W.J. wrote
>I had a friend that flew RF-4 in Nam. The unit unofficial motto was
>"Kill'em with Filum". I think the official one was "Alone, Unarmed,
>Un-afraid".
See what I mean? Recce is dangerous and it's no fun ;-)
>
>By the way I was US Army Artillery during the war and Medical Corps
>after college on the GI Bill and an Army Scholarship to med school. We
>call Army GIs or doggies, all infantry are grunts and artillerymen are
>redlegs whatever the service. Marines are Jarheads or Gyrenes, Navy are
>Swabs for the surface fleet or Squids for submariners and Airforce are
>Flyboys or Zoomies. What is a zipperhead?
Same as "Jarhead" according to my buds at MacDill. I was trying to export
my car through Jacksonville at the same time as the USMC was loading up to
ship equipment to Kuwait in 1990. The boys were all over the place.
Chris
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