RANDYG45
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:19am
@GODSSAILOR:
” There is nothing general about a Navy SEAL. ”
Amen brother. I was an MP for the 82nd Airborne starting in ‘72. “Pay hurts”- other servicemen from various branches and units who were about to lose their monthly ‘jump pay’ for lack of an opportunity to leave a perfectly good aircraft midflight- would bunk near our company area and mess with us. (For you civilians, that means they would take their meals with us in our mess hall).
The Marines, especially, were prone to go into FayetteNam and get into trouble of various sorts. If we didn’t have to go downtown and get them out of jail they would show up for breakfast wearing an assortment of bruises and such.
Not so the SEALS. They kept to themselves, and usually sported at least one beard amongst them, which made them easily identifiable. If they ever got into trouble, we never knew about it. Green Berets, Rangers, other paratroopers- many of whom were fresh back from Viet Nam and “having trouble adjusting to life stateside”- you name it, we had to clean up after them; and sometimes we had to take them down and bring them in.
But, thank God, never a SEAL.
I was more than a little afraid of them then, and remain so.
And I don’t say that about many men.
God bless you, Chris.
Absent companions, gentlemen, absent companions.
The Marines, especially, were prone to go into FayetteNam and get into trouble of various sorts. If we didn’t have to go downtown and get them out of jail they would show up for breakfast wearing an assortment of bruises and such.
Not so the SEALS. They kept to themselves, and usually sported at least one beard amongst them, which made them easily identifiable. If they ever got into trouble, we never knew about it. Green Berets, Rangers, other paratroopers- many of whom were fresh back from Viet Nam and “having trouble adjusting to life stateside”- you name it, we had to clean up after them; and sometimes we had to take them down and bring them in.
But, thank God, never a SEAL.
I was more than a little afraid of them then, and remain so.
And I don’t say that about many men.
God bless you, Chris.
Absent companions, gentlemen, absent companions.
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