Thank you Veterans for securing our 2nd Amendment

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US Navy from 1988 to 1992. Then US Army National Guard from 1994 to 1999. I had a blast during the Cold War...

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But I am incredibly humbled and respectful by the sacrifice of my grandfather during WWII. He was a tank crewman and one of the inspirations for the movie "Fury". Dennis Weaver was a true hero...

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He took hundreds of photos while serving on the front in Italy and the images are amazing and haunting...

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My grandfather carried a S&W M17 revolver in .45 acp and a 1911 while he was on the front. He was always carrying the 1911 as evidenced by photos of him on the front, but he cherished the revolver and handcrafted custom grips for it using the plexiglass from a windscreen of a downed German plane. One grip panel bore the American flag and gold inlay, while the other was a photo of his favorite hunting spot and his cow dog from the farm in Southern Idaho. My dad now has that pistol in his posession.

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Hey Trey, thank you for your service!

The SH-3 is the only helicopter ride I ever got. Going off the Ike to Rota, Spain, after a middy cruise in '83. Fairly terrifying. First try bounded up in air only to fall back down on the deck. Crew chief said wrong power setting, or something like that. Second try worked and we skimmed across the waves. All the sea-bags were piled in front of the open door, and the A/C was doing some steep banks. Probably just to scare the middies. Nothing fell out.

I washed out of that program, so I never served, but I highly respect everyone who did, including my friends in that class.

Your grandfather's photos are amazing. He has an intensity of purpose that only life experience can bring. If the photos aren't published, they should be.
 
I started Army basic in 1967, thrilled to score expert with the M-14.

My Dad served in WWII and was involved in some unpleasantries in Europe, i.e. Battle of the Bulge, Roer River, Hurtgen Forrest, etc.

My grandfather saw trench warfare in WWI, was gassed, later died of lung cancer.
 
Ru4real said:
I served in the US Navy from 1988 to 1994 and Naval reserves until 1998.

I’m proud to have served this great nation of ours and help secure all of our rights and freedoms.

Because of our freedoms, I handed down a favorite Winchester Model 94 in 30-30 purchased by my Grampa in 1934 to my son in 2014.

How / when did you serve, and what is your favorite gun memory?
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Actually, the 2nd Amendment is about as INSECURE as it's ever been, given that there are people VERY close to the levers of power who quite openly want to take your guns and KILL you if you resist.

I was active Army from '80 to '84. My three favorite firearms memories from the military are:
  1. Being challenged at ROTC Advanced Camp by a no-it-all captain and giving a fifteen minute lecture on the history of John Browning's parallel ruler locking system and the handguns up to the M1911 that used it.
  2. Teaching the Korean civilian security guards at Camp Howze, Korea how to use their Winchester Model 1300 riot guns and giving a demonstration of slam fire with my Ithaca Model 37 Deer Slayer Police Special.
  3. Giving live fire demonstrations of Communist Bloc weapons and equipment in the 2nd Infantry Division OPFOR team.
 
I myself was not in the military , wanted to go , but blew out my knee playing sports in high school. I have a large number of family members who were enlisted , mostly Marines. My father( Vietnam) , my older brother ( Desert Storm) , and my younger brother all Marines. I have numerous uncles and cousins who also are Marines , great uncle awarded Bronze Star in Korea ( Marine). Thank you to all who served and the utmost respect to all of you!!!
 
56th Med Bn, BCSB, 7thID(L), Apr. 86' Dec.'88. Unit Armorer, I have a ton of gun stories from then. Door kicking training with some Force Recon Marines and the S-4 I worked for, an SF CPT., is the best one. Told on THR often.
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Me at work.

Deanimator said:
Being challenged at ROTC Advanced Camp by a no-it-all captain and giving a fifteen minute lecture on the history of John Browning's parallel ruler locking system and the handguns up to the M1911 that used it.
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I made the mistake of correcting a Drill Sgt. on the M16's history in the classroom training before BRM. I was right, but he didn't want to hear it........

I did do one year of ROTC also, at the University of Minnesota, 1981-82. The Supply Sgt. I worked with said I acted more like an officer......:confused:
 
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I don't mind expanding on it. I've told the story here before.
The SSG and I had just finished PT, still wearing our banana suits, and were walking back to Batallion, when we passed an LT, whom the SSG saluted. I returned the LT's salute when he returned the SSG's salute, and we all went on our merry way. (I was a SPC at the time.) after we got out of the LT's earshot, the SSG, said, " Hey man, why didn't you salute the LT?" I asked him, " See any rank on here? How would he know I'm not a CPT?" That's when he said, " Yeah, you DO act more like an officer....."
 
Third generation US Army here.

My father, grandfather, and uncle in 1945 after dad and uncle got back from the War.

*Grandfather was a sergeant/medic in the US 3rd ID in WW1, captured by the Germans and held as a POW until 1919.

*Dad was on a heavy bomber in the Pacific and participated in bombing many Japanese-held islands to include the Japanese Home Islands. His squadron witnessed the Hiroshima explosion and his aircraft overflew Nagasaki the day after it was destroyed. Was also a crew member on the first US aircraft that landed in Japan.

*His brother was a fighter pilot in Europe, flying 110-missions and shooting down 3-German aircraft to include an ME262 jet.

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And me, an Army MP in Germany (1974-77). My first unit was stationed at a nuclear weapon storage and maintenance site near Heilbronn, then moved-on to a garrison MP company in Frankfurt. I have bragging rights to have fired the largest shoulder-fired rifle in the world, pictured below: an M67 90mm recoilless rifle.

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102-year-old World War II veteran has Columbia park named in her honor
Ana Faguy, The Baltimore Sun
November 11, 2020·4 min read
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In late October, Howard residents gathered at Lake Kittamaqundi in downtown Columbia to honor World War II veteran and community leader Vivian “Millie” Bailey.

Bailey, 102, who has lived in Columbia for 50 years, was present as County Executive Calvin Ball officially opened the Vivian C. “Millie” Bailey Neighborhood Square in her honor on Oct. 22.

“It’s quite an honor, and I never had expected to receive an honor quite that prestigious,” Bailey said in an interview Tuesday. “I feel honored to have had that done for me in my name.”..........

Full story here:
https://news.yahoo.com/102-old-world-war-ii-105900497.html
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God bless Ms Millie! 35941283365_fc15f3eb19_o.gif

Regards,
hps
 
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