Poking fun at Bob

[cs]

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/2999461/65377938.jpg

Hey Bob, you reckon that mustache is a little out of reg? From where I sit it appears to extend past the corners of your mouth. ;)

Chad

[Donn]

Yeah, but it looks like it fell out by the time he got his bird. :D

[Meerkat]

Hmmm.... he's got what looks like an anchor on one shoulder...

[Donn]

And what looks a little like the Marine jump school pin on his chest.

[cs]

Close Donn, but I do believe that is the Army Jump Badge.

Chad

[Kev Smyth]

Careful, Chad- in more than a few ways he looks kinda like you! If you darkened your hair,... ;)

Ah, to be young again..... in top shape with perfect knees and back...

[John of Phoenix]

The "anchor" is just an odd reflection off the unit crest.

Those are paratrooper jump wings.

Combat Infantryman's Badge doesn't show up very well, but its a musket on a background of Infantry Blue.

Crossed rifles on the lapel indicate Infantry branch. Could be Armor (crossed sabers over a tank), Artillery (crossed cannons)or Aviation (the old Air Corps propeller) for the other combat arms.

Ranger tab on the left soldier. Tough to earn that one.

Yea the mustache is a little on the wide side, but in Vietnam those regs weren't looked at too much.

Oops, missed one. Looks like that may be a West Point ring. They're not called "ring knockers" for nothing ya know. smile.gif

[ 08-31-2004, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: John Teetsel ]

[Donn]

"Oops, missed one. Looks like that may be a West Point ring. They're not called "ring knockers" for nothing ya know." Marine officers with Quantico rings on their left hand were said to be "married to the Corps."

[ 08-31-2004, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Donn ]

[paladin]

I think the mustache izz painted on..he looks too young fer railroad tracks......

[Bob Smalser]

We were all young and stupid once...

...looking back I wonder how I survived.

A few good NCO's probably.

Harold Gunther was my topkick in that outfit...I was a frocked 1st LT...Gunther at 45 or so was an ancient old Alaska hand who could ski me into the snow pulling an akhio. I was a batchelor then, and Mrs Gunther mothered the company, calling me up and chewing my ass about family matters when appropriate. Gunther was "brown shoe" and had a couple petty Courts Martial in his file...we were the hot **** company in the Brigade and me and my boss lobbied for a couple years to get him a promotion to Command Sergeant Major...we succeeded.

Chad....in the dawn of the '70's...you probably woulda looked the same. Legal stache back then....the moustache reg wasn't tightened up til '76 or so, when I had the good sense to shave it off.

Clemson A&M ring.

[ 08-31-2004, 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]

[High C]

Originally posted by Bob Smalser:
...Clemson A&M ring.Clemson, ehhh? You didn't happen to have an English Professor named John Lane, did you?

[cs]

Bob, even though you cut a fine figure there, I prefer this soldier. ;)

http://a8.cpimg.com/image/E0/59/14557408-f422-01DB0143-.jpg

Notice the regulation mustache and haircut and even clean shaven in not so desirable conditions. ;)

Chad

[Meerkat]

Chad; That's not a regulation moustache, that's a dead catipiller ;)

Bob; your bars appear to have diagonals on them. Those are non-line officer bars??

Oh yeah, and nobody has mentioned the aigulette - where you a staff weinie when this pic was taken? ;)

I suspect my dad would have said that "this officer does not appear to be entirely dry behind the ears. Not a wiff of cynicism to be seen." (Ok, the cynicism part was me - my dad would have been somewhat more colorful.) ;)

[ 09-01-2004, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: Meerkat ]

[Stiletto]

And there I was thinking it was a young Clark Gable . :D

[cs]

Dave, if I'm not mistaken that aigulette represents that he is in a command position.

Chad

[Mrleft8]

Is it hard to shave that lil' bald spot between the two sides of your 'stache? :D tongue.gif

[Garrett Lowell]

And the chronometer. Rolex, or Breitling?

[Bob Smalser]

Originally posted by Ironmule:
I'll bet on a Heuer, like the one I got at the PX while I was in Turkey.

Jeff SmithPX for sure...but I really don't remember....lost it in a night jump into Dugway Utah a few years later. Draggin a radio in the ruck...rough opening....watch caught on something.

[High C]

Hey Bob, didja go to Clemson? Remember an English Prof named John Lane?

[Peter Kalshoven]

Bob, don't ya know you're supposed to burn photos like that every 10 years, so they can't be used against you in a Woodenboat forum?

:D

[Bob Smalser]

Sorry.

I was in the College of Agriculture's School of Forestry with a Wildlife Management major and Forestry minor.

I don't remember taking English.

But the name John Lane rings a bell....it was a small school back then....probably drank beer with him out at the roadhouse on Seneca Highway.

[High C]

Originally posted by Bob Smalser:
I don't remember taking English.

But the name John Lane rings a bell....it was a small school back then....probably drank beer with him out at the roadhouse on Seneca Highway.He was my Grandpa, and a much beloved Clemson character, with scholarships in his name, etc. To this day, I still encounter his former students who swoon over him. They had more time to get to know him than I did. :(