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I was just reflecting on my military career today. When I joined in 1973, WWII had only been 28 years ago. Our battalion Sergeant Major at my first duty station, C Company, 2 Battalion, 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Abn, served in WWII.
I fought in Vietnam (long after people thought we no longer had troops there).
By the time I jumped into Grenada as a member of the 1/75th Rangers, in 1983, WWII was becoming a distant memory. We still had a Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War in the battalion.
I got off active duty in 1984 and went into the Army Reserves. Was called up for Desert Storm 1 in 1990 and spent 6 months in the desert. By then Vietnam had become ok to talk about.
I retired from the Reserves in 2000, but got called up for Desert Storm 2 in 2006. Ended up never leaving the States as they didn't want old guys like me.
I miss it terribly.
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Kurt V
No more Porsches, but a revolving number of motorcycles.
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