I thought about filing too, so, I would appreciate an update if you dont mind..? Good luck, I hope everything works out. Did you file on your own, or through a rep?

I had to quit the self medicating 3 years ago, so the general public is pretty safe.. haha I just feel like I should do SOMETHING.

Just wondering what everyone is doing on the 23rd at 8pm est for the official 20th anniversary of the ground war. I was thinking of going to one of the memorial parks near hear (about 40 miles) and put a wreath out and just hang out for a while. I am sure there wont be any fanfare anywhere on tv or ...

doesnt sound right. If they had money due they would have taken it out of your fed tax return a long time ago. great to hear you got a rating, now the fight with appeals process can begin. hang in there, time is on your side!

realizing ones mortality is a bi@#h! Im hating it! hahaha

small world! thanks for the map pic, I havent seen this one before. I guess we ate some of the same sand. I hadnt realized we ended up so close to the kuwait border I thought we were farther west. Interesting.

didnt have to grease your track then..... thats just wrong. what the hell happened to our value for human life? you carried around some feet in boots for a while? thats pretty morbid, but you know it kind of makes sense in all that chaos. I bet your shrink at the VA wanted some discussion on that to...

I heard of one lost in 2ACR from a secondary explosion from a burning t72 that caught sleeping bags that were in the bustle rack on fire and it got out of hand and the crew bailed out. but none that I know of from direct fire.

I initially trained as an M60A3 tanker, and transitioned to M1 later, never heard of that.

sounds right... remember the day before, the truck that was all burnt up and there was a dude that didnt get out of the back, and he was burnt to a crisp and sitting there, like he never moved and he was still waiting for the truck to arrive? the melted power line towers bent in half? wow! getting s...

yeah, I remember sgt mullins by name only. He died drinking home made hooch didnt he? I pcs'ed from germany while 3ACR was deploying, I made it to saudi 2 days before we tore down tent city and moved to the border. sorry to say, but I dont remember you by name, but there is a lot of things that I ca...

I never seen the bus or the ambulance, but its possible, sounds like the right truck though was slumped over into the dash and his arm was hanging out the door.

yeah, sorry about the anger thing, when you said jubail I thought you were fishing for posers or something as jubail is the port in saudi. sounds about right, I think our scouts were the ones that took out the tomatoe truck threat as they were attempting to leave the AO. haha I have some pictures of...

WTF? is that supposed to be humorous or what? No wonder this place is a ghost town! I'm outta here!

on the way in though, I thought I was gonna s#@t in my pants when they opened up on us with an anti aircraft gun, but realized the pucker factor was so high u couldnt have drove a pin up my @ss with a jackhammer!