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Subject: An apology to Braddock
Old Grunt    1/20/2006 3:09:04 PM
I never thought that it would happen but it has. I guess you really do have influence with the Department of Defense, or at least the Department of the Army. Just a few weeks ago you were lamenting that the oportunity for you to be a part of the Special Forces community was just not available and how you would jump at the chance if it became possible. I guess some of your influential friends here at the Pentagon heard you because just a few days later the Army raised the age limit for enlistment to 40 in order to accomodate your wish! You are now eligible to enlist as an 18X!! Man, you must be beside yourself with joy! When do you plan on going down to the recruiting station? I mean, you have the required GT score, experience and skills right? And with all the mentoring that you've gotten from "Green Berets" passing the screening tests should be a breeze for you! After all, the best way to influence the "Green Beret" community is to get assigned to USASOC headquarters and they only pull their staff from the operational community which, of course, you already knew. From there you can move to USSOCOM headquarters and have direct influence across the services. A man of your ability should be able to get assigned to the Pentagon staff after only three or four years of operational time. I wouldn't be surprised if you have already been down to the station! I mean, after all, you have assured us all time and again that you are a man of integrity and that you don't lie. And I know that you wouldn't be so superficial, selfish, and petty as to put the well being of yourself and your family above the welfare of the Nation who so desperately needs you. I would expect a lesser man to try and give some lame excuse for why he wasn't going to take advantage of the fantastic opportunity that he had been given, but not you!! I am so excited for you that you have finally been given your chance to show the world what you are really made of! Please keep us informed of your progress, I'm sure the other posters on this board will join me in congratulating you on receiving which you have so many times stated you wished you could get!
 
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joe6pack    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:37:37 PM
"When are you scheduled to ake the ASVAB....." Do you have to retake the ASVAB if you enlist after a break in service? (just a completely random thought)
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:40:32 PM
Everything is current. Most of my line scores are over a 100. 115 GT. It's a wrap. I have not taken a DLab though. I don't anticipate any problems.
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:41:57 PM
joe6pack no.
 
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lrsrng    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:46:44 PM
Fighting soldiers from the sky Fearless men who jump and die Siver wings upon there chest These men Americas best 1000 Rangers will today And wipe there Ass with the Green Beret. Braddock I am thrilled you know this song.LOL LRSRNG
 
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joe6pack    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:46:54 PM
"I have not taken a DLab though. I don't anticipate any problems. " I perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I took the DLAB just to see how I would do a number of years way back and I found that thing to have been about the most difficult test I've taken. Good luck on it. I think if I'd had a college linquistics class or two under my belt at the time it would have been easier. The years of German and a bit of Spanish didn't help one bit.
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 5:00:31 PM
Fighting soldiers from the sky Fearless men who jump and die Siver wings upon there chest These men Americas best 1000 Rangers will today And wipe there Ass with the Green Beret. "Braddock I am thrilled you know this song."LOL LRSRNG Irsng Go to the 20th Group armory and recite that verse. You arrive there upright but the way you leave will be much worse joe6pack I have been blessed in regards to the facultative elements of war. I'm a natural. I will change the way the DLab is administered. God willing.
 
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lrsrng    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 5:17:22 PM
Braddock I have sang it to Green Berets in the past they always got a chucke out of it.I usally followed it up with a remmark about them being the Ranger retirement program.It was always said with out malice or contempt and in the playful nut busting that soldiers do Being to wound up is not good relax a little.
 
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longrifle    For Albany   1/27/2006 6:51:28 PM
Riding a Raid by Anonymous 'Tis old Stonewall, the Rebel, that leans on his sword, And while we are mounting, prays low to the Lord: "Now each cavalier that loves Honor and Right, Let him follow the feather of Stuart tonight." (Chorus) Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein; Come buckle your blanket and holster again; Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade, For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid! Now gallop, now gallop, to swim or to ford! Old Stonewall, still watching, prays low to the Lord: "Good-bye dear old Rebel! The river's not wide, And Maryland's lights in her window to guide." (Chorus) There's a man in a white house with blood on his mouth! If there's Knaves in the North, there are braves in the South. We are three thousand horses, and not one afraid; We are three thousand sabres and not a dull blade. (Chorus) Then gallop, then gallop, by ravines and rocks! Who would bar us the way take his toll in hard knocks; For with these points of steel, on the line of Penn, We have made some fine strokes-and we'll make 'em again Be gracious and don't gloat too much Albany. After all, you eventually fielded three million men to our one million. Now don't get me started on the material disadvantage we faced!
 
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Braddock    RE:For Albany   1/27/2006 7:18:21 PM
I prefer Tupac, but whatever floats your boat.
 
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longrifle    RE:For Albany   1/27/2006 7:22:21 PM
Of course Stuart's ride around McClellan didn't accompolish much.....but a dashing, ripsnortin' good time was had by all!
 
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