I believe i have a good Idea from what you mentioned at the traxx gtg all so long ago.

i have some uniform ideas for us all. what do you think:

Ha ha.

I confess. I have more time on the wrong end of live bullets than I care to remember. I'm not sure that would help me dodge a paintball or shoot a paintball straighter, but this will sure bring back the "good ole days."

Started out in the Army as 19 yr old, bullet proof, determined young soldier. I left in 2007 for business school. Along the way I graduated from the Military academy, became an Airborne Ranger, went to combat, and picked up a Bronze Star. None of it wouldn't have happened if the people that worked with me hadn't carried me through the bad times. Thus, its pretty much all fond memories for me.

There is book that has a few of these things in it. "The War on Two Fronts" was written by my Battalion Commander, Colonel Christopher P. Hughes.

I haven't read the book yet. I was a Rifle Platoon Leader during t "Shock and Awe" campaign. We didn't have a name for it. It was just war to us.



Trevor

Jody I rather not see Bruce or Jims cameltoe prancing around in those uniforms haah.

Trevor wow I didn't know you got a bronze star. Late congrats

wow a war hero. damn it will be a lot more fun shooting him won't it. The closest I'll ever be to war I hope is watching "Saving Private Ryan" and that was too close for me. After prison I just like the freedoms I used to take for granted.

Congrats on the Star. I once took 1st place in the 50 yard dash. Blue Ribbon still in a box at my mom's house. We should compare them someday.

My deepest respect Trevor! A lot of us are really humbled by what you did on behalf of all of us.

Trevor,
The Bronze star is huge. Congrats. Hope you weren't hurt too bad while earning it.
Nothing that big for me. 8 years on active duty right out of HS. Missed both wars by about a year.

Whyd you get out? 8years is so close to 20

It's a long story, but I was kind of forced out. They wanted to send me on recruiting duty and that was something that wasn't a good fit. We were short on NCO's in my MOS at the time and Recruiting duty just wasn't going to work for my family, so I denied my orders. They then said well fine, you can't reenlist, or transfer, or even get promoted. I should have gotten out as a SSgt, but instead got out as a Sgt.
I tried to go back in after 9/11, but because I have a 10% disability for some hearing loss while I was in, they won't even let me back in.
I kind of wish I'd just taken the orders and stayed in. I'd only be about 4 years from 20 now.....

Oh that sucks. I work with 3 former recruiters, its like seeing Satan himself 3 times a day

Thanks for the kind words Tommy, RB, Mark, James, et al. Trust me, that award is far more about the 6 guys with me that night than anything else. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the right buddies. None of us got hurt. The vehicles were a different story. We'll leave it by saying that I am a big fan of tracers, lasers, night vision goggles, and talking to apache helicopters. The bad guys should have known better to attack a ranger at night. Especially one with tracer rounds and a radio.

RB, I'm always willing to share when the time comes.

Still, I can't imagine what it was like to be in those situations. While I've had guns pointed at me before, it's a completely different thing when you know they are out there but don't know where. My deepest respect to all of you.

I would rock that Hello Kitty rifle, not the tank top and the pants tho

You could always use that pink helmet that I found for you at SEMA.

Trevor and James, I haven't met you guys but THANK YOU for your service to this country and in defending our civil liberties.

I used to play paintball near Ft. Lewis, and one time a group of us let three active Rangers who showed up on their own play with us. All three ended up on the team I wasn't on, and I learned about 10 minutes into it that you do NOT want to play paintball against an Army Ranger.