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Pillar of the Community
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I will when I leave here I gotta drive through Canada I wanna stop and get some silver coins they have some nice ones lol. A floating target with no control of the parachute but down and who ever else you hit on the way down not for me. Ill do a regular parachute jump with control handles and they jump higher then a few thousand feet. I watched my friend jump and he landed on another soldiers parachute and had to use his reserve I'll pass
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Hey... nice one--I got around 20 myself
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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I will when I leave here I gotta drive through Canada I wanna stop and get some silver coins they have some nice ones lol. A floating target with no control of the parachute but down and who ever else you hit on the way down not for me. Ill do a regular parachute jump with control handles and they jump higher then a few thousand feet. I watched my friend jump and he landed on another soldiers parachute and had to use his reserve I'll pass
I dont blame you one bit on the mass jumping. Youd think they would have improved that a bit since WW2. I dunno what would be worse that or a HALO/HAHO, but I'm leaning towards that since at least with the other two you arent usually target practice. Canada does have some nice coins with the Maples and their weird glow in the dark ones lol. Maybe with a little luck youll find a hoard of some old middle eastern coins in the sandbox which is where I'm assuming your deployment will be |
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Another time they jumped in a wind storm and another friend shattered his knee. Yeah the sand box I go but its only 9 months but what I don't like is the army stopped RR for soldiers so now we just take a week or so off down range its whatever the war will be over soon I hope
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Bedrock of the Community
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daniels, that's pretty darn kick-ass. Thank you so much for what you do and have done. You too, Coinstar. The U.S. Mint is pissing me off these days but I love that I freely get to complain about it because of folks like you.  |
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Another time they jumped in a wind storm and another friend shattered his knee. Yeah the sand box I go but its only 9 months but what I don't like is the army stopped RR for soldiers so now we just take a week or so off down range its whatever the war will be over soon I hope
Dam sorry to hear about the friend. I had a knee surgery go bad that gave me a massive blood clot in the leg myself I'm trying to get through so knee injuries are always a soft spot for me. Same about the R&R hopefully youll be somewhere a little safer than the Korengal Valley. If you ever feel like killing some time picking up locals coins while youre there I'm sure thered be a good market on here when you get back |
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daniels, that's pretty darn kick-ass. Thank you so much for what you do and have done.
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I watched my friend jump and he landed on another soldiers parachute and had to use his reserve. Why didn't he just run off the chute? That is what we were trained to do when we came down on top of somebody else's chute. If he didn't clear that chute quick he would have stole the air from his partners and his partners chute could have collapsed as well. Very dangerous being Airborne qualified. What is Sapper training? I know what a sapper is but didn't realize that the training has carried over from Vietnam to current. I believe it is "Sergeant Major". Also with the leaf on the left of the coin would that make it a "Bottle Cap Colonels'" as well? Seen alot of Challenge Coins before, just nothing like this. Edited by Freedom
07/20/2012 09:04 am
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nice "challenge coin" daniels....Thank you for your service
and COINSTAR....twenty of them...wow!all from reupping?I'm just assuming you were a long time military man,based on the fruit salad you use for your avatar.Thank you very much for your years of service.
Thank you both,and to all the military,for protecting us and our way of life!
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What is Sapper training? I know what a sapper is but didn't realize that the training has carried over from Vietnam to current. Sapper school is pretty intense. Kind of a slightly toned down Ranger school with more emphasis on demo and engineering but still very hard. Discovery channel had a show on it called surviving the cut sapper school. Its highly respected and one of their elite school. The worst part is you dont even find out till the last day if you passed or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVLxYTYBL50Theres a link to part one you can find parts 2 and 3 on youtube as well from there Edited by basebal21
07/20/2012 4:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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and COINSTAR....twenty of them...wow!all from reupping?I'm just assuming you were a long time military man,based on the fruit salad you use for your avatar.Thank you very much for your years of service I got a few from reenlisting and a few for achievements mostly traveling around and meeting people or completing the mission or the Chief or Colonel give a coin to the team. Retired USAF 1983-2003
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07/20/2012 5:07 pm
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Thank you for your service. That is very nice!  I moved this to the Main Coin Forum to give it some additional exposure. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like them a friend in my unit had lunch with the 4 star general and got a coin from him its really cool ever time I go to his house I have to see it. It was the new general and was his first visit to Alaska and was observing some cold weather training we do here. THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL THE SUPPORT
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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this is one of my favorite challenge coins I got--framed below my shadow box.  Retired USAF 1983-2003
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07/21/2012 12:46 pm
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That's awesome are you still in the service
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