand next to a building and toss a smoke grenade up at an open second story window.
It came right back to him and almost choked him to death.
Gawwwwdammmm....it was spectacular.
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sanquintinsince73
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Matter of fact, McFez, I made Light General last week and not even an honorable mention in the San Diego tribune. Maybe I'll be awarded an "Evening in
Bell gardens".
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sanquintinsince73
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Our C.O. Major Mueller, promised us a "beer bust", he told us we would have so much beer we'd be puking it all out. We had put up around 100 huge
tents for a battalion landing team that was coming in. We worked our arses off in 115 degree heat. Come "beer bust time" we only got 2 beers a piece.
That didn't sit well with us Marines. We sent a private to commandeer the rest of the beer and we proceeded to get totally feces faced. I was drunk
but still totally peeed at the Major. I ripped off my cammy top and crawled on my belly to his hooch with my K-Bar in my mouth. I got to his tent and
cut the ropes holding it up. Oh man, you should of heard him screaming like a banshee. You would think someone was violating him. Needless to say, the
next day I was a private.
This occurred around 2 am.
[Edited on 12-13-2010 by sanquintinsince73]
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vgabndo
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About '63 we were following a gold bar through a swampy ravine on a night compass march outside Camp Schwab Okinawa. The bozo walked us into the
impact area of a mortar range. Another Lance Corporal and I stopped him and pointed out that if you looked real carefully none of the trees had tops.
He finally ordered we retrace our tracks.
Every man we lost while I was in was at Pendleton.
[Edited on 12-13-2010 by vgabndo]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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sanquintinsince73
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
About '63 we were following a gold bar through a swampy ravine on a night compass march outside Camp Schwab Okinawa. The bozo walked us into the
impact area of a mortar range. Another Lance Corporal and I stopped him and pointed out that if you looked real carefully none of the trees had tops.
He finally ordered we retrace our tracks.
Every man we lost while I was in was at Pendleton.
[Edited on 12-13-2010 by vgabndo] |
Man, God bless Camp Pendleton. You always felt so helpless having to do what these idiots ordered you to do. These mental-midgets with a degree think
that they are Gods gift to the infantry. I don't know if it's me or my two brain cells but to this day I think of these guys and I want to vomit.
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DENNIS
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Years and years and years ago, I worked with a cement contractor. Just the two of us mostly doing backyard slabs and pool decks, without pumps. They
were just being introduced to the trade.
My boss would tell me occasionally that if I wanted to survive in that trade with him, I just had to be smarter than "my" wheelbarrow.
Point well taken and to this day when I see or use a wheelbarrow, I think of junior officers in the Army. Both were in my life around the same era.
It's all in being aware.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Will geeze....aint this week full of adjustments on the ol pecking order!
I have become "Super Nomad" today. Do I get a cape or a parking spot next to the "higher beings"? |
Congratulations Deno! 
Lot's on entertainment thanks to you and others who contribute here! Most other Baja forums are pretty dead.. 6-12 posts a month or less! People who
post fun stuff and interesting stuff make Baja Nomad the highest viewed Baja forum on the planet!
There's room for you up here on the mountainside!
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