[quote author=Redleg link=board=10;threadid=13130;start=0#123987 date=1049420988]<br>Pull the line wire and stick it betwwen your buddies tows while he sleeps. Go to the phone on the other end and start winding the ringer real fast. 8) <br><br>[/quote]<br><br>Ooh, that's just mean. In the Marine Corps, I was officially a Comm Center Operator, but since they stationed me at a Tank Battalion ??? I was actually more of a Wireman. I can't even count how many miles of that telephone wire I ran out of the back of a Jeep or HMMWV...

 

[quote author=jfpointer link=board=10;threadid=13130;start=15#124290 date=1049500899]<br>[quote author=Redleg link=board=10;threadid=13130;start=0#123987 date=1049420988]<br>Pull the line wire and stick it betwwen your buddies tows while he sleeps. Go to the phone on the other end and start winding the ringer real fast. 8) <br><br>[/quote]<br>Ooh, that's just mean. In the Marine Corps, I was officially a Comm Center Operator, but since they stationed me at a Tank Battalion ??? I was actually more of a Wireman. I can't even count how many miles of that telephone wire I ran out of the back of a Jeep or HMMWV...<br>[/quote]<br>Since I was a leg for many years, it was how many miles I strung behind my LPC's ( Leather Personnel Carriers ). I traveled to strange and exotic places to meet new and unusual people, to kill them, but only on weekends.

 

I love it, I was a 13F in the good ole 1/319th AFA 82nd Airborne Division. I hate the new &quot;army of one&quot; slogan. In a pinch one is the last thing you would want to be when the chips are down.

 

Hey there F.O. How long ago was that? <br><br>I was a 13F in the 1st A.D., 1st I.D., 11th A.C.R., and an Air Assault instructor at Ft. Rucker. Also 4 yrs with the MI.National Gaurd, 38th I.D., 119th F.A. in Lansing.

 

[quote author=Redleg link=board=10;threadid=13130;start=15#128112 date=1050375559]<br>Hey there F.O. How long ago was that? <br> <br>[/quote]<br><br>put in 5 years, got out 11May96. Our FIST was pretty tight and I keep up with most of the guys, I have even been back to bragg a few times to visit and drink with the guys.

 

Lotta good guys in Fire Support. I think that M.O.S. weeds out a lot of rif-raf. Sounds like you enjoyed the job too.

 

Hey Red,<br>The old hammerhead is gone. It's been replaced with a heavy hummer variant called the M707 Striker. The Striker name has changed to something else because the Army has another Stryker which is a spiffied up LAV, like the Marines use.<br>The M707 takes all the FIST stuff from the Bradley FIST vehicle and &quot;stuffs&quot; it in a hummer. I've got three of them I have to work on. Now if I can just keep those &quot;redleg pukes&quot; away from low hanging limbs. If you wan some pics, e-mail me at either shortrnd@swbell.net or PM me for my other addy.<br><br>