POW / MIA Bracelets
 

I carry:

CAPT. LARRY A. THORNE, USSF, MACVSOG, 18 OCT 65, VIETNAM

Who's on your wrist?

Wet Dog

Cpl Jamie Smith
B Co. 3/75
1993 Oct 3
RANGER

PFC James Bernard Johnson
KIA November 20, 1943
Betio Island, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands
Body Not Recovered.

My uncle & names sake.

SSG CHRIS FALKEL JR U.S. SPECIAL FORCES
ODA 316 WARRIOR KIA 8 AUG 2005 AFGHANISTAN

I will see you soon, my son!

MSG James Ponder
HHC 160th SOAR(A)
KIA 2005 OEF

I currently wear the following:

MSG Richard "Fergie" Ferguson, USSF, 30 Mar 04 Samarra Iraq, 10th SFG(A) OIF II

MSG Mitch Young
KIA Kajaki Soffo, Afghanistan, ODA 726, 13 Jul 08

The rest of my brothers are:

SFC(RET) Steve Gernet, KIA Baghdad, IRAQ, Ranger/10th SFG(A)/Blackwater

MSG Tony "Chief" Yost, KIA Mosul IRAQ 2005, 10th SFG(A)/3rd SFG(A)

SSG Joe Suponcic, KIA Kosovo 1999, 3/10th SFG(A)

SFC Sean Mitchell, Mali, Africa 2007, 1-10th SFG(A) SOT-A

PFC John Mark Price, KIA Rio Hato, Panama 20 DEC 1989, 2/75 RGR

SPC Phillip Lear, KIA Rio Hato, Panama 20 DEC 1989, 2/75 RGR

MSG(RET) Brian Look, 10th SFG(A)

1SG Jon Tessar, KIA Iraq, 10th SFG(A)/101st AA

CW2 Doug Vose, KIA Afghanistan 29 JUL 09, A 1-10th SFG(A)

SGM Bradly Conner, KIA Iraq 2007, 1st SFG(A)/10th SFG(A)

MSG Kelly Hornbeck, KIA Iraq, 10th SFG(A)

SF Nathan Chapman, KIA Afghanistan, 2003 1st SFG(A), 2/75RGR

MSG Kevin Snyder, Ft Carson, CO, 2005(?) 3/10th SFG(A)

MSG Chris Kieth, Panzer Kaserne, Germany 2005, C Co/ 1-10th SFG(A)

MAJ Jeffrey "Toz" Toczylowski, Iraq, 2005, C Co/ 1-10th SFG(A)

Master Sgt. Ivica Jerak, USASOC

SSG Stephen Geist, MIA Vietnam, 5th SFG(A)

JJ_BPK,

There was a special on the History Channel or Military Channel on Tarawa and the current clean up mission of one of the veterans. Included in the trash clean up was information on several of the old burial locations and the efforts to retrieve our fallen and bring them home. The special was back in Jul 10.

SGM Brad Conner C/2-1 SFG (A) US Army
KIA 9 May 2007 Iraq

CW2 DOUGLAS M. VOSE
A 1/10TH SFG (A) KIA 29 JULY 09 OEF

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This was my attempt to not let our fallen brothers fall into the modern day "name collection pool" of databases. Recently learned you can now get bracelets for missing or lost dogs and cats.

There are aprox. 4500 QPs on active duty, another several thousand retired and got out tramps like me.

Glad to see the names worn and their stories remembered.

Thanks everyone.

Wet Dog

Talk about putting a "face" on the fallen.

This post actually got me all choked up. I'm not sure what to say other than "You have a lot to be proud of". Much respect to you Tatonka, and I'm sorry for your loss.

As a teenager I got this one... it has since been broken:

SSG Madison A Strohlein, USA SF, Lost 1971.

I just went back to recheck on the status... there was a new page I never saw before, his Team Daddy was Billy Waugh... this was new information for me. A small world gets smaller, and the threads running through it tighten over time...

The broken halves of the original bracelet were brought to the D-FW National Cemetary since I was in College at the time... TCU, MAJ Howard had just finished his Master's the year before when I was a Freshman...

About 20 years ago while I had a slow night at work, I remember reading a story about SSG Strohlein on his work on HALO and his work in Vietnam. I was amazed then and still am now. I have never forgotten his name and how he was a truly remarkable soldier.

SFC Jonathan Tessar 10th Grp/101st KIA OIF 31 Oct 2005 (team mate)

L/Cpl Ronald W. Shields USMC KIA SVN 13 Feb 68 (uncle)

Too damn many men much better than me die. Sometimes I just don't understand it. Please rest in peace brothers.