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Bookers Bourbon
and a good cigar
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Today.





If you're goin' through hell, keep on going.
Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it.
You might get out before the devil even knows you're there.


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Happy Birthday Indeed. I was in for seven of them.

27th Infantry / 21st Infantry / 125th Signal Battalion / 504th PIR / 82nd Signal Battalion

Many great experiences. Lots of life lessons.

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Where's my cake? There is always cake.

Happy birthday, Army!


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This will have to do for now...




"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
 
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Oh.. I forgot they were going back to the WWII dress uniforms.

I had greens for my twenty-three plus years.




"Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me."




 
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Fighting the good fight
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Oh.. I forgot they were going back to the WWII dress uniforms.


Yep, they brought back the "pinks and greens". Adopted November 2018, and started rolling out in small numbers earlier this year.

Still using the blues for formal/ceremonial dress. P&G is service dress.

 
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A day late, and
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Happy Birthday Army!


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I gave them 2 years. They helped me grow up and for that I'm thankful.

Lets see, Trumps birthday, flag day and Army's anniversary on the same day. Puts a lump in my throat. Smile

Jim


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Happy birthday from this old Navy dude.



הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
 
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Fly High, A.J.
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Originally posted by Sig209:

27th Infantry / 21st Infantry / 125th Signal


Must have been in the 25th ID at Schofield Barracks? I was there from March 85-February 89. Did time in B 1/5 Infantry, which was later restructured as B 3/21 Infantry and the 71st Chemical Co.
 
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Get my pies
outta the oven!

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Proud Army vet here and I always post it on FB, the Army Song on the Army’s Birthday.

Those awesome retro WWII style uniforms make me want to join back up, they’re so classic and iconic.

I was in during the era of the forest green Class A uniform which were decent but I’m glad I was long gone by the time they forced that awful “Dress Blues as a Class A” crap on the troops. The white shirt looked like total shit on 99% of them. Confused


 
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HB2U
HB2U
HB, our Army
HB2U!

And keep those caissons rolling!

flashguy




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Thanks for the reminder.
I always felt it was unfortunate that the Army didn’t have the same respect and emphasis on traditions as the Marine Corps. The “birthday” is of course a very big deal for the Marines, but I don’t recall hearing more than a mention of the founding date of the Army during my 23 years of active duty.

When 14 June gets any attention, it’s more likely because it’s also Flag Day (as evidenced by posts here); that’s nice, but if it hadn’t been for the Army there would have been no United States flag today.




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