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I love my Trasheroo... I carry firewood on the way out and trash in the way back in.

But, I've always hated the blank, black look... Especially since it started fading.

So I decided to glue on some patches that are associated with my Air Force career.... Major Air Commands (most no longer active), couple of locations (one long gone and the other seems to be in the process of being reactivated), etc.

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Hello ALL and thank you for all your service!!

I needed to prove something to myself and I needed help to go to college. So I joined the Marine Corps reserve 1989-1995. I was a cannon cocker, field artillery, M198 155mm howitzer. We got activated for Desert Storm and went to Okinawa and were used for reinforcements, but since the war was over so quick we got to come home after everyone rotated back to their duty stations.

We trained all the time while we were in Okinawa. It was the only thing that kept us sane. Our Co and Xo told us we were the first unit that tried and was successful at " split battery ops". Our battery had 6 howitzers so we would take 3 howitzers and move to new location while the other 3 covered for us. To do this we had to split up Comm, FDC, Ammo train, and command structure. Shoot move and communicate is normal for all combat units, but for a towed weapon like the M189 howitzer, it was a pretty momentous feat to split us up and still be operational. We were able to move as a unit and cover ourselves as we did this and not task another unit to cover us. We were autonomous.

Im glad I was able to be a Marine and serve during war time. What the Marine Corps taught me has always served me well.

Later in life I did get to go to Guam as a civilian lineman and help with DoD to restore power to Anderson Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam.
 
@oldschool4wheeling, Welcome to the highway. Thanks for your service.

Larry in El Paso
 
oldschool4wheeling said:
Marine Corps reserve 1989-1995
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Semper FI Mack! How did you like the NTA? Wettest I have ever been. Six weeks non stop. Noah pulled pitch and caught a float out of there to the west coast. At the end I was able to breath through my skin..Very nice 79...!!
 
Chungas Revenge said:
Semper FI Mack! How did you like the NTA? Wettest I have ever been. Six weeks non stop. Noah pulled pitch and caught a float out of there to the west coast. At the end I was able to breath through my skin..Very nice 79...!!
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Semper Fi! To you too! And thank you, she is getting ready to go to the beauty parlor for a little make over. Well major make over, You know, face lift, liposuction and breast implants."Chasing Alice down a hole". haha

Ohh boy, thats bringing up a bunch of memories! :worms:Being there at NTA was crazy!! I laughed my assed off from happiness and screamed from misery everyday. :eek::censor:I thought I was going to grow gills too!! I almost drowned on one of the obstacles, my gear got hung up at the entrance of the underwater tunnels so I couldn't go forward and when I tried to back out my rifle (which was strapped across my chest) got wedged in the tunnel. Anyway I blacked out.:eek: The guy behind me Sargent Emmons (Ill Never forget him) went in after me. HAHA I guess I made it. :cool:

Im reading your 76 face lift thread. Haaha, you have a way with the English language!!

Douglas
 
Big Ed said:
Welcome, I remember you from my truck thread. Thanks for chiming in. This is a good forum here, nice to have another participant.
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Yes it is, It took me a minute or three to realize your where Big Ed from that IH thread too. I always liked big ole lumbering beast of a truck that can be used during the day as a pulp wood hauler or a wrecker and then at night was nice enough to take your girlfriend to a movie in.


Chungas Revenge said:
Thank you sir...I owe it all to a WV public education.....:cool:

I suspect I have never been that wet before or after NTA..
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NTA had plenty of challenges, but WV does too!!! I worked as a lineman in WV for about 10 years and it is no cake walk, there is some rough terrain to have to navigate. And I saw my fair share of yall's public education too, as you have described so eloquently in your thread. Haha!! But you sir must have done some extra curricular studies. Maybe you where a Rhodes scholar and studied in Oxford? Or perhaps you studied at the "University of" Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

But regardless of your studies, you sir have been gifted with expressing yourself with the written language!!
 
oldschool4wheeling said:
Yes it is, It took me a minute or three to realize your where Big Ed from that IH thread too. I always liked big ole lumbering beast of a truck that can be used during the day as a pulp wood hauler or a wrecker and then at night was nice enough to take your girlfriend to a movie in.
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You were talking to me about the Crosby Clamps on the winch cable. By the way I didn't know what they were called before you said that.
 
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