03-05-2005, 10:46
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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03-05-2005, 12:54
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Thanks. Pre-ordered it. But I have a long queue right now. Maybe we need to restart the reading list thread from scratch . . .
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03-28-2005, 07:33
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damn.
I thought that this thread was going to be about Gxxx O'Neill.
I know someone here has some good Chief O'Neill stories.....or better....Sergeant O'Neill stories.
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03-28-2005, 08:18
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damn.
I thought that this thread was going to be about Gxxx O'Neill.
I know someone here has some good Chief O'Neill stories.....or better....Sergeant O'Neill stories.
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He was the Weapons Man on NDD and my HALO team.
He is back working at SWCS now.
We probably have some stories involving G.
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03-28-2005, 08:23
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There are some stories that should never be told...
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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03-28-2005, 08:32
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well, hook a brother up.
I am bored.
I am 44 years old, have a hot 20-year old girlfriend, and I am bored.
I could use a laugh.
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03-28-2005, 08:40
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well, hook a brother up.
I am bored.
I am 44 years old, have a hot 20-year old girlfriend, and I am bored.
I could use a laugh.
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Yeah, sounds like you should be the one with the stories to tell right now. 
This is probably not the place for them, though.
I'll keep an eye out for you in Playboy.
Do you have a silk smoking jacket yet?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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07-22-2005, 18:25
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Insurgency & Terrorism, Second Edition, Revised
by Bard E. O'Neill. My copy just arrived. Has anyone read it yet?
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07-22-2005, 22:07
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I merged yours with this one for continuity and bandwidth issues.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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07-23-2005, 09:52
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I am 44 years old, have a hot 20-year old girlfriend, and I am bored.
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Ok I'm stepping out of my place here I know. But if you have a 20 year old hot girlfriend and you're bored, fricken no shit order that tombstone and get the plot ready you ARE old!
Sorry 'bout that.
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07-23-2005, 10:01
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no offense taken.
let the wreckage of my life be an object lesson for you. If you are not careful, the Big Ranger in the Sky will punish you, and his punishments are creative.
remember when your mom told you not to make faces because your face might get stuck that way? Well, it is sort of the same thing. I knew better. But I was going to live forever, and then when it dawned on me that I was not immortal, I was certain that I would be dead by age 40.
well, that did not work out, either.
so now, I am old, and I have no idea what to do next, except attempt to propitiate the gods of war every day.
in the meantime, she prances around my condo in t-shirt and panties, and I am too burned out to even notice.
I have gained an appreciation for irony that I never fathomed.
you reap what you sow.
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07-23-2005, 10:45
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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
I merged yours with this one for continuity and bandwidth issues.
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LOL -- I thought there was an old thread but couldn't find it with searches. Let me know when you get tired and I'll stop the push-ups.
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07-24-2005, 03:28
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Old thread, old guys, the only thing I really noticed was 20 year old hot girlfriend. 
The Big Paratrooper kicks my ass, The Big Ranger in the Sky just mocks me.
Charlie Mike.
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07-24-2005, 11:03
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I'm taking it with me on my trip, but I am trying to finish the Anaconda book first.
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