Re: God jack .. in that last pic of the ranger Class you look all of 12 years old
Yeah, I was just a few weeks past my 20th birthday when that picture was taken. And the funny part is that by the time of that picture, I was already teaching troops how to kill folks - I was an instructor in the Ranger Dept of the Infantry School, teaching patrolling and ambush.
I loved working with those guys. I made some really good friends there and lost several of them in Viet Nam.
Jay WAS a badass - and a damn fine troop. He was one of my squad leaders. He also has the distinction of being one of two men in my platoon to suffer minor shrapnel wounds from his own hand grenade because the shi*t was happening a little too close in. I was the other one.
