At 10:00 the area was silent again. There had not been a sound of what had to be horrible painful death. The majority of my work had to do with briefing General Officers and foreign dignitaries. Ten minutes later a group of twenty men and women passed us but they were decked out for fighting and even though the large group was in front, these people were alert, and kept stopping and checking the area around the trail. I had always had this great respect for the discipline of the Asian people, but at this point the respect went beyond words. He waved, the plane took off. That may be one reason the marriage was not a healthy one. I saw Thaun dive and roll away from the team. The Instructor is responsible for his class and if it is screwed up, you pay dearly. The VC thought we went into the river and floated downstream since they couldn’t find an exit out on the other side. Ten minutes past, the main column appeared, every person both men and women were dressed in black, all were carrying supplies or pushing bikes loaded with supplies. Right!! This heavily armoured, 6 x six-wheel-drive vehicle carries eight troops, plus two crew, and is the newest in a range of protected patrol vehicles being used for operations. Some lessons + PT and footdrills. Two of the men stripped him of everything and buried him face down in a shallow grave. All of us reacted at the same time, we turned and ran! So if anyone can help me out I greatly appreciate it! Joining the army and having a comfortable future are not mutually exclusive. (I had a feeling the three weeks was to allow time for us to get zapped, it would have been much cleaner for the “Clone” that way). The duty in Panama was all I had heard people talk about. I guess it wouldn’t have mattered much. I never tested my ability to remain totally quiet, without moving for such a long time, it was no simple thing. Since most of the units coming down the trail were either early morning or late in the day, we decided to move at mid-morning following the morning unit by an hour. About every subject that builds a qualified and prepared soldier, was what we would teach. We carefully cleaned out the apertures of the bunker and it dawned on me that whoever built this knew their business. During a small ceremony yesterday, Maj. Gen. Douglas Sims II, the commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division, presented the 511th Field Feeding Company, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, and the Whitside Dining Facility with the Best Thanksgiving Dining Facility trophy for the outstanding food, service, and festive displays they provided last November. The guy that met us looked like a clone of us or vice versa, I’m still not sure. “Erwin, rolled on a grenade, to save my ass, for this?” I was assigned to the Infantry School as an Instructor, That’s like being a professor at Harvard University in civilian life. Please call your friends, take pictures with them, ask them NOW to be in your wedding and tell them you love them. We have different 'sub' units in signals, such as a certain group of people doing combat comms, another doing satellite stuff, or even computer stuff, or vehicular stuff, trunk comms, etc. I was jerked to my feet, and my equipment removed before I stopped rocking. This page was last edited on 10 August 2020, at 18:35. I moved to the edge of the Jungle, about ten yards from the drums, settled in, and just to be on the safe side locked and loaded my weapon. I decided to use an “Old Soldier” trick. I'm not sure about the other vocations, but for infantry, you start off as a sect comm (3SG). MP is a WOSPEC vocation, so you cannot sign as an MP officer. I cut to the left and literally ran over two VC, we went down in a big heap, my weapon twisted around my body and I was on my back laying on it. No more no less. One thing about the Army, when given a mission, you never say I can’t do it. On arrival in the United States Army Caribbean, I was assigned to the Army Headquarters as the Operations Sergeant. Spent the last drill weekend getting a taste and feel for my role in the squad as a senior scout. An older Negro man turned to me and said, “Boss, you can’t eat here, you got to go around the front, that’s for white folks.” I was embarrassed, I sort of mumbled and walked around front. The original table of organization a⦠That's the kind of person you wna be. We started to exit but one of the troops called Soui; he did not move. That wasn’t the case. Malone. And for promotion speed, fastest I've seen is a 3WO at 32, compared to an officer who could easily be a major at that age. I work amongst regulars and one common theme is that they were lied to by the recruiters. (MOST SPEC). Use momentum to your advantage and to your enemies detriment as your bullets and explosive shrapnel ricochet using Infantry's Newtonian physics model. About Reddit Video Downloader. If I could have packaged “Egos”, cause I know there’s a market for them, I could have retired early, real, early. The 1st Infantry Division did not participate in the Korean War. Hi, I'm an infantry specialist although I'm not a regular. If you like a relaxed vocation this might be for you. As u grow up the ranks, your responsibility increases and u get to command people as a 2sg (PS), as a 1sg/SSG you'll be P2IC and you command several platoons and their PSes. Not much regimentation. Thanks for your input! I enjoyed the duty but started drinking excessively. I discussed it with the troops and the agreement was to not wait, we didn’t really know the situation, whether some unit was on the way to take us out (In the kill), or how much time we had, but we decided to fix a gift for whoever showed. I used two little tricks that became survival weapons for me. Humans are so creative. Pain and misery. The timepieces feature swiss parts and are lifestyle watches used in aviation by pilots, racing by racecar drivers and in power boating by boating fans. Thaun and I looked at each other and he said, softly, “Scouts.” The scouts made the turn east and continued on. Some of my regulars are using this vocation as a chance to futher their own studies or pickup a skill. The payoff came when the Inspector General’s, annual inspection came around. And mostly all the tours are v similar, that's for Infantry. Actually, we were within sight of a rather open plains area on one side and the east side seemed to be jungle without room for anyone to walk, we were on a knoll and about a hundred yards away, I could look right down a trail that headed right at us and then fifty yards away it turned to the east and Vietnam. The “Clone” came up and gave me a small map covered in a type of oilcloth, nice and weatherproof and flexible, he pointed out my destination, an Air Strip at a place called A Ro; it looked to be about seven or eight miles from Laos. I’m struggling. I returned to Korea, I was looking for something I lost there, but I didn’t know what it was, maybe it was that innocence, that we all hate to let go of. Where is the 1st Infantry Division? At the Airport off to one side was a plain silver C-46 Airplane. “This car does not steer straight.” I was still drunk. Everyone knows in the south everyone still has outhouses, everyone runs around barefooted, hollering “yall com bac yheeer,” Hell, I’ve seen the same movies you did. I could receive their orders and carry them out, but they had no value to me, for in my mind, they are already dead. We were about 5 Klicks (kilometers) from the border of Vietnam that evening by the time we stopped. If you're lucky and rank up fast, you can be a PS by the next intake. One of the tribal people left our position to scout. I decided that I would have to become more involved with my work, to compensate for the lack of booze. Cookies help us deliver our Services. We were wearing light seersucker suits and civilian luggage. We didn’t stop to talk about it but moved all the faster. In the British Military this would be soldiers who complete the CIC. I did notice a lot of flinching. This subreddit is dedicated to soldiers who served in their countries military in combat related positions. I am a few weeks away from finishing BMT and I it would be better if I can make this decision quicker as I heard it would be harder to choose a vocation if I choose to sign on in the future. Whoever spoke English either was not with the group after the initial contact or by choice did not speak again. Their Job was to check on all the agreements of the cease fire. Join [Request] Is there a subreddit for slow motion NSFW gifs? Don't do this as a stop gap while you think about your life goals. I got into trouble years later when the granddaddy of all cop-outs became stylish, “Alcoholism is a disease.” A disease you catch, or are passed down. Promotion is usually a year for 3sg to 2sg and subsequently usually a year or 2 between ranks, depending on educational level and your aptitude and attitude, you'll hit 3WO by 30ish usually as a signal spec. There were a couple of minor details I overlooked. I can provide you with more information and insights on life after BMT and SCS. After which you have to go 2 years of ADF (shag as fk) as a man cause only ranks after staff Sgt is considered a commander. Their mission was to teach all aspects of wheeled and Track vehicles, this makes perfect sense, I couldn’t find the gas cap on most cars. The 173 rd is a storied unit of sky soldiers. your turn on watch, two hours on two hours off. This is to the best of my knowledge. I had a strong feeling on the nape of my neck that I was not alone, turning around, there standing in a small semi-circle behind me were ten Viets, dressed in black PJ’s. Two men appeared, black PJ’s one had a MAS 36 rifle and the other had a 30 Caliber Carbine. We entered and not surprisingly it was overgrown by the jungle reclaiming it. To this day if a chicken is not completely cooked I can’t handle it. So if anyone can help me make sort my career out, I would like to know things like 1) What will I be doing on a day to day basis as the years go by and as my rank increases. 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