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Want to see how much the rallypoint community knows about Audie Murphy. If you are a member of the SAMC feel free to share your board experience.
WWII World War Two
Sergeant Audie Murphy Club (SAMC)
Audie Murphy
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Most decorated soldier in the European theater, if not all of WWII
Battlefield commission
MOH for firing a ma-deuce atop a burning tank as cover fire to get his soldiers to safety
Starred in his own bio-pic, "To Hell and Back" along with a few other movies.
Hasbro came out with a commemorative 12" GI Joe with his likeness as part of their MOH series
That's all I know w/o googling
Battlefield commission
MOH for firing a ma-deuce atop a burning tank as cover fire to get his soldiers to safety
Starred in his own bio-pic, "To Hell and Back" along with a few other movies.
Hasbro came out with a commemorative 12" GI Joe with his likeness as part of their MOH series
That's all I know w/o googling
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
You got to ebay it, 1SG (Join to see) to find the good deals. Too much over pricing everywhere in the collectors market these days.
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I've read that he played down his actions in the movie...I like the movie, but Hollywood just wasn't capable of recreating the same stuff.
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1SG (Join to see)
not to mention that no amount of acting skills can replicate the adrenaline experienced in the heat of battle CSM (Join to see)
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1SG (Join to see). He was so famous that the Germans named a reputedly aggressive mobile home bed after him => The Audi Murphy Bed . . .
https://mobile.twitter.com/engr_andy/status/ [login to see] 4445184
Seriously, though, the San Antonio TX Veterans Admin Hospital is named after him . . .
https://www.211texas.org/zf/profile/service/id/1334164
https://mobile.twitter.com/engr_andy/status/ [login to see] 4445184
Seriously, though, the San Antonio TX Veterans Admin Hospital is named after him . . .
https://www.211texas.org/zf/profile/service/id/1334164
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Here are some pictures I took at the memorial near the site where his plain crashed. The crash happened not far from where I grew up. Last fall, I walked up the mountain to see this.
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I met him as a Toddler, at the Local American Legion in Norco/Corona, California with my grandfather (a WWII Navy combat vet, USS Gridley, San Diego and Guam). Audie was a wonderful man but an alcoholic like my grandfather dealing with all the terrible things he had seen and done in WWII. He had severe PTSD and what we now know and call "Moral Injury." His life story is so much more interesting than what we know from his movies. Did you know he was (allegedly) beaten up by Howard Hughes' bodyguards after penetrating a layer or two of Hughes home security forces? They were dating the same woman (Actress Jean Peters) and Audie decided on some direct action to deal with the mega rich guy that was taking his girlfriend from him. He had a burnt in sense of right and wrong that stayed with him until he died. I often wonder how growing up poor in Texas informed his character. His widow volunteered at our local VA here in Sepulveda, California for years until passing away within the last decade.
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Capt Lance Gallardo
I just remembered now, my grandpa telling me Audie put me on his lap as a toddler! Too bad I never got a photo of that. The late 60s/early seventies were four decades removed from everyone having a camera in their cell phones.
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Capt Lance Gallardo
I think we have all met Audie Murphy in some way. When you have served with that quiet soldier or marine who just quietly does whatever his or hers MOS skill is to the best of their ability. You met Audie. When you met a soldier or Marine who came from an impoverished background, and may not look like much, but who came alive in Basic or Boot Camp, you met an Audie Murphy. DIs will tell you there is one of these "sleeper types" in every recruit company. Usually it is the guy or gal who comes into the service with something to prove to themselves if not to the world, a person with a chip on their shoulder. There are plenty of Audies in the US Army and the Marine Corps today, and if we are in the type of total sustained war that Audie was in, you would be reading their DFC and MOH citations. My grandfather died with such a man, Earl C. Brake of Alabama KIA, March 14th, 2014. Antipolo, Manilla, the Philippines.
http://www.alabamaveterans.org/#!soldiers-stories/c21np
http://www.alabamaveterans.org/#!soldiers-stories/c21np
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park
The Alabama Veterans Memorial is far more than just a park... It is a message from all Alabamians, recognizing the price of freedom and peace.
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His grave site is the second most visited in Arlington national cemetery. The first one is JFK's.
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1SG (Join to see)
Have you been to either of them? I have been to Audie's grave a few times and the JFK plot once. I participated in wreaths across America once as well and visited a few graves of Soldiers that I had personally served with to include Ross McGinnis, who is also a MOH recipient from our deployment in Baghdad.
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Capt Lance Gallardo
Thanks SFC I now have another thing on my to do list the next time I am in DC. The first thing is to visit the WWII Memorial, and pray for the soul of my Mother's father, and Earl Brake (DFC) from Alabama, then go to Arlington and visit Audie's grave.
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He's related to my dad's step dad. I think he was his cousin. I was actually born with the last name Murphy.
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Fourth time GO for the board. I've sponsored a few others, and even had to get one through on his fourth time. It's not the board, or the club, its the people on the board.
I think the club, and induction to the club, should be about the betterment of the NCO Corps.
On many board occasions, it seems the board members, typically BDE CSMs (not all SAMC or SGT Morales members) expect perfection. And, I've seen board members expect a SGT to know as much as a SFC.
The candidate just needs to prove themselves to the board members that he/she is a credible NCO that is always eager to outdo themselves and others AND better the team. So what if one of their Soldiers wants to reclass (most recent board I sat in on) and the NCO supports it. Why we spent 15 minutes on that, I don't know.
When candidates experience boards of that nature, it discourages others.
By no means, should the selection process be easy, just apply the fifth principle.
I think the club, and induction to the club, should be about the betterment of the NCO Corps.
On many board occasions, it seems the board members, typically BDE CSMs (not all SAMC or SGT Morales members) expect perfection. And, I've seen board members expect a SGT to know as much as a SFC.
The candidate just needs to prove themselves to the board members that he/she is a credible NCO that is always eager to outdo themselves and others AND better the team. So what if one of their Soldiers wants to reclass (most recent board I sat in on) and the NCO supports it. Why we spent 15 minutes on that, I don't know.
When candidates experience boards of that nature, it discourages others.
By no means, should the selection process be easy, just apply the fifth principle.
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