You haven't cleared up ****, **** . . .

Could someone who is PRESENTLY in the military email Dr. Watson(jetblasted) and splain this to him, he doesn't believe me.

And the a@@hole remark was uncalled for, I was trying to be humorous with the explanation and you forgot to put on your "coat" before reading it.

jet what he trying to let you know is that if someone is not in the right uniform then usually in the states someone would either get smoked or counseled. But like everyone says over here if s@#t hits the fan get your GEAR on and get your ass outside to lay down lead. It doesn't matter how you come out of the tent as long as you can do you job protecting your buddies.

Seems like koifish_koifish has it. Been there-Done that, (except not the pink skivees), but flying out of a dead sleep, head for a good place to defend our position and to protect my buddies who were doing the same thing to protect me. When the leads-a-flyin what matters is your there fightin back.

My guess is the guys in full gear were on duty. Commin out of the jungle soaked to the bone, skin half rotten off your feet, you really don't want your 1st sleep in days to be in full gear.

Come-on now, if someone breaks into your home, are you gonna get dressed before you blow their head off. I doubt it. My wife and I sleep nekid, (sorry for the visual), but at home I'm blowin their head off clothed or nekid.

As far as the pink, well glad it wasn't me in the pic, but my guess is the 2 guys fighting next to him really didn't give a crap at the time what he was wearing.

Don't really understand Jets last comment though.

Sorry cigarman692900, I understood what you were saying also.

Semper Fi,

Phil

I'm still trying to find the blue team out there in this pic.

I understand when the **** goes down, you jump up and fight. I'm not stupid.

What I am doing, is questioning his reasoning for wearing red in a battle zone. Like I said, the guy sticks out like a sore thumb. I have to wonder if the whole reason the fire fight started to begin with, is if they spotted his red shirt.

Sorta like going for a walk at night with a bright flashlight, or starting a fire to keep warm, ect ... Both other guys are wearing camo, and this guy is wearing red ...

Just doesn't make sense . . .

jet...I think what is not being understood is the fact...why did this soldier bring a RED shirt to a warzone to begin with...not why did he get woke up by a firefight and just grab his helmet pack and gun and start defending the position...

exactly . . .

Sounds like Jet wanted to see him fight naked.

^^^^

Ed Zachary :O)~~~~~~~

I think he's wondering why they would risk even having bright colors for undergarments, but the impression I get is that they don't usually have them visible outside the tents anyway since they are usually in uniform....

Well, in such a dull landscape as they're in, I wonder why he would chance it.

Maybe I'm looking too much into it, but like I said, you can spot that red shirt from 3 miles away . . .

Hell, if I was his buddies, I'd be asking him to move a little more to the left . . .

^

War is Hell...

Going to War wearing Red...

This isn't wasn't the first time ever.. and damn sure probably wont be the last...

Red Tail Flyers or "Angels"

Imagine yourself flying a P-51 in WWII Germany going after Nazi Fighters with your entire tail painted Red??

I'd spend allot of my time finding cloud covers.. LOL

Tuskegee Airman

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http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/Tuskegee_Airmen_History.html 

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