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Foreign Invaders crisis cost $150B in 2023, forcing some areas to cut police and fire services: report Israel kills head of Hezbollah Intelligence. Status: Not Logged In; Sign In Opinions/Editorials See other Opinions/Editorials Articles Title: Cold War Veteran Source: [None] URL Source: [None] Published: Jul 1, 2015 Author: sneakypete Post Date: 2015-07-01 22:49:50 by sneakypete Keywords: None Views: 2679 Comments: 26 Anybody else ever heard of such a critter? There is a old guy I see at the local Hardees fairly often that started showing up wearing one of those blue ball caps you see that are sold that have stuff like "VN Vet","Korean War vet",USN Vet",etc,etc,etc. The difference is his says "Cold War Veteran" on it,and he has a bunch of badges and other crap pinned on it. I asked him about it the first time I saw it,and he says he wears it because he was a veteran of the Cold War. Come to find out he was in the Coast Guard Reserve so he could avoid the draft and get a government job. I don't really know if I should laugh or be mad. IMHO,pretty much everyone alive on the planet prior to 1990 is a "Cold War Veteran",including the children born who were still infants when it ended. I probably should have asked him what the badges stood for,and if one was for syncronized swimming,but just decided to leave it alone Poster Comment: Anyone else seen one of those hats? Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 22. #8. To: sneakypete (#0) Leave him be Pete, he is living in a dream world in which he actually served and didn't run and hide. BobCeleste  posted on  2015-07-02   8:07:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #9. To: BobCeleste (#8) (Edited) Leave him be Pete, he is living in a dream world in which he actually served and didn't run and hide. I'm not bothering him. In fact,the truth is I feel sorry for him. His life must be a pathetic living hell if he is that desperate for attention. The guy I am going to zero in on if I spot him again is a guy that wears a red beret like modern paratrooperes with a mini-CIB on it with a star who claims he was with the 187th RCT in Korea,and the 82nd in VN. I was distracted when I met him,but something seemed wrong about his story. Truthfully,I think the red beret is what threw me off. I was trying to figure out why a guy that had never worn a red beret before he retired is suddenly wearing one and why he would wear one,when what I should have been focusing on was the FACT that if he had been with the 187th in the Korean War,he would have to be at LEAST 81 years old. He looked closer to 71 years old to me. I have never seen anyone 81 years old that gets around like he does,and damn few that were 71 years old that seemed to be that agile and healthy. He said he owns a art gallery,and that also made me suspiscious. I can see someone into art thinking it would be stylish to wear a red beret with a bunch of doo-dahs pinned to it. BTW,I knew a bunch of 187th vets from the Korean War when I was in the army,and every damn one of them is dead now. Most have been dead for years. Being a career infantry paratrooper is not conducive to living a long and healthy life. Woundw and injuries you receive when you are young have a tendency to shorten your life when you get older. Not to mention the physically demanding life of working hard,not sleeping enough,sleeping out in the rain and swow,etc,etc,etc. sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-02   8:38:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: sneakypete (#9) I knew a bunch of 187th vets from the Korean War when I was in the army,and every damn one of them is dead now. Most have been dead for years. Being a career infantry paratrooper is not conducive to living a long and healthy life. My platoon Sgt during jump school in the summer of '55 had been with the 187th in Korea. If memory serves, Sgt Hansen was about 23 at that time, (I was 18) and I wouldn't doubt he's still alive at 83. The sonsabitch was too mean to die early. tpaine  posted on  2015-07-02   15:17:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #11. To: tpaine (#10) My platoon Sgt during jump school in the summer of '55 had been with the 187th in Korea. If memory serves, Sgt Hansen was about 23 at that time, (I was 18) and I wouldn't doubt he's still alive at 83. The sonsabitch was too mean to die early. While nobody that ever met him considered him to be anything less than a gentleman,Medal of Honor Winner from the Korean War Ola Mize died about a year ago,and he was a serious health food and exercise nut. He could still fit into the tailored uniforms he was wearing in the 60's when he died. He was also one seriously tough and brave individual that had been wounded several times,and was one of the 20 year old Master Sgts during the Korean War before he even got the MoH. I have never met anyone in my life that I admired more than this man. www.nytimes.com/2014/03/1...hero-dies-at-82.html?_r=0 BTW,the last 15-20 North Koreans he killed on that hill before the relief force got to him were killed with an entrencing tool. He was out of ammunition and the only man left on the hill able to move under his own power,so he decided to surrender rather than escape and evade because he knew his wouned men would need someone to take care of them as POW's. He went berserk after he surrendered when hs saw the NK's start to bayonet the wounded as they lay in their sleeping bags,grabbed an entrenching tool,and starting killing everything in sight on the hill that wasn't wearing a US uniform. He flat ass chased armed NK soldiers off that hill by himself using a shovel. He really was a nice mild-mannered guy,but never make the mistake of trying to harm his wounded! sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-02   15:53:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #16. To: sneakypete (#11) He was also one seriously tough and brave individual that had been wounded several times,and was one of the 20 year old Master Sgts during the Korean War before he even got the MoH. I have never met anyone in my life that I admired more than this man. We had a LOT of seriously tough old soldiers in the 503 PIR of the 11th. (The 11th rotated to southern Germany in Jan '56, the best duty in the world at that time) Our regimental Sgt Major had five combat jump stars, from Normandy to Korea. Hellofa soldier, but I forget his name... tpaine  posted on  2015-07-02   16:47:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #18. To: tpaine (#16) (Edited) (The 11th rotated to southern Germany in Jan '56, the best duty in the world at that time) They later became the 1st Cav,and went to VN. Probably not the best duty in the world. BTW,did you know a Corporal in the 11th in the mid to late 50's named Robert Howard? sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-02   18:01:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #22. To: sneakypete (#18) did you know a Corporal in the 11th in the mid to late 50's named Robert Howard? Name sounded real familiar, tell I realised we had a dipshit class president in high school named that.... I think he dodged the draft too.... tpaine  posted on  2015-07-02   18:43:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 22. #23. To: tpaine (#22) Name sounded real familiar, tell I realised we had a dipshit class president in high school named that.... I think he dodged the draft too.... This one went on to be put in for a MoH in VN on THREE separate occasions in a 1 year period in VN. He got it the 3rd time. He was a SSG E-6 at the time. He retired as a full Colonel and died a couple of years ago. He was from Alabama,and his father and his uncles were paratroopers in WW-2. sneakypete  posted on  2015-07-02 19:02:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 22. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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