Happy Veterans Day!!! Some old pix of me.

[treasurefiend]

Here is some old pix of me. Enjoy... LOL

My boot camp Dress Blue's pix. I was 18 yrs old...

Me with my 240G (Gulf) med. machingun (it was the M60 replacement.) 21 yrs old. Nottice I have a smoke in my mouth, LOL

Me in Okinawa absolutely drenched with sweat. 19 yrs old. Joe nottice my glasses off to the left side of the pix, that is what I was wearing in the hospital... LOL

Me and my bud, I still have a smoke in my mouth with the helmet on my head, can you see me?

Me and my buds around a createring charge. It can blow a hole in the ground 15 feet wide and 10 feet deep. I am all of the way on the left side of the pix.

And me an my bud passed out after a day on the water. I am on the right side of the pix. I never fell into the water either. LOL

Semper Fi

 

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[Goio]

Awesome pics TF!!

 

[treasurefiend]

Here is some more pix.

The "Grinder" in San Diego CA.

Here we were setting up some claymores.

Life on a navy ship (at least this was life for Marines) LOL...

Me in Japan on a demo range with 2 "bank robber charges".

Me on patrol in an Okinowa as a radioman. See the light pearing through the jungle.

Me on the far left.

Me and my buddies were aggressors, I am the one with the machinegun.

 

[twistidd]

Ha! Great pics, Kermit. Looks like you had a pretty good time during your service. Don't worry about the thick glasses. I've got them, too...they help me to appear smarter than I actually am...lol

Happy Veteran's Day to you, and all.

Joe

 

[twistidd]

I'm no veteran, but here's a picture of me paying respects to those lost on D-Day. Taken on Omaha Beach, Northern France.

 

[treasurefiend]

Wow, I would love to go there!!!

 

[mikewaz]

Nice pics guys!

Omaha beach and Pearl Harbor are two places I always wanted to see. That had to be quite a feeling looking up at those cliffs and imagining the ponding the guys on the beach took.
Mike

PS. Why don't they give veterans a day off instead of the postal workers, teachers, etc... that never served a day?

 

[twistidd]

Mike,

It was very cool to walk around the vicinity of the beach and see the hundreds of craters pac-marking the area. You could literally walk down inside the craters and stand at the bottom and the ground level would be about ten feet or more above your head. I also explored some bunkers. That area is extremely dangerous. You'll be walking around and come across a 3X2 hole in the ground, that drops about 20 feet into a bunker, and all that's separating you and severe injury or death is this thin, flimsy chicken wire, no joke. I've got video of us there, very haunting site, as you said, imagining what went on there was quite an experience.

They should have given veterans the day off, no doubt.

Joe

 

[treasurefiend]

When I was in Okinowa we would go out into the jungle and we would stumble upon old pillboxes and old tunnels. On my old base we found a cave that lead from on base out to the ocean. Me and my buds craweled through it, we found old radio wires and fins from WWII mortars. At some places we could only fit through with our arms streched straight out in front of us. At he exit of the cave it was an ancient Budist shrine. That is something I will remember for the rest of my life!!!

 

[twistidd]

TF,

Man, that sure sounds like an adventure. You never forget stuff like that. I remember when you told me about how the other guys relied on you to climb the trees so that you were able to find your way around. They knew as well as me, if not more so, about how good of a human compass you are!

Hey, have you checked your PM's

Joe

 

[Lowbatts]

[video=google;-2487638612433437293]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2487638612433437293&q=Vetera[/video]

Just in case you missed this one, very nice work.

 

[treasurefiend]

That was a good video Tim. At my parents house my dad and the neighbors had something like that going. My dad was in the Navy, and the neighbors on their street were in the Navy, Marines, Army. They would all put flags out. Both of my grandparents were in the army so they had an American flag, an Army flag and a Navy flag on the front porch. When I joined the Marines they put a 4th flag (American, Army, Navy, & Marines flags on the front porch.) They won the flag battle LOL.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice pics TF.......... and you still have a cigarette in your mouth (avatar)