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   Fer Lefer said, 22 days ago

   How would fit “Hit me with your best shoot” between these radio transmissions?

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   FriscoLou said, 22 days ago

   How about “Crossfire” by SRV?
   …tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye…
   stranded, caught in the crossfire…

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   Hugh B. Hayve said, 22 days ago

   Hair on fire from listening to Audioslave? Puhl-ease!! I have their first two albums, and it’s pretty mellow stuff compared to Chris Cornell’s Soundgarden stuff.

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   babka said, 22 days ago

   that any moment could be our last; that the wounded soldier or killed soldier wounds and kills his family and friends and community as well…..all the broken homes, all the broken minds and bodies….the broken promises….the broken certainties…

   and any moment incoming. all of us living, infotained at top volume, lit by cyber light rather than dawn…

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 22 days ago

   Yesterday legacyshooter said (in part), “This post has come from an old man who is so far left politically there is nothing left but thin air and a beautiful view. This post has come from an old man who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970 as a Marine Corps radio operator. This post comes from an old man who walked the paddies and mountains of “Eye Corps” with the likes of 3/9, 1 and 3/7, 1 and 2/5, the Korean Marine Brigade, the Combined Action Program, the 196th LIB, the 1st Air Cav, the 82nd Air Mobile Division, and the 101st Air Mobile Division (most of the jobs involved carrying a very heavy radio used to talk to Navy Cruisers and Destroyers and three times, the USS New Jersey throwing Volkswagens thirty miles. Other jobs involved using cutting edge radion technology to talk to people in airplanes and other such creations in order to make sure the grunts he was honored to serve with had a better chance to go home to mama).”

   The 196th LIB (Light Infantry Brigade) was transferred from Tay Ninh to replace a Marine Brigade at Chu Lai. The 196th took over the compound up on the hill across Highway 1 at the South end of the Marine Air Base there.

   Those Marines were set up further north toward the DMZ.

   One time when snipers were firing at the HQ area, the Marines flew in some air support. But, the snipers were not located.

   Early every morning before dawn Marine planes would take off and the sounds of the afterburners would be very loud, especially if the air was very still.

   Most of us who were in Company A, 8th Support Battalion who were the clerical support for the 196th HQ were transferred to the 23d Admin Company of Americal Division when the brigade was sent on north to follow the Marines again.

   So, we moved from the Southwest side of the air base to the Northeast side of it at Chu Lai.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 22 days ago

   Since Toggle’s passenger in the Humvee is the 1st Sergeant (aka “Top” or “Top Kick’) of his company, Toggle could be recommended for an Article 15 by his superior who is riding with him.

   A person shouldn’t do non-military related multi-tasking while driving a vehicle in a war zone.

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   Susan001 said, 22 days ago

   I wonder if Toggle was court-martialed after he got out of the hospital.

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   Potrzebie said, 22 days ago

   I heard that the army still shipped troops that popped positive on UA’s and THEN CM’d them upon return!

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   rvonluchen said, 22 days ago

   As I recall the sequence of strips, Joe Allen Doty’s remark “A person shouldn’t do non-military related multi-tasking while driving a vehicle in a war zone.” is about to be illustrated.

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    du55 said, 22 days ago

    Doty…this is a comic strip, and not a documentary. Still, I can tell you that when a Marine had down time in the field, he will take advanatage of that time. Ususally, it is done to talk his mid off of being in country. (Generally, speaking).

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    MichaelMcKLA said, 22 days ago

    Do you guys know this is a rerun? In this old strip, you’re about to see how Toggle gets blown up.

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    eagleowl said, 22 days ago

    Joe Allen..Welcome home, old man..From one who was in 9th MAB, 1/9, 2/26 and VMGR at Da Nang..2 tours, 68,69,70, Then Northern Training Area, Okinawa for 2 tours.

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    OldHipster said, 22 days ago

    I’m too hip to have been in Vietnam. I am a former long-haired Freak! Now just an overfed long-haired leaping gnome.

    Can ya dig it?