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RICKAMAVEN Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jul 16 2002, 1:44 AM EST
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daveyg2 Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jul 16 2002, 8:12 PM EST
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No need to duck and cover if you have bravery and courage. Things that this country severely lacks these days. Im no jarhead, in fact im well educated and rounded, but brawn is the ROOT of defense and safety. You want to lose a war quickly? Create as many paper tigers as you can to fool the enemy with nothing to back it up. A professional soldier's primary mentality is that we must hope for peace and prepare for war. Our new enemy doesnt want to target military personnel, they want CIVILIAN personnel. does that tell you something?

one of the quotes i hold to my heart closely until this day is the following:
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free."

Ronald Reagan

SSGT David Gulotta
USAF 320th S.T.O. Pararescue Group
1995-1999
"That Others May Live"
jjohnson28 Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Jul 16 2002, 8:46 PM EST
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Well Davey there's one thing our new enemy may have forgoten about and I'll summerize it with one of the guotes I now hold dear to my heart. "LETS ROLL" Todd Beamer.
Charlie Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Jul 17 2002, 7:07 AM EST
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Davey, great quotation from a great leader! I am embarrassed to admit that I had forgotten that one, but now will remember it along with "Let's Roll"! Charlie
SteveS Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Jul 17 2002, 8:02 AM EST
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Thanks for the reminder of a great quote from a President who changed a lot of things in this country for the better ... and Dave ... pararescue, eh? I salute you! My son was a Navy cSAR during those same years ... I have the utmost respect and admiration for guys that are made of the sort of stuff required for those jobs ...
daveyg2 Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Jul 18 2002, 7:35 AM EST
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Thank you.
SteveS Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Jul 18 2002, 8:51 AM EST
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Dave, you know that "So Others May Live" motto you mention is also on my son's uniform ... on the more light-hearted side, he's got a t-shirt with the unit's logo on the chest, a blue-water life guard emblem on the sleeve and on the back, a cartoon image of a SAR swimmer all decked out in frogman attire, holding a bikini-clad, busty babe around the waist in one arm and the line winching them up out of the ocean and into the chopper with the other ... under the picture is the motto "you fall, we haul ... saving your a** is our job"
SteveS Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Jul 18 2002, 9:01 AM EST
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Oh, and for the rest of you who may not fully understand just how high-caliber guys like Dave have to be, go rent that George Clooney movie "Perfect Storm" (which IS based on true events)

take particular note of those AF Pararescue guys who come to save ol' George and tell me, just what sort of cojones THAT takes ... if you've seen it, you already know just how high a degree of respect and admiration guys like this have earned ...
daveyg2 Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Jul 18 2002, 8:32 PM EST
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That particular unit that was deployed is the 106th Rescue Wing. They specialize in homeland and sever weather rescue operations. Ive had my share of drowning. It can get that bad quickly. I was in the 320th STO (Special Tactics and Operations Group) specializing in combat rescue and unconventional warfare. All in all, Pararescue is very diversified. Most other Special Operations units from other branches are very diversified as well. There's a team for everything...
Charlie Offline
#10 Posted: Fri, Jul 19 2002, 5:55 AM EST
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All forms of Rescue work take huge balls and lots of nerves! hats off to all of those guys and gals! Charlie
daveyg2 Offline
#11 Posted: Fri, Jul 19 2002, 1:43 PM EST
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Thanks Charlie.
Todog Offline
#12 Posted: Fri, Jul 19 2002, 3:02 PM EST
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Thanks DaveyG for insuring and protecting my freedoms!!!!
daveyg2 Offline
#13 Posted: Fri, Jul 19 2002, 10:39 PM EST
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Your welcome Todog.
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