You ain't a woman either and now you have more boots than I do.
Neither are you, unless you checked the wrong box when you signed up.
The only reason I have 2 pairs of boots is because they're jungle combat boots left over from my Army days. I mostly just wear them when I do work outside where I don't want to mess up my shoes.
True but I have three pair of shoes, dress, casual and work. In the Coast Guard we called them Boon-Dockers. They where a half height boot. After I wore them out I bought the regular boots BD is talking about.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #46 on Feb 20, 2011, 11:56pm »
I was airborne infantry at Ft. Bragg, jungle boots were pretty much standard dress. (of course, this was also from '01 to '05) If you went there as a private and showed up in your leather boots from basic, you got a lot of crap from people who had been there a while. Besides, they offer better flexibility than the leather ones and weren't as hot. Desert boots are just like the jungle boots, only tan suede and canvas instead of black leather and black or green canvas.
Though, just before I got out, they were starting to issue newer boots in basic training, no more all leather. They weren't exactly jungle boots but they were similar.
Nowadays, I think they just get desert boots in basic. It makes sense, given that those have to be issued anyway before people can be deployed to Afghanistan. I knew a couple guys who had to go there with black boots because their desert boots weren't in yet. Some people were lucky to have desert uniforms, they got them right before we left, though I think those new uniforms they have take care of that problem also.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #47 on Feb 21, 2011, 12:42pm »
@scifidude79 You don't know how much I appreciate your effort and service. I spent 20 years with nothing major happening but you had to go to Iraq or Afghanistan. It sucks that shit has to happen but we always need to be ready for when bad people strike.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #48 on Feb 27, 2011, 8:26pm »
The day I arrived at Da Nang, a guy who was on his way back to the world gave me his jungle boots. He said that they kept him alive the whole time he spent in country and they would do the same for me. Unfortunately, they were so worn out by the time I rotated back, no body wanted them.
The day I arrived at Da Nang, a guy who was on his way back to the world gave me his jungle boots. He said that they kept him alive the whole time he spent in country and they would do the same for me. Unfortunately, they were so worn out by the time I rotated back, no body wanted them.
Ah, Danang, Hill 327 five miles away. Watched the gooks fire rockets at the airstrip from the top of the hill while we kept our heads down below. Still shudder when Fireworks go off. 1967 was a Blast, pun intended.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #50 on Feb 27, 2011, 8:57pm »
Gooks? I believe the inappropriate racial slur for Vietnamese was zip or zipper head. We Marines called the enemy Charlie. Remember one shot Charlie? The tunnel rat that would pop up from the ground under the runway threshold to take one shot at departures and arrivals.
Gooks? I believe the politically incorrect racial slur for Vietnamese was zip or zipper head. We Marines called the enemy Charlie. Remember one shot Charlie? The tunnel rat that would pop up from the ground under the runway threshold to take one shot at departures and arrivals.
Seabee here, we built the roads before you got there, then rebuilt Liberty bridge twice. Provided Support of the 1st Marines too. Combat training at Pendleton, Fired Expert on that range with M14 Before the Toy plastic guns were delivered.
Gooks? I believe the politically incorrect racial slur for Vietnamese was zip or zipper head. We Marines called the enemy Charlie. Remember one shot Charlie? The tunnel rat that would pop up from the ground under the runway threshold to take one shot at departures and arrivals.
ZipperHead is what I've heard also....LOL. I signed up for the draft on my birthday, Dec 6, 1973 but the war was winding down. I did however enter the Army in May of 1976 and spend 3 years in Europe "Cold Warrioring" waiting for the Soviets to run that junk equipment over the Czech border
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Re: Introduction « Reply #54 on Mar 3, 2011, 6:24pm »
hello,
I am a French painter, and I just discovered Saline. I am pleasantly surprised. Everything works perfectly. I think I'll stay a while with her. I spoke with fervor on many forums where I speak regularly, as on QuebecOS.com: http://forums.quebecos.com/showthread.php?tid=5944 The forum also looks to me nice and I will be happy to come occasionally to talk with you as far as my limited knowledge of English will help me. Long life in Saline!
I am a French painter, and I just discovered Saline. I am pleasantly surprised. Everything works perfectly. I think I'll stay a while with her. I spoke with fervor on many forums where I speak regularly, as on QuebecOS.com: http://forums.quebecos.com/showthread.php?tid=5944 The forum also looks to me nice and I will be happy to come occasionally to talk with you as far as my limited knowledge of English will help me. Long life in Saline!
Welcome aboard. We are fairly new on this forum but many of us are not new to Linux. Glad you found us.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #58 on Mar 4, 2011, 5:14pm »
Hi,
Saline is on my hard drive since February 9, and is being replaced Linux Mint Xfce 9, I use a lot less now. Anyway, thank you all for your welcome. Sure, I think you'll have to endure me for some time.
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Re: Introduction « Reply #59 on Mar 20, 2011, 7:00pm »
Hi everyone,
I am from Australia and I am currently downloading SalineOS. I have used Linux before but never in great detail (hard to get away from my pc games, which is why I still use Windows). I hope as a new linux user I can fit in well here! I see that there are a few people who have some interesting stories to tell!
I hope this isn't taken offensively but I've always preferred distributions that weren't mainstream - e.g. Mepis, not Ubuntu etc, which is why this one looks very appealing to me. Needless to say I will try to seed it as much as I can (I think that's the term?) as it doesn't look like there are too many at the moment
Thank you for providing me with a distro that looks like it has so much potential and will get a lot of use on my end.
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