ever notice how some folks have to get the last word in?

[R J]

It is a balmy 74*, with a chance of rain, anyone want to take a little road trip to blow the stink off of us?

I'll be leaving the house in about an hour.    Would enjoy the company.

[HayHauler]

Rained all morning down here.   It is only 90 degrees F!  I think I will ride the Valk to the monthly dinner meeting if the Houston area riders. 
Gotta take advantage of the cool snap while it is here.  Hehe.

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

JimmyT, thanks for sending your hot weather up here.    We are supposed to start cooling off tonight.

These 90* humidity 80 & above kill me.

Can't take the humidity anymore.

[Jess from VA]

In NoVA, I have had my house windows all open (with screens, and no AC) for 48 straight hours..... in August.....simply unbelievable.  The riding is also wonderful; yesterday I did 6 hours and wore a light vented jacket all day.   It is usually never below 80+ with high humidity in the middle of every night this time of year.

The crickets are usually going at it fast and furious, but are laid back now..... the speed of their chirping is directly related to temperature.

[R J]

You can keep those damn Crikets.

They keep us awake at night in Korea in 1952.

That was my 2nd Tour over in that Hell Hole.

[HayHauler]

It was less than 90 tonight so I rode to dinner with the Houston group.  I almost didn't come back home.  It was awesome. 
Back to the heat tomorrow. 

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

We are at 60 right now, but I don't feel like taking the Chevy out.

Son & I have been screwing around with lights and some other crap, so right now the lights at adjusted to the tree tops.

I think I could blind the planes with them.

They are little buggers, but man are they bright.

[Hooter]

Its 72 here right now and I'm getting ready to jump on the scooter and head to my house up north with my lead guitar player. He rides as well and is ab out the only one I will ride with. 125 miles from my main home and NOOOOOOO body around. My cell doesn't work at the house up north, and I had the house phone shut down. My neighbor is 300 yds across the road and used to live near me here at my main home. He married a girl I grew up with. Solitude, no pager that I carry 24-7. Thats why I have a house up north. Oh, it's right between 5 lakes. I'm 3 minutes from all of them. Steve and I are coming home Sunday, I have to do a cancer benefit.
   My wife and I are going back next week for a few days. The boat will be in tow!

[R J]

Be safe Hooter.

[HayHauler]

"Son & I have been screwing around with lights and some other crap, so right now the lights at adjusted to the tree tops."
We call them coon huntin lights down here. 

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

"Son & I have been screwing around with lights and some other crap, so right now the lights at adjusted to the tree tops."
We call them coon huntin lights down here. 

Hay
Jimmyt

I think your coons and my coons are 2 different animals.

[HayHauler]

Maybe so, but they hide in trees and are hunted with dogs at night.  A delicacy in Louisiana. 

BTW, I saw one of your Chosin team in Costco today.  I thanked him for his service and asked if he knew you.  He said your name didn't sound familiar.  I figured it had been many years and hard to remember hundreds of names.  I was in the store doing some shipping and saw he was wearing a hat that said Chosin reservoir Korea on it. 
Thank you for your service RJ. 

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

Maybe so, but they hide in trees and are hunted with dogs at night.  A delicacy in Louisiana. 

BTW, I saw one of your Chosin team in Costco today.  I thanked him for his service and asked if he knew you.  He said your name didn't sound familiar.  I figured it had been many years and hard to remember hundreds of names.  I was in the store doing some shipping and saw he was wearing a hat that said Chosin reservoir Korea on it. 
Thank you for your service RJ. 

Hay
Jimmyt

Thanks for the thank you.

We he Army or Marine Corps?      Both were in the Chosin.

[HayHauler]

Don't know.  Didn't want to bother him too much.  He had just gotten his hot dog and was sitting down to eat.  I'm just that way. 

It was cool to see and read his hat.  He acted like he glad I noticed his hat. 

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

I know how ya feel, & or he feels.

I enjoy it when some one spots my cap and says something.

[HayHauler]

Took a little ride this morning over to the San Jacinto battleground.  The San Jacinto Momument is an awesome sight. 

And it was only 92* out about noon. 

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

Jimmy,, send that picture to Tracy for possible use in the monthly online calendar.

If ya need her e-addy, send me a PM and I'll fire it off to ya.

[NiteRiderF6]

Jimmy,, send that picture to Tracy for possible use in the monthly online calendar.

If ya need her e-addy, send me a PM and I'll fire it off to ya.

Good eye there Mr. RJ, I hope all is well with you!

[R J]

Wow, we were down in page 7 on this board.     Can't let that happen or it might dry up and disappear.    LOL           

[HayHauler]

Just bookmark it and come back anytime you want.  going to post office to mail out another set of metal valve stems to a deserving VRCC'r.  Hehe

Hay
Jimmyt

[Hooter]

"Son & I have been screwing around with lights and some other crap, so right now the lights at adjusted to the tree tops."
We call them coon huntin lights down here. 

Hay
Jimmyt

I think your coons and my coons are 2 different animals.

LMAO! I think mine are the same as yours. Had a great weekend and weather in the 70s. Great riding weather. Jimmy, that hot crap is supposed to be here next week with a bunch of humidity.  90s all week. Sucks!

[R J]

"Son & I have been screwing around with lights and some other crap, so right now the lights at adjusted to the tree tops."
We call them coon huntin lights down here. 

Hay
Jimmyt

I think your coons and my coons are 2 different animals.

LMAO! I think mine are the same as yours. Had a great weekend and weather in the 70s. Great riding weather. Jimmy, that hot crap is supposed to be here next week with a bunch of humidity.  90s all week. Sucks!

We is also scheduled for heat and possible rain.

[Hooter]

   Mr. RJ Sir,
       
     Please steer that crap south. At least so it goes thru Illinois instead of Michigan,,,,Thank You in advance....Hooter.   

[R J]

   Mr. RJ Sir,
       
     Please steer that crap south. At least so it goes thru Illinois instead of Michigan,,,,Thank You in advance....Hooter.   

Hooter Sir:

Remember, I share with all I can.    LOL.

[HayHauler]

I hope the heat leaves here for a week or so.  Y'all need some before that white stuff starts to fall.

 

Hay 
JImmyt

[Hooter]

I hope the heat leaves here for a week or so.  Y'all need some before that white stuff starts to fall.

 

Hay 
JImmyt

Why you gotta bring up "white stuff"?   I heard it isn't gonna snow this year...global warming ya know!   

[R J]

Why you gotta bring up "white stuff"?   I heard it isn't gonna snow this year...global warming ya know!   
[/quote]

Hate to say it Hooter, but we have had 4 nice mild winters.

Tradition says we will get a big stack of white stuff this 5th year.

As a safety measure, the snow thrower tractor is going to get a good going over and replacement of some parts that wear out rubbing the pavement to keep the snow eater out of danger of being worn to a crisp.   One is called a scrapper blade and the other is the out side (of the thrower) skid plates.    They are adjustable and last year I think I put the last adjustment on them.

[Hooter]

   I was just looking at my plow yesterday that goes on my pickup. Shoes need to be replaced and I think this weekend I will put it on the concrete in front of my garage. Gotta change the hydraulic fluid and make sure all is good. I won't wait till first snow to do that. I wanna do things while it is still warm but not 90 like it is now.

[R J]

Same here on the heat.

I do thing real early or very late all when the temp is not to bad.

I'd prefer the temps in the 60 to 65* to work outside.

Cheers.

[Hooter]

   Mornin RJ , Hay!   

[R J]

M O R N I N   Hooter.    had our coffee yet?      I'm on cup #6, that should hold me close to the potty, and out of this firkin heat.   Supposed to top out around 93* and a heat index 100 to 105.

Very damn seldom do I say this, but come on WINTER.........

[HayHauler]

Careful what u axe for there RJ.  It could be a baaaaad ole winter.   

Hay
Jimmyt

Mormon' Hooter. 

[R J]

I can take  just about any weather in the winter.     Only thing that scares the crap out of me is a firkin White Out on the highway from blowing snow.

[donaldcc]

 105* here in desert today.  don't let me hear about you mid west guys whining about the heat!

[R J]

Last Thursday we set a new record, 104*.

We also had 65% Humidity.

So ya'll is a barkin up the wrong tree here Grasshopper.

                

[donaldcc]

Last Thursday we set a new record, 104*.

We also had 65% Humidity.

So ya'll is a barkin up the wrong tree here Grasshopper.

                

hot as hell.  no likee

[R J]

Our Troops are getting almost the same temps and they don't have AC.   Plus they get to sleep in a foxhole with all that hot SAND.

Plus they have to were all of that damn combat clothing and bulletproof vests.

They even have to sleep with that crap on.

Lucky for me, I never had to do any time in the Desert in Korea, I just got stuck with the COLD in December of 1950 in the trap.     Chesty Puller got us into it and we had to do an about face and fight our way back out.

[HayHauler]

And fight your way out you sure did.  Did Chesty survive?

Hay
Jimmyt

[R J]

Yes, Chesty served his tour and returned to the States, BUT, without the only thing he really wanted, and that was 'The Medal of Honor'.  He died in 1971 with out that medal.

He has so many other medals I don't think he can get them all on his left chest.

Article by: By
AMANDA FOREMAN
The Korean War rarely gets a mention these days. Sandwiched between the epic struggle of World War II and the moral carnage of Vietnam, the conflict has suffered by comparison. It is all the more reason why the 60th anniversary of the Korean Armistice should not pass us by this week without a few moments of reflection.

 
Thomas Fuchs
 .The 2½-mile-wide demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea was officially established on July 27, 1953. To some, the DMZ's existence is another reason not to dwell on the war. But to others, it is an emblem of the hard-won peace that has since endured—a peace that was achieved with the help of men like Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most highly decorated Marine in U.S. history.

Puller, who died in 1971, may be little known outside of the Marine Corps. But his name lives on among the men and women who serve. At any Marine base around the world, the close of day is often greeted with the cry, "Goodnight, Chesty Puller, wherever you are."

Puller was in his early 50s when the Korean War began and already a legend in the Corps. He was old-style, the kind of soldier who insisted on leading his men from the front. In November 1950, Chesty, then a colonel with the 1st Marine Division, was dispatched to a remote area in North Korea known as the Chosin Reservoir.

As related in Jon T. Hoffman's "Chesty," the Marines barely had time to set up base camp when the Chinese People's Liberation Army attacked their position. The embedded journalists immediately confronted Chesty, demanding to know his plan. Calmly he replied: "We've been looking for the enemy for several days now. We've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of finding these people and killing them."

His bravado wasn't simply for show. Chesty always stationed himself wherever the fighting was at its fiercest. At Chosin, the heat of action was around the base perimeter. When a frightened major dared to ask about the line of retreat, Chesty radioed the base's artillery commander and ordered him to fire on any soldier who abandoned his position; then he turned back to the unfortunate officer and said, "That answer your question? There will be no withdrawal."

The "Chesty effect" on the division was palpable. A battalion commander recalled: "Puller gave us pride in some way I can't describe. All of us had heard hundreds of stories about him. He kept building up our morale higher and higher, just by being there."

On Dec. 6, 1950, Chesty was ordered to break out of Chosin Reservoir and open an escape route to Hungnam port. The 80,000-strong PLA was no longer the only enemy confronting the Marines. By now the temperature had dropped to 25 degrees below zero. Fighting every step of the way, Chesty succeeded in not just bringing out the wounded and the dead but also every vehicle and piece of equipment worth saving. Behind him, spread out for miles, lay the broken remnants of seven Chinese divisions.

In his inimitable way, Chesty refused to call the retreat a defeat, let alone a retreat. As the future general waited to board his ship, he ordered reporters to "Remember, whatever you write, this was no retreat. All that happened was we found more Chinese behind us than in front of us. So we about-faced and attacked." The Navy rewarded Chesty for Chosin Reservoir with his fifth Navy Cross.

With a resurgent North Korea under Kim Jong Un once again threatening to destabilize the region, it is worth remembering that weapons are important but leaders like Lewis "Chesty" Puller are priceless.

Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that Puller commanded the 1st Marine Division and referred to him as a general. He was a colonel at the time of the Chosin action but became a brigadier general shortly afterward.

Semper fi.

[Hooter]

  Mornin you two! Hay - RJ, think they would stay and fight like that today or drag up?

  I remember in the academy doing PT - DT and the guy I had to take out was 6'8" and weighed 295. This guy was a mountain and from over by the Detroit area, I believe Genessee County? Anyway, Denhouten our DI told me to take him out or vise versa. Well. 6'1" 210, ya, OK, and I wan't going to wait for "vise versa"...I spiked his right thigh and did a come along to the floor. Put my knee across his neck, rolled him on his stomach and cuffed  him. The first thing I heard was: "what the hell was that"?
   The DI called "foul" for: "inappropriate tactics". I said: WTF, this guy is a small mountain comparred to me and I took him out the best way I could, wasn't that the gig?  He said: you didn't give him a chance. Like I would on the street I said? Yup said the DI, but you can't do things like that! Me: well, where I come from, you do what ever you have to to win and If I woulda let this guy get ahold of me he would have probably broken me in half.
   Next I asked the wrong question after this in the middle of the mat in front of the whole class. I said: "supposed this guy has a knife and comes at me, so I shoot his ass, am I wrong"? Or, do I have to tell him to "stop it, quit being so nasty and put the knife down"?  Where the hell are the fur lined handcuffs?  Good thing we didn't h ave tazers back then!
   I was sent to administration to the commanders office (Knuth) for waht was supposed to be discipline? I was insubordinate!? While there the DI came in and the horse crap started. The commander asked me what I had said: I told him the story from the time I took Johnson out right on down to the knife thing. The commander asked the DI what his problem was? He said my tactics and the question about the perp with a knife in front of the class were both wrong, like I was challenging the DIs authority....and I wasn't.
   The commander asked me IF I would shoot someone like I explained? I said: "Damn right"? This is about me going home not about the perp. The commander excused me and shut the door. All I heard while exiting was a bunch of hollaring. The DI after that never said another word to me about anything. He didn't know I had been on the road for 3 years in a 3 man and under department where you didn't need to be certified, "back in the day". I wasn't one of these recruits that has never been exposed to the wonderful world of working with the public, most of which were some frequent fliers. Oh the guy I took out (Johnson) sat next to me for 18 weeks and we became good friends. I didn't hurt him too bad when I thumped him a little. They never paired us up again either.
   As for the DI, on the last day, we knocked him down, handcuffed him then suitcased him and left him in the middle of the training room.