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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: JIMMY OWENS Message: Yeah-- When is the next Crittttter Cookout and who will be the "Surprise Guest" or will it be "Bill Murry" again, I had to stand in line way to long to see him last time ? JIM |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: To Doug: My deepest regards to the loss of your friend "Sink". I have heard his name mentioned before. It's hard to lose a fellow Ranger, Friend, and former Combat buddy. My deepest regards, I truly am sorry about the loss. To all others, thanks for your congrats. I'll think about the CCO....and yes Doug, I wanted to make sure that all of you had a good time at the CCO....don't know how long $200.00 will last, but have one for me if I don't make it. Again Doug,....really sorry about your friend. He was another, "American Hero"......Take care. Joe |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Mark Jordan Message: ...long overdue but easily recalled, i want to recognize in a special major spot report a young Ranger sdnco who made an old ranger proud of this generation's finest... ...being of old lieutenant sense i was cruising the back roads for montgomery creek...i always wanted to camp there and tonight was going to be it...after coming back up out of the hollow, having night coming on and without lights, a decent patrol base would do... ...first gear slides back...a rain is coming down hard on this georgia red clay...one move into 4 wheel drive and i feel the soft, back, right tire slide and sink, over the edge...a few phone calls to the camp merrill sdnco and my usaa folks has an ellijay tow truck coming in two hours... ...that feeling you have when you're about to lose your balance and go?...like coming back down to the log on the 'log walk/rope drop'?... ...about 4 times..."whawuzat?!"...so i leaned up hill for a while.. ...rain is pounding and lights come around the bend up the way...billy lock of ellijay said later, "if i'da known how far back in there you were, i wouldn't have come"...then he went on to say, "good thing i did though, cause when i was putting the cables on i saw how close you were to going over...and it did give away when i first tightened up"..."yep"... ...the sdnco had personally rode shotgun to show the driver the way, all the way back where you don't drive at all if they're wet at all...the young sergeant scrambles up the bank, reminding me of frank kelly, one of my teammates on RM1R33N...cooper creek scenic area... ...inspecting and checking and helping billy lock out in this pouring rain, reminding me of my last walk with wild bill manning...the sergeant then ground guides the tow truck backwards...up...around...down...for at least half a mile, while i am feet behind him, unhooked but focusing on the tow truck's lights...as the sdnco led from the front and the rear... ...finally back down into a turnaround he gets back into the cab for the ride to the nco club parking lot...thanking him profusely, i wanted his compassion for an old ranger to be told and kenneth king, walking back to headquarters building, rain still pounding on this winter night, as the camp cadre returned from leave, said, "that's what we're here for, sir", turned and walked...soaked to the bone from what he referred to as "a gentle shower"... ...my personal gratitide to such a selfless act of brotherhood and compassion, i hope to buy kenneth king a brew or three soon... ...one more note of interest...al parten found out i was his class tac...6-80...i refreshed his memory of the class motto; he remembered "they" (me) making him company first sergeant in florida and how stanley fox was his first sergeant from the first battalion...(1SG Fox also was my first RI up on top of 3336' sassafras mountain, passing me...so peculiar was that patrol that he remembered it in '79 when he also was the first RI i walked with for orientation, reminding him of the irony... ...i think maybe al could give his perspective about a winter class of low ranking enlisted and few officers who graduated over 100% (as honestly as i can figure...we recycled few, dropped even fewer and picked up many more recycles for each phase)...but, yes, al was one of the few and i'd love to hear his stories of that february to april of 1980... ...any rumor of having the side profiles of sonny and steve in the blue sky above yonah?...raised "lettering"?...thought i heard that somewhere... ...thank you for your patience and i had a nice conversation with bob williams mother in law today...her best regards to you... ..."RTLW"...maybe sonny wants that at the very top of the blue sky, like he and steve are looking up at the Big Ranger in the Sky...like that... Mark |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Al P. Message: Joe, that was the orignal date. It was decided a couple meetings ago to change to the 16th of May, because the CMD at CFM would rather have it when no Ranger Class is in Cycle. I thought this was discussed on the site, if not. EVERYONE, the CCO will be on the 16th of May 2009 behind the NCO Club at CFM. We will attempt to serve chow around 1500. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Al Parten Message: Is anyone showing up early at the Club to cook something besides burgers and dogs for the eatin-meetin ? Doug, Pee-wee , hello out there, kinda quiet around here. |
