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Do you have a box/s of military treasures that you would run into a burning house to save? What do you have in there and why is it significant? Most importantly, does everybody else know the significance? You see it all the time. Someone inherits something in grandma and grandpa's attic and it looks cool, but you don't know the whole story behind it. What is in YOUR box?
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I've got my original Airborne wings, my ARCOM, my two sets of Thai wings, my De Oppresso Liber stuff from my class As, my ribbons, pretty much everything.
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SGT Gabriel G.
they are drunks SFC Mark Merino ! lol I was fortunate to be an SF support guy so we trained a bunch of Thai SF troops. It was awesome. We learned some Muay Thai and jungle survival from them, we taught them shooting, etc. Those guys were drinking on the C-130 on the way to the damn DZ. I was so paranoid when I was on jump status, I wouldn't even drink 24 hours before a jump haha.
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I have a Leopold MKIV 3.5X10 Scope that a friend Purchased for my M-14 for my last deployment to Iraq. Its mounted on my Rifle at home along with the pictures of it on the rifle. I couldn't keep the Rifle they wanted that back.
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Yes I purchased a WW2 Army / Air Force footlocker which holds all my awards,my book of certificates, my dress blues, and a few other small Military items from my time in the Active Army between 1999-2013
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In my Shadow Box, I have an American Flagflown over the Capital as well as all my medals and ribbons, plaques with all the dates and duty stations I was at, I do have my dress blues in a special plastic box so some day I will be able to wear thewm again and trust me I will, I also have some small boxes in various lopcations throughout the house whit other momentems of my career of 20 years.
Thanks for asking
Cliff
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USN Retired
Thanks for asking
Cliff
AS1(AW)
USN Retired
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I have my grandfather's "EGA" emblem, my father's dog tags and two of his EGA, i have the rank insignia from my mother's uniform, and my nametag, rank and brass. Its a small box, but it holds so much for me.
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To begin with, there is the traditional Shoebox With The Blue Box and various small items, awards, decorations, photographs, pocket New Testament and a wickedly-shaped piece of cast iron that did not tear into my flesh during one of those alerts early one morning. Bundle of MPC and RVN currency.
Outside the shoebox,
The folder with both honorable discharge certificates, draft notice, various "Honor Graduate" certificates, the Bronze Star paperwork.
One slim folder with both DD-214s, relevant orders and other documents. Several fat folders with copies of other orders that I might sort through some day.
Then there's the Mnong truck spring knife, and some wonderfully cheesy-looking photo albums with 3-D images of ladies on the front and a foul-smelling adhesive within to hold the photos in place. Which it did for the first twenty years or so.
Somewhere in storage is The Duffel Bag.
Outside the shoebox,
The folder with both honorable discharge certificates, draft notice, various "Honor Graduate" certificates, the Bronze Star paperwork.
One slim folder with both DD-214s, relevant orders and other documents. Several fat folders with copies of other orders that I might sort through some day.
Then there's the Mnong truck spring knife, and some wonderfully cheesy-looking photo albums with 3-D images of ladies on the front and a foul-smelling adhesive within to hold the photos in place. Which it did for the first twenty years or so.
Somewhere in storage is The Duffel Bag.
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I have the Gold Pocket watch that my Great uncle Charlie Bacon Carried with him in WWI. and The "bus driver" cap Emblem from my Grand Father who served in the Pacific during WWII.
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Cpl Glynis Sakowicz
SSGT John Bacon, way off subject here, but do you have family in Kansas? If you do, and they are from Topeka, then we share a few genes.
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SFC Mark Merino
Vert cool. Always keep it with you. Especially if you are drinking anywhere near veterans!
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Unfortunately that did happen to me. My wife and I lost everything we had in a fire about fives years ago. The fire was too bad to try to rescue anything, but if I had the chance I would have. I had all my uniforms; pictures; and other things. I now only have the few photos that I have at work. I miss those things, but I'm also reminded that it's just stuff. My wife & I got out safe and that was more important.
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Unfortunately that did happen to me. My wife and I lost everything we had in a fire about fives years ago. The fire was too bad to try to rescue anything, but if I had the chance I would have. I had all my uniforms; pictures; and other things. I now only have the few photos that I have at work. I miss those things, but I'm also reminded that it's just stuff. My wife & I got out safe and that was more important.
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