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Congratulations to MSG (Join to see), SPC Mark Huddleston, SFC Casey O'Mally, Sgt Eduardo Mendez, and SPC Laura Triplett! You've all won a $100 Amazon gift card! An e-gift card will be sent to the email address associated with your RallyPoint account.
Thanks to all who participated and shared their stories!
Thanks to all who participated and shared their stories!
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Sitting on green ramp at Bragg in the middle of the night and the Bn CSM sits down and simply chatted with PFC me for 10 minutes about life things, not military things
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I was just returning from a very difficult TDY. It was supposed to be a routine air show. It turned into a freaking mess! A Canadian helicopter crashed right in front of show central. Stuff went crazy. A local National Guardsman passed on a request for assistance. Since I was the closest thing to a qualified mechanic, I went and helped. When I got back to home base, the Maintenance Officer met me at the flight line. He wanted all the details of what occurred. So I wrote them down and turned them over to him. A short time later, I was presented a medal. Totally floored me! First time ever for an officer to go out of the way to thank me for a difficult job.
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SGT Randall Smith
When I got to Germany for my first assignment, 7th Sig Spt Bn, I was a clerk in the Signal office. Little if anything to do but fetch coffee and visit. About the 3 week there my Lt ask if I knew anything about radios, azimuths, line of sight and setting a station up. Told him I did not even understand the question. So he put me under the teaching of a Sp5 and my lessons begin. Then every Friday afternoon the Lt would have a quiz for me on what I had been taught that week. Maybe only 3 or 4 questions but I had to show I was learning. At 6 months I could do everything that Spc5 Mann could do and I was promoted to Spc4. Mann was transferred to Nam and I was the Syscon NCO as a Spc4. Lt. Bontocanti could have let me float around as a goffer and jr. clerk but he took the time to teach me. And when he screwed up, ( as Lt's are known to do) I had no problem covering for him.
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serving while in the combat zone, getting the mission done in OIF-1.
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I worked for an amazing General Officer who trusted me to lead my troops and make decisions. Best time of my career!
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Soldier coin night...Drill Sargent making sharp left and saying Grandma (with pride). I was a 34 year old teacher at the time I enlisted. Never left me.
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Believe it or not it was when I got a field grade Article 15 in boot camp. I was a cocky seventeen year old kid that got knocked down to size while doing ten days hard labor on the rock pile. The Colonel probably could have thrown me out but gave me another chance and let me stay and finish training. I have never forgot that. It lined my a$$ up and I never got another article 15 the rest of the time I was in.
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Great lieutenant Kidder in viet nam 1968. Took care of us.loved Simon and Garfunkel.
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My drill sergeant was tough on me but from his training I became a new person. At the end of basic he nominated me for soldier of the month and put me on an honors marching band.
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While in Kandahar in 2010 -11, I had to task units based in KAF to man entry control points, security for the bazaar, quick reaction force, random security, health and welfare inspections. The vast majority of services, general officers, Colonels and CSM supported these efforts with a little explanation and coordination among the US and NATO troops. It was a difficult year and not every service cooperated but most the leadership responded in the way we expect our leaders to act.
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