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GP6971

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30. So true

Reply to tabasco (Reply #24)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:21 PM

Sep 2015

If I remember correctly, the ratio of support troops to combat troops was 10/12 to 1 during Vietnam.

I just loved the MACV guys......I worked with a lot of them after Vietnam and their fake war stories were something else.

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Some people lie about their military service [View all] catnhatnh Sep 2015 OP

My dad was. He wouldn't ever talk about it. PatrickforO Sep 2015 #1

My dad never spoke of it until late in his life nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #2

What is there to say......? jaysunb Sep 2015 #3

Plenty, brother pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #6

Only though this site have I been able to open up a bit madokie Sep 2015 #18

I get by with the help of my friends--including you and our other brothers here pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #22

It took a while for me too, but, like you, after some years jaysunb Sep 2015 #21

You wern't there FreakinDJ Sep 2015 #4

Were you? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #5

I certianly know way more than Eko Sep 2015 #7

Do you TALK to them? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #8

As much as we can. Eko Sep 2015 #9

I have caught several on DU. former9thward Sep 2015 #10

I've found people will often use your military service against you Victor_c3 Sep 2015 #11

There arent any magic Eko Sep 2015 #12

Thanks for your service and the yellow ribbons are total BS and completely meaningless YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #13

/\_/\_This right here_/\_/\ Scuba Sep 2015 #20

I am so sorry that you are going through this rough time.... Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #14

You know I love you, Victor pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #15

Victor, you have my number, and I can PM msanthrope Sep 2015 #16

I know hundreds... trumad Sep 2015 #17

I was never a combat vet, I was a paper pusher in the AF for 22 years MrScorpio Sep 2015 #19

A neighbor of ours when I was a kid Snobblevitch Sep 2015 #23

90% plus of the military is rear echelon. tabasco Sep 2015 #24

So true GP6971 Sep 2015 #30

The "thank you for your service" thing... rppper Sep 2015 #25

dad served in the korean war shanti Sep 2015 #26

My dad served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII. Maedhros Sep 2015 #27

My husband is a 21 year Army veteran vankuria Sep 2015 #28

My uncle was a flight engineer/top turret gunner on a B-17 over Germany. Archae Sep 2015 #29