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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: Thanks Doug. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Mark Jordan Message: ...Kaz and I tac´d Class 6-80 together...Al Parten still remembers the first day when Kaz and I felt particularly fatherly for the new students and tried, as best we could, to warm up the warm pit for them...much like one does when entering the swamps of Florida for that moment of warmth all over... ...He was on RM1R31N...with Larry Kelley and others...the patrol I had hoped to join after TACing...but LTC Blount wanted an S-1 that could write, and reading my after action reports, I got selected...what a disappointment...after TACing 6-80 with such fine results, immediately the wind is taken from the sails and S1 is what I did...oh, please, let me recontain my enthusiasm... ...Kaz was a fine trooper...along with so many more...my last walk with Bill Manning was memorable, as well as all the others in between...even back to being a student in the Mountains with 10-75, Cpt Shehorn, TAC, and passing both patrols, MSG Fox and Cpt Maynard, among the streams and mountain laurel of the night... ...about to be me and build a casa barca on el mar...houseboat out on the gulf of mexico...not much of a cost and using solar and wind as much as practical to develop batteries for power...what a fine mess I enjoy getting into... ...if anyone knows about the Iowa company that has developed solar panels within tent fabric, for the Army, I´d really like to get a contact number for some surplus material to use as shade and power for my houseboat to be... ...(the recon is going well...most think of me as "Santa Claus"...in Sisal, Hunucma and Merida, Yucatan)...I´m hoping to start teaching the Mayans English, so they can better deal with tourists...most of the young street hawkers get one year of school and are out selling seven days a week from age 10 on... ...many good thoughts and hopes for all Rangers everywhere...if the hammock that is being made for me in Merida, with a huge Ranger Tab comprising most of it, maybe I can send it up to be raffled like the shotgun was in the NCO Club...and the proceeds going to having a Ranger Tab flower arrangement for any funeral that we know of...something to gain some funds for something very appreciated... ...to all the Leaders of the Way, my sincere appreciation for being a RANGER!!!... ...adios amigos...Marko Edwardo Jordan...Sisal, Yucatan...(no post office, no address...just ask for Santa...no problem)... |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Mike Flack Message: I left CFM 31 August 1976 and Bob Howard was there then. I don't recall when he got there. I do remember one time talking with him. He was always quiet, not the talkative type like so many I could name, one or two of whom are hunting in Ohio right now. I had seen a picture of him in a magazine dragging a VC into an SF camp and asked Bob why he did that. He just shrugged and said he thought somebody might've wanted him for something. Typical of him. Good Man. Great Soldier. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Brian Cunningham Message: 2010 USMRA Scholarship Committee Selections After due consideration of the applications, it is the decision of the 2010 USMRA Scholarship Committee that Ms. Erin Keogh and Mr. Clay Williams be recognized as the winners for 2010. Each of these exemplary students will receive a $500 scholarship award. Erin is the daughter of Ranger Charles Keogh. Clay is the son of Ranger Bob Williams. Respectfully submitted: Ranger Keith Antonia Ranger Brian Beckno Ranger Brian Cunningham RLTW |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Mark Jordan Message: ...you know, we could go 'high tech' and figure out how to "skype" our meetings and events... ...I am not techno-qualified but somebody is... ...grizzly owens...we woulda tac'd a fine class together, given the chance... ...RLTW, 'cept for some of those space age techno thingys... |
