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[Diamondback]

The wife and I discussed my Army nickname and why not tell you the whole story. The A-Team first aired in January of 1983, and by the Fall of that year it was a very popular show.

During Operation Urgent Fury, I was a 23 year old 1LT flying co-pilot with a CW4 pilot and 'Nam vet. We did a Hydra Rocket run at Zero Dark 30 at the Pearls Airfield on the NE side of Grenada to take out some Soviet Era AA and APC's. The place was filled with Cubans and Angolan workers, and after the AA was knocked out, we were taking small arms fire from the ground. I kept hearing this sickening clang and bang on the aircraft and I commented about it to the pilot. He just calmly said we're taking hits.

All of a sudden my right hand started feeling warm, and I pulled my glove off and I was bleeding pretty heavily. I had taken a fragmented suspected 7.62x39 round to the hand where the thumb meets the hand. I was pissed and pulled my Smith & Wesson revolver and started popping off rounds at anything I saw moving. I was really amped on adrenaline and after using up my six rounds we headed off to the USS Independence aircraft carrier since we were low on go juice. Landed there and I was stitched up by a Navy Corpsman. As I calmed down, I started getting nauseated and nearly puked. I was off the adrenaline high and my body and mind was realizing that I went off kind of crazy-like after getting shot. This was my first time in combat.

My CW4 told the story to the rest of the Regiment and I was given the nickname of "Murdock". Now you know the rest of the story. Oh yes, that fragmented round in the thumb got me my one and only Purple Heart.

Dude, for some reason now I hear the A-Team theme in the back of my head when I read your posts. Loved that show as a kid...

[Firefly]

Lol that’s classic.

Please tell me it was a Model 10 snubbie. I like to think you ended up at least plugging one in the ass.

“AY YAI YAI ME DUELE EL CULOOO!”

Thanks for sharing

[Bulletdog]

Goddamn I hate California. I’m really rooting for the wildfires to just burn that entire ****ing stay to the ground with everyone in it.

Yeah. Thanks. You'd be losing about 5.8 million people who vote the same way you do. More than any other state.

How about we decry the bad guys and not wish death and disaster on me and my loved ones? How about that?

[OH58D]

Lol that’s classic.

Please tell me it was a Model 10 snubbie. I like to think you ended up at least plugging one in the ass.

“AY YAI YAI ME DUELE EL CULOOO!”

Thanks for sharing

Negative, sir. In 1983 TF158/160th SOAR was in a building phase. I had just joined that unit in June. When the Invasion of Grenada went down, the unit only had Smith & Wesson Model 19s for pilot sidearms. I was on base at Campbell when we were ordered to report in. Many of the pilots were off duty and off base - nowhere to be found. I was offered a Model 19 but I told the CO I had my own Smith & Wesson Model 66, and could I bring it, with my 125 grain hollow points, I was given permission. We grabbed our gear, fueled up and I flew my MH-6 to the Asheville, NC airport - topped off the tank and then flew on to Pope AAF at Fort Bragg. Some of the aircraft were ferried to Fort Bragg with one pilot, and when the rest of our unit was rounded up, the Army paid for rental cars for them to make the trip.

It was all a giant cluster. Myself and my CW4 arrived and they started unloading fuel and preparing our bird for transport. They herded us into a hanger and we got the briefing by CIA and Pentagon bigshots, and then handed out Grenada tourist maps to us - not enough aviation sectionals for everyone. Prior to leaving for our base at the civilian airport on Barbados, a Black Air Force Loadmaster told me there was no heat in the back - it was broken. Did I have a cold weather jacket? I advised I had everything on me. He told me to wait, and about 15 minutes later came back with an Air Force lined Cold Weather Jacket. He wrote my initials in the collar - I still have that jacket.

[1168]

I've only seen the movie, but I have a theory...

Dude you are some kind of scholar. I feel like you’ve done a couple winters in AFG.

[ABNAK]

OH58D,

lol

I was in Infantry OSUT at Benning from Sep-Dec 1983, so during the Beirut barracks bombing and Grenada two days later. When we were called to attention our cry was "A...5...1...Alpha...Peace by force, the A-Team!"

[OH58D]

Dude you are some kind of scholar. I feel like you’ve done a couple winters in AFG.

Never made it there, but I spent 18 lovely months based at Palmerola, Honduras flying in and out of Nicaragua. My fondest memory are all the exotic tropical birds you'd see in that climate and latitude.

OH58D,

lol

I was in Infantry OSUT at Benning from Sep-Dec 1983, so during the Beirut barracks bombing and Grenada two days later. When we were called to attention our cry was "A...5...1...Alpha...Peace by force, the A-Team!"

Urgent Fury was supposed to be top secret mission, but CBS news blew the cover on it when they broadcasted the USS Independence Carrier group was en-route. The Cubans and their proletariat Angolan slave laborers were waiting for us.

[Vic79]

Yeah. Thanks. You'd be losing about 5.8 million people who vote the same way you do. More than any other state.

How about we decry the bad guys and not wish death and disaster on me and my loved ones? How about that?

I’m sorry, not sorry you let your state become a shit hole. Your 5.8 million votes don’t mean crap. Your state is as blue as the sky and that’s never changing. Your major cities are all cesspools. You live In an enemy state, so sucks to be you. You get no sympathy for me. Your state and most of the people in it are a cancer that are now spreading to Texas Idaho and Montana. Eventually you will destroy those states as well. The sooner Kalifornia burns to the ground or falls into the ocean the better for the rest of America.

[BoringGuy45]

I’m sorry, not sorry you let your state become a shit hole. Your 5.8 million votes don’t mean crap. Your state is as blue as the sky and that’s never changing. Your major cities are all cesspools. You live In an enemy state, so sucks to be you. You get no sympathy for me. Your state and most of the people in it are a cancer that are now spreading to Texas Idaho and Montana. Eventually you will destroy those states as well. The sooner Kalifornia burns to the ground or falls into the ocean the better for the rest of America.

Gee, I wonder why the right is so divided? Maybe it's because we look at the people behind enemy lines and tell them that we don't give a flying f**k about their problems? California isn't going to burn up or fall into the ocean, so maybe we should be figuring out how to support the good guys there rather than wishing they die as collateral damage.

[mrbieler]

The sooner Kalifornia burns to the ground or falls into the ocean the better for the rest of America.

This sounds like the part of the conversation where I tell you to go **** your self.