MOS and Rank?? I was just a lowly Spec 5 in Combat Engineers. Got out in '67............... Jerry (in Tucson)
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Ha, I was a 12Bravo too. But I liked having Marines around because if they weren't, we were the first ones in, doing the same things the Marines did. I had to scratch my head at this Army recruiting site about combat engineers -
I'm not even sure that that means. We built road, airfields and bridges, blew up roads, airfields and bridges; installed minefields, removed minefields (usually by blowing them up); installed revetments and removed revetments (usually by blowing them up), etc etc. Oh yeah, and we had a secondary MOS to become infantry when the need arose. I liked the blowing up parts the best. As they say "There are few problems that can't be resolved by the precise application of enough high explosives".
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I was 62E20, Heavy Equipment operator in a line platoon, but when my Front Loader wasn't needed, I was a 12B also. What I thought was funny is when the Infantry comes up on something like a destroyed bridge or a minefield, they would a call in for Combat Engineers to come in and clear the way for them. ............ Jerry (in Tucson)
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Yeh, we passed the Quantico exit.
12/54 - Armor, Cavalry/Operations, 05.
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Ok, might have found @Mike1950’s first wood project or maybe he just furnished the lumber!
He planted the tree the lumber came from.
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Always on lookout for burl - but don’t think the Prez would want me to harvest it. On the mall
Try it!!!! Chicken
Yeah, you pay taxes, so you own that tree as much as anyone else. Go ahead. We triple dog dare ya'.Try it!!!! Chicken
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Ok, as he lays in a hotel bed across the interstate from the world's largest Bucees, Lil Mikey is pondering on the approx 6.5 hours driving from one end of VA to the other - some questions arise in his wicked little mind.
1. Does VA have anything not named Lee?
2. Is there anything not historical in VA?
3. That gorgeous view looking south from 64 at Waynesboro - is that the Shenandoah Valley?
4. Noticed a Waffle House at the Wytheville exits and ..........no I won't let him ask about dental work!
5. Not a question - that billboard amphitheater is notable!
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6. Please tell Lil Mikey that @Eric Rorabaugh doesn't live on Lovers Lane
P.S. Lil Mikey noticed a bunch of signs that bragged that there would be some deer in the next few miles. But is there any live ones? The only ones he saw were roadkill!
1. Does VA have anything not named Lee?
2. Is there anything not historical in VA?
3. That gorgeous view looking south from 64 at Waynesboro - is that the Shenandoah Valley?
4. Noticed a Waffle House at the Wytheville exits and ..........no I won't let him ask about dental work!
5. Not a question - that billboard amphitheater is notable!
And lastly:
6. Please tell Lil Mikey that @Eric Rorabaugh doesn't live on Lovers Lane
P.S. Lil Mikey noticed a bunch of signs that bragged that there would be some deer in the next few miles. But is there any live ones? The only ones he saw were roadkill!
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I hope that you visited The Log House during your stay. Good food there.
Eric told us about a good breakfast place also but we didn't make it there.
@Mike Hill, in Arizona, we call them Street Pizza's.
Once awhile back traveling from New Braunfels to Beorne on a back road, I counted 13 dead deer in a quarter mile on the second day of hunting season. One had antlers, so of course, those tines being a flintknapping tool, I stopped to get them. About 10 feet away, there was another that probably had been killed months earlier. It was intact, but was completely dehydrated, so I picked it up and tied it up against the fence. It looked like a deer standing looking back at the road. To this day, I wonder how many shots that poor old deer took by hunters and poachers before realizing it ain't gonna fall. ............... Jerry (in Tucson)
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A bunch of cars in the repair shop.
1 - not much!
2 - yes, NOVA, but other than that no
3 - probably looking at Afton Mountain, a spectacular view! You'll be driving the Shenandoah Valley from here and down 81. Lexington is worth a stop to see W&L and VMI campuses and a decent lunch.
Mike, as someone who lives in Leesburg let me weigh in on one or two of your questions.
1. Leesburg was founded in 1757 at an east/west cross-roads that exist today, US 15 and VA 7. Originally named George Town for King George III, the name was changed to Leesburg in 1758. This was in honor of the Lee family, most likely Thomas Lee whose sons Phillip Ludwell Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were original town trustees. Robert E. Lee was Thomas' great grandnephew. Nicholas Minor, the other trustee, owned the 60 acres at the cross roads and surveyed them into the original 70 lots. My wife is a direct descendent of Nicholas. So, there were lots of influential Lees around VA not only the one we automatically think of.
2. There is no denying the history of the state, some good, a lot bad. Like most municipalities things like schools and roads get named for local leaders or historic figures. For us that means slave owners and Confederates. Today's leaders are now applying current morals and standards to these historic figures and feel the need to change names and remove physical monuments. Much of it has made the national news. Locally it means the Loudoun County High School "Raiders" are now the "Captains". And if you live on or have a business on a road named Jackson or Longstreet it is not just a matter of changing the street sign. The cost to the public and individual is astronomical. So, we are changing history.
3. Yes
4-6. Don't know.
As for the deer, they are indeed thick. As I noted in another thread, you don't need a hunting license for them, just a driver's license, as you can see along the road.
Thus endth today's history lesson with commentary.
1. Leesburg was founded in 1757 at an east/west cross-roads that exist today, US 15 and VA 7. Originally named George Town for King George III, the name was changed to Leesburg in 1758. This was in honor of the Lee family, most likely Thomas Lee whose sons Phillip Ludwell Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were original town trustees. Robert E. Lee was Thomas' great grandnephew. Nicholas Minor, the other trustee, owned the 60 acres at the cross roads and surveyed them into the original 70 lots. My wife is a direct descendent of Nicholas. So, there were lots of influential Lees around VA not only the one we automatically think of.
2. There is no denying the history of the state, some good, a lot bad. Like most municipalities things like schools and roads get named for local leaders or historic figures. For us that means slave owners and Confederates. Today's leaders are now applying current morals and standards to these historic figures and feel the need to change names and remove physical monuments. Much of it has made the national news. Locally it means the Loudoun County High School "Raiders" are now the "Captains". And if you live on or have a business on a road named Jackson or Longstreet it is not just a matter of changing the street sign. The cost to the public and individual is astronomical. So, we are changing history.
3. Yes
4-6. Don't know.
As for the deer, they are indeed thick. As I noted in another thread, you don't need a hunting license for them, just a driver's license, as you can see along the road.
Thus endth today's history lesson with commentary.
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And I had completely forgotten that the famous Texan, who also has a city named after him - Stephen F. Austin was borned there! The "Father of Texas" a Virginian - imagine that!