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08-09-2016, 05:12 PM
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Getting older. What goes around comes around.
I knew I was getting old(er) when I saw a First Generation M1 Abrams sitting on a concrete pad in a park II think the Army is on it's 4th generation now - or is it third?). I remember when this particular version was high-tech cutting edge technology. Heck I remember the day the Army had a big roll-out for the press in the Spring of 1981. Finally we had a tank that could beat the Soviets. Now it's a static display for five year olds to play around on. I commanded one of those first generation Abrams and now if I tell a young kid that he/she will look at me like I looked at a WWII veteran when he told me how he used to operate a dual 40mm Bofors gun on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. That was in 1974. The Bofors gun was (and still is) a static display in the city park in Rigby, Idaho. What goes around comes around I guess.
 
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08-09-2016, 09:16 PM
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In the parks around me, one has a Howitzer, a Sherman tank, a Vietnam era Huey.
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08-09-2016, 10:12 PM
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08-10-2016, 05:12 PM
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If it makes you feel any better, the Bradley I crewed is now in the National Infantry Museum.
Something having to do with being one of the first Bradley into what was then Saddam International.
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08-10-2016, 05:18 PM
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08-23-2016, 08:51 PM
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Hey man, I'm 30 and I look at the 17 year old kids joining my reserve unit now and I'm starting to feel like an old vet myself! Most of my platoon wasn't even in the army while we were in Afghanistan, in fact there's only 4 of us left that actually went. Even of those I'm the only one that has stubbornly refused a leaf, so most of the time I'm the only person with a tour in the room.
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08-23-2016, 09:15 PM
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The Marines my age went to Iraq in the early 2000s and they were just out of high school and now...they look at the new guys coming in and they always tell me about feeling old and they are like barely in their 30s now.
They talked to me about the new gear the kids get these days. Qualifying with an ACOG instead of iron sights like they did.
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"There's a fine line between not listening and not caring...I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life." Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle Psalm 144:1 “It is always wrong to use force, unless it is more wrong not to.”
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08-28-2016, 03:16 PM
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Somes of my Joes now cannot remember 9/11 and yet have deployed in support of GWOT.
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08-28-2016, 03:13 PM
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I lie and tell my self that they put in a museum because of historic value; not the fact that it was an older variant.
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08-27-2016, 11:30 PM
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