Well that took the wind out of the prospectors sail.  It's probably a million Dong from that bank just to buy a shovel there, then the rust factor on the buried junk. 

 

One item of interest Dawg showed, Marines clean stuff beffore they bury it. And probably had fresh paint too.

 

Dick,

 

In '69 one of the "Missions" of MWSG-17 was to store vehicles recovered from the Vietnamese.  We had a field full of odd colored jeeps up to 5 tons that had been stolen.  A friend of mine from home was with the 26th Marines up by NamO bridge and came by to visit.  We realized that some of these vehicles actually were in pretty good shape other than the odd colors.  Long story short, we had a little bit too much to drink and liberated a brown jeep to take up to his unit.  Everything was fine until we tried to avoid a checkpoint and made a sharp left only to find out that the pins that kept the shotgun seat in had been removed.  I had to stop and pick him up in front of the MPs.  Luckily we made our escape and got the jeep up to the bridge.  They painted it and put phony markings on it and drove it from then on.

 

Our motor pool officer went balistic when he found out that a stolen jeep had been stolen again.  He had a chain welded from bumper to bumper to keep it from happening again.  Of course that didn't delay us long.  All you had to do was smack the weld with a hammer and you were good to go.  Several other trucks made their way back to friendly units.

 

The sins of our youth.

 

Ben

 

 

 

Mickey,

 

It wasn't really stealing.   It was redistributing excess equipment.  They were actually going to cut them up because they did not have the paperwork so that they could reissue them.  It would have been a waste and the line guys appreciated not having to walk as much.

 

Ben

 

 

 

 

Guys,

 

Thinking back on our scrounging and "appropriation" days, I think it was more a capitalistic motive than communistic.  If we were members of the commies, that's legal license to steal anything you want.  Since we wern't signed up...well most of us weren't...it had to be capitalist pig antics.   Such training in the Corps was essential for us for when we got out amongst our fellow capitalist citizens for commerce and trade.

 

SF,

 

Dick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mikey, Thane of Duninsane   

Geo,

 

Damn it!  Don't be run off or volunteer for de-listing over stupid politics.  Enough have already done that from allowing the red ass to converge with the red neck. Ya gotta keep those seperated and have a little stamina to argue stuff here without name calling.  When it gets to that point, I figure people and politicians that do that are just plain out of debate ammo. 

 

Besides, I think I'm the only Blue Dog Democrat on this site and have somehow whethered my switching back and forth on voting discussions.  Currently, I'm so pissed off  that my fringe Dems have distorted the party into what it is now and like Mikey, vote what I view is the lesser damage.  Frankly, a McCain/Palin win will be stymied by the stalled congress, so not much will get done, so that might be good.  Obama/Bidden with a Dem congress...look out and my wallet is puckering already.

 

I'm a union raised guy, many hours on election drives, phone work etc..later on the other side as a contractor, and listen to their side and know what that entails after serving as a local officer in the union, plus I want to see a bigger, better paid military, security inteligence and police forces.  I wish the Dems would  push to reinstate the ursery limits that reagan abolished that got us into the lending mess we have today. I want to hear the Dems pass the regulations that would hammer the oil speculators that moved their exchage off shore to London that keeps the prices artificially high. Not a word of those in the platform yet. Hence the Blue Dog handle...a curr conservative in the blue party...shuned and detested...( tears and sobbing here) but I aint quite to the Leiberman point of going to the Independent Party.  Bush turned me right off in the begining handeling of Iraq, Patraeous saved it...so far.  Never mind we all got stuck on the Brits Intel reports that were eventually traced to Iraqi agents....looking to improve their lot.  I could rant on but hey, I can do that here and take the heat from my brothers...That Russian, Soltzenietsen (sp?) said..."you can argue with friends."  That had a lot of meaning from where his place in a gulog was.  Argue with the wrong people and in you go. Ha, Mikey can't find me in the sitx so nya, nya, nya.

 

SF,

 

Dick

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mikey,

 

Sorry for your loss.  I hate when that happens and always makes me wonder where I am on "the list." Ya, I got my liberal conscience just down the road from me and it's much the same on our weekly visits, but we been on the road together a lot of years, his ex was my late sister's best friend etc.,  and we still tolerate each other.  He's a '60's USAF Vet and he was having trouble with the one lung that collapsed way back then.  It was on active duty so I took him up to the VA to check on starting a claim as he might need it sooner than we think.  Turns out, the AF transferred his file to the VA way back then and is still listed as an outparient, and all his service stuff is ready to go.  Man, that saved years on a claim...and hopefully years to have him to argue with.

 

SF,

 

Dick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mikey,

 

Don't be to pissed at the no show of the rest of your MCL unit.  It got pretty meloncholly for me piping for way more funerals than weddings. But then again, aint that the point of the MCL and a major part of it's support function? Give 'em hell bro. 

 

I might have a place for my pipes gathering dust.  Turns out my half brothers teen age daughter has been taking lessons and using the bands loaner set.  They said she may have to pass them on to another FNG soon and needs a set.  I offered mine up same deal, on loan, as I find that's the only way to pass musical instruments around the family without having them sold off or pawned.  Besides, after she gets them PM'd and working, I can get them back ready to play without the start up frustration if and when she decides to buy her own. Aint that the existential purpose of FNG's?

 

SF,

 

Dick

 

 

 

BTW, how is Cole doing?  Is that incredibly funny Avenue Q still running?