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[UKCATS]

I'm new to this forum and jeep ownership itself, and saw this thread.I'm a Vietnam Veteran 11B 1st/327th 101st Airborne.
I just purchased a 2019 Wrangler Sport S in Bikini Pearl. I live in Arizona that has some wonderful roads and am looking
forward to getting out on them. Welcome Home Brothers, and Thank You for your service.

Welcome brother, and thank you for your service.

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[geospyder]

I'm new to this forum and jeep ownership itself, and saw this thread.I'm a Vietnam Veteran 11B 1st/327th 101st Airborne.
I just purchased a 2019 Wrangler Sport S in Bikini Pearl. I live in Arizona that has some wonderful roads and am looking
forward to getting out on them. Welcome Home Brothers, and Thank You for your service.

Welcome Home Brother

 

[Sean L]

Okay so I just saw this Terminal Lance. I have litterally done this to a Marine. There was a big fire in the training area and we were breaking down our Bivouac site to clear out of there. I put one of my Marines on a literal firewatch, handed him a radio and told him to let me know if that fire starts coming our way so we can "get the Fck out of here.!"

Fortunately we had enough time to get all the gear in the HMMWVs as well as our troops. The fire never got to where we were.

 

[geospyder]

Slinging hash at the Spartan Pledge Event at the VA this morning.

 

[geospyder]

No hash. Cole slaw, baked beans and BBQ pulled pork. Fed about 400 people.

 

[wahlsaint]

Respect, and my and my family's thanks to this crew.

 

[Sean L]

 

[Minty JL]

Well I figured I'd poke my head in here

US Army Retired, 1998-2018
Hawaii, Korea, OIF 1 / 3 / 5

Not to long before I retired.......

 

[werewolf4805]

New member checking in. Current Hospital Corpsman in the Navy for 31 more days before getting out. Did 9.5 years, OEF, and most of my career green side with 2DMARDIV and SOI-E.

 

[Minty JL]

Me too. My team had nothing but trouble there. I got IED'd, then my gunner got IED'd a few weeks later with a different team. Then when he came back to us we nearly got IED'd again but that was a dud...

And the one time I was up on the gun I nearly got shot by that sniper. Whoo boy I was ready to light him up! He did get countersniped later that deployment though.

Oh yeah I loved IEDs in Mosul (05-06) I was a gunner. Those fu@kheads even gave me a nice one for my 26th birthday.........I was lucky AF that night....thankfully they buried it to deep.

I was living in the city training Iraqi's......that was a nasty year, but fun at the same time in a fu@ked up way

 

[Sean L]

Oh yeah I loved IEDs in Mosul (05-06) I was a gunner. Those fu@kheads even gave me a nice one for my 26th birthday.........I was lucky AF that night....thankfully they buried it to deep.

I was living in the city training Iraqi's......that was a nasty year, but fun at the same time in a fu@ked up way

Ah I never made it that far north. I was pretty stuck in Al Anbar province, except for one short afternoon in Baghdad.

 

[Mikeoso]

USMC. 1st Bn 9th Marines. Vietnam 1968.

Here's part of the Wiki article
During the Vietnam War, the unit earned the name "The Walking Dead" for its high casualty rate.[3] The battalion endured the longest sustained combat and suffered the highest killed in action (KIA) rate in Marine Corps history, especially during the Battle of July Two. The battalion was engaged in combat for 47 months and 7 days, from 15 June 1965 to 19 October 1966 and 11 December 1966 to 14 July 1969. Based on a typical battalion strength of 800 Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen, 2,892 Marines passed through the unit over those 47 months, meaning 25.89% (747) were Killed In Action (KIA) and 0.0007% (2) were Missing In Action (MIA).


When you add in WIAs, our casualty rate for 4 years was 350%.

 

[UKCATS]

USMC. 1st Bn 9th Marines. Vietnam 1968.

Here's part of the Wiki article
During the Vietnam War, the unit earned the name "The Walking Dead" for its high casualty rate.[3] The battalion endured the longest sustained combat and suffered the highest killed in action (KIA) rate in Marine Corps history, especially during the Battle of July Two. The battalion was engaged in combat for 47 months and 7 days, from 15 June 1965 to 19 October 1966 and 11 December 1966 to 14 July 1969. Based on a typical battalion strength of 800 Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen, 2,892 Marines passed through the unit over those 47 months, meaning 25.89% (747) were Killed In Action (KIA) and 0.0007% (2) were Missing In Action (MIA).


When you add in WIAs, our casualty rate for 4 years was 350%.

Welcome, and thank you for your service.

 

[obwahn]

USMC. 1st Bn 9th Marines. Vietnam 1968.

Here's part of the Wiki article
During the Vietnam War, the unit earned the name "The Walking Dead" for its high casualty rate.[3] The battalion endured the longest sustained combat and suffered the highest killed in action (KIA) rate in Marine Corps history, especially during the Battle of July Two. The battalion was engaged in combat for 47 months and 7 days, from 15 June 1965 to 19 October 1966 and 11 December 1966 to 14 July 1969. Based on a typical battalion strength of 800 Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen, 2,892 Marines passed through the unit over those 47 months, meaning 25.89% (747) were Killed In Action (KIA) and 0.0007% (2) were Missing In Action (MIA).


When you add in WIAs, our casualty rate for 4 years was 350%.

Welcome and those are some sucky stats!

 

[Minty JL]

I'm new to this forum and jeep ownership itself, and saw this thread.I'm a Vietnam Veteran 11B 1st/327th 101st Airborne.
I just purchased a 2019 Wrangler Sport S in Bikini Pearl. I live in Arizona that has some wonderful roads and am looking
forward to getting out on them. Welcome Home Brothers, and Thank You for your service.

I have special respect for Nam Vets. Y'all got dealt a shit hand and treated like complete shit when you got home. My father was a Nam Vet and was the one that inspired me to not only enlist.....but make a career out of it.

So solid salute to you Brother for paving the way and being the advocates to ensure the generations that followed you were taken care of.

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