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2008-04-02 Home Front: WoT

Navy bureaucrats prevent town from honoring vets

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-02 09:55|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 This personally irritates me because Buck Knives has had a long and friendly relationship with the US military going way back.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-02 10:03|| 2008-04-02 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I still have my 3 different "go to war" folders, each retired when I got home, now staying in my "memory" box with my medals, and other memorabilia (unit patches, coins). Every one of them is a Buck Knife.

Only other knife I regularly carried was a KBar.

This is some brass ass REMF squatting on the warriors.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-02 12:20|| 2008-04-02 12:20|| Front Page Top

#3 FYI - Buck Knives was a longtime San Diego-area (El Cajon) company that recently relocated to Idaho for cost-savings (taxes and cost-of-living). A lot of their employees relocated, and we were sad to see them go. Good knives and good people

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-02 12:52|| 2008-04-02 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL. Metals yeah. I don't have none.

Posted by Zebulon Angavick7428">Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-04-02 12:57|| 2008-04-02 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I have the "National Defense Service Medal" for enlisting in time of war, we all called it the "Geedunk" medal (Worthless) they gave it to anyone and everyone so it was without any special meaning or honor, no ceremony, just handed me the box. Right degrading to wear it.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-02 13:26|| 2008-04-02 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Gifts from corporations run amok V. 2.0: i was part of the Navy flight crew for Flight of the Intruder: Navy rules made Paramont route ball caps through the Chief of Naval Info rep before we could have them.....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-02 14:29|| 2008-04-02 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The Bureaucrats got squished and this program is on again.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=60477

Yes, it's WND but apparently they're the only ones that have followed up on it.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-04-02 15:11|| 2008-04-02 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Jim, in the Army we got the "Rainbow Ribbon" just for finishing boot camp. Ironic that its the same colors as the "Gay Rainbow" symbolism. There are even jokes about it now.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-02 17:11|| 2008-04-02 17:11|| Front Page Top

#9 And even more odd, since it is not a foreign decoration, it goes higher and in front of the Kuwait and Saudi and other foreign medals that adorn the bottom rows of my ribbon bars.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-02 17:43|| 2008-04-02 17:43|| Front Page Top

#10 OS: that is because the home team lettuce counts more than any foreign one; my Kuwait leberation is the very last one on my stuff also, but becasue it is the genuine thing, means an awful lot to me. (more than the PC 'Sea Service' POS.)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-02 17:57|| 2008-04-02 17:57|| Front Page Top

#11 OS: that is because the home team lettuce counts more than any foreign one; my Kuwait leberation is the very last one on my stuff also, but becasue it is the genuine thing, means an awful lot to me. (more than the PC 'Sea Service' POS.)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-02 17:58|| 2008-04-02 17:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks to you both and to all R'bers who have served to keep us safe and free.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-02 19:38|| 2008-04-02 19:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Agreed, lotp. Thanks to ALL the RB'ers out there (and those few that don't know of RB yet) who have served our fine nation.

Posted by BA 2008-04-02 21:21|| 2008-04-02 21:21|| Front Page Top

#14 there was this rule that even w/in the military a unit could not give a retiring officer or a guest speaker at a ball a gift worth more than $200.00 or ask the troops to donate more than $10.00 a piece....didn't stop a general I'll leave nameless from getting a pristine german 8mm mauser for being a guest speaker at a regimental mess night a few moons ago...even though no SNCO was ever going to get the same treatment.....I'm on the zero side of the house & I agree this is some bullshit rule.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-04-02 22:46|| 2008-04-02 22:46|| Front Page Top

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