So, who is my new avatar?
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So, who is my new avatar?
General Patton ?
http://tx.pl8.com/pl8s/TX-72-FVR-486_HQ.jpg
Naaa.......not patton.
Cool license plate.
Major General Smedley Butler,USMC Retired. He wrote about the,"military industrial complex". His nickname was "The Fighting Quaker".I believe he was the most decorated Marine in history.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell ????
Chiggers..............you the man.
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
During his 34 years of Marine Corps service, Butler was awarded numerous medals for heroism including the Marine Corps Brevet Medal (the highest Marine medal at its time for officers), and subsequently the Medal of Honor twice. Notably, he is one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor, and one of only three to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor, and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions.
That is one tough Marine.
But I believe Chseter Puller is the most decorated Marine since Smedley.
Puller was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history and one of only two people to receive the Navy Cross, the Navy's second highest decoration, five times (the other being Navy submarine commander Roy Milton Davenport just for you CrashDive). With five Navy Crosses and a Distinguished Servic Cross, the Army's second highest decoration, Puller received the nation's second highest military decoration a total of six times.
While exact counts of Puller's total number of decorations vary from source to source, an accepted number of 52 separate, subsequent, and foreign awards is commonplace. The reason for difficulty in assigning an exact total comes from the variety of foreign decorations that each carry different protocols in regard to wear and display.
Now one for you all, who is my Avatar?
Here's a younger pic of him.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4...aronti0.th.jpg
WarEagle you should know this.
Come on guys who is it.
It looks like the same guy on your avatar. Only younger. Past that I'm not sure.
Is it Aaron Bank? Founder of the Green Berets.
Aaron Bank
Birth: Nov. 23, 1902
Death: Apr. 1, 2004
United States Army Officer. A Colonel in the United States Army, he was the founder of the elite Green Berets. He was a lifeguard for many years before World War II, but joined the Army in 1939. Because he was nearing 40, he was considered too old for combat, and was assigned as a Captain to the Office of Strategic Services, Special Operations branch. Being fluent in French, he led Operation Jedburgh in 1944, parachuting into France along with two Frenchmen, an officer and a radio operator. They rallied French opposition and liberated several towns. In 1944 and 1945, he led Operation Iron Cross, where he posed as a Nazi soldier, attempting to capture Hitler and bring him before a war crimes tribunal. After the war, he stayed with the Army, and convinced the Army to create a unit with the same duties of the SO division of the disbanded OSS. He hand-picked the first members of the 10th Special Forces unit, subjecting them to harsh training in hand-to-hand combat, guerilla warfare, rock climbing, amphibious warfare, and the use of explosives for demolition. He suggested the unit should wear special berets to distinguish them from other units, but Army regulations would not allow it. President John F. Kennedy gave a special order allowing the berets, choosing the color green. Bank retired from the Army in 1958, and moved to California with his wife, Catherine. He wrote the book "From OSS to Green Berets: the Birth of Special Forces" about his role in creating the Green Berets. In 2002, President George W. Bush gave him a commendation for creating the techniques used to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. He died in an assisted living facility in Dana Point, California, at the age of 101.
You got it, Col. Aaron Bank the Father of Special Forces.
Daniel Boone
Yeah not the dog, there a dime a dozen, but who is the man?
You got lil-sis, Dan Boone!!!!!!!!!!
I was really wanting to know who the dog was, anyone?
Spot????:confused:
Actually Boone's dog's name was Shiloh.