And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, June 19, 2021
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Serbian Partisan, ready for about anything.
Someone said to be on the deck crew of a US carrier during the 50's
Soviet soldiers somewhere in the Afghan mountains.
I was in the CG & we got a new Commandant (Yost), his previous assignment had been something to do with the Navy. He liked the no bead look. On Fathers Day 1986 I shaved my beard off.
When I was USN ('75-'81)you had to submit a special request to grow a beard, I very seriously doubt it was even an option in the 50's especially aboard ship. The mask of your OBA would never seal.
Rounds on American ( with beard?, wondering) are 20mmm
ReplyDeleteBeards were up to captains to allow or not. My MCPO father had one in the mid-1970s.
DeleteThat would be for the guns of the F9F Panther he is standing next to, I bet.
ReplyDeleteI was in the CG & we got a new Commandant (Yost), his previous assignment had been something to do with the Navy. He liked the no bead look. On Fathers Day 1986 I shaved my beard off.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was USN ('75-'81)you had to submit a special request to grow a beard, I very seriously doubt it was even an option in the 50's especially aboard ship. The mask of your OBA would never seal.
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