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09-27-2007, 10:06 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seymour WI/Ft Campbell KY
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Time for a loooong vacation (deployment)
Well I've only been marginally involved in this web community for a few short weeks now, but I've found it to be pretty great. Many of the conversations are intellectually enlightening, civil, and (most importantly) fun.
I've been in army for almost two years now. I'm an infantryman in the 101st airborne. We've been preparing for our impending deployment to Iraq for some time now, and it seems to have snuck up on me. I leave tomorrow morning. I'm just writing to say you're all (as far as I know) great people and thanks for welcoming me into your community. I have a website that i'll be updating as often as war permits, so if you'd like to read the (generally) objective viewpoint of someone doing the dirty work over there, check it out. The address is armedandapathetic.com so drop in and leave me a note whenever I figure out how to include a comments section. -Jason |
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09-27-2007, 10:12 PM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Keep your head down, friend. We'll be waiting anxiously.
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09-27-2007, 10:45 PM
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
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Be STRONG dude !!! trust your training !!! be safe , and hurry back !!!
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09-28-2007, 07:15 AM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Thank you for what you're doing. God bless and good luck, and come back safe.
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09-28-2007, 07:17 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Come home safe man.
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09-28-2007, 07:19 AM
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Hurry back.
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09-28-2007, 08:29 AM
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Your Bartender
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
Posts: 7,651
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Be careful!
My nephew just left for his second trip to Iraq with the Rakkasans. |
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09-28-2007, 09:25 AM
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why so serious
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,712
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Second the Thank You for all you & your buddies do. Be safe, we'll be thinking of you. Hurry back.
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09-28-2007, 09:46 AM
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Buddy, if you think it's civil around here, you'll be just fine in Iraq.
I know you can't "hurry back", but dammit, *come back*. Come back healthy, safe, and whole. By the way, if you can update www.armedandapathetic.com from over there, you can stop in the cellar and give us all our own personal update as well. I promise you we're on pins and needles and a direct word once in a while will be enormously appreciated. Plus, you could let us know how we could help you. It's a two way street. I want to help, all you have to do is ask. Do the right thing, and then come home.
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Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 09-28-2007 at 01:40 PM. Reason: corrected serious typo -- thanks to my editors. |
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09-28-2007, 01:06 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Er, Griff, his site is www.armedandapathetic.com.
 Minn, good luck to you, and definitely try to check in when you can. |
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09-28-2007, 01:18 PM
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changed his status to single
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Right behind you. No, the other side.
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but back to the subject, keep in touch, let us know how it's going and remember you've got the whole cellar behind you. and you've seen what a nasty bunch of SOB's we are.
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09-28-2007, 01:40 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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09-28-2007, 01:44 PM
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changed his status to single
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Right behind you. No, the other side.
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you are almost never wrong so i never have the chance to tease you. Here is my chance.
oh, and the naked communal picture. and the picture of you pissing in the liquor store. and... I can totally see some newby in 2009 saying "clodfobble pissed in a liquor store?" and spending days searching for that picture.
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09-28-2007, 11:10 PM
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Bitchy Little Brat
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 5,067
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Be safe Jason...lemme know if you need any..err...aussie delights sent over from down under
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09-29-2007, 09:30 AM
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King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
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 BTW Jason, on your site you list the "CCR Vietnam War Song". Do you mean Fortunate Son?
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