What History Have You Witnessed

[reveal]

June 1991 --- Participated in humanitarian missions in the Phillipines after Mt. Pinatubo erupted.

I was at Camp John Haye in Bagio, Philippines, about 20 miles from the epicenter of a 7.7 richter scale earthquake. I remember being on the golf course that afternoon and seeing the Hilton hotel. Later, I remember not seeing it as it had collapsed entirely.

I also was living in Manila, Phillipines, when Mt. Pinatubo blew. I don't think people realize how destructive it was. It completely messed up the Earth's climate for a good year or two, if not more.

I was living in Vacaville, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, when the Bay Area quake hit in 1988. I felt tremors but thought nothing of it. I didn't realize it was that powerful until I turned on the news.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

I was stationed in Germany when the Wall fell. Went up there and saw it come down. Managed to chip off a few pieces for myself.

Went to Desert Storm.

Hrm. Can't THINK of anything else at the moment.

 

[CarlZog]

I was stationed in Germany when the Wall fell. Went up there and saw it come down. Managed to chip off a few pieces for myself.

Went to Desert Storm.

Hrm. Can't THINK of anything else at the moment.

I'd say that's plenty!

I have a bunch of college students working for me right now, and it's hard to believe that there's now a whole generation for whom the Cold War is ancient history.

Carl

 

[ragboy]

I was stationed in Germany when the Wall fell. Went up there and saw it come down. Managed to chip off a few pieces for myself.

Went to Desert Storm.

Hrm. Can't THINK of anything else at the moment.

I was on the East/West German border when the wall came down. Got to see the "Ghost Autobahn" (hadn't been driven on for 40 years or so) fill up with those crazy little East German cars. Got to actually shake hands and drink with my counterparts across the border the next day. We'd spent two years glaring at each other through binoculars. It was nice to throw all that away and agree that we were 'just soldiers' and not enemies.

Drove a tank, held a.... SPC4 rank... in Desert Storm (1st CAV, HHC 2/8 CAV -- What unit were you guys in?) Captured a Republican Guard general (he blew up my tank...bastard).

I started one of the first ISP's in Austin in 1993. We made our bucks and got out before the crash.

I met (and helped build a website) for Chris Farley about two weeks before he died. It was probably one of the most surreal experience of my life. He was very business-like and composed until he got a call from David Spade on his cell phone. Then, he was SNL Farley in an instant.

I have a brother-in-law (Army Intelligence officer) that was in Washington on 9/11. Long frantic hours later we were relieved to find out he wasn't at the Pentagon that day, though he did see the impact.

My nephew is going to Iraq this year. He's a redleg (artillery), but I suspect he'll be a groundpounder like everyone else.

Edit: Cripes! I forgot: I sold books to Elizabeth Montgomery about a month before she died. She came to Bookstop in Austin to shop. I didn't even recognize her until she filled out a book discount card..

 

[Old One]

Drove a tank, held a.... SPC4 rank... in Desert Storm (1st CAV, HHC 2/8 CAV -- What unit were you guys in?) Captured a Republican Guard general (he blew up my tank...bastard).

4/67 Armor (3rd BDE, 3rd AD) - Mortar Platoon Ldr, Tank Platoon Ldr, Tank Company XO, Battalion ADJ).

I met (and helped build a website) for Chris Farley about two weeks before he died. It was probably one of the most surreal experience of my life. He was very business-like and composed until he got a call from David Spade on his cell phone. Then, he was SNL Farley in an instant.

Edit: Cripes! I forgot: I sold books to Elizabeth Montgomery about a month before she died. She came to Bookstop in Austin to shop. I didn't even recognize her until she filled out a book discount card..

Dude...you need to quit meeting celebreties !

~ OO

 

[ragboy]

4/67 Armor (3rd BDE, 3rd AD) - Mortar Platoon Ldr, Tank Platoon Ldr, Tank Company XO, Battalion ADJ).

I was in 2/32 3rd AD in Germany. On 'the Rock.' It's a semi-truck parking lot now.

Dude...you need to quit meeting celebreties !

~ OO

I think they've gotten the word. I haven't met one since.

 

[Old One]

I was in 2/32 3rd AD in Germany. On 'the Rock.' It's a semi-truck parking lot now.

KG - cool! I was over in Friedberg, right down the road. Still an active post...I hope to get over there in the next year to visit a buddy commanding an Engineer Battalion in Giessen before they bring everyone back from Germany.

~ OO

 

[CarlZog]

I sold books to Elizabeth Montgomery about a month before she died. She came to Bookstop in Austin to shop. I didn't even recognize her until she filled out a book discount card..

The TVLand cable network is trying to erect a statue n Salem, Mass. of Montgomery riding a broomstick in her "Bewitched" attire. Some of the locals are upset that it will trivialize the real history of the town where a bunch of alleged witches were put to death by a local puritan judge in 1692. I guess it made the national news.

Carl

 

[ragboy]

KG - cool! I was over in Friedberg, right down the road. Still an active post...I hope to get over there in the next year to visit a buddy commanding an Engineer Battalion in Giessen before they bring everyone back from Germany.

~ OO

I have had many 'lost nights' in Giessen. Did Friedberg have the Elvis mess hall? I think we used to go there for training, but it's been too many lost nights since then to remember.

I actually had a German customer on ebay pay me in Licher bier a couple of years ago. He got some GREAT feedback.

Anyway...back to the history.

 

[Krieg]

Drove a tank, held a.... SPC4 rank... in Desert Storm (1st CAV, HHC 2/8 CAV -- What unit were you guys in?) Captured a Republican Guard general (he blew up my tank...bastard).

2nd SSCT (Special Security Communications Team), G-2, HQCO, HQBN, 1st Mardiv in Saudi

Was with 1st SRIG (Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence Group) in Somalia.

Was a contractor with Blackwater last year in Saudi.