We were young, and we were soldiers

We were young, and we were soldiers

Foto.Feola.Friday for August 25, 2023

A toot, a toot, a toot diddelyada toot

He blows it eight to the bar, in boogie rhythm

He can't blow a note unless the bass and guitar is playin' with him

He makes the company jump when he plays reveille

He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B

I’m finishing up Sunday’s piece on my trips to the Mojave Desert with the 24th Infantry Division, and waxing a bit nostalgic. So here are some photos of the 24th ID (Mech) at home at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, deep in the Okefenokee Swamp.

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Sgt. Tucker Kills Them All

This is pugil stick training for close combat with bayonets, and Tucker was just massacring his trainees. I kept trying to get a shot that captured his speed and intensity, but fast shutter speeds froze everything and slow ones were just a blur. Finally I tilted the camera and got this.

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Ranger sniping. No I didn’t have “eye autofocus” or “face recognition.” Also, “Get Off My Lawn!”
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We road-marched our armor to Brunswick, GA, and boarded Landing Ship Tanks as an exercise. Here a Jeep that led the tanks down the highway goes to sea

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday August 27th-The Reader:?About that time I accidently ended up in the Army for 4 years 4 months 28 days 11 hours 27 minutes and 35 seconds. Approximately. I’ve been through the desert on a Jeep with no windshield.

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