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Post by wild on Jun 23, 2011 14:09:23 GMT -6
A touch of the Henry Fondas there but jeeselouise the "catering corps"?Scratch one image.
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Post by benteen on Jun 23, 2011 14:14:44 GMT -6
Wild,
That's it, good call, I knew he reminded me of someone and that's it Henry Fonda. Thank you I would have been driving myself nuts (not that I have that far to go) trying to think of who it was.
Be Well Dan
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Post by wild on Jun 23, 2011 15:12:54 GMT -6
No problem Dan. From the lean and hungry look of them the catering corps was not up to much.
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Post by fred on Jun 23, 2011 17:32:01 GMT -6
You guys slay me... the "catering corps"...! The "caterers" were B Company, the QM guys. They ran the forward supply dumps; we ran the roads supplying the infantry. And in reality, those guys were supplied by air mostly. We ran the roads primarily to draw "Charlie" and the NVA out into the open and then we would call in the infantry who were sitting somewhere in their choppers, rotors whirling.
And actually, today's army is "catered." They have all sorts of outside vendors cooking and serving, everything contracted out. You go into a mess hall and there is Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonald's... I read one article where they had a "spa" and troops were able to get manicures and pedicures.... O-o-...kay...!
Quincannon,
I do not know about the unit crest and its coloring. It is mainly correct, but I do not have any of the insignia left, so I do not know. The only one of those signs I put up was the "Can Do" sign. The others were already there.
Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by quincannon on Jun 23, 2011 17:52:41 GMT -6
I was actually thinking of Lee Marvin in drag, but there is a slight My Darling Clementine, Victor Mature look about him. Looks just like Doc Holiday to me. He has amoral gunfighter written all over that baby face.
The motto is green on a gold scroll with gold letters. Vert and Or for you sticklers for Heraldic purity. Benteen was not dawdling, he was putting up your damn sign.
Fred, it is Dining Facility not mess hall and they are all now at brigade combat team level. Don't you know nuttin. The Fort Carson Burger King has better fries than MacDonalds.
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Post by fred on Jun 23, 2011 18:04:31 GMT -6
He has amoral gunfighter written all over that baby face. Careful, or I'll post more. I have one in greens, sitting on a wall with the Neckar River behind me, a beautiful Heidelberg bridge in the background. First looie Fred, I think. Heaviest I have ever been; looked like Porky Pig in green; 162 pounds, soakin' wet with a rock in my pocket. I just noticed... I still wear that watch. That's what I thought. That's not what's up there? Good grief, Charlie Brown! Now I know why the IEDs were so effective in Iraq. The sons-of-bitches threw out the SOPs for convoys and used these idiot contractors to run all the convoys. I read one article that claimed about 18 girenes were killed when an IED blew up their truck. If I ever put 18 men in a truck, Bill DePuy would have put me before a firing squad. Dan, Those hats weren't issue. The army has always struggled with a hat to go with the "work" uniform, BDU's, fatigues... whatever. (God forbid they wear the same thing as the Marines wear...). When I first went in, we wore those stupid-lookin' blocked fatigue hats, then went to the "baseball" cap, which was even more stupid. In Vietnam, the locals sold these baseball caps with a stiff front and most guys bought them. I did. What made them cool was that you could "crack" the top part of the blocking and that flattened the top of the hat, making them look fairly cool. If you look at all that "subdued" insignia on our uniforms, that was all non-issue, as well. We went over there with the standard colored insignia, white, yellow, etc. The crap we bought there had to be constantly changed because the backing was paper and they just wound black or brown thread around the paper, sewed it on a swatch of material, and that's what we had sewn on. By the time I left we still didn't have the N. S. Meyer-issued stuff (or whoever made it); none of the good stuff for us! Hell, in those days, our silver rank insignia was all sterling, can you believe it? And by the way, those guys were good troopers. Hamilton was one of four OCS lieutenants I got in (I fired two of them!), and turned out to be a darned good officer. Bagula was a decent driver; not the greatest... he had his ass chewed out more than once, I'll tell you. There were some damn fine soldiers in that company. Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by Yan Taylor on Jun 27, 2011 9:17:27 GMT -6
What music were you guys into around this period, there was some great sounds created in the sixties. Regards Ian.
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