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Online rangerrebew

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23 things veterans carry with them for life
« on: November 26, 2023, 01:25:02 pm »
23 things veterans carry with them for life
By Sarah Sicard
 Nov 25, 02:00 PM
 
In the back of every veteran’s closet, you’re likely to find some old uniforms, dusty caps, a stack of medical, training, and discharge records... maybe a few ribbons or medals. But these are just a few of the typical things that separated or retired service members keep with them. Other things, they’re stuck with forever.

So we compiled a list of the more non-traditional things that veterans carry for life.

1. An incessant need to roll socks
2. Bad knees
3. The misguided idea that ibuprofen and fresh socks will cure any ailment
4. Tinnitis. ZNNNNNNNNNG.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023/11/25/23-things-veterans-carry-with-them-for-life/
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: 23 things veterans carry with them for life
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2023, 03:40:45 pm »
Ha! Tinnitis!
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Re: 23 things veterans carry with them for life
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2023, 04:27:28 pm »
'Never washed coffee cup' and 'worn out woobie'...

Not a vet, but those two I seem to have inherited from my mentors, who were.
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Re: 23 things veterans carry with them for life
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2023, 05:30:30 pm »
2 and 4 faintly ring bells.
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Re: 23 things veterans carry with them for life
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2023, 09:08:18 pm »
My blue ID card, dog tags around my neck, tinnitus and the knowledge that which that was asked of me was a job well done .

I still have my 80s era field jackets around...comfortable and great gear.


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