Posted on Jan 4, 2015
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For me I am most proud to wear the American Flag!
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CW2 Bde Ew Tech
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The flag on my shoulder.
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SGT Jesse Davis
SGT Jesse Davis
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Dirty nasty Legs!!!!
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SGT William Ek
SGT William Ek
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SGT Jesse Davis - Airborne All The Way D-C0 1/506th 101 Abn 67-68 RVN Tet. Sgt leave the legs alone , we were all in it together !
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Great answer!
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SPC Roger Giffen
SPC Roger Giffen
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SGT Jesse Davis - Without legs, you re useless.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
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Infantry Blue. Something Person Other-than Grunts will never understand.
I just edited this, not using the acronym POG (even though the military is full of them, acronyms not POGs) so I would be more "politically correct", and try not to offend them.
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CSM Clifford Fargason
CSM Clifford Fargason
6 y
SGM Mikel Dawson - I have read your replies to some of the folks here and in my personal opinion, many of them have been very unprofessional. You have the blue cord and are proud of it, that is great. A lot of those junior troops you are disrespecting on here may not have a cord that is awarded to anyone who can complete the AIT for that MOS, but they have been downrange in harms way. While you would say that I don't understand the brotherhood of the blue cord, my impression is that you don't understand the brotherhood of those who actually were in combat regardless of their MOS. In Iraq we even had AF transportation units running convoys outside the wire. They aren't grunts, but they performed their mission in hazardous conditions and deserve respect, not scorn because they don't have a cord.
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SGT Ford Pulley
SGT Ford Pulley
6 y
When you turn: "BLUE: that is forever." When you change MOS's you are still "BLUE."
It follows that the Blue Cord remains with the soldier that earned it!
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SGT George Stephens
SGT George Stephens
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SGT Tj Casiano actually you earn that BLUE CORD. Fort Benning is not joke even in today's new training standards, Benning is still considered the hardest.

I love my blue cord and I've deployed more times than most oc the guys i went to OSUT with. Seen more sand and Jack shacks than i care to openly admit. Had more Dear John because of Jody letters than i want to count, been dehydrated, ate sand blended MREs, and still to this day! I never forsake my creed as an Infantryman nor the Brotherhood.

We hold ourselves to a higher standard than most, we crave combat and while many coware from it, we yearn for it because we have accepted our own mortality and want to walk that line between life and death with disregard to whether or not we get to do it again.

The Last 100 yards is what it's all about. Wars are not won by machines, they are won by the men on the battlefield on the front lines smiling, crying, sweating, laughing, bleeding, etc. All so you can sit at your desk and say, "we got Intel saying the bad guy is here" meanwhile on the battlefield, "sir we all do respect but your intel is fubar"

Infantry, and i mean true infantrymen, embrace the life, embrace the suck, live the life, love the life.

We look at those before us
Gordon
Shugart
Patton
Eisenhower
York
Murphy
Moore
Chamberland
Bowie
Crockett
Greene
Madison
Washington

And many others that paved the way to where we are now as infantrymen.

We do the stairway to heaven ruck just to stare into a fire that you'll never see.

That blue cord and those rifles mean everything to me.
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SGT George Stephens
SGT George Stephens
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SPC Jonathan Bettandorff tme. There are those that are not infantry that i love and respect as well.

Supply being one of them. Without them, we wouldn't get the tools we need for the job.

Mechanics, we would all then turn into light foots.

Pilots, well you guys are angels on the battlefield.

Cooks, we always look forward to your meals as we return from the field because while MREs are okay, nothing beats hot chow.

Medics, it's obvious here

But my biggest coodo goes out to those who get trashed talked a lot, the 88M. You guys are always willing to give us a lift no matter what and drive us into Hell if you need too but you're right there with us
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SSG Bill Coggin
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This one. The hardest earned, they aren't just handed out.
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CPL Brock Porter
CPL Brock Porter
6 y
Lmao....scuba, halo, ranger tab, bat scroll, sf tab, honor guard....plenty above that piece of “gimme flair”
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CPL Brock Porter
CPL Brock Porter
6 y
I earned a pair of the above, complimented with a bronze star....pathfinder is a gentleman’s course, you sadden real soldiers by your ignorance....thanks for your service though
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SSG Russell Myers
SSG Russell Myers
6 y
Door gunner on the space shuttle. Lmao
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SGT William Ek
SGT William Ek
6 y
99% of them were earned.
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