Good News! Grandson (Nate) is out of the "sandbox"

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January 17, 2020, 08:14 PM

mikeyspizza

Good News! Grandson (Nate) is out of the "sandbox"

Happy for all - and enjoy your time with him!

January 17, 2020, 08:17 PM

thunderson

Awesome Elk! Glad he's coming home.

January 17, 2020, 09:42 PM

Beancooker

Glad he’s back to the land of freedom and safety.

Tell him thank you for his service.

quote:
_{Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.}

January 18, 2020, 08:57 AM

Fla. Jim

Elk I admire and respect your Grandson more than words can say. He deserves to have a book written about him or a movie, so more than the SigForum can hear of his service. 7 times is beyond imagining to me. The words American Warrior must be stamped on his soul! God bless him and what he has done. So far.

January 18, 2020, 02:15 PM

thomjb

God Bless Nate and family and please thank him for his service..

January 18, 2020, 05:12 PM

drill sgt

thanks to your grandson as well as all of our service personel who have answered the call to serve .... 7 tours and 2PH"s are more than enough to be a 'HERO' in my way of thinking.. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS BE THEY PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE.... drill sgt.

January 18, 2020, 05:13 PM

RHINOWSO

Great news, always glad to hear of warriors returning from the war.

January 19, 2020, 08:24 AM

Ozarkwoods

Elk you have an incredible grandson. Please relay my thanks and gratitude to him for the sacrifice he has endured and his service.

January 19, 2020, 09:00 AM

Rey HRH

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
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Yes, he got blown up in an IED, recovered from that after several surgeries.

Then as his team was arriving back in the sandbox, he got shot in the face by an "insider". Which occasioned several more surgeries.

The bullet hit his helmet buckle and was re-routed. Otherwise it would have gone thru his brain.

He simply will not quit! Listed as 100% disabled, but still refuses.

That's what I remembered which made me think this was an old post. Serious respect and props to Nate.

As for the knothead that was letting the stuff pile up, that was a WTF.

"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.

January 19, 2020, 09:17 AM

Elk Hunter

Phone call as of 20 minutes ago:

HE IS HOME!

Gotta stop now, screen getting blurry again. Gotta have that checked.

Elk

There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville

FBHO!!!

The Idaho Elk Hunter

January 19, 2020, 12:30 PM

Greymann

Great news!
You gotta be proud.
I thank him for his service!

January 19, 2020, 06:28 PM

ASKSmith

Elk, Congrats on the good news.

If you don’t mind, I would like to send you a PM. You never mentioned what Nate was in, but I have an idea. I also have a son who is considering a similar career path.

January 19, 2020, 10:09 PM

EasyFire

Congratulations on his return.

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January 19, 2020, 10:31 PM

2012BOSS302

Awesome news, very happy for you and your family. God Bless him and all the men and women serving in our military.

January 19, 2020, 11:45 PM

ftttu

Great to hear! e's MORE than served his country, now time to enjoy his fruits!

January 20, 2020, 08:29 PM

ersatzknarf

Wonderful news!!!!!

January 20, 2020, 08:46 PM

Leemur

Fist bumps, high fives, amens and all the rest! I know you’ve had this on your mind from the day he got his orders and I hope this will put your mind at ease.

January 20, 2020, 09:27 PM

armedprof

So awesome that he is home. You deserve to be a very proud grandfather. Tell him to accept any medal they want to bestow. Those are paid for in his blood and the blood of great Americans.