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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Pete on May 28, 2012, 07:24:59 AM
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On this Memorial Day, I will remember my grandfather who served in the Pacific during World War Two.
During the war he had a pet spider monkey that road around on his shoulder, they ate loads of iguanas, and my grandfather was injured when he was stabbed by a Puerto Rican guy over a dispute and was sent home.
True story. When I was a kid, I thought the war must have been rough ridin' awesome.
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Yeah, every story my grandfathers told me was very fun sounding. Like, in Korea, they would march tons of miles to the front line and relieve the guys there. They would then sit there all day just bullshitting and right before they got relieved they would have a huge machine gun fight with the Koreans because they then wouldn't have to carry their ammunition all the way back to the base or fort or whatever.
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Other grandfather was a forward engineer in a B17 bomber. Right before going over to carpet bomb the the living crap out of the enemy/civilians of the enemy country he got yellow fever or scarlet fever or some sort of fever and got put in the infirmary and by the time he was better the war was over. Truly the greatest generation.
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One Grandfather fought in the Korean War. The other fought in WWII. The latter's official separation date with the Army is 2 years after what his family thought it was. He would just disappear for long stretches.
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One Grandfather fought in the Korean War. The other fought in WWII. The latter's official separation date with the Army is 2 years after what his family thought it was. He would just disappear for long stretches.
you should go search for your secret family relatives. they could be rich or something. you wouldn't want to miss out on that.
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yeah basically by the time my grandpa was the age that i am right now, he had navigated fighter planes all over rough ridin' europe and told them where to drop bombs and crap. i've basically been playing with legos my entire life.
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Another true family war story...
...my dad got one of the last spots in his county's reserve units and did not have to go to Vietnam, but he said that boot camp sucked really bad. He told me all about it in horribly graphic terms when I was a kid to ensure that I would never dare join the army.
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My wife's cousin was in Iraq a few years ago. Completely mumped up on prescription drugs and meth now. Uses the military experience as an excuse for his current stealing from everyone in the family lifestyle.
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Another true family war story...
...my dad got one of the last spots in his county's reserve units and did not have to go to Vietnam, but he said that boot camp sucked really bad. He told me all about it in horribly graphic terms when I was a kid to ensure that I would never dare join the army.
Sounds like my dad. He left for the Army on his 17th birthday. Learned how to put bombs together, but if he was called to put one together in the war, there was no way he was getting out of range before it went off. He didn't learn that until later.
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My grandpa was a diesel engineer on a ship in the pacific. He had to wear hearing aids the rest of his life because of it. Thanks a lot USA
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My wife's cousin was in Iraq a few years ago. Completely mumped up on prescription drugs and meth now. Uses the military experience as an excuse for his current stealing from everyone in the family lifestyle.
I think my cousin does something similar. Maybe not meth but stealing and what not.
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You should be able to earn a Purple Heart for just really loving the Cats because it's kind of like suffering through a war.
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Another true family war story...
...my dad got one of the last spots in his county's reserve units and did not have to go to Vietnam, but he said that boot camp sucked really bad. He told me all about it in horribly graphic terms when I was a kid to ensure that I would never dare join the army.
Sounds like my dad. He left for the Army on his 17th birthday. Learned how to put bombs together, but if he was called to put one together in the war, there was no way he was getting out of range before it went off. He didn't learn that until later.
I know someone who puts together bombs for the army. Maybe I should let him know how this ends :dunno:
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
That would be annoying. What about pizza?
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My grandpa served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in "war not a conflict" Korea. Then he worked as an exec for corningware, was a grandmaster bridge player and drank at the office. Like Mad Men if it were set in Detroit with a few other things different too.
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my dad's brother flew planes or something for somebody. i'm guessing air force. then he taught flying or something back in the us and then died in a plane crash or something.
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KK is Canadian?!?!
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KK is Canadian?!?!
canadian friend outed.
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Like Mad Men if it were set in Detroit with a few other things different too.
or like strange brew if it were set in detroit with a few other things different too.
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also, kk really let his guard down with this one. it's going to become "a thing".
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my uncle was a sonar dude on one of the first nuclear subs. he tells me that the cold war was not at all cold between u.s. and soviet submarines. they were trying to kill each other every single day. apparently we sank a couple of theirs and they got 2 of ours as well. makes sense, i guess.
his best story is about the cuban missile crisis. all of the married men fled the port to be with their families for the end of the world and he and the other half of the crew went back underwater to kill the soviet subs off the florida coast.
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my uncle was a sonar dude on one of the first nuclear subs. he tells me that the cold war was not at all cold between u.s. and soviet submarines. they were trying to kill each other every single day. apparently we sank a couple of theirs and they got 2 of ours as well. makes sense, i guess.
his best story is about the cuban missile crisis. all of the married men fled the port to be with their families for the end of the world and he and the other half of the crew went back underwater to kill the soviet subs off the florida coast.
My cousin was on one of the more recent nuclear subs :cheers:
Both grandfathers were military, one Navy, the other Air Force I believe. I don't know any details really, I should probably ask them about it.
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Draft evasion.
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Draft evasion.
This is my military heritage too. I think there are at least 2 ambulance drivers in my family history
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one of my grandpa's was air force in ww2. he was a nose gunner on b17's and b24's. he had a "lucky bastard's club" plaque for flying 31 missions and making it back in one piece.
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
How do i get in on this?
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One of my grandfathers was a farmer in Kansas. He got some sort of exemption on being drafted so he could run the farm.
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
How do i get in on this?
Join the USAF
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i don't think my family fought in the 20th century wars. hard to tell for sure, my family doesn't keep great records. fought the crap out of the civil war though (the american ones). the european ones were german, so i'm sure they were killing someone too.
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Grandfather was on the USS San Diego (18 battle stars, 2nd in the Pacific fleet)
Great Grandfather on my mom's side was in WWI and buried in one of the low European countries
Uncle on my mom's side was put up for a Medal of Honor but rejected because the US gov wasn't into putting major awards out for Nam early in the war (lived, but paralyzed in action)
Dad was in Nam, Purple Heart w/cluster
Cousin with time in Afghanistan and Bosnia
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special side note, the US Military is still using Purple Hearts made for the invasion of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
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no one gives a crap about your family that was in the military. hth
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no one gives a crap about your family that was in the military. hth
no one gives a crap about you.
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one of my grandpa's is an egghead phd dude (taught/researched at emaw).
the other was in korea as a typewriter guy.
very boring grandparents.
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no one gives a crap about your family that was in the military. hth
family of people who bitch about the freedoms others have provided for them
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
That's awesome, but KSU Cat football players get steak like every day if they want, and fried chicken too, and even whole bags of sugary snacks if the coaches think they need to put on pounds. Sounds like kinda a raw deal for the military guys, but then again, they aren't exactly KSU Cat football players.
u digg
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
That would be annoying. What about pizza?
Pizza is notoriously hard to get right.
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That's awesome, but KSU Cat football players get steak like every day if they want, and fried chicken too, and even whole bags of sugary snacks if the coaches think they need to put on pounds. Sounds like kinda a raw deal for the military guys, but then again, they aren't exactly KSU Cat football players.
#nicname4ksucompliancedirector
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
That's awesome, but KSU Cat football players get steak like every day if they want, and fried chicken too, and even whole bags of sugary snacks if the coaches think they need to put on pounds. Sounds like kinda a raw deal for the military guys, but then again, they aren't exactly KSU Cat football players.
u digg
:cool:
Not if Jamie Vaughn has anything to say about it.
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My bro has been to Iraq and afghan. Said they get steak like twice a week.
That's awesome, but KSU Cat football players get steak like every day if they want, and fried chicken too, and even whole bags of sugary snacks if the coaches think they need to put on pounds. Sounds like kinda a raw deal for the military guys, but then again, they aren't exactly KSU Cat football players.
u digg
:cool:
Not if Jamie Vaughn has anything to say about it.
If Jaime Vaughn were in the military he would be fragged in basic.
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Grandfather and his two brothers were overseas for WW2 at the same time. All Army. Brother just got back from Afghanistan in March.
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O man, a guy I work with has one grandpa from germany who fought for hitler and one grandpa who was a rebel in cuba fighting alongside castro.
I wonder what he did yesterday?
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this thread is one huge WGAF
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this thread is one huge WGAF
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