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  1. Bet you an find them at any military surplus store, too. Used to have them for deer camp. I think we may have paid $10 a piece......
  2. Off the topic, but where the heck have you been. I have sent several emails to ya and they bounced back undeliverable. Had me worried there, brother
  3. Larry, didn't all the 316th planes have at least one, some two?????? Or is my mind more befuddled than normal????
  4. Have no idea of part number, etc, just know that what I always had was the standard green wood and canvas stretcher with the metal scissor-type spreaders............
  5. What's the super Bowl???????????? That big toilet down at Lowe's??
  6. Some mighty tough old birds worked on and flew them, too......... Well, I am pretty sure about the OLD part!
  7. If I were have to load my wife into a C-130, she would have to be kept in G compartment, due to CG limits!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. HMMMMMMMMMMMM, didn't quite think this out, did we?????
  9. Well, I will tell you all this...................I am not allowed to watch Jeopardy if Big E is in the room........She is so damned afraid she might hear me answer a question correctly!!!!!!!!!!!!
  10. Well, sometimes I put the seat down................
  11. Yeah, especially with time allowed for good behavior!!!!!!!
  12. We are both broken men, I reckon.......
  13. gizzard

    STEP

    Wasn't anything like that back in my day. Would this be permanent and circumvent normal promotional procedures????? Sounds like something the Obama team came up with.
  14. Yep, that is quite true. and he is the boss in his house, too. I heard his wife, Mercy, tell him he was allowed to say that!!!!!!
  15. yeah, it must have came down here, sub-zero temps every morning this week, snow like salt, wind bites.........I can really appreciate the even worse conditions my dad experienced up there in the Aleutians in WWII.
  16. Hey, Bob, will you send a note to my wife telling her I actually did get something RIGHT?????? I'd appreciate it, 'cause she wouldn't believe me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIZ
  17. Two VSM's???? It's possible, Hell until last week, according to the damn VA, I haven't been married for almost 42 years!!!!!!!!!!
  18. Well, in my case, I never got any of my awards while I was on active duty, had actually plain forgot, so maybe six years or more, i tried and tried and finally got them through my senator's office, BUT all I got was the VSM and the ribbon itself. no star, my record doesn't show it. I don;t know why,as an aside, I sent a request in for any unit citations I might have been eligible for. damned if I didn't get an AFOU ribbon with an oak leaf cluster, because the 36th had been awarded two AFOU citations while I was assigned to them. So I guess most of us have no real idea what all we may be entitled to without a specific search request, and even that may not be complete. that's why I'm going to request a 214 correction to get my campaign star for ceasefire, or as we called it the Easter, campaign
  19. here's what I found, for anyone interested, there are four periods of eligibility for the NDSM. I think a lot of folks thought it was awarded automatically, but that is not the case.. the first period runs the Korean War period, June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1954. It was not awarded again until the Vietnam time period January 1, 1961 to august 14, 1974. It then was discontinued again until the Persian Gulf War, August 2, 1990 to November 30, 1995, then another period in which it was not awarded until the Global War on Terrorism, September 11, 2001 'til the present. The awarding follows these guidelines, service in any one period qualifies the member for the medal and unadorned ribbon. service in addition award periods are indicated by the authorization of stars on the ribbon.
  20. Damn, I miscalculated on that number didn't I? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, no wonder I was always out of CG limits!!!!!! I do remember this now. Okay, here's one..................How are the number of stars on a NDSM, like Sparks, calculated???? I know that it has something to do with service that covers both periods of time when the medal was being awarded and not, but can't find anything that I can make sense of. Actually, I have seen very few stars on the NDSM, some from Korea-Nam vets and so on.....I think there was a time period between Nam and desert storm that it was not awrded, but not sure........
  21. Bob, I'm not sure but I think that CID 1501 maybe some form of contact
  22. They are campaign stars, I think there are five,I may be wrong. Ours would be for the Easter Offensive campaign. We have some guys here in the VVA chapter that have three, or so.
  23. We ain't called brothers for nothin'!!!!!!! But now I gotta send off a 180 or whatever it is, because I don't have the campaign star for my VSM on my records. Yeah, I know it is a trivial thing, but still...................... Giz
  24. 'Bout damn time..........................Must be the week for us old 316th geezers to win some of our VA battles.
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