Here is one more for ya.
Haiti is, was, and will forever be a shithole
22nd MEU(SOC)
True statement. Took a while to get the smell of port au prince out my nose upon returning to Ft. Bragg back in 95
If I remember the plan was you all to jump into the airfield, but they turned you guys around and we flew in on Blackhawks from the Eisenhower. You are right about the smell of that place though. Every now and then I catch a whiff of a hot ass garbage truck and immediately think of Port Au Prince.
That looks like a FIST-V you fine gentlemen are standing on. Nice pictureFt Carson. That’s me holding the antenna.
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If you are interested to read more about this op:
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/kretchikw.pdf
https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/P...he Caribbean, 1991-1996 PCN 19000410600_6.pdf
I also went back for a couple days in 2010 after the earthquake but they did not need us (at the time I was commissioned, an enroute care RN/flight RN):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR300/RR304/RAND_RR304.pdf
YUP! FIST-V, must of been about 1991. Reclasses right after that to a 12B. The M 901 ITV was almost identical except it fired TOWs from the hammerhead.That looks like a FIST-V you fine gentlemen are standing on. Nice picture
Your doing about the same as me. My ex "lost" almost all of my hard copy pictures... anything digital was wiped by a very strong electrical surge in the one computer drive they were on. Or that's what I was told by one of the 3 techs I took it to in efforts to recover the pictures on it. It was funny though because they were on a laptop that hadn't been plugged in for at least 3 years. I have only a few in a box somewhere. Maybe I can find it and post one or two pictures out of it.i don't know if it's good or bad, but i lost all of my pictures from Africa, and i didn't have time to take any in kuwait or qatar
i only had digital photos, i have a few on my computer, maybe 4 or 5, but that's it out of the maybe 150 i had, o well, we did a lot of stupid shit that probably shouldn't be seen lolYour doing about the same as me. My ex "lost" almost all of my hard copy pictures... anything digital was wiped by a very strong electrical surge in the one computer drive they were on. Or that's what I was told by one of the 3 techs I took it to in efforts to recover the pictures on it. It was funny though because they were on a laptop that hadn't been plugged in for at least 3 years. I have only a few in a box somewhere. Maybe I can find it and post one or two pictures out of it.
YUP! FIST-V, must of been about 1991. Reclasses right after that to a 12B. The M 901 ITV was almost identical except it fired TOWs from the hammerhead.
VD drive...no...but @Crazy Carl might too young to have known it...I think it existed in some form till the mid-90s...but it heyday was long before that.
The Hidden Door was the on-post junior enlisted "night" club at the Benning School for Boys...it was THE PLACE to be on a weekend, on-post pass...it is long gone, just like the All American Club and Red Beret Club at Bragg...this is all back when we still had stripper shows in the clubs on post and 50 cent drafts (25 cent special nights)...these were all gone by around 90 I think...one day they were there, titties and all, the next they were closed.
The final death kneel for these "clubs" was when they gutted the Green Beret Club on Smoke Bomb Hill...now its a "grille".
GB club was awesome till MWR took it over. It was right behind our companies' HQs (PSYOP) & when the Group CSM would ride his Harley across the baseball diamond to the club on a Friday afternoon, that signified that the drinking lamp was lit.