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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: VgasX on June 04, 2006, 01:17:20 AM
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One of our brothers from ~~The Unforgiven~~ is heading out on a 18 month tour in Iraq. As for a brother in Unforgiven he is also a brother of Aces High. Whether you believe in the war or not we need to remember there are friends and family members over there. We all need to take a moment and remember the sacrafice our military members are doing for our country and the world. Redballx's son is 18 (AirFlyer) and flys as well and will be reading this thread and passing on the good messages to his father. So please don't make this a war debate thread but a support thread.
Peace out and enjoy your freedom!:aok
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Redballx
Stay safe Mate.....
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Good luck Redballx !
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RedballX
my brother, stay SAFE, you got nothin but support from all us go over take care of business and return.
Airflyer im in the boat with ya i got family over there aswell
and you know where you can find any of us if needed
<> to all Vets and Active military out there
nothin but luv for yas
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Stay safe and come home to your family. Thank for your service and sacrifice sir <
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Thank You
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RedBall
Keep your head and bellybutton down and your spirits and good sense up!!!! We want you back the same way you left. Good luck and be safe, our thoughts are with you as well as you being in our prayers. May the divine one keep you from harms way and lead you and your squad safley through your entire tour!!! :noid
RedBall You are in my heart
Booch :aok
~~UNFORGIVEN~~
PS-Now you can tell us all what real Camel toe looks like!!! :D
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Redball. Keep it safe Bro.
shiverX
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Bro. Are thoughts and Prayers are with you all.
Crims
479th Raiders FG
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Stay safe bro. You will be in all of our thoughts and prayers. <
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Be the 1st on your block with a confirmed kill.
Good luck.
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RedballX, fellow squddie.
Ya know, this whole time, I never knew airflyer was your son.:D
Be safe in Iraq and we'll see ya when you come back. We promise to not kick you off the roster in the mean time.:)
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Take care Redball and be safe. Hit em hard hit em fast ahhh just hit them.
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Good Luck in the sand pit keep ya head down. Good Speed
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Stay safe.
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:aok
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RedballX, Keep your head down and come home safe.
Thank you for your service
Good luck and God's speed
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Red.
Stay safe mucka
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Be safe bro
If you cant be good, be very very bad! give em one for me!!
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to you
and a BIG to your family for there support to our country.
Phaser11
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bring me back a camel please.
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
bring me back a camel please.
batfink how rude!!!!!:furious :furious :furious
:p
PS. if you do find a camel, make sure it's a male, batty is into that sort of thing;) :noid
:lol :p
seriously, good luck out there redball, be safe mate:aok
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Remember your core values and always be true to yourself. Everything else will fall into place.
Good luck and good hunting
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good luck redball may you return safe and well
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Thanks for your service RedballX, stay safe over there.
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RedballX
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keep your weapon clean and your vest on... see ya when you get back
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Redball. Be safe.
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Originally posted by Bodhi
Redball. Be safe.
Stay safe! Start your short timers calander on arrival in country.
Make sure you read thru these Murphy's Laws of Combat:
Murphy was a Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of thetarget.grunt.
You are not supermen. (Freshly graduated recruits from Marine boot camp and all fighter pilots, especially, take note)
A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Recoilless rifles - aren't.
Neutral countries - aren't.
Suppressive fires - won't.
Friendly fire - isn't.
Automatic weapons - aren't.
The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
Incoming fire has the right-of-way.
If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short.
When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long.
If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU.
Tracers work BOTH ways.
Anything you can do can get you killed -- including doing nothing.
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it isusually a stupid solution.
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
Any ship can be a minesweeper... once.
Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.
Don't look conspicuous -- In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants. (For this reason aircraft carriers have been called "bomb magnets")
Try to look unimportant, because the bad guys may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.. (Trivia devotees will recall the sudden disappearance of rank and distinctive caps on the uniforms worn by Soviet officers in Afghanistan)
Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.
If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take.
Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
The simple things are always hard.
There is always a way, and it usually doesn't work.
The easy way is always mined.
The important things are always simple.
If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: 1. When you're ready for them. 2. When you're not ready for them.
No plan survives first contact intact.
If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.
When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they're both right.
Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together.
Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.
Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately. (Corollary: Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both)
Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. (This seems to be the guiding design principle behind the Soviets' BMP and our own Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, both of which nicely package the troops in armored boxes for group destruction.)
Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate -- the bombs always hit the ground.
No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.
No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.
The combat worth of a unit is inversely proportional to the smartness of its outfit and appearance.
The Cavalry doesn't always come to the rescue.
Beer math is 2 beers times 37 men equals 49 cases.
Body-count math is 3 guerillas plus 1 probable plus 2 pigs equals 37 enemy killed in action.
Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.
Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder. (on an assembly line by the same type ofpeople who made your car)
All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.
Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.
If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
The Army Axiom: Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood. (and will be misunderstood again)
The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.
The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.
All-weather close air support doesn't work in bad weather.
As soon as you are served hot chow in the field, it rains.
Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.
Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.
Field experience is something you never get until just after you need it.
Fortify your front; you'll get your rear shot up.
If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything.
It isn't necessary to be an idiot to be a senior officer, but it sure helps.
It's not the bullet with your name on it; it's the shrapnel addressed to occupant or "to whom it may concern" you've got to worry about.
Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.
Never tell the Captain or Deputy Captain or Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.
Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when the General is watching.
The bursting radius of a hand grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.
The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.
The enemy never monitors your radio frequency until you broadcast on an unsecured channel.
The enemy never watches until you make a mistake.
The one item you need is always in short supply.
The seriousness of a wound (in a firefight) is inversely proportional to the distance to any form of cover.
There is no such place as a convenient foxhole.
The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don't know what they want, but they know for certain what they don't want.
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
Weather ain't neutral.
Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can't hit the broad side of a barn.
If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.
No one ever carries too much ammo.
There's no such thing as a "sucking chest wound," all chest wounds suck.
The weight of all of your equipment is proportional to the cube of the time you have been carrying it.
Surprise is an event that takes place only in the mind of a commander.
If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.
Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.
If you find yourself in front of your platoon they know something you don't.
All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets... printed at different scales.
Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map and compass.
Smart bombs have bad days too.
Remember that napalm is an area weapon.
Push to test... Release to detonate.
Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
... and a few more observations...
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. - the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin.
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little while longer. - U.S. Navy Seabees
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
All other things being equal, the side with the simplest uniforms wins.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.
Who cares if a laser-guided 500 lb bomb is accurate to within 9 feet?
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!
Sniper's motto: "Reach out and touch someone."
You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his. - General Patton
Ren
The Damned
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Stay Safe Redballx.
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Thank you for your service.
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Red,
A lot of people have already said the words that came to my mind, but it doesnt matter....
Thank You!
Keep your head and your bellybutton down.
Do what your gut tells you is right.
F*CK Politics, do what you must do to survive!
God Bless You
Come home safe
Looking forward to winging up with you in 18 months!!
USA ALL THE WAY!![/b]
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Redball,
Keep your eyes peeled, your head down and your butt safe. Come home to your family with pride.
And...Thank You.
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red, sad to see ya go, but happy to know that there r guys like u protecting us. <<
>> i can admit that i wouldn't b able to do the things that our boys do for the safety of our own country. <> to all our troops
~betty~
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RedballX
Godspeed.
PF (Ex Navy)
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Betty there are things you can do for our safety ;)
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> and thank you.
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GL to him... Hopefully he can get back home soon and be with the people who really matter the most... His family.
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Red
Thank you.
Come home safe to us bubba <>
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<> and God Bless
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I will remember Redballx in my prayers.
My own son is due to rotate back to Iraq for another 1 year tour in October.
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Good luck lad.
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good luck
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Just heard from him via email to the squad and he is doing well. I will keep everyone informed on how he's doing. :aok
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redballx "everything ren said including this...all of us know the "real heroes" dont make it back, so just be a hero and we'll see ya somewhat soon. oh and dont start yer shorttimers calander until yer a double-digit midgit...its considered bad luck. much love bro.. brick31
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RedballX
Semper Fidelis
& watch out for those camel spiders! :D
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Be safe, good luck, and Godspeed, RedballX!
And, enjoy yourself when you have the chance. Great friend of mine was there for 18 months--got the call while at my house. Father of 3, with a stay at home wife. His company paid his salary the entire time he was out.
Anyway, while I think he would have preferred being home, he took the opportunity to enjoy what he could while there. Being very religious, he was able to visit the traditional house of Abraham. His slide show of pics takes about 2 hours to watch. :)
Best part, they had one serious injury--from a softball game. :) I wish you and your unit the same luck.
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Just heard from Redballx and he is doing fine still training state side getting ready to deploy. He read the message board and he appreciates everyones kind words. :aok
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To Redballx and all of the men and women who serve you have the thanks and heartfelt best wishes from me and my family. My 'little' brother is about to do his second tour
God bless you
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Really sorry I didn't see this post before...............Salute Redball, safe return and God Speed Bro. Have a son preparing for deployment in August.
Gentlemen kick bellybutton and take names..................on the other hand.......to hell with the names, just kick bellybutton and come home safe :aok
Salute!
LTARokit
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Red
Prayers and best wishes for a safe tour and safe return home to your family. Thank You for all that you have done and will do.
RedTop HT2 USN 81-85