"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/23/2019 at 19:36 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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Company Picnic: Battalion Commander and Bn XO’s kids. I drove kids around all afternoon that day.
This one is in Germany. The first field exercise I participated in was a REFORGER exercise: Return of Forces to Germany. We loaded up our s**t and deployed from Louisiana to Germany. First Sergeant Robert Judd, a soulless man, is trimming my hair.
I was the company commander’s driver and the company clerk. I was a clueless kid. Hadn’t turned 20 yet.
This one would be on Fort Polk, after I got my rank back from being busted for a hot urinalysis. Symbols of a misspent youth.
I was active duty Army from 1984 to 1990. Got out as a sergeant, E-5. Duty was rough in those days: you really had to scrape a lot of icing off the cake to be able to enjoy it.
Fuckkinja
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/23/2019 at 19:58 |
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Thank you for your service. It looks like u had access to some fun machines. T hey could use some extra armor.
Chariotoflove
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/23/2019 at 20:07 |
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Not too many safety features in those family cars back then.
ttyymmnn
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03/23/2019 at 20:09 |
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I was a clueless kid. Hadn’t turned 20 yet.
That’s probably exactly how the Army likes them.
That top photo is fantastic. I seem to recall you came home soon after failing the whiz quiz, with a different story.
DipodomysDeserti
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03/23/2019 at 20:32 |
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My best buds Army photos from Germany involve, prostitutes, porn and blowing shit up while waiting to get shipped off to Iraq again. Yours seem much more wholesome.
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ttyymmnn
> DipodomysDeserti
03/23/2019 at 20:58 |
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We weren’t in a perpetual war yet. I believe the saying is, “War hell. Peacetime’s a motherfucker.”
mincz
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03/23/2019 at 20:59 |
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Duty was rough during peacetime?
GLiddy
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03/23/2019 at 21:00 |
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You got out in 1990 huh?
You must have m
issed Desert Storm by -that- much.
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> mincz
03/24/2019 at 02:05 |
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No. It was a joke, hence the reference to cake icing.
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> GLiddy
03/24/2019 at 02:06 |
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I did, but my wife didn't. Lots of guard duty.
FSI
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03/24/2019 at 02:37 |
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My dad probably smoked a clutch on a VW bus on the way from Leighton Barracks to Larson. At least that’s one anectode he likes to tell me.
You mentioned that you were stationed in Würzburg at some point iirc, this is what Leightons looks like now
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> FSI
03/24/2019 at 16:06 |
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Yes, I lived on Leighton for about 2.5 years, and married my wife — same battalion — and we lived for a year in Biebelried, six or eight miles out into the country. Except for
painful
loneliness the first year or so, I much enjoyed my time in Germany.
Goggles Pizzano
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03/24/2019 at 18:34 |
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Sucks that we can’t see all that recommend our posts. Thanks for sharing.
Good god
,
you’re old.
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> Goggles Pizzano
03/24/2019 at 20:33 |
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Old and Fat
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> ttyymmnn
05/02/2019 at 17:57 |
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That’s probably exactly how the Army likes them.
You say that, but...
after I got my rank back from being busted for a hot urinalysis