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Hard Charger
 
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1SG Murrell C/1/62 ADA.....mean as nails,could hump from NY to LA if he needed to,I was always in trouble as a Pvt,so I got to hangout with him in his office alot[scared][scared][scared] He's a great NCO.
The First thing I'll discuss are the five points of performance
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Masters of Hard Knocks from the University of Gravity
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Like everyone else there have been many.
Four come to mind as influencing me the most.
Drill Sergeant Banks- A hard charging Viet Nam vet. He was a SSG and the assistant drill in 1975 when I came in. Didn't know much about him until mid cycle. He always carried around a damn big hickory walking stick. Well at mid-cycle between basic and AIT our platoon got a bit down. Having earned privileges in Basic just to have them taken away at the start of AIT (I was OSUT at Polk). He got us together that Friday and told us a story about a young private in Nam who step on a mine and lost his leg below the knee. But this private wouldn't give up, he lived and stayed in the Army. At which point he smacked that hickory stick on his leg and the stick shattered. He was talking about himself. Made the point to me that you could do anything in the Army if you really wanted it bad enough.
My very first PSG and 1SG. PSG Alchen and 1SG Shalivan in Co. C 2nd Batt. Both taught me that I could go beyond myself both physically and mentally. They gave me a drive to educate myself in the ways of the Army. Both taught me that you can do anything in the Army and that anything is really waiverable.
Lastly, PSG Hollifield. My first PSG as a Platoon Leader. I know what being and NCO was all about. He help teach me what being a good Officer was all about. He knew when to let me go and when to pull me back.
"Si Vis Pacum Para Bellum"
If you want peace prepare for war!
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Trooper
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quote:
Originally posted by Dirty503
Ranger2-
Was SSG Fuller a kind of beefy guy with sandy blonde hair and a good ole boy from Tennessee or Kentucky? We had a SSG Fuller in Scouts 1-504 that went to the Rangers. Sounds too close to NOT be him.
He's name was Clinton Fuller. I am not sure what unit he came from but I knew it was the 82nd. He did have blond hair. He went from the 82nd to be a Desert RI and then to 2/75. Then to OCS after making E-7. I wouldn't say beefy. In fact he was a PT stud. He was from the south but I don't remember where.
Ranger2
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Regular Joe
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Two of the NCOs that influenced me the most were:
CSM Iakimo Falinko, he was my 1SG back in A/307th. He always took care of his troops. Hard but fair. Fought for what was right not convenient. He was a screw up early in his career but is now an engineer regimental CSM. Side note his son will recently killed in Iraq. Great leader.
The other and the most influential was 1SG Kevin Bryant. He was my first squad leader. Bull Bryant had a voice that could shake walls. He demanded that things be done correctly always, now matter the conditions. Watched him make a team leader low crawl across "Devil Field" for not inspecting a cherry (not me thank God) before he left the area (left his ID card in the barracks before a jump). He was always hard but fair, demanded excellence and he got it. Had an opportunity to thank him later for what he taught me. He's a great leader, just volunteered to take a unit to Iraq.
Stay Safe Bull!
 
"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight"
Gen George S. Patton
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Hard Charger
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Feel free to write my name down too fellas.
The First thing I'll discuss are the five points of performance
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Regular Joe
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I forgot HAL, Harold A. Lockwood, CSM(R) and CSM(R) Herschell Vietch, got a BSM w/V device in Nam and everyone else in sqd got ARCOM w/ V device. Served with C Co 307E in Nam, Golden Brigade. Took the fight to the enemy. Great examples for everyone.
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Seasoned Vet
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Was a Man of many hats, Ranger, Patchfinder, Air Assult, MAster Blaster, and was a Black Hat.
[LOL][LOL] ROFLMAO!!!!!!! SgtV strikes again. We used to call it Badgefinder instead of Patchfinder though. LOL
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