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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Terry, post: 2307472, member: 76710&quot;]Hi JWT708</p><p>I am new at this so I hope you receive my reply, because I am replying to your post from yesterday.</p><p>First off let me say that Thanks for your service, and also I love your Air Force Tokens.</p><p>I like tokens as much as much as I do coins. I never new the Miltary had tokens, other than challenge tokens. Are you stationed at Elenmendorf. Since I am a 100 percent disabled veteran I have been in the hospital there many times. I have to say that it is one of the best hospitals I have ever been in and the staff are great.</p><p>As far as Viet-Nam goes if there is some way that I can get your email address I would be willing to share some things with you. I was a recon scout and served with several different units in my two tours. My first tour I started with the 4th Infantery Div 2/1 CAV in the Central Highlands. That year I also served with the 1ST Air CAV, 101ST Airborne and the 25th Inf Div. My second tour I served the complete tour with the 11th ACR. I saw on the news the other day That General Abrams ordered </p><p>a court Marshall for the guy that deserted, He was my very first Troop Commander on my first tour, he was a Captain at that time. My second tour his Father was a General and commander of all SE Forces. The rest of the information most people on this forum would most likely would not be interested hearing about so if I get your email address I will share some things about Viet-Nam.</p><p>I do not know if it is legal or not, my email is <a href="mailto:aumterry@hotmail.com">aumterry@hotmail.com</a>. If you know The chemical</p><p>Symbols which I am sure you do, au is the gold symbol.</p><p>Now about prospecting, I am not sure if I should share with you are not,it could destroy your life if you get gold fever, yes gold fever is a true statement. I started out in Colorado wit a gold pan, progressed to a small Knee sluice box, then a back pack dredge, then a 4&quot; dredge, then a 5&quot; triple</p><p>Sluice dredge. The next thing you know I started looking for mining claims in Alaska. I leased some claims near Circle hot springs at a town (Place) called Central AK.</p><p>I sold everything that I had and could get my hands on, Bought a D8 Cat Dozer, spent the winter building a wash plant, then in the spring I headed To Alaska.</p><p>I did not know a thing about stinking frozen permanent frost thousands of years old. I packed up and left Colo May 1, expecting to arrive at the claims by May 15. It took me 3 days and 15,000.00. for&nbsp; permits to cross the border.</p><p>Now days the Alaskan Hwy is like any other. Back in those days once you reached Dawson Creek British Columbia the road turned into dirt and mud for the next 1500 miles. There were stretches</p><p>That Bull dozers had to pull us through.</p><p>Any way the ice on the creek did not break up until the middle of June, which really did not matter at the time because I did not have any ground stripped to mine.</p><p>So my first year I only got to sluice for 40 days before freeze up. I only made enough money to pay for fuel, food and go home in the fall.</p><p>Mining is the hardest job in the world. But I am not a quitter so the next year I got a couple of front end loaders and made a living mining until 1987 until the EPA shut me down for the clean water act.</p><p>So I moved to Anchprage and been here since. Back in those days I used to say that if I had a Millon dollars I would mine until I went broke. If there is any thing you would like to know about it drop me a line and I will be glad to share what I know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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