Bluesman
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I blame Boo.
Boo Radley is a son of a bitch.
No, hang on. That's Bill Braski.
Bill Braski is a son of a bitch.
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Heh. You said 'poke'. Hehe.
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I see that you're full-up. BUT...if somebody bails, or there is any additional commanders needed, please consider me for either side.
I rate myself medium-high in experience and ability, and off the friggin' scale at ability to get turns out.
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Killed an M-24 Chafee with a 120mm mortar near-miss; landed just behind; fragged the bastard out.
Lucky hit; I wasn't shooting at the tank, and it was the first shot, the 'spotting' round.
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HEY, ole buddy!Originally posted by TufenHuden:USMC-Infantry-1st Gulf war Desert Shield/
Storm-4 active-3 reserve....
Bluesman good to see your alive and well
hope to see you at BOB again....
Well, as much as I miss BoB, there is a condition that they'd have to meet before I go back, and I'm not so conceited nor missed that I'd ask or they'd grant. It has to do with a certain member that I can't seem to ignore or abide, so BoB and I will just have to without each other, I guess.
How ya been?
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Yeah, their retirement plan is a little light on the specifics. Maybe I'll just stay on the same side as the snake-eaters and keep goldbrickin' in sunny Tampa, until one of these days Rummy will get tired of screwin' around, send ME over, and I'll wrap up the whole unpleasant bidness in a couple o' weeks. :cool:Originally posted by Battlefront.com:Bluseman, welcome back. As far as Team Zarqawi I hear the pay is good, but the work conditions aren't all that great. Something about being hunted down and killed
On the other hand, there are all those virgins waiting for you in the afterlife. Hey, every job has its perks!Steve
And YEAH, we're making life tough for 'em (and impossible for many). Last week was GREAT, and if you're a known name in Iraq, it's a matter of time until you're martyred or Gitmo'd. (Did you see that we zapped Abu Azzam? That was as good a 'get' as we've gotten all year, and it barely gets mentioned in the media.
)ANYhoo, I dragged the thread WAY off topic, so I'll get it back on the rails with this:
I may get to go to Jump Skool next year, if I'm still in Tampa, haven't retired, and Lt. Bluesman gives me permission.
I qualified 'Expert' on my M-4, and I'm going out on the small arms range so much they're calling me 'Punch' (as in Primer Puncher). The three-star we work for has requested that I remain on the Joint Task Force roster as the NSA rep, so if all that comes together like I hope it will, I'll be going out on the road to REALLY do my thang. THEN I'll have combat experience to write about in here. -
I'll go as far as reasonably healthy and reasonably smart.Originally posted by Barrold:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />What doin', ole soul? Staying healthy, happy, smart and good-lookin'?
BDH </font>
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Hey, Marcus! Dropped in to the BoB a few days back for ole times' sake, and saw lots of familiar handles. (Some that I'm not too fond of, but mostly good memories of a fine, kind and refined set of fellows. And speaking of one of the best: how's Gary doing? My phone number for him doesn't work anymore. Is he...okay?)Originally posted by mike8g:Hi Bluesman,
nice to see that you're still around here.
I wish you luck !!
Marcus
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Healthy in body, mind and spirit, Doggie, but if I don't get some buy-in from my chain-of-command SOON on my request to quit ridin' the pine and go get my boots dusty, I'll switch sides and go to work for Team Zarqawi. :mad:Originally posted by Dogface:Ya Bluesman long time no see. Every time we ship a computer to SOCOM at MacDill I wonder how you have been doing.
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What doin', ole soul? Staying healthy, happy, smart and good-lookin'?Originally posted by Barrold:Holy Cow...long time no see Bluesman!
BDH
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Hey, boys.
I'll fill in the details later; hafta run a daughter to a b-day party.
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In nine days, I will have been signed on with the USAF for twenty years. (I signed papers 17 October '85, but didn't report to Basic until 18 February '86.)
In my time, I've been an airborne Vietnamese linguist (perhaps the worst one the Air Force ever made; ears of stone) on RC-135s; a triple nickel, aka Production Control Specialist - what UP, Columbus?
); a flight planner/dispatcher; an industrial engineer; and finally, I'm an intelligence analyst, currently serving as NCOIC of the Intelligence Watch here at Special Operations Command, MacDill AFB, Florida. Which is purty much my dream job.But I may go for the record number of specialty codes held, and apply for First Sergeant duty.
Combat experience was 81 days in the AoR during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, Prince Sultan Air Base, Al Kharj, aka, Al's Garage. Although I got hazardous duty pay, the only risk we were under was the ice cream machine being busted, or gittin' a wicked sunburn at the base pool. Family separations SUCK, but if you gotta be away from home, the AF sure knows how to do it right.
However, if I can FINALLY get somebody to send me to war, I'll be in Baghdad in February. Two years' trying, and nothin' yet.
My wife is an Air Force nurse, just promoted to 1Lt (prior enlisted as an Arabic linguist - with a sixteen year break-in-service before getting commissioned, which may be a record!). She'll prolly deploy before I get back, in which case she'll re-enlist me while we're both Over There.
As a production control specialist at Wurtsmith AFB, in Michigan, I was a fireteam leader on the Prime BEEF (Base Engineering Emergency Force) airbase ground defense unit, and that has to be the most fun I've ever had in the Air Force. Hard, dirty, exhausting, and GREAT. I miss that grunt stuff, and although I get as much range time as I can request now, it was more fun shooting guns back then. SOCOM is cool and I'm having a blast ruining and ending terrorist's lives, but I want to get off the bench and into the game where it really COUNTS. If God loves me, I'll be in Big-daddy in a few months.
Wish me luck.
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HEY, Marcus, ole sailor! How the hell ya been, man?Originally posted by mike8g:Nice mods!
Andrew,
BMP #104278 is missing (in both sets - CMAK and CMBB)
Marcus
Tell them Brothers I said "Hey".
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I used a Grille to fire up two Hellcats...with one round! All-armor QB in Italy, and this round was a real rainbow...WAY back on a hilltop, and I had bought this thang for just such a reason. All that Yank light and open-topped armor was going to be trying to out-flank me...and I got that golden opportunity that gave me a great war story.
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I've never posted to one o' these legendary Peng threads before. Figgered I'd use this as an excuse to see if my log-in is finally working.
If you're reading this...it is.
Keith "Bluesman" Verble
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Fifteen years on active duty (and counting) as an Air Force Tech Sergeant.
Came in as airborne Vietnamese linguist. One great, glorious year at the Defense Language Institute, followed by five months of cryptology, one month at survival school, and three of the longest years in my life on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.
During Desert Shield/Storm, I was with the 379th Bomb Wing, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan. BUFFS, baby! Whoopin' Republican Guard BUTT!
I changed jobs in '91: signals intelligence analyst. Back to "secret squirrel" school at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, then on to Misawa AB, waaaay up in the northern part of Honshu, Japan. GREAT tour!
But without question, what followed will forever remain the best four years I'll ever have: Bad Aibling, Bavaria. Sigh. Heaven. Home.
Currently, I'm stationed at Ft. Meade, Maryland, assigned to the National Security Agency. Last year, I was temporarily assigned to Prince Sultan Royal Saudi Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Which is the MOST grandiose way of saying "inflamed boil on the backside of beyond". But the job was cool.
Both of my parents were AF. My wife was also an AF linguist (Arabic). We met in language school. She got out, but is getting commissioned next year as a Captain. Her dad was AF. My son just joined Civil Air Patrol, the AF's auxiliary.
We're a purty blue family! 8^)
On the other hand, there are all those virgins waiting for you in the afterlife. Hey, every job has its perks!
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in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Welp...I, for one, appreciate the hell out of it. I totally get that it's all overhead, purty close to zero return for that kind of investment of effort. A few others get that, too. And where it all pays off is that the passion you bring to this is clearly not bottom-line-driven, and it shows.
Thanks for bringing that drive to your business.