Today is a day for thanking our vets. Would love to know all of our board buddies who are vets!
Roll call!
Roll call!
OT: Who's a veteran?
- Thread starter SkilletHead2
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Not exactly. It is a day to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Don't confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day.
U.S. Navy. One tour of duty. Fortunately no active wars going on. Too young for Korea and out before Nam ramped up.
Point taken, Pinehurst! Still would like to acknowledge the board vets.
And now that you mention it, my brother-in-law, Navy vet, gets crazed over this distinction every year. Unfortunately, he's a Tennessee fan and doesn't visit this board. Would have been worth it just to wind him up!
I'd like to thank everybody who posts individually, but obviously can't do that, but seeing as how you post less frequently for than once a year, but took the time to post here, thanks for your service!
And you too, Roolz!
Two RU alums in my family that were vets. My Dad, RC '55, Capt. 10th Special Forces Group, Ft. Devins, MA, left the service in March, 1964. My Great-Uncle Robert Collett, RC '36?, (RU LAX scholarship in his name), Colonel, U.S. Army, helped run the "Red Ball Express" in Europe during WW II.
Thanks to all that served. We are forever in your debt.
Please read if you get a chance (from 2012). Will never forget the cartoon with the kid asking "How much did all this cost?"
https://motleynews.net/2012/05/26/memorial-day-just-in-case-you-thought-it-was-national-bbq-day/
Thanks to all that served. We are forever in your debt.
Please read if you get a chance (from 2012). Will never forget the cartoon with the kid asking "How much did all this cost?"
https://motleynews.net/2012/05/26/memorial-day-just-in-case-you-thought-it-was-national-bbq-day/
I know I Rarely post, but I read the board on a daily basis.
Not to pile on, but this is correct. Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day because it was the day to decorate the graves of the Union dead in the Civil War.
Me! Air Force! Air Traffic Control. Two tours to Iraq (Baghdad and Kirkuk) and one to UAE!
Agreed... Memorial Day is certainly in remembrance.
I always share the stories with our younger Airmen... in Iraq when an American died... the trucks (ice boxes) would unload all of the coffins... flagged draped.. one at a time. Everything stopped on the airfield...Such and awful sight to witness. Usually it was one or two... believe or not... we got used to seeing the onesie Twosie. Well one day a chinook (tomahawk) got hit.... all 19 on board died.
As we stood out there... rendering our salutes... ice box after icebox pulled up... it was the first time on any my deployments that I cried.
We (Americans) salute our fallen from the "major" wars of the past... WWI WWII etc... don't forget our Iraq and Afghanistan heroes.
Sorry.... long rant... got it in my feelings in the middle.
Agreed... Memorial Day is certainly in remembrance.
I always share the stories with our younger Airmen... in Iraq when an American died... the trucks (ice boxes) would unload all of the coffins... flagged draped.. one at a time. Everything stopped on the airfield...Such and awful sight to witness. Usually it was one or two... believe or not... we got used to seeing the onesie Twosie. Well one day a chinook (tomahawk) got hit.... all 19 on board died.
As we stood out there... rendering our salutes... ice box after icebox pulled up... it was the first time on any my deployments that I cried.
We (Americans) salute our fallen from the "major" wars of the past... WWI WWII etc... don't forget our Iraq and Afghanistan heroes.
Sorry.... long rant... got it in my feelings in the middle.
For Kiwis, the equivalent of Memorial Day is ANZAC Day, named after the Australian New Zealand Army Corps vets, particularly from the battle of Gallipoli.
Always told Skillet Jr. and his sister, at RU games, to sing the National Anthem, as it honored veterans who didn't make it back -- who wanted nothing more in life than the chance to live, to go to an RU game, to have a family, and never got that chance. On ANZAC day, they always read this ode by Binyon, written about WWI:
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
Always told Skillet Jr. and his sister, at RU games, to sing the National Anthem, as it honored veterans who didn't make it back -- who wanted nothing more in life than the chance to live, to go to an RU game, to have a family, and never got that chance. On ANZAC day, they always read this ode by Binyon, written about WWI:
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
I saw the "Thanks, Vets," thread on the RT and was wondering who all was a vet who is also an SN member. But, you are right, it is Memorial Day, not Veterans' Day!
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anon_ivydyf0amkzay
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22 years USAF...where does the time go?
USAF 7 years and counting. 13 more years to go!
US Navy '84-'88. Served on the Coral Sea from March of '85 until May of '88
Drafted after graduating RU in 1969 and spent 1970-71 in Vietnam.
Salute to all branches but I love seeing fellow scarlet Airmen!
Not a veteran but both my father and uncle were. Also, had a great grandfather (never met) who was in the German army. Father and uncle had interesting experiences (all good). Uncle was on a boat heading for WWII when the Germans surrendered. Boat turned around and came back to US. Father went into the army just after WWII, spent his entire time in occupied Japan and got out just before the start of the Korean war.
Not me but many members of my family have served. One recently passed, Marines.
RIP and thank you to all the Vets for your service.
RIP and thank you to all the Vets for your service.
I guess I will track down all the people that came up to Sunday and Monday
and thanked me and tell them their mistake.
Served 20 years of active duty after receiving my commission thru Rutgers Army ROTC '82. Now serve as a government civilian for the US Navy.
I paid off my Uncle Sam footing the RU tuition by serving in the NJ Army National Guard
My brother was an air-winger.. says he never set foot on a ship.. might as well have been air force! (his wording, not mine).. and he also had a cute rote response for Navy guys who'd dig him with "Isn't that a department of the navy?".. with "yeah.. the men's department".
Did not mean to criticize you for starting the tread, and am glad you did. Sorry if I came off as opposing the thread.
USAF 1969-1973. Unfortunately, spent no time near the air. While on the job, I was 40 feet underground with a Titan II missile.
I spent close to a year on a ship, that never hit port. And figure this, I joined the USAF instead of the Navy because
I hated the thought of being on a ship. Then I spent almost two years on a sight that had the 265 inch of snow each winter I was there.
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anon_ivydyf0amkzay
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From the Revolutionary War through today... thank you all for your service and sacrifices. God bless.
C'mon, man. Surely you can appreciate the point of my comment and the spirit behind it. Memorial Day is sacrosanct to me and should be to all Americans. In my community it is a somber and reflective day. Nonetheless, thank you for your service.
Thanks for posting. I had seen the ad for this show, but had not seen it. It was very interesting on several levels. I noticed some minor changes to the crew uniform and to the briefing room where 18 crews met at 6:00 AM on the days they had alerts. I also noticed an in security when entering the site. I had a password to give in order for the other crew to let me and my crew in. I didn't have a piece of paper with codes on it that had to be burned as soon as I gave the codes to the commander whose crew was at the site.
Since I had been in the same squadron when I was at Little Rock, it's likely that during the 3 1/2 years that I was on a crew, I had pulled some alerts at 4-7 where the accident took place. Most of my alerts were at 4-9 where I was the senior crew commander.
At the time I was in, we never worried about the warhead exploding because we knew that it didn't arm itself until it was separated from the missile and well on its way to the target. Of course, we didn't know that in the right circumstances after an accident, there was a possibility that I day could have been ruined bigtime.
Most of the show was hard to watch because there were so many mistakes made. The biggest of course, was the airman being too lazy to go back to the truck to get the appropriate tool. Had he done that, the whole episode never would have happened. He compounded the problem by waiting a half hour before telling the crew commander what had happened. Once the accident happened and it was obvious that they couldn't stop the fuel leak, I don't understand why they weren't instructed by the powers that be to do an emergency off-load of the oxidizer. I'm not sure if they could have flooded the silo with the 10's of thousands of gallons of water that the silo held for sound attenuation during launch. If they could have done that, it would have diluted the fuel and probably prevented an explosion.
The really surprising thing to me was that neither Mondale nor Clinton knew that the Titans had a nuclear warhead. WTF did they think the missile was doing there? It would make no sense for a missile that could travel 9,000 miles and hit within feet of the target would have only a conventional weapon equal to a 1,000 lb. or larger bomb.
The rest of the show was not much of a surprise. A CYA policy was in effect in the military as it is in many other jobs.
Thanks again for posting.
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