BEFORE AND AFTER PICS

[detailfreak]

Just thought this might get kind of interesting. Show us a pic from your youth and one from the present. Its sometimes amazing to see the transformation is'nt it ?


at seventeen


and then at 50.Just smile and wave boys,just smile and wave.

[Leon]

It's amazing the transformation we go through .Have to see if i can dig up an old pic.

[Deleted]

Heck,Greg....I'll buy into some of this.IF I can find any old plates from when I was a lad!

[detailfreak]

Glad to hear it.The pics are from Infantry school fort benning 1981 the second 50th birthday laborday 2013

[wbill76]

It's all in the beard!

[Tojo72]

As Jimmy Buffett says,"We are the People our Parents Warned us About"

Great pics,thanks for sharing

[deafpanzer]

LOL! Loved the pics! I would have never known if you were that boy. How did it feel shooting that M-16?

[tonylee-Rest In Peace]

My daddy was a sailor fighting in the Pacific and his little man had to be in the Navy too.


How time flies
Tony lee

[wbill76]

Time may fly Tony but you've got almost the same hairline! (I can relate...)

[detailfreak]

aawww thats cute,kinda makes me wanna pinch yer face cheeks

[detailfreak]

sorry for not replying to your question Andy.Firing the M-16 was well an M-16.My first year plus I humped an M-60,live fire exercises were quite fun.Then I was assigned an M-203 grenade launcher,don't recall any HE rounds going downrange though.I was lucky enough to fire a live LAW rocket.Was one of the lucky ones who got his hands on an M-249 squad automatic weapon,fairly impressive in terms of the volume of lead one could place on a target.But last and certainly not least was the weapon I was in charge of when I got to be a Track Commander,the legendary "MA DUECE",I believe I could still dis-assemble and re-assemble one blindfolded.awsome firepower and reliability.Thanks for asking Andy.

[bbd468]

Hey Greg, thanks for sharing those pics.....VERY COOL! I have fired many assault and hunting rifles as well as hand guns, owned several for many years, but on thing i always wanted to do was to fire an M2 "Ma Duece". THAT would be one of the coolest things ever.....2nd for me would be an MG42. Maybe someday ill get luck!

Cheers buddy

[detailfreak]

bbd468,I definitley concur on firing an Mg-42.When visiting the"NTC" we mounted a night vision scope on several .50's for nite surveillance.SOF magazine once had an article about sniping techniques that were used in south america namely sniping across mountain tops with a "Ma Duece" in the single shot mode.

[bbd468]

Oct 8, 2013 23:46:37 GMT -5 detailfreak said:

When visiting the"NTC" we mounted a night vision scope on several .50's for nite surveillance.SOF magazine once had an article about sniping techniques that were used in south america namely sniping across mountain tops with a "Ma Duece" in the single shot mode.

Now thats BAD A$$!!! One shot....pink mist....no more bad guy.........

[Deleted]

Gary a 6' man looks about the same size as a postage stamp at 500 meters. Now triple that distance.

We got one at a measured 1193 yards across the Tahn Son Nhu airfield. Sandbagged Mother Deuce atop an outbuilding. The NVA was just waiting for the Americans to leave. The target was scoping us from atop an APC parked in the bushes.

Tighten up the T&E mechanism, screw down the damper, get light on the butterfly and kaboom. One shot and the target is down before the sound ever reaches him.

G

[Deleted]

My Passing Out Parade 1976....18years old.....


With me are my 'little' bro,and my youngest sister(God rest)

Now....well most of you have seen my fat ugly mug on this site,so I'll spare you any more piccies of me...and before anyone says ANYTHING...See,I was slim....ONCE!!!

[Deleted]

Oct 30, 2013 14:03:43 GMT -5 deafpanzer said:

Is that you on the far right in light blue coat and white socks? WOW! You sure have changed so much...

Andy,be respectful please.I lost my little sis to cancer a few years ago....

[deafpanzer]

Oh crap! Missed that part... so sorry about your sister. This really sucks!

[Tony Thunder]

Now....well most of you have seen my fat ugly mug on this site,so I'll spare you any more piccies of me...and before anyone says ANYTHING...See,I was slim....ONCE!!!


I just thought you used to be taller!

[Deleted]

Oct 30, 2013 14:08:02 GMT -5 deafpanzer said:

Oh crap! Missed that part...

Andy,don't bother yourself too much,mate......I figured you hadn't seen the God Rest bit,but I'd posted before I realised...

Carl...I saw your post before you deleted,'Passing Out',is a term they used for end of training,bit like a graduation day,but with all the ferkin marching and saluting stuff!!!!

[`Boots`]

Ooooh look at you CB.......straight out the packet , i remember my Fire Brigade passing out parade.......one minute i was standing like that all shiny.....the next minute we was all running round like headless chickens doing a mass drill......with red, white, and blue water coming out the ferkin` big `oses!! ,ferk knows what that was all about

Soz to hear about ya little sis fella...... i never knew that fella , god bless `eh

[fightnjoe]

cb, good pic buddy.


going to regret this later but....

a very young me.





joe

[Deleted]

Joe....WHICH one is you????the Daddy,or the nipper?...

[fightnjoe]

the adult is my dads uncle, my godfather. the gent just out of the picture on the right is my grandfather, moms dad. me, i am all eyes and ears at that point.



joe

[Deleted]

Chris , ok . That makes since , I thought maybe you had passed out from standin at attention in the uniform . When i was in basic training our Company commander , a boilers mate E6 , used to stand us at attention in the August heat until at least 10% of the company passed out .......then he felt pleased enough to march us off to another sadistic destiny .

I've got just a couple of photo's from my early yrs . They didnt take many pics back then you know .

[Deleted]

Oct 30, 2013 17:08:03 GMT -5 @shellback said:

Chris , ok . That makes since , I thought maybe you had passed out from standin at attention in the uniform . When i was in basic training our Company commander , a boilers mate E6 , used to stand us at attention in the August heat until at least 10% of the company passed out .......then he felt pleased enough to march us off to another sadistic destiny .

I've got just a couple of photo's from my early yrs . They didnt take many pics back then you know .

Carl,I know what ya mean re the piccies.....didn't really think to take them for posterity back then...plus the fact not many could afford cameras anyhoo!!!!

EDIT...Had another thought after I posted first time,..Did they have cameras back then Carl,or did they have sketch artists???

[Deleted]

LOL Chris !!!
Sketch artist ? More like a drawing with a chunk of coal on the ole cave dwelling wall !!!
Thanks for laugh my friend !

[deafpanzer]

That's me... 13 years old in the left... I was in heaven meeting US Paratrooper from 82nd Airborne at my house. He returned home just in from for the holidays to be with his family after playing a role in Invasion of Grenada. He gave me the red beret, few pins and a great book about the invasion. I still have them all... somewhere in the boxes.



It pisses me off that I couldn't serve my country because of my deafness sometimes...

[Deleted]

Well Andy about serving your country ...the fact that you are pissed off about not being able to puts you right up there with those that were able too in my ledger my friend !!!

[Prop Duster]

         Its been soo long