I f'ing love our millitary! (NHRA content)

Thanks Dave.

Its real popular for the Army to do recruiting events and such at races and airshows. In fact, I started my enlistment in the Army by meeting a recruiter at the Portland Champ Races that Duner invited me to a couple years ago. (I'll throw a cup of sand on Duner when I get back....)

After having been here a month and being sort of acclimatized I can agree why the soldiers thought it was nothing much for heat that day. Its kind of weird when all of us guys think its kind of a nice cool day out when its only 100 degrees out. Yesterday was sort of a cool day out because all the dirt in the air created some shade from the sun. Call it Afghani clouds I guess.

Oh, I got to do something really fun and dangerous the other day. We went out and blew up 57 rocket propelled grenades and some land mines. We used a crate of C4 plastic explosives. So we got all this stuff packed in a 4Runner and we are driving across an artillery range that has unexploded ordnance and probably some old mines still there. I look at my buddy and say "If one of these things go off they'll be picking us up with an ink blotter..." Well, it was funny at the time. Guess you had to be there. Still it was pretty cool playing EOD tech and making a very large hole in the ground... Those C4 bricks are not soft and pliable like in the movies by the way... One of them is enough to blow up a small house and we used like 30 of em... Here is a link to the vid. The little mound you see in the distance before the explosion is the walled complex about 50 feet long with 8 foot walls. Check out the blast's shock wave in the tire tracks.

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m293/jordanvraptor/?action=view&current=EOD.flv
Yeah, this is safe... No bumps or hard braking!
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Its okay, I have my "ballistic eyeware" on...
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There was a wall here a minute ago...
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loud 95 said:

My only question is why there were soldiers there spectating in BDU's? It's also kind of risky to intervene from their standpiont. As a soldier, you can get in deep **** for stepping in to stuff like that. Having said that, I probably would have done the same.

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Thats one thing you wont see Marines in cammies in public. Not alowed to wear them, cammies are for the field and for those occasions you got the service Bravos or service Charlies uniforms. Now when it comes to fights well we all know what happens!

Bart as far as your commission, how's it going?

I know they are calling marines from the inactive ready reserve and guess what... if our N. Korean fellas keep acting real stupid I might get called so my gold bars will come out of the closet

Jordan, any shots in anger yet? Or just police duty?

Haven't fired a shot, training or otherwise. Just my luck to be stationed in the part of the country that loves us...

Jordan, that video is so badass. I wanna blow some **** up

Darkness said:

Thats one thing you wont see Marines in cammies in public. Not alowed to wear them, cammies are for the field and for those occasions you got the service Bravos or service Charlies uniforms. Now when it comes to fights well we all know what happens!

Bart as far as your commission, how's it going?

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As you may remember, the marine corp and air force programs were joint programs with OSU. As a result, we didn't have many marine or air force cadets, because OSU was the host school. Army ROTC was all that our school actually had on campus. Army cadet command took a different approach on the uniform issue. They wanted us cadets to be proud of what we did and wanted others to know about our program. Unfortunately, in Eugene, that sometimes caused problems.
Pretty much, if I can get myself to run the five to seven mile distances at the pace I used to run without symptoms, then I have to complete one month of advanced camp at Fort Lewis next summer (I already missed the boat for this summer) to commission. It is frustrating because all of my medical crap has taken so long. Luckily, the officers in my program have been really cool. They got permission from the brigade doctor to allow me back in to the program, assuming I can run again. I thought that was cool, considering I was disenrolled a year ago at the last minute due to medical reasons. They haven't given up on me yet!

Johnnb said:

You can say that again, as I was really contemplating going into the Marines after I was finished with college, and then paralyzed myself and can't tell you how badly I hate being a bystander. It kills me especially after what happened on 9/11 and only being able to stand bye and watch.

I am so proud of our millitary and always make it a point any time I see someone in uniform to go up and tell them how much they mean to me and my family.

My brother just got off a flight from Baltimore and said that there were a bunch of Marines coming back from Iraq and everyone in first class save a few people gave up their first class seats and as they walked down the jetway to the baggage claim people were applauding them the whole way. He was very shocked as they flew into the Peoples Republic of San Diego.

I still laugh when I think about those guys immedeatly taking action and how funny it was watching the drunk hilbillies get what they deserved.

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That is pretty good for San Diego! I lived there as a kid. I mostly remember crabby old white-haired retired people, whos skin looked like prunes because they had been in the sun too much. Anyway, sorry we hi-jacked your thread!

Nice pictures jordan and the video was sweet. That explosion was how much c4 and how many rpg's?

Kool pics Jordan and the vid rocks. Be careful out there

After those pics and vids i have no choice but to play battlefield 2.

Nice t hear support for us. Don't hear it much being in the USAF. We have some Cadets here doing there month in the Sandbox. Our shop puts them to work on the flightline.

Don't have a clue how the Army can be gone for a year or more. We complain about 120 day trips !! LOL

If I was not blind, I would a Army Sniper. Instead I kick Army out my planes................

Thanks to past and Present Military !!

Johnnb said:

My brother just got off a flight from Baltimore and said that there were a bunch of Marines coming back from Iraq and everyone in first class save a few people gave up their first class seats and as they walked down the jetway to the baggage claim people were applauding them the whole way. He was very shocked as they flew into the Peoples Republic of San Diego.

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Airline companies normally do that to people in the military, they just get permission from the captain and upgrade them right away. For example I was just in the Bahamas last weekend and on the way back I had a marines t-shirt on and the flight attendant asked me if I was a marine and if I had my military ID well I normally carry it with me and showed it to him he asked the captain and upgraded me and my g/f right away. Its nice to see things like that even though I'm not active duty.

The rumurs about the 7.62x39 ammo shortage in the states is true. The bastage afghanis are getting it all.

at least one box of wolf ammo that is.

i am actually one of the soldiers that was there, i must have left before the ass whoopin started. But thank you guys for supporting all that we do! It was awesome to meet Tony and to hang out with the car and people involved.

PEACE!

Damn, I always miss the fun..