troop greeters?

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Originally Posted by ramrod

I believe it was. It defitnitely was a special mission.
His bodyguards house was absolutely destroyed. Obliterated might be a better word.

I was taking my midtour leave when it happened. My buddy said that the casket was steel and sealed with some very bad ass guys escorting it. When he asked who it was they said "you can read all about him in the papers tomorrow."

Yeah, he got PWND.

[spirit_eyes]

in my squadron, all folks who weren't aircrew, in the navy, were called ground pounders.
just like my rate was nick named fender benders (airplanes don't have fenders) and folks who were on submarines are called bubble heads.
i did my job for 20 dang years. not to get mad, but after all that time, i do think i know what i was, and what i was called.

[spirit_eyes]

leave? on deployment? not in the navy. couple of days r&r if you were lucky. and 2 days off a month, if you weren't on a boat. those folks get no time, until they pull into port, and again, only if they don't have duty.
dang, maybe i should have gone reserves. no working 12 on 12 off (half days) for months on end. and here i thought working "i" level, instead of "o" level, every chance i got was sweet.

[spirit_eyes]

And if you are a woman you arent a ground pounder. Women arent in the infantry, and unless you are a SeaBee or a Corpman, what groundpounding action do you see?[/quote]

never heard of infantry in the navy. seebees were just seebees. had a good friend, who died recently. he did 25+ years as a seebee. never called himself anything but seebee.

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Originally Posted by spirit_eyes

the reason i started this thread, was because i thought the WHOLE story should be told. yes, bangor is a tiny part of the world. but the story about the movie has made the 6:30 national dan rather (oops, showing age) type of news. and i wanted folks who didn't get credit, to know they haven't been forgotton, like cval's son.

The story about the movie? What movie? There is a movie about the greeters in Bangor? And someone wrote a story about the movie? Why wouldn't they just write a story about the people who actually do it? I am so confused....

[spirit_eyes]

there is a movie called "the way we are" or something like that. and it's about the "troop greeters" at bangor, maine airport. i seen it on the news (don't normally watch, as it bothers my ptsd) about how the movie had made national news.
my point was, very simply, the % of folks who actually go to iraq, etc is very small compared to all the folks serving other places, also being heros, in their own way, in comparace. and of the folks who do go to iraq, etc, very few of them are actually on the front lines.
bottom line? every person who serves in the military should be treated the same, when they come home, no matter where they were, or what they did.