Firefight ongoing in Texas...
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We just tipped off the first inning of the first half. We will not have an idea until we are on the back nine.
121's last flights with A6 were WestPac '89 from USS Ranger, then they went to the boneyard and SQDRN got F18's. The 121 CO on that WestPac told me he flew some of the same birds in Nam, and a few of the birds on that cruise were limited to 3 G's. I was in Bahrain and got to tailhook on a COD to the ship, to finish that cruise. Fond memories.
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Patton got into an old west gunfight with a surly bandit in the middle of a dusty street in a small border town just like Frank Hamer or other old time lawmen did.
They traded shots and Patton shot the border bandit off his horse with his single action revolver, He didn't carry it later just for show, he was the real deal.
Yes he was! When I say 'first mechanized attack'... it was because he ran a group of automobiles with Pershing. Coming from a wealthy California Family, he was one of the first officers in the US Army to own his own automobile. As a VERY junior officer. It caused some real jealousy and friction.
But when it came time to pursue Villa, automobiles made sense. And Patton was among the few who could handle them. He literally had to fight is way onto the Punitive Expedition. But once there, he was a %$@ing tiger.
Yup that Single Action Army was sure as Hell not for show. And Patton was as lethal as he was motivated!
Just a bit earlier, he had represented the United States in the Olympics... as a pistol shooter and he almost died after running the Marathon... and collapsing at the finish in front of his father. Fine line between brave and crazy! And he was both! In a good way!
If you want a great book to read... Carlo D'Este's biography is one of the great military histories. Carlo was one of my professors... and a brilliant historian. And a great gentleman and scholar in the truest sense of the terms.
Sirhr
I studied some of Pershing's punitive expedition, chasing Villa throughout the Chihuahua Desert, travelling in a Cadillac convertable. If I remember, he embarked from Ft. Bliss.
At one time, the Revolcion' fought right up to the border and Americans on the U.S. side had a good view from the lechuguilla studded hills overlooking Mexico.
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