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What was the worst day in your military career? That day where you spent every moment not being chewed out, screamed at, or whatever, watching the clock waiting for it to end. I will share mine after I hear a few others.
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SFC (Join to see) roger that, it was on May 4, 2005, while I was on Baliff duties in Kuwait from Iraq. I learned my friend SSG Randy Collins was involved in a IDF attack in Mosul. When I arrived back at Ft. Lewis I learned he had passed away. This was the worst day ever. I lost my best friend in the military. Life has never been the same without him.
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TSgt Joe C. SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Stephen F. SSG Warren Swan CSM Charles Hayden SPC Margaret Higgins SGT (Join to see) MSG Chris Allen SFC George Smith SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas PO2 (Anonymous) Maj Marty Hogan SGT (Join to see) SGT Damaso V Santana LTC (Join to see) SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"1stSgt Eugene Harless
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TSgt Joe C. SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Stephen F. SSG Warren Swan CSM Charles Hayden SPC Margaret Higgins SGT (Join to see) MSG Chris Allen SFC George Smith SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas PO2 (Anonymous) Maj Marty Hogan SGT (Join to see) SGT Damaso V Santana LTC (Join to see) SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"1stSgt Eugene Harless
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SFC William Farrell
I'm sorry for your loss SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. I still tear up when I read of our military deaths. I just looked at his shadow box on TWS where i also have an account. If you are in touch with Randy's family, please express my sincere condolences.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC William Farrell - thank you, I am, I am his daughters God Father, ordained by him personally.
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My condolences SFC. Davis. The military definilty changes a person in more ways then one. Loss seems to be the greatest change we face. Prayers for you and all that knew your friend.
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Sonnet XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end. Joe, I hope this poem by Shakespeare helps you. It has always helped me to remember old friends.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end. Joe, I hope this poem by Shakespeare helps you. It has always helped me to remember old friends.
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It is hard to determine which was my worst day SFC (Join to see)
Contenders for my worst day overall:
1. passing out drunk between the railroad tracks and the road in Kemmern, Germany in 1982 and being taken by Polizei to the MPs at Bamberg an waking up in the holding cell.
2. getting the worst senior rating from a BG at Bamberg in 1984 after regaining my driving privileges after loosing them from a General grade Article 15 based on #1
3. being served with a no-contact order while recovering from a cardiac catheterization in May 1995. That kept me away from my young boys for weeks. Eventually that wife divorced me and remarried. I was able to have contact with my sons and regained custody in 1999.
4. being a co-chair with a former POTUS political appointee in 2002. I was trying to do my job in this additional duty as a LTC while this 2-to-3 star equivalent loved to demean the current president in the meetings and insult me whenever he could. I ended up having mitral valve repair surgery early in 2003 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Thanks for drawing my attention to this discussion SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Christopher Mueller Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM
Contenders for my worst day overall:
1. passing out drunk between the railroad tracks and the road in Kemmern, Germany in 1982 and being taken by Polizei to the MPs at Bamberg an waking up in the holding cell.
2. getting the worst senior rating from a BG at Bamberg in 1984 after regaining my driving privileges after loosing them from a General grade Article 15 based on #1
3. being served with a no-contact order while recovering from a cardiac catheterization in May 1995. That kept me away from my young boys for weeks. Eventually that wife divorced me and remarried. I was able to have contact with my sons and regained custody in 1999.
4. being a co-chair with a former POTUS political appointee in 2002. I was trying to do my job in this additional duty as a LTC while this 2-to-3 star equivalent loved to demean the current president in the meetings and insult me whenever he could. I ended up having mitral valve repair surgery early in 2003 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Thanks for drawing my attention to this discussion SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Christopher Mueller Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. truly amazing that you have persevered through trial and tribulations, thank you my friend for sharing, thank you.
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Any day that I had to mix diesel fuel with $H!T and light it on fire! ;-P
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