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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Ranger William Sears Message: I am trying to locate Ranger John R. Heath from Connecticut. We served together in 1-75 at HAAF, Ga. again at 1-509 Abn in Vicenza Italy, and last at A-2-75 at Ft Lewis, Wa. We were good friends but I lost track of him after I was wounded and transferred in 1983. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: Sorry, but i forgot something. First let me say that I'm real sorry that I haven't learned how to use spell check. Apparently, my thumb doesn't know how to push those buttons yet.....;there are a couple of others that I have to mention...they weren't Rangers, but they had a Ranger heart, and gave all they could to make things at Camp Merrill good for the rest of us. I need to ask everyone to remember Doug Cook of the Camp Engineers...who knew how to come in, square away the Camp Engineering and turn that organization into the fine group of hard working "givers" that all of them were. They came in anytime something didn't work right such as heating, water, and electricity. No matter the weather, or the conditions, they found their way to Camp Merrill, grabbed a wrench, screwdriver or a hammer and fixed whatever it was that was wrong and got the heat going again. Doug was a great "Squad Leader" of that Enginerring Squad and all of us owe him a great debt for what he and his people did, that we took for granted! The other one is Jimmy Padgett. Again, like the others I've mentioned, I never went without a great Breakfast before going out on Patrol, or never went without a cup of hot coffee when I came in from a Patrol. Jimmy is famous for his special pancakes, but to all of us who just "expected" a hot meal and coffee, we really never knew what it was like to come in early in the morning, when no one else was awake, warm up the grills, make up an urn of coffee, and just get things going so that all of us who came in later (early for us) had something to eat before we went on our ways to where ever it was. These two folks need to be included in our new book....and they need to be remembered as equal partners in all that we did, and continue to do...to keep those same foot prints going, up and down those hills, "klick, after klick"....if it weren't for them, life would have been a whole lot more challenging then what we remember. thanks Rangers for this last "rant" Joe |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: Jimmy: Cpt/Major Howard...was he the one who was also part blind? I seem to remember stories of an SF/Ranger Officer who served at the Camp who was harder then "wood pecker lips" and everyone loved the guy, except he was blinder then a bat? Is this the same guy, who later went to the SF Q Course as an Insrtuctor/Officer at Ft Bragg? |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Bill Breen Message: I know, Hawk made me do more push ups than I care to remember. Ha! |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Steve Hawk Message: Joe Was that the pass in review for Bo Calloway? I remember the time Ranger One got loose after a cannon going off and he and rider went through the band and towards the Golf Course. I think he took out several drums and tuba player. Steve |
