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RonH posted:

To all veterans
Thank You for Your Service.

A well deserved day of recognition to all Vets.

Great picture Ron, worked on M109 and 110 Howitzers in the 80's. We had open acres next to us and used to test the travel locks and hydraulic spades out there. Ever see a motorist with eyes as large as saucers slam on the brakes when a howitzer crests the hill right next to them? 

 

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BobbyD posted:
RonH posted:

To all veterans
Thank You for Your Service.

A well deserved day of recognition to all Vets.

Great picture Ron, worked on M109 and 110 Howitzers in the 80's. We had open acres next to us and used to test the travel locks and hydraulic spades out there. Ever see a motorist with eyes as large as saucers slam on the brakes when a howitzer crests the hill right next to them? 

 

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Hi BobbyD:

Great pictures, thank you for your service and just remember "TANKERS DO IT BETTER" especially with a M109 and 110 Howitzer.
Mine is a M60-A1 with AOS.
In 73 we were testing the AOS (add on stabilization).

jim pastorius posted:

I posted a photo of me in winter field uniform holding my Browning machine gun and it was deleted !!  I laughed.  God, it was cold !!

Jim-

You sound like my dad describing the Bulge, "It figures that it would be the coldest winter in 25 years" (and it was; my dad hated the cold). He was a member of the 610th tank killer battalion, my brother recently found the citation for his silver star earned during the bulge (and to boot, he loved Lionel trains until he passed away

 

To all veterans, thanks for serving, as thankless as it has to feel at times, the frustration of dealing with stupidity (my wife subscribes to some military facebook pages dealing with the SNAFUs and whatnot), know it is appreciated by many even if it feels like it isn't. My fondest hope for the world would be one where people wouldn't need to sacrifice and die, but in the meantime thanks to all those who do so, may those who put troops in harms way always do it for the right reasons.

jim pastorius posted:

I have never expected thanks. I would do it again.

Generally, that's the attitude I see from most vets.

Frankly, I'm proud of my service, wish I could have done more (I got out mostly because I found I wasn't medically capable of all that running after a few years), and never regretted it. That said, as I was never actually in a shooting war, I don't consider myself a veteran in the classical sense.

I always feel embarrassed when someone thanks me for my service, because I don't feel worthy of that in the way, say, as I feel a WW2 vet is...

p51 posted:
jim pastorius posted:

I have never expected thanks. I would do it again.

Generally, that's the attitude I see from most vets.

Frankly, I'm proud of my service, wish I could have done more (I got out mostly because I found I wasn't medically capable of all that running after a few years), and never regretted it. That said, as I was never actually in a shooting war, I don't consider myself a veteran in the classical sense.

I always feel embarrassed when someone thanks me for my service, because I don't feel worthy of that in the way, say, as I feel a WW2 vet is...

Don't be.  You were there and you were ready if called.  Thank you for that.

jim pastorius posted:

I agree totally. Thank God we weren't in a shooting war because being up close to the Iron Curtain we wouldn't have lasted long.  The frontline combat vets have always had my total respect.

Yep, my primary active job would have been as a 'fire brigade' support role for a heavy mechanized brigade to get to Korea to shore up the defenses around the 2nd Infantry Division HQ. We knew exactly where our defensive positions were, and what are war role would be... To basically hold in place until we were overrun. In other words, go and die in place unless the North Koreans were able to be stopped.

If things had gone badly in Korea at that time, we all fully expected to never be coming home, as they do have nukes, and chemical weapons that I knew we didn't have enough chemical suits to survive long-term exposure from.

p51 posted:
jim pastorius posted:

I agree totally. Thank God we weren't in a shooting war because being up close to the Iron Curtain we wouldn't have lasted long.  The frontline combat vets have always had my total respect.

Yep, my primary active job would have been as a 'fire brigade' support role for a heavy mechanized brigade to get to Korea to shore up the defenses around the 2nd Infantry Division HQ. We knew exactly where our defensive positions were, and what are war role would be... To basically hold in place until we were overrun. In other words, go and die in place unless the North Koreans were able to be stopped. ....

My unit at the German-Czech border, too. We were there to slow down the Soviet armored columns a bit until our heavy units in the rear could converge.

But, we'd give them some hell.

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