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Service Details

by John Cole|  August 18, 20047:04 pm| 9 Comments

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Jeff Quinton is asking which bloggers served when and where. My info:

1990-1992- United States Army, 19K-Combat Armor Crewman, 11th ACR
1992-1996- West Virginia Army National Guard, 12B-Combat Engineer, Co. C, 1092nd ECB
1996-1998- West Virginia Army National Guard, 19k-Combat Armor Crewman, 197th RTI

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  1. 1.

    Gary Farber

    August 18, 2004 at 8:50 pm

    “Jeff Quinton is which bloggers served when and where.”

    I’m thinking the word “asking” fell out of that sentence.

    Myself, all I can say is that I was Ass’t Patrol Leader in my Scout Troop, and I served tables in summer camp. So I thank you for your service.

  2. 2.

    adk46er

    August 19, 2004 at 10:52 am

    I find all of the recent attention being payed to Viet Nam both interesting and aggravating. It’s always been a hot button for me. Several years ago I really got upset with a Salon Table Talk left winger who was pissed at Bob Kerrey, because of a negative comment Kerrey had made about Clinton. In his criticism of Bob Kerrey he stated that: In Viet Nam Congressional Medal of Honors were handed out like crackerjack prizes. There was no way I could let such a statement go unchallenged. Unfortunately it went from bad to worse (Table Talk was pretty much a left of center community), so eventually this person was joined by other anti war types in calling all medal of honor winners lunatics and worse. I went back in forth with This person for several days until it became point less to continue. BTW this is still something I don’t understand about almost all political discussion on the internet – Why are so many people (both left and right), not able to admit there’s a chance, even if its only a slight chance, that they may be wrong?

    FWIW my service (as best I remember)
    1966 Ft Jackson SC and Ft Leonard Wood, MO
    1967/1968 Ft Lee, VA and Ft Belvoir, VA
    1968/1969 Viet Nam (101st Airborne Div located in the vicinity of Hue & Phu Bai

  3. 3.

    Slartibartfast

    August 19, 2004 at 11:58 am

    Hmmm…our buddy JadeGold used to be a TTer. You didn’t perchance get drooled on by him, did you?

  4. 4.

    Kadang

    August 19, 2004 at 1:05 pm

    John and adk46er,

    Thank you for your service for our country!

  5. 5.

    adk46er

    August 19, 2004 at 2:44 pm

    Re being drooled on by Jade Gold – I guess its possible but that wasn’t the name this goof ball was using. Its been a few years plus I’ve tried to forget about him so his name is not seared in my memory, but I believe it started with Sned.

  6. 6.

    Rick

    August 19, 2004 at 3:42 pm

    Was that Inbred Sned???

    Cordially…

  7. 7.

    Stevely

    August 19, 2004 at 4:44 pm

    Not a blogger, but just wanted to say it’s nice to see a former Blackhorse trooper online with such a good blog. I was in Fulda from 92-94, in S&T Troop in Support Squadron. Allons!

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  1. Backcountry Conservative says:
    August 18, 2004 at 7:10 pm

    Who Served

    Michelle Malkin points to a table put together by E.J. Perkins of azcentral.com (a Marine Corps vet) of political and media figures that points out who served in the military and when. Other information regarding the branch and type of…

  2. uruloki's lair says:
    August 19, 2004 at 8:53 pm

    Veterans

    Backcountry Conservative is putting together a list of those bloggers with military experience. You would think that the MilBlogs would be the primary source, but there are mistake even there, such this site, home of two active duty bloggers (ok,…

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