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Title: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: rpm on December 27, 2012, 07:08:35 PM
(http://rightwingbob.com/image/schwarzkopf.jpg)
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.

Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.

He served in his last military assignment in Tampa as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-source-retired-gen-norman-schwarzkopf-dies-18078918#.UNzv-OQ4WAA

 :salute
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: ebfd11 on December 27, 2012, 07:15:19 PM
 :salute sir, it was my pleasure serving under you.

CrazyLwn
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: Blooz on December 27, 2012, 07:45:13 PM
My division commander 1983-1985 Ft. Stewart.

Salutes.
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: RedBull1 on December 27, 2012, 07:57:24 PM
 :pray :salute
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Post by: SoonerMP on December 27, 2012, 08:26:22 PM
 :salute
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Post by: JunkyII on December 27, 2012, 08:40:06 PM
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Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 28, 2012, 01:55:47 AM
I'll never forget before the ground war the interview with Barbara Walters and he was talking and she said "It sounds like your trying to get his goat"
His response was classic. "I want more then just his goat."

RIP General
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: ozrocker on December 28, 2012, 07:43:29 AM
 :salute RIP Sir





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Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: VonMessa on December 28, 2012, 08:02:43 AM
Hooah!

RIP, sir.

 :salute
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Post by: Tracerfi on December 28, 2012, 08:22:07 AM
 :salute :pray
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: Maverick on December 28, 2012, 12:05:50 PM
Thank you Sir for your service and example. Many are alive today on both sides of the conflicts because of your actions and leadership. The lessons you learned and passed on have not been forgotten and neither have you. May you rest in Peace, you earned it Sir.  :salute
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: JOACH1M on December 28, 2012, 01:03:39 PM
 :salute
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Post by: Triton28 on December 28, 2012, 02:10:26 PM
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on December 28, 2012, 05:01:30 PM
Rip norm, thank you for your service.   :salute


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Post by: bacon8tr on December 29, 2012, 12:27:35 AM
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Post by: BERN1 on December 29, 2012, 04:04:04 AM
A great Leader at the right time! It is good to see posts from Vets that served with him.  :salute
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: soda72 on December 29, 2012, 09:17:33 AM
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Post by: bortas1 on December 29, 2012, 02:01:00 PM
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Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: colmbo on December 29, 2012, 11:56:14 PM
He was my Brigade CO, 172nd Light Infantry, Ft. Richardson, AK.  There were two infantry battalions on post, for training each battalion did a 75 mile road march one summer....then Colonel Schwarzkopf made the walk with each battalion.  He pinned my EIB on that same year.
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: Grayeagle on December 30, 2012, 09:55:58 AM
'We have a lot of toys in our toolbox' - his answer to what he was going to do if the 'war' went live.

Salute to one of our best ..right man at the right time makin the right moves.
Surprised to hear he had passed away..had no idea he was that 'old'

-Frank aka GE
Title: Re: RIP Stormin' Norman
Post by: bj229r on December 30, 2012, 03:08:10 PM
Our champions of free speech...do these people still think it's the 60's?

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