Upgrade for new boat

[fishinwrench]

8 hours ago, duckydoty said:

What I signed up for and did was defend your rights and freedoms, such as the right to a fair trial by a jury of your peers in order to keep you from being falsely accused of a crime and just being locked away in prison for the rest of your life, at a payable cost up to and including my life.  The reason, I felt it was the right thing to do.  Did not do it to receive a thank you and don’t need one either yet still proud of it.

Well it didn't work, but Thanks a TON for trying.   👍

I'm sorry that you risked your life for nothing. You absolutely have reason to be proud.  Solid man for sure.  So no stories you wanna share?

[Hog Wally]

Very cool!  Thank you for your service.  I love the boat.  

[fishinwrench]

What motor is pushing it ?

[duckydoty]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Well it didn't work, but Thanks a TON for trying.   👍

I'm sorry that you risked your life for nothing. You absolutely have reason to be proud.  Solid man for sure.  So no stories you wanna share?

I’ll share one with you. 

I like to call it “Lightning and Thunder”.

I was out on an LPOP one night pulling guard duty well into the air war of Desert Storm on the border of Saudi and Iraq north of Kuwait in a hilly part of the desert.  I was sitting on top of a fox hole with another private from Alaska over looking a small valley separating us from Iraq.  Started noticing some flashes of lightning beyond the next ridge and not much longer after the clouds started rolling over the ridge line with the lightning flashes getting brighter and the rumble of thunder breaking the silence of the night air.  It was one time I was able to sit back and relax smoking a cigarette and watching a thunder storm roll in just like back home. It wasn’t much longer and the TA 312 land line rudely interrupted my meditation time. I answered, private Doty LPOP 1.  I was surprised to hear the CO on the other end screaming what the heck is going on up there private.  I answered, nothing really sir.  Just watching a thunderstorm rolling in.  He asked me, private how long you been in theater.  I answered, since day one sir.  He asked when was the last time I saw a cloud.  I answered not since back home in the states sir.  His next reply kinda rocked my world and brought me back to reality.  WE’RE BEING SHELLED YOU DUMB A$$!

[BilletHead]

4 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Well it didn't work, but Thanks a TON for trying.   👍

I'm sorry that you risked your life for nothing. You absolutely have reason to be proud.  Solid man for sure.  So no stories you wanna share?

            I would say something worked Wrench. You are not on a rug looking toward mecca and praying to Allah. The lovely ladies in your family are not wearing a head piece where they look through a net. As much as you are not happy with some things count your blessings brother,

    BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, BilletHead said:

            I would say something worked Wrench. You are not on a rug looking toward mecca and praying to Allah. The lovely ladies in your family are not wearing a head piece where they look through a net. As much as you are not happy with some things count your blessings brother,

    BilletHead

Well now see, you buy into some BS that I've yet to be convinced of.  I know we've all been told that the mean and weird middle-eastern people "hate us because we're free", and that they want to take over our country, change our religious views, and control our wives and children, ect, ect.    But honestly I've never heard or seen anything that causes me to actually believe that.  And even if it IS true......no Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines is necessary.   Go ahead and just let them cruise right on into Gravois Mills, Missouri and we'll see how things work out for them.

My guess is that the reason they are pissed at us is because WE keep jacking with THEM in an unfair fashion.

Call it "defense" all you want 🙄 

[snagged in outlet 3]

9/11 convinced me. 

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, duckydoty said:

I’ll share one with you. 

I like to call it “Lightning and Thunder”.

I was out on an LPOP one night pulling guard duty well into the air war of Desert Storm on the border of Saudi and Iraq north of Kuwait in a hilly part of the desert.  I was sitting on top of a fox hole with another private from Alaska over looking a small valley separating us from Iraq.  Started noticing some flashes of lightning beyond the next ridge and not much longer after the clouds started rolling over the ridge line with the lightning flashes getting brighter and the rumble of thunder breaking the silence of the night air.  It was one time I was able to sit back and relax smoking a cigarette and watching a thunder storm roll in just like back home. It wasn’t much longer and the TA 312 land line rudely interrupted my meditation time. I answered, private Doty LPOP 1.  I was surprised to hear the CO on the other end screaming what the heck is going on up there private.  I answered, nothing really sir.  Just watching a thunderstorm rolling in.  He asked me, private how long you been in theater.  I answered, since day one sir.  He asked when was the last time I saw a cloud.  I answered not since back home in the states sir.  His next reply kinda rocked my world and brought me back to reality.  WE’RE BEING SHELLED YOU DUMB A$$!

Loved that one !  😂

That would definitely be me.  

[fishinwrench]

2 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

9/11 convinced me. 

Oh God, we'd better shut this thread down quickly!  😂

Naw, I ain't going there, no worries. ✌️

[snagged in outlet 3]

Would you hit it if I dropped it back to you a little