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79dawg4life

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Jun 24, 2008
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<div id="post_message_63777"> First, I know this is not a sports related message. So, please don't bash me for my message that I am posting. Thanks.
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I don't know how many men and women are MSU graduates that have served our military over the years to serve and protect our great USA.

I just wanted to say thanks to all of them.

You give us that opportunity of being able to live freely. You give us the pleasure of attending and watching college sports.... in particular SEC and MSU sports.

I don't know how many military veterans that read this website; but wanted to say thanks.

If you do read this website and are reading this email; please let all of us know where you served our great country and what year that you attended MSU. </div>
 
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79dawg4life

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Jun 24, 2008
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<div id="post_message_63777"> First, I know this is not a sports related message. So, please don't bash me for my message that I am posting. Thanks.
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I don't know how many men and women are MSU graduates that have served our military over the years to serve and protect our great USA.

I just wanted to say thanks to all of them.

You give us that opportunity of being able to live freely. You give us the pleasure of attending and watching college sports.... in particular SEC and MSU sports.

I don't know how many military veterans that read this website; but wanted to say thanks.

If you do read this website and are reading this email; please let all of us know where you served our great country and what year that you attended MSU. </div>
 
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Bulldog Backer

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Jul 22, 2007
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...in Aeromedical Evacuation. Graduated MSU in 1968, served in the Regular Air Force for 20 years, 5 months and 16 days, from July 15, 1968, until November 30, 1988.

USAF (Ret.) Lieutenant Colonel
USAF Medical Service Corps

Air Medal, 4 Meritorious Service Medals, 1 AF Commendation Medal
 
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lackdawg

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May 12, 2009
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Sergeant First Class (SFC)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mississippi Army National Guard (MSARNG)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Operation Iraqi Freedom…. Mar 03 - Apr 04</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p>

</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Attended MSU 1998 - 2002</p>

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was21

was21

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May 29, 2007
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..does that count?? 168th Engineer Group (Construction)...Hq and HQ Company...out of Vicksburg, MS...by gawd
 
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Bulldog Backer

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Jul 22, 2007
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was21 said:
..does that count?? 168th Engineer Group...Hq and HQ Company...out of Vicksburg, MS...by gawd
Click to expand...
...we had more Guard planes flying close support in Vietnam than even the regular Air Force. There are guard units in Iraq and Afghanistan as we speak. Hell Yes! Your service counts as much as anyone elses.
 
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rynodawg

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May 29, 2007
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LTJG, Civil Engineer Corps, USN

Currently at MCAS cherry point; i very much appreciate those who are spending this holiday weekend overseas in harms way...

graduated state in '02.
 
was21

was21

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close to the reality of it?? I'm thinking Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and the one with DeNiro and the "More cowbell" guy...or any other ones?
 
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Bulldog Backer

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Jul 22, 2007
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...Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon come closest. Apocalypse Now goes a little beyond reality, but much of it is accurate. There really was a CIA operative, named Tony Poe, who would drop severed enemy heads in VietCong controlled villages, and keep ears of dead VietCong to show superiors as proof of kills. He was the "commander" of a cadre of Montagyards. If you think the Iraq War has been dirty, you had no idea of Vietnam. Platoon was closest to an infantryman's life. Platoon is probably closest to real Vietnam battle conditions. Full Metal Jacket is a fairly accurate rendition of life in a Marine Platoon, all the way from Parris Island to the Battle of Hue.

The roommates I had in my house included a OV-10 forward air control pilot and a C-130 gunship commander. The OV-10 pilot said he would drop grenades from his plane on anything that moved, especially if he was being shot at. He would also drop them on water buffalo, just for kicks, and sometimes shoot them with his .45. The C-130 gunship commander told me he would land on roads in Cambodia to drop off both supplies and men for covert operations, while our government denied there were any incursions into Cambodia at all.

The Delta Force was the psy ops killers. Do any research and you see Colonel Charles Beckwith formed them in 1977. That is untrue, because they were fully operational during Vietnam. The Beckwith story was just a formalization of the Delta Force crew. In Vietnam, their mission was primarily assasinations of Viet Cong leaders and sypathizers. Captain Willard in "Apocalyse Now" was a delta force operative.
 
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Bulldog Backer

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Jul 22, 2007
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The Deer Hunter was good fiction. Number 1, the Russian/Polish steel town friends who went hunting deer went up into mountains that don't resemble anything close to Pittsburgh. They didn't drive all the way to Colorado, Wyoming, or the Sierra Nevadas in California. Number 2, the Russian Roulette games never happened. The drug use did. There was little truth in that film about Vietnam, but there was good drama between Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, and Christopher Walken.
 
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rhs43

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Jun 2, 2008
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My brother who still has one year so technically not an alumni, he is TACP Special Forces, US Air guard. Served two tours in Iraq.
 
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MaroonInNashville

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Jan 15, 2008
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MSU 90-92

USN - Electronic Warfare 93-99
California Army National Guard - 99-02 MI
Tennessee Army National Guard - 05-Present MI
 
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Bdog9090

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Aug 11, 2008
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SPC 4 19 Delta Cavalry Scout
Operation Iraqi Freedom III (Jan 05 - Dec 05)
98th Cav 155 BCT
F.O.B. Kalsu
USANG
MSU Alumnus 2000-2007 B.B.A.
 
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VET

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Feb 19, 2009
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6 years and some change Active Army. (stop-lossed at 5)

Korea: 2002-2003
SMS, 122nd SIG BN, 2nd Infantry Division
Location: Camp Casey

Afghanistan: 2004-2005
518th TIN PLT, Attached to 25th Infantry Division for command and control.
Location: CFC Alpha, Now Eggers, stayed in the Casino House (safe house) out in Kabul City. Worked with ISAF mainly.

Iraq: 2006 - 2008 (surge baby!)
(93rd) 35th SIG BDE
Location: LSA Adder (Tallil)

Currently attending MSU on my GI Bill.
 
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jwbigcreek

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Feb 26, 2008
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(MSU 55 & 65) drove a dozer for the Army in Yuma during the Korean Conflict. Oldest brother (MSU 74) led the first 'organized' group (don't include all the spooks who went before) into Iraq (1st Gulf War) as part of 101st Airborne (logistics officer setting up supply posts). His son (North Georgia alum) was in the 2nd Gulf War & my next to oldest bro (MSU DVM from about 85) was in the 75th (?) Ranger Battalion (never saw combat but did pull some stiffs from the N. Geo. mountains after a helo crash).
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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Jun 20, 2001
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Won 46 Air Medals (you got one for every 20 missions), a DFC, and a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. My favorite story of his- He was making a beer run from Quang Tri to Danang and back, when he gets a call asking if there was anyone who could help out a Platoon of grunts pinned down by NVA. Dad, being the nice guy he is, went down, pickled off some rockets into the Enemy, then extracts the platoon. While he's flying the Marines to their base camp, he called out over the intercom to them that there was some ice cold beer in the back. Needless to say, those young Marines though my dad was pretty cool.
 
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