Just out of curiosity, how many (besides me) responding to this thread are actual veterans?
Just out of curiosity, how many (besides me) responding to this thread are actual veterans?
My family has many many Vet's. I am not one. The only thing I wanted to do out of high school was fly choppers - when my brother and I went to the USMC recruiters, they told me I was too tall, but 'we have other things for you...' I declined, he went to Paris Island, then Quantico /OCS after graduating to learn to fly...
Does that mean I'm not supposed to reply here, or is it just curiosity?
Just out of curiosity, how many (besides me) responding to this thread are actual veterans?
Out of curiosity, what would a tastefully done Graves Registration display include? The only things I can think of would be some examples of regulation grave markers and a collection of dog tags a la Saving Private Ryan.
You're perfectly fine posting here, I think him asking that has different intentions. You are fine and I welcome any input you might have to the original topic of discussion for this thread.
OK, cool. Thanks for clarifying that. I was hoping it was just out of curiosity... I often have felt guilty that I never served, so maybe I have a thin skin there...
A lot of paperwork had to be done, and any of those jobs I described above can be done tastefully, Graves Registration wasn't just Casualty Collection Platoons, they did other jobs too that was all a part of the process of giving our soldiers a decent burial.
No agenda or hidden intentions on my part, just a general curiosity about the hobbies in which people indulge themselves and why, for instance, someone would take up reenacing rather than, say, train spotting. However, it seems as if this may have caused things to drift off topic, and for that you have my apologies.You're perfectly fine posting here, I think him asking that has different intentions. You are fine and I welcome any input you might have to the original topic of discussion for this thread.
No worries, it happens! Train Spotting, I did that the first 18 years of my life (had railroad tracks right behind my house growing up). I took up reenacting before I was in the military and the reasons I did it then are the same reason I do it now, I learn better through hands on and reenacting gives me small hands on insight into what they experienced.No agenda or hidden intentions on my part, just a general curiosity about the hobbies in which people indulge themselves and why, for instance, someone would take up reenacing rather than, say, train spotting. However, it seems as if this may have caused things to drift off topic, and for that you have my apologies.
I have the footlocker and personal affects of a man who was in a Casualty Collection Platoon. He drove the trucks that carried the dead to the cemeteries. Something tells that was not a desirable job, but I suppose you didn't think about it.
I did serve my 14 month of national service. Drafted as I was. No war, no nothing - not in Denmark anyway. Does that make me a "veteran"? I think not.No agenda or hidden intentions on my part, just a general curiosity about the hobbies in which people indulge themselves and why, for instance, someone would take up reenacing rather than, say, train spotting. However, it seems as if this may have caused things to drift off topic, and for that you have my apologies.
I did serve my 14 month of national service. Drafted as I was. No war, no nothing - not in Denmark anyway. Does that make me a "veteran"? I think not.
Found it a lot a time wasted on nothing. Waiting around for someone to tell you what to do next. That's why I don't do reenacting. I did it for 14 months.
HiMy dad was Air Force - 23rd Bomber Squadron in the 50's. He told me he felt guilty (family trait?) that he had never seen combat. ...
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My Dad was in WW2, in the 17th Weather Squadron in the South Pacific. You didn't have to be in combat to die. Everyone who wasn't a devote Jew came near death from bad pork on Guadalcanal in 1945. One guy that made Dad VERY mad, blew off his weather briefing and flew through a storm into a mountain near Finschafen. Dad didn't feel very sorry for HIM, but felt VERY SORRY for his crew. No combat, lots of dying.
Look up the development of the aircraft in the 1950's. The B-58 Hustler wrecked at least 5 planes and as many as 15 just in development and initial deployment. The Air Force just wasn't safe.
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