Chungas Revenge
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God speed, and Good luck w/your surgery!!!
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God speed, and Good luck w/your surgery!!!
rkymtnflyfisher
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OC in the wintertime only! There is NOBODY there in the early season, cheap oceanfront hotels also. March or April is my favorite time to hit OC.
Hello everyone, my name is Nolan I joined the LANG Louisiana Army National Guard in 1981. I've held 63H Track Mechanic, 62B Heavy Wheel Mechanic, 63B Heavy Construction Equipment Mechanic, 11B Infantryman and 88M HET (Heavy Equipment Transport) MOSs and was a HET instructor. Went to Desert Storm in '90 with a Combat Heavy Engineer Unit, and crossed trained at Ft. Polk, went to OIF 1 in '03 where we converted our light skinned HMMVs into gun trks and ran HET convoys from Kuwait to all over Iraq. In Mar 2005 I retired at the rank of E-7 with over 24yrs. My farther was killed at the age of 28 in Nam on 7 sept 69 on his 3rd tour he was with 1st Cav Air Mobile 15 Med Bn. as a door gunner. I'm married to a wonderful woman, I have 2 sons one in the Navy on a sub and the other is a Marine. Thank You All For Your Service! My mother pleaded with me not to go active duty so I didn't. No body twisted my arm to sign those papers, it was my honor to have served with those men I call my BROTHERS!
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Walkerm916
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Welcome and thank you for your service.
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Welcome Nolan!! ...and thank you for your service!!
I'm sorry you lost your Father at such a young age... that had to be very difficult.
Big Ed
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Welcome Nolan. Long service, your story is similar to mine. I was 85 to 07, one tour in Iraq. Thank you for your service.
WB8LBZ
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Welcome to the Highway, Nolan. Thanks for your service. I had basic at Ft Polk in 73, June-July-August. I have never experienced so much hot as I did then.
Larry in El Paso
Larry in El Paso
Lol Its known as the arm pit of the world! Its hot and humid for sure. I think it was the humidity that made it so bad. We stayed what is called North Ft. on Ft. Polk both times we moobed there getting ready to cross the pond, in the old WW 2 barracks. We'd hit the town right off post was Leesville ya'll probably called it Sleesville as we did when we wasn't locked down never knew when we were shipping so a lot of the guys acted like it was their last day in the (world). I don't know what's worse during the summer southern Iraq and Kuwait or Polk, once you got around Baghdad temp wasn't as bad but still HOT!
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WB8LBZ
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I remember all of that. I was on South Ft. Polk in the WWII barracks designated as A-1-1. I got on a plane in Chicago at 65 degrees and got off in Ft. Polk it was 98 degrees with near 100 percent humidity. Now in El Paso with the heat but no humidity.
Larry in El Paso
Larry in El Paso
I bet it took your breath away especially if you fly commercial. You know now that you say that I may be wrong I think it was South Ft., my memory is really bad. Thank god for low humidity. Thank you and the rest for the welcome, have a great weekend.
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Welcome Nolan and Thanks for your service. I was at Ft. Polk in May, June and first part of July, 1967 for basic. X2 on hot and humid. I still remember what they called "wet bulb alert" when the heat and humidity became dangerous. Un-bloused shirts and pant legs. Didn't kill me so I guess it made me stronger and was a preview of Viet Nam.
Thanks Helipilot, thank you too. Isn't it odd how us vets will thank each other, it didn't take me long to realize when I was out some where in uniform some one would come up and thank me for my service or something along those lines that 99 percent of the time they were also vets. My old man went through there as well before heading to Viet Nam. Then I think he was with the Big Red One. One of my old Sgts would tell me (this chit here builds character boy) when ever conditions were really sucking. You probably have a lot of character!
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rkymtnflyfisher
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I spent a summer down at Polk, JRTC rotation, 3-4 months. Hot. Humid. It was a great rotation, the OpFor had some great guys we fought with! Did I mention it was humid?
When we were there they were bulding up the MOUT site, big time, while damn city.
When we were there they were bulding up the MOUT site, big time, while damn city.
You know I miss that stuff now, when I first back from OIF I kept guns all over the house, didn't hunt for several yrs. But now, grenade and arty simulators, flares and smoke hanging in the air, that was fun.
rkymtnflyfisher
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I think we carried more smoke cans, star clusters, and arty simulators than any other training exercise I was ever on. Smoke cans flew by the dozen! We also had AT weapons during the live fire portions, Javalin, and AT-4 out the ass.
At one point we wound up in a trench unknowingly less than 50 meters in from of a M1 Abrahams during the live fire, I thought an AT weapon misfired in the trench when the M1 fired a round from the main gun. The ground jumped 8 feet high when that M1 fired.
At one point we wound up in a trench unknowingly less than 50 meters in from of a M1 Abrahams during the live fire, I thought an AT weapon misfired in the trench when the M1 fired a round from the main gun. The ground jumped 8 feet high when that M1 fired.
Big Ed
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I always thought they were saying "wet ball", I've never seen it written.
It's actually a procedure for measuring humidity adjusted temperature using a wet sock over a glass bulb.
Thus, "wet bulb"
Dry Bulb, Wet Bulb and Dew Point Temperatures
Big Ed
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Hmmmm
rkymtnflyfisher
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Yeah, all of our ears were ringing in a bad way, bloody noses too! Like I said, I thought a Javalin detonated in the trench, I ran around to find everyone in the squad. It wasn't until the M1 pulled forward to fire another round that we realized what happened. We flagged the TC down before they fired again!