To All Our Vets...

[gwnut]

AMEN !!!!

 

[steve87]

we got to see it when it was in okla. a wonderful tribute.

 

[Ed Hobgood]

I've seen the moving wall several times now and every time it's a very humbling experience. I look at the wall and see several name I know.

 

[jeyoung]

Got it.

​India foxtrot. Yankee oscar uniform. Charlie alpha november. Uniform november delta echo romeo sierra tango alpha november delta. Tango hotel india sierra. Charlie oscar papa yankee. Alpha november delta. Papa alpha sierra tango echo. Tango oscar. Yankee oscar uniform romeo.

Sierra tango alpha tango uniform sierra. (In honour of all armed forces wherever they may be) - Lets see who gets it and follows the instructions.

James Young :cxtv:
US Army 1971/73
Vietnam 1971/72 11B40

 

[rhino 2]

If I am not mistaken one of the reasons for pronouncing it zero is to avoid confusion when transmitting grid ordinance.

Im a little late on seeing this post' You're right..ThumbUp.. You don't want any misunderstanding when calling in the 105's [AKA Dime Nickels]....

 

[jeyoung]

I am a PGR member and make as many missions as possible. Recovering from lung cancer and heart attack (agent orange)

James Young:cxtv:
PGR Member
VietNam Veteran

 

[hogcowboy]

I am a PGR member and make as many missions as possible. Recovering from lung cancer and heart attack (agent orange)

James Young:cxtv:
PGR Member
VietNam Veteran

Hoping for the very best in your fight. I sometimes make it that far south. Might run into you at some point.ThumbUp ThumbUp ThumbUp

 

[Phu Cat]

If you are service connected for your hearing the VA has contracted with a telephone company and will give you a phone that amplifies the callers voice. There are several different types of phones to choose from: Cordless or corded, ones with answering machines, caller ID, etc. Your audiologist can tell you all about them and it only took 7 days for it to arrive after being ordered.

PC

 

[Fowler]

Speaking of VA and hearing

I had not been to VA for a long time (25 years or more) I had bad experiences with VA back then
Anyway my hearing was getting worse so I decided to give VA a try again

I was amazed of how helpful they were.
Everyone seemed very happy to help me.
I got my hearing test and hearing aids quickly and have been using them ever since.
Now I need to decide if I am going to let them replace my knee.........

 

[Ed Hobgood]

I have mixed feeling about the VA. I worked for the VA for several years after I retired from the Army. The VA has great people working for it in most cases but I'm not real comfortable with some of their surgeons. I live in SE Missouri and the VA sends you to St Louis for any surgery's needed. I went to get a joint replaced in my big toe and right before the surgery they told me it was going to be fused instead of the joint replace. I was in quite a bit of pain at the time and I said OK. Long story short, I've not been very happy with the decision I made. I think it all depends on where you are sent for your surgery and find out who the doctor is going to be that is doing your surgery. I use the VA for all my routine medical care just so I stay connect but anything big I use my TRICARE.

 

[Phu Cat]

Things have changed considerably since that shake up with vets having to wait too long for appointments and it's spilled over into most other aspects in the VA I go to.

PC

 

[Catfish]

What I dislike the most is having to travel 100+ miles to have any major testing and surgery. Every time I see a VA doc it costs me 50 bucks-kinda like a deductible. Medicare and supplemental insurance is less expensive since I have to pay the monthly premium. :Shrug: Besides that I like knowing my local doctors. The VA needs to allow VETS to receive local care in my opinion.

 

[Keystone]

Over the past 15 years the VAMC in Minneapolis, MN has taken excellent care of me. Some of the best Dr's and Nursing staff anywhere! I live in Mayo land and have spent time in St Mary's Mayo Clinic etc. They were not any better than the VA and in a few cases fell short.

 

[Phu Cat]

Catfish, Is it costing you that much in gas for the round trip? Or is the VA charging you that much?

I think they're working on vets being able to see doctors that are closer to their homes but don't know how soon that will come into being.

Are you interested in signing up for the VA's "my HealtyE Vet" program? It allows you to ask questions of the VA from your home. You can make appointments or cancel them, renew prescriptions,or ask questions like how the legislation is doing that allows vets to use their own doctors. I was leery of this at first but really like it now. Your call.

PC

 

[Ray55]

Catfish

You don't have to travel if you meet the requirements. Take a look at this program to see if you meet the requirements. I have had rehab. care in my town and I live less that 20 miles from the VA hospital.


www.va.gov/opa/choiceact .

 

[desertclassic]

Catfish, the VA will pay you mileage if you have an appointment. The Choice program is new, but if you have a service connected disability you will qualify for consults with a local doc for your issue. Jim

 

[Keystone]

The Veterans Choice program has turned out to be a huge waste of time in my area. For some reason Mayo will not take appointments from them. I got the run around so bad from them that it took 3 months to get a non VA appointment the same distance from me as the VAMC! The VA ended up doing a direct referral to the local Mayo facility.

 

[Phu Cat]

Keystone, your problem is the type that legislation was supposed to clear up. I wonder if a call to you congressman/woman wouldn't get things changed and quick.

PC

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

Ive got a new set of hearing aids from the VA, they work, but it aint magic. Theyre so much better than previous aids i got from them, these are married by blue tooth.

Now ya think all is fine and dandy, but, but, there is that tinny sound coming in with most calls, and my callers bitch they cant understand me.

Kinda a hell or heaven situation. I do use them, lost the last set in a bike wreck, tried to get the VA to charge the insurance company for them, no go, they say.

Odd ??? govt wont take money from insurance company if i can get them to pay, just odd.

I lost about 3 sets of these things, they were flesh colored for the vain, and easily lost, and no app to find, the new ones are candy apple red to match my 55 Chev gasser.

New ones have a finder app, lots of adjustment and it really is state of the art, but alas, as hearing impaired folks know, it jus aint the same, and they make your ears itch. :AGGHH:

Dont misunderstand, i am grateful, i really am, but technology aint the same as what Gawd gave originally gave me.

I asked about the implants but thats for folks that cant hear whatsoever i was told, so if your not hearing impaired, dont let it happen. You will live to regret it.

My 2 cents.

 

[Catfish]

Catfish, Is it costing you that much in gas for the round trip? Or is the VA charging you that much?

I think they're working on vets being able to see doctors that are closer to their homes but don't know how soon that will come into being.

Are you interested in signing up for the VA's "my HealtyE Vet" program? It allows you to ask questions of the VA from your home. You can make appointments or cancel them, renew prescriptions,or ask questions like how the legislation is doing that allows vets to use their own doctors. I was leery of this at first but really like it now. Your call.

PC

The VA pays millage. They charge me 50 bucks for every visit and they pay all other costs including hotel if appointment is later in the day or early in the morning. Why they charge the 50 dollars per visit is unknown to me but, it might have to do with income. Guess I need to ask if other Vets are being charged as I am. It has me wondering now. Nineteen months in service overall with 12 months and 4 days in Vietnam. I had to extend 4 days to get the 5 month early out with an honorable discharge. Not a real hardship-it would simply be more desirable for local medical testing and surgery procedures if necessary.

 

[Shmick]

What are the chances? After 40 years, I met the guy who replaced me. I was a 92D, operating room tech., with C/326th MED BN, 101st ABN. Never met anyone from my old unit in all these years. Then yesterday the pest control guy came to get rid of carpenter ants and we figured it out. He must have walked in the front door as I went out the back. That was 1976. Unbelievable reunion with a guy I just met. Shot the bull for a couple of hours, swapping lots of commonalities. It was a real trip down memory lane for both of us. Probably never happen again. Made my day.

 

[87Trike1200]

Always nice for something to "make your day"... Hope the ants are gone!

 

[Shmick]

Ants are gone...

My friend is a math guy. He ran some numbers to figure the odds of meeting the 1 GI who replaced me out of the1.5 million in service at the time. A ton of variables and no small amount of guesswork entered into his final equation. He actually enjoys these math games that seem like a foreign language to me. After asking me questions for half an hour (he's not a Vet), he called me back the next day and said the odds or probability of this occuring were statistically a "null set". So, I must have dreamed it up, never happened? I believe in coincidence and random occurances. But my replacement, Kevin, and I beat the odds! My math friend posited that Kevin was maybe really good at guessing, filling in blanks, like a carnival con man. Sorry Mathman. Kevin's the real deal. Against astronomical odds, I met him. (By the way, the probability was 1:1.78 X 10 to the 9th ... whatever that means.) Fat chance!

 

[Bikerbozo]

179 billion to 1. Does that help?

 

[Shmick]

Bikerbozo: yup I get that and thanks! So I Googled this: population of all humans who ever lived...107 billion. So holy cow! (Current pop is 7 billion, although in '76 it was "only" 6 billion.) My encounter with my replacement just got rediculously improbable.

 

[ricksurratt2]

For those of you who are not aware of this Chick-fil-a gives a 10% discount to all Honorably Discharged Veterans. I really appreciate them for doing this for us!! I always try to find a Chick-fil-a anywhere I go. Not only for the 10% discount but I like to support them for what they do for us. It gives me a sense of Pride to walk in there and say I'm a Veteran!! If you are a Veteran PLEASE support them as they support us!! Thank you fellow Vets and to our present service women and men from an ole USMC Veteran!!!! "Semper Fi"

 

[peteg59]

Not many/any Chick fil a restaurants this far north.
You folks down south need to visit them more often so's they'll have more $$ to invest in opening more storesThumbUp

 

[Gone2Three]

Not many/any Chick fil a restaurants this far north.
You folks down south need to visit them more often so's they'll have more $$ to invest in opening more storesThumbUp

We're working on it Lol.... :laugh: we visit our local chick-fil-a about once a week for lunch or dinner. It's great to see that they do this for our military. ThumbUp

 

[David357]

It was well recognized that Martha Raye endured less comfort more than any other Vietnam entertainer.



I did not know this, I bet you didn't either. Don't let the sun go down without reading this about Martha Raye.

The most unforgivable oversight of TV is that her shows were not taped.

I was unaware of her credentials or where she is buried.
Somehow I just can't see Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, or Jessica Simpson doing what this woman and the other USO women, including Ann Margaret & Joey Heatherton did for our troops in past wars.

Most of the old time entertainers were made of a lot sterner stuff than today's crop of activist bland whiners.

The following is from an Army Aviator who takes a trip down memory lane: "It was just before Thanksgiving '67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF west of Pleiku.
We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook(CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back.

All of a sudden, we heard a 'take-charge'woman's voice in the rear.

There was the singer and actress, Martha Raye, with a Special Forces beret and jungle fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into the Chinook,and carrying the dead aboard. Maggie' had been visiting her Special Forces (SF) 'heroes' out west.'

We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the USAF hospital pad at Pleiku.

As we all started unloading our sad pax's,a USAF Captain said to Martha.... "Ms Raye,with all these dead and wounded to process, there would not be time for your show!"

To all of our surprise, she pulled on her right collar and said "Captain, see this eagle? I am a full 'Bird' in the US Army Reserve, and on this is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty....now, take me to your wounded!"

He said, "Yes ma'am.... follow me."
Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would 'cover' a surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.

Martha is the only woman buried in the SF(Special Forces) cemetery at Ft Bragg.

Hand Salute! A great lady.

 

[peteg59]

God Bless Her.
There's nary a current female entertainer that can hold a candle to Martha Raye...