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<p>[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 8251182, member: 100459"]I bought one and got the info that it is one its way. I bought the Air Force 2.5 silver last year, but not the Coast Guard. I plan on getting the U.S.M.C. if available. My father was a corpsman on a sub in the South Pacific during WWII. He was out at sea when I was born in on the Naval Hospital in Hawaii. He was assigned with the Marines during the Korean Conflict. He switched to the Army after Korea and went to school at Fort Bliss, Texas to learn avionics for radar and missiles then to Fort Gordon, Georgia to teach behind a crypto cage for security. He went to Vietnam to keep the helicopters and fixed wind aircraft flying. Got hit by a mortar walking across a helo pad and was medevac'd to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Colorado. He was never OK after that. My brother was in the Navy for about 6 years. He was on a ship in some bay on the coast of Vietnam. His ship got hit and he got a piece of it and was also medevac'd home. It's odd that they got hit about a week apart. I was lucky. I did my basic training at Fort Bragg, NC, then AIT at Fort Dix, NJ, then jump school at Fort Benning, GA and then the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg again. Due to the Sullivan Act, I was exempt from combat duty because my father and brother were already over there. They found out that I could type so I was attached to the Army JAG office typing records of trial and latter a court reporter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 8251182, member: 100459"]I bought one and got the info that it is one its way. I bought the Air Force 2.5 silver last year, but not the Coast Guard. I plan on getting the U.S.M.C. if available. My father was a corpsman on a sub in the South Pacific during WWII. He was out at sea when I was born in on the Naval Hospital in Hawaii. He was assigned with the Marines during the Korean Conflict. He switched to the Army after Korea and went to school at Fort Bliss, Texas to learn avionics for radar and missiles then to Fort Gordon, Georgia to teach behind a crypto cage for security. He went to Vietnam to keep the helicopters and fixed wind aircraft flying. Got hit by a mortar walking across a helo pad and was medevac'd to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Colorado. He was never OK after that. My brother was in the Navy for about 6 years. He was on a ship in some bay on the coast of Vietnam. His ship got hit and he got a piece of it and was also medevac'd home. It's odd that they got hit about a week apart. I was lucky. I did my basic training at Fort Bragg, NC, then AIT at Fort Dix, NJ, then jump school at Fort Benning, GA and then the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg again. Due to the Sullivan Act, I was exempt from combat duty because my father and brother were already over there. They found out that I could type so I was attached to the Army JAG office typing records of trial and latter a court reporter.[/QUOTE]
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