Babykiller Bob reminisces about having feet

[BannedFromDU]

TheMastersNemesis (7,824 posts)

I Did Not Volunteer For Vietnam BUT I WENT ANYWAY. (Since the DUmp has brought back the babykiller epithet, you are now a babykiller. And you CHOSE it. Psycho.)


50 years ago this summer I was at Fort Polk, Louisiana (lousiana) at Tiger Land training for duty in Vietnam. My 81mm mortar training and advanced infantry training was just another 6 -8 weeks of basic training on steroids. (I hear it takes extra training to hit maternity wards with precision.) Learned to fire every infantry weapon 50 cal machine gun, M60 machine gun, grenade launcher, 45 cal hand gun, 81mm mortar, & m-16. (Gotta make sure they're actually dead, huh Bob?)

Up every morning at 430am and 6 miles running in combat boots before breakfast. (Now you piss your diaper and holler for your wife. Pathetic.)Was never in better shape in my life after that.
Running around the Louisiana forests in the dark was sure fun too.

Anyway being a draftee was no fun. (You JUST said you volunteered, liar.) And the fear of the future was palpable. Yet you moved forward anyway. Had a trick shoulder so could not do overhead bars. Passing the PT test was a real bear with one event totally out.

Yet looking back a half century it turned out to be really one of the greatest experiences of my life. And I was very lucky in Vietnam. Never had to fire my weapons once except practice. After two weeks of combat operations luckily got a job a mail clerk and then company clerk. My "*****" typing classes in high school ended up saving my life and my sanity.

There were times that we really sad and scary. But met a lot really great and brave people. MY captain (now deceased). Cant Nawrosky was a West Pointer and sure 4 star general at least. SGT Denison was the bravest and fairest human being I have ever met. And I can say that with full confidence. Of course there were duds along the way.

Ironically I value my experiences with the 1st Cavalry Division as the greatest and in some way most thrilling ever looking back.
IT REALLY WAS LIKE IN THE MOVIES.

I have had a great life so far. Except for losing my foot to staph 3 1/2 years ago I have done really ok.

Never in my life could I have ever believed that I would value what I went through so damned much. Yet I feel sad for the friends and associates I lost.

**** off, Bob. This isn't going to whitewash the shit you say. Can't wait til everyone in your life sees it.

[Delmar]

I have had a great life so far. Except for losing my foot to staph 3 1/2 years ago I have done really ok.

Well, how about that, the dumb old bastard finally learned how to spell staph right.

Hanging around the smartest people on the internet finally rubbed off on him.

[I_B_Perky]

TheMastersNemesis (7,824 posts)

I Did Not Volunteer For Vietnam BUT I WENT ANYWAY.

Did you see John Kerry while you were there?

[SVPete]

That post sounds vaguely familiar, yet the date/time stamp is today. Does he post one of these every few months, sort of a Best of Bob thing?

[USA4ME]

TheMastersNemesis

My "*****" typing classes in high school ended up saving my life and my sanity.

Yes to saving your life (much to the detriment of the rest of the world) and No to saving your sanity (Uh, Bob, we've read your posts. Sanity and you have nothing in common).

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[Bad Dog]

That post sounds vaguely familiar, yet the date/time stamp is today. Does he post one of these every few months, sort of a Best of Bob thing?

Bob does seem to post about his VN adventures quite often.  As a privileged white man, it is the only virtue signal available to him.  Unfortunately they didn't give purple hearts for paper cuts or shit burning injuries.

[SVPete]

Bob does seem to post about his VN adventures quite often.  As a privileged white man, it is the only virtue signal available to him.  Unfortunately they didn't give purple hearts for paper cuts or shit burning injuries.

With all the DU-member Boomers pining after their good old days of protesting the Vietnam War, it's surprising none of them have unloaded on TMN for speaking fondly and respectfully of his days supporting the babykillers. Ah, well, if it weren't for double standards DU-folk would have no standards at all.

[VelvetElvis]

**** off, Bob. This isn't going to whitewash the shit you say. Can't wait til everyone in your life sees it.

How does ANYONE who served in that time frame end up supporting the very party that spat upon their service and stabbed them in the back at every opportunity?
Bad drugs? Head injury? Beuller?

[SVPete]

How does ANYONE who served in that time frame end up supporting the very party that spat upon their service and stabbed them in the back at every opportunity?
Bad drugs? Head injury? Beuller?

I dunno, maybe he's a Red Diaper Doper Baby who strayed briefly and came back, but can't quite bring himself to say, "I, too, was a babykiller!"