Something special you both will remember for a lifetime.
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Posts: 2673 | Location: Migrating with the Seasons | Registered: September 26, 2007
Way back when, our second oldest graduated Jump School, Anglico Marine. After his final jump, he ran across the drop zone, big smile on his face, to kiss his Mom! One of the instructors ran up, "Drop and give me twenty! " He did his twenty, and another twenty for the Corp, another twenty for his Mom, and jumped up! The instructor smiled, and saluted Mom, saying "Marines, what can you say? "
Best of luck to your son!
Jim
Posts: 1356 | Location: Southern Black Hills | Registered: September 14, 2012
Originally posted by PossibleZombie: Blood wings is the only way to graduate from airborne school, it's a tradition!
That is the difference - we civilized Navy types believed in the “wetting down” ceremony. I found my LTJG silver bar in the bottom of a beer pitcher at the O-Club... .
Congrats to the OP’s son. And to him.
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
Posts: 8295 | Location: in the red zone of the blue state, CT | Registered: October 15, 2008
Originally posted by PossibleZombie: Blood wings is the only way to graduate from airborne school, it's a tradition!
It wasn’t as popular when I graduated but thankfully one of my instructors knew my unit and carried on the tradition.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men have insurance." JALLEN
Posts: 972 | Location: Shadow of St. Helens | Registered: December 28, 2004
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 20260 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
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