A GTP salute to all our veterans, including this one:
There’s only one appropriate MPC for that.
Thanks for your service, folks.
A GTP salute to all our veterans, including this one:
Jimi Hendrix playing guitar in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division, 1962. #HappyVeteransDay pic.twitter.com/5TKycqIe9h
— Classic Rock In Pics (@crockpics) November 11, 2019
There’s only one appropriate MPC for that.
Thanks for your service, folks.
“... Shoot, why does anybody who’s ever won something do it again? Because it’s cool. So, let’s go do it again. Let’s see if we’ve got what it takes.” -- Stetson Bennett, The Athletic, 3/22/22
Well done, Senator! That earlier pic is priceless!
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Jimi Hendrix, AIRBORNE?
Love it.
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Is that Mitch Mitchell on the drums?
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Yes “For the concert, he added rhythm guitarist Larry Lee and conga players Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez. The band rehearsed for less than two weeks before the performance, and according to Mitchell, they never connected musically.
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Man, you know Pvt Hendrix caught hell in the pre-Vietnam 101st when they were still an Airborne unit.
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I did basic at Campbell and the 3d Bde was still there. All our DI’s were 101st and they loved to run us like we were ABN and not legs.
Here is Bob Kerrey, Seal and MOH recipient singing “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” after his election in 1998.
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That was great illinidawg. I’ve never seen it before. There’s a lot of truth in that song, more than most of us care to admit.
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Now when I was a young man I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915, my country said son, it’s time you stopped rambling, there’s work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the Quay
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The Pogues do a good version. Sober song, as it should be.
Thank you to all who have served.
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Word.
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As an aside, I was at the 1998 Music City Bowl when this happened.
“The 1998 Music City bowl kicked off at 5 p.m. EST on December 29, 1998 at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennesse Jazz musician Larry Carlton performed the traditional pre-game playing of the national anthem, but his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner did not meet with the crowd’s approval, and he was booed.”
He wasn’t really booed much because, well, you can’t boo the National Anthem. After he finished the Hokie “Corps of Cadets” sand it acapella and got a big cheer. After Tech beat Bama we were driving back and the radio was a Bama feed. All the call in people did was bitch about the was Carlton played it. Bama-Virginia Tech ain’t Woodstock. (Actually as soon as he started I looked at my wife and said “this is not going to go over worth a damn.”
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Thanks bud. Or you’re welcome.
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Many thanks to all who served and are serving. It’s the only regret I have, now I’m old and I’ll never know if I was man enough. My very best wishes to those that were.
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Rocky Blier was the keynote at the Wall in 1999. He said “We were cooks, truck drivers, chopper pilots. . . and man were we scared”. I don’t know about being man enough because I went in 53 years ago yesterday on my 17th birthday so, after a tour in Korea and Vietnam, I was still a 19 year old kid when I came home.
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Belated happy birthday illinidawg. I hope you have many more and enjoy them all.
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Thanks, this one was pretty good. Family came in for the coast and I got to take my brother to the Mizzou game. He’d never been and now he’s been to this and the ND game AND get to meet the Senator at his tailgate.
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Cowdog, I got a feeling you would have done just fine.
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Yeah! Thanks to all of the Blutarskians that have served!
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Celebrated my 20th birthday in a little pizza / beer hall at Ft Wolters while attending flight school. Some Great times – feeling immortal – which didn’t last long.
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Rotor head?
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I know why chopper pilots like to fly. Because it’s hard to walk when you have balls the size of Crisco cans.
God bless you spur21.
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We just did our job. I felt bad for the guys we inserted. I was in an Air Cav unit and our CO thought all the pilots should go out on patrol when we were maxed out on flight time.
We typically inserted our blues to snoop around after our scout pilots found something interesting. I was terrified – seeing bad guys in every shadow. What an empty feeling when the slicks pulled pitch and left us alone on the ground. Grunts have my utmost respect.
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5X5
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3/17 Air Cav, welcome home.
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Good guess and thanks glad to be here.
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One of my good buddies was a tracker in that AO and he loved him some chopper pilots and crews.
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Actually, as a dumb ass truck driver, I loved some chopper pilots and crews when we were on those narrow delta roads surrounded by paddies.
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I loved flying convoy cover / recon.
Now BEAT Auburn
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