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You're slowly and carefully prowling the boards!!!

I just got my acceptance letter in today's mail. Quite a coincidence.(This message has been edited by Trail Pounder)

I'm in.

Do you remember the red tabs, garters, and beret? Now That was a uniform!!!(This message has been edited by Trail Pounder)

Thanks fellas, I'll relay that....dashing and outdoorsy and he can even skateboard in them!!!

OGE, I know you're prowling the boards this afternoon, do you know what the official length of the inseam in BSA shorts? I'm outfitting a youngster for CJLT and bought some trousers that I'm making into shorts. He was complaining that the shorts are way way way too short (being above the knee and all) so I was going to cut him some slack and put an extra inch on the inseam of his special extra long Trail Pounder made shorts. Thanks!!!!

My favorite color is Blaze Orange, cause where I live, "If it's brown, it's down". Someone driving a brown car might come home with an arrow in the radiator.

But you can practice, practice, practice your flag ceremonies and color guard work.

Yes sometimes it fits me like a glove. But, no not here. If you approve of your son writing like this, and you're his teacher, it's on you and I'd be getting him back into school before it's too late. If that is an example of OA leadership today, I'm going to take a big pass on supporting that program going forward, simply no longer inteested. KOTPA!!!

The "DUH" part fit.

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOY SCOUTS CHANGE MEMBERSHIP RULES Irving, TX -- March 14, 2004 -- Drawing praise across the nation, BSA who courts have stated is a private organization and can set its own membership rules has actually changed the membership rule and now will allow female members of co-ed Venturing Crews and Sea Scout Ships to join the Order of the Arrow a service organization consisting of honor campers...

A box of chocolates with a card saying "Love you Mom", a dozen red roses, a vase pronounced "vass" to put them in, a trip to Steamboat in January, a Royal Carribean cruise....make it happen, get right with the Mom.

Chippewa, "The legend lives on from you on down......" Could you PM me with your friends name and address. I'll send some shirts and books. My pleasure!!! TP

Way to go OJ!!!

2CD, Thanks!!! I'll pass on the spinach. Safety, safety, safety. So are aims are to earn a belt loop. Pass out some Eddie Eagle pamphlets, let the boys take their targets with them. I wonder if the NRA has a medal or pin to hand out?

They would enjoy jail's nightlife too much. The entire organization is criminal. They should be rounded up and placed behind a thousand rows of concertina in a Dachau-like concentration camp in the hottest part of the Arizona desert, where they would all become extinct. In Trail Pounder's World, pedophiles would never strike twice.

Thank you, Tarp. Take home. I am going to put up a dining fly for both rain and/or shade and also have 8 positions and sandbags to shoot off of. Have you used spinner targets? Shooting balloons? What do the cubbies lie on?

The Sea Scouts are going to help with the BB Gun Range at Cub Day Camp this summer. What did you like/dislike at your last Day Camp? What made a "successful" range? What made a failed Range? Thanks!!!

"he who will meditate both day and night, whilest the rest us work, will useth the library's computer."

Apocolypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter.....all chock full of crazed Americans in Vietnam. National Guard. When my unit arrived in Saudi Arabia, we were issued two liters of water and bussed to our waiting vehicles. We rolled west out into the desert. Our first stop was a fuel point. Tennessee National Guard. Tennessee flags flying. The First Sergeant and the CO were helping direct traffic. Topped off the tanks and thumbs up and off we went. Wow, I thought, that Guard unit was high speed. Motivated, dedicated, to the cause! A week later a howitzer unit drove by. Guess who. Tennessee National Guard. I don't remember who they were, but they were a battalion of self-propelled M109s attached to VII Corps. Half the tracks were flying Tennessee flags from their antennas. I think the entire State of Tennessee was taking on the Republican Guard. They weren't but if they were, I'll bet it wouldn't have taken 100 hours to whip their butts and our guys wouldn't have had to fight the Medina Division again in 2003. I saw the National Guard in action and they were supurb.

I've always had a hard time believing that American soldiers did the cutting corpse's ears and fingers off in Vietnam. Half of my first platoon served in Vietnam, they worked hard, followed the rules, and were mostly good guys. This guy spells out why Vietnam Veterans have been maligned for the last 33 years. GUEST OPINION My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart. The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam." I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe. My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life. Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our leader. John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POWs, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Colliers International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam. Hanoi John, now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere. Medals do not make a man. Morals do. Don Bendell Canon City, Colorado Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado.

If you're not with us, who are you with? Are you Pro-terrorist? Pro-Saddam? Pro-Ba'athist? Pro-Hamas? French? A frothing-at-the-mouth member of International ANSWER? A black and white, all or nothing partisan on the extreme left? If you're not with us, who are you with?

Mr. Hopper, Okay. That's better. Now we're on the same page. Something that did catch my eye about the application/selection process was that they are not looking for someone who joined every club, played every sport, and did everything. They're looking for applicant who participated in activities that they excelled in and more importantly took a leadership role in. Eagle Scout does carry weight. Athletics carries weight. I would throw in four years of Spanish wouldn't hurt. Class ranking and GPA matters and then finally, the ACT and SATs would make you or break you. You'll need to hit the ACT in the 29-32 range to compete with your future peers. You'll take the ACT test in two years. It's a test that will matter. You can also find a testing center at a junior college that will offer the SATs. I would take both tests and submit the one I did better on. This is all hearsay. Can someone who actually went to a service academy please comment.

Matua, http://seascout.org/reference/opportunities/uscg.pdf Here's the link. Gotta go, get this pancake breakfast together. TP

Hops, If I was advising someone who earned Eagle Scout and I knew was a talented, self-starter, I'd probably tell him to think about college first and join the ROTC. He would then join the service as a lieutenant. Even being the world's lowliest lieutenant beats the snot out of being an E-2 or E-3. The most senior E-3 in the army still pops to attention when the lowliest O-1 enters the room. Plan B, there was at one time a program where a "smart guy" could go to basic training, then AIT, and then directly to OCS. If you're on the ball enough to do all the things you do, research the ROTC route instead. Trail "been an E-2" Pounder