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.
ok smarty pants!!
I've got a book "The Journals of Daniel Boone" and Simon Kenton mentions him in tales, and at Fort Boonesbourgh his picture is hanging up. He also had another one named Neddy but I'm not knowing which one is in the pic so take your pick :D I know my hicks sis, I am one myself so there ya go:D
takes one to know one huh???LMAO!!!
Yes it does, and the second dog... Neddy was named after his son.
Now who is this? I know WarEagle knows this fella.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4...etryor0.th.jpg
Pssssssssssssssst.... Who iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis thisssssssssss?
Okay this was posted on Feb 22nd at 1807 hours, and no one knows who it is but ya'll been looking. Come on, ProudAmerican you should know this you read about them and him.
Maybe there was a movie made about him and his group.... could be.
You guys are freak'n boots.
That's Darby, ya sing about him all the time.
Oh yeh, that's Brig. General Darby.
The Fighting Officer.
My God!!!!!!!!!! It took a Marine to tell you Army guys and especially you Rangers who that was!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so ashaned, thanks FVR I know there's one real soldier in here.
Soldier, you're the soldier. I'm the Marine.
Here is a little about the Col.
William Orlando Darby was born 9 February 1911. He grew up at Ft. Smith Arkansas.
Darby attended West Point and graduated in 1933 as a cadet company commander, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He ranked 177 out of 346, he was assigned to Ft. Bliss in the 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery of the 1st Cavalry Division. The 82nd was the only horse mounted artillery unit remaining in the Army.
On 1 October 1940 he was promoted to Captain after serving with varied artillery units and in many assignments.
Darby received early Amphibious Training Assignment which would help him in later years; in early 1941 he participated in amphibious training in Puerto Rico, and later in North Carolina.
Orders were cut for Darby to ship to Pearl Harbor after November of 1941 but before he shipped over the Japanese attacked the islands.
His orders were changed and he was assigned as aide to Maj. General Russell P. Hartle.
In January of 1942 Hartle, Darby and staff shipped out with the 34th Infantry Division bound for Northern Ireland. Darby requested a combat assignment but was turned down.
British Commandos were recognized as an essential first-strike unit and since Lord Louis Mountbatten was chief of Combined Allied Operations he called upon Colonel Lucian K. Truscott Jr., to form such a unit and in turn Darby was given the Choice assignment.
The unit would be called: Rangers; in the spirit of Rogers Rangers whose operations were successful during the Revolutionary War.
Darby's organization and leadership catapulted the Rangers toward the front where they distinguished themselves in combat from North Africa to Europe.
Darby was killed in Action by an artillery round on 30 April 1945.
At 34 Darby died just a few days before VE Day.
The timing of Darby's death was tragically ironic.
The day before Darby was killed, Mussolini had been slain by Italian partisans in Milan and Generaloberst Heinrich Gottfried von Vietinghoff had agreed to surrender unconditionally all German forces in Italy effective at noon on 2 May.
With further irony, on the day of Darby's death, his name appeared on a list of nominees for promotion to brigadier general being submitted to President Truman. On 2 May, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson recommended to the President that, in view of Darby's outstanding combat record, his name remain on the list and that he be promoted posthumously. Truman agreed and on 15 May 1945, slightly more than three months after his thirty-fourth birthday, Darby was promoted to brigadier general.""
He was the only Army officer to be posthumously promoted to star rank during the war.
Who's this guy?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DanielDaly.jpg
Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly (November 11, 1873 – April 27, 1937) was a United States Marine and one of only 19 men (and two Marines) to receive the Medal of Honor twice.
seems we're the only ones who know our warriors.
You're good.
I think you may be right.
This is kind of fun. Makes ya do a little thinking.
And who is this?
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7...lookvn1.th.png
Man, I'm stumped, well for now.
The Naval Officer, I've seen that pic somewhere and I am banging my head on the keyboard to remember where.
The second man, I'm lost.
I will find them.
Well this guy here is one of my favorites as we have the same last name and are related on my dads side. Who is it?
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/9...kingrk7.th.jpg
Here lets try this guy he's easier for ya. Now don't get him wrong or I'll disown ya.
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