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Message: <blockquote data-quote="antkiller" data-source="post: 4365391" data-attributes="member: 6242"><p>[ATTACH=full]529909[/ATTACH]I lost my first G shock in survival training about 1990, not sure how but it was gone and I was late to my rendezvous point, won’t even say what my punishment was. The saddest part was it was given to me by my Aunts Husband, I still called him uncle even though he wasn’t. I didn’t know much about what he did at the time but learned later on just what a Marine was. If you looked in the dictionary and looked up Marine his picture would be there. He was a CH34 Choctaw Helo pilot in the early days of Vietnam through the end and later on the founding member of “Popasmoke” the Vietnam Helicopters pilots association the helped a lot of folks who like him, struggled after Vietnam with what we now call PTSD. He did a short stint at the end of his career flying C-130’s for the Blue Angles out of Miramar flying the Angles support team to the air shows  and a few years of Commercial Aviation with PSA (anybody remember them) until his back couldn’t take it any more from injuries due multiple hard landings from being shot and shot down on numerous occasions while going in to pick up soldiers in places they shouldn’t have been. After short recoveries he would go right back. They don’t make them like that any more and I thought I did a lot of “interesting and questionable” things during my service but I feel like a pu$$y compared to him.  He’s been gone a couple years now.  His lessons and memories are alive and well me and many others.  Sorry for the long story …</p></blockquote><p></p>

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