At 11:04am on November 20, 2009, Dave Gettman said…
Hi Robert,
Please call me Dave. Mr. Gettman was my father. He was a Chief Warrant Officer with the 2nd ACR. We left Bindlach in May 1955 prior to the 2nd Cavalry leaving for Ft. Meade.
I see you got your picture changed. HOORAH!! Robb is hard to get hold of sometimes. He has numerous websites to deal with, so he is a pretty busy guy. I also drop out of sight from time-to-time in order to take care of business.
As far as the F-word in the horse story, I did have the G-rated version posted for awhile, but as the warning on the front page of my site reads:
"This is a Cavalry site. Many of the stories here are told in the words of the men who experienced them. No attempt has been made to 'smooth the edges' or 'soften the story' for the viewing public. In the same aspect, no attempt has been made to cover up the names of the men who fought and died, nor the circumstances that brought about their final acts. It is the task of the Cavalry to take the fight to the enemy and disrupt his ability to function - a task that we perform quite well. Family members seeking information about a loved one may find more than they had hoped for."
I did refrain from posting Patton's "full" speech though. That one was a real scorcher!!!
Robert, your picture of the M-59 brought back some memories, I was radio operator on an M-59 and got to drive it many times. The exhaust manifolds were a great place to heat up your c-rations, hence a story of one of the soldiers in mt company who heated a can of beans on the manifold but neglected to vent the can, he cleaned beans off the interior of the M-59 for almost a week, it was quite a mess and there was one very mad SFC
At 4:09pm on November 19, 2009, Dave Gettman said…
If you had gotten to the Rock a couple years earlier, you would have been working for my dad. He was the battalion motors officer from 1953-55.
At 4:00pm on November 19, 2009, Dave Gettman said…
Hello again Robert. Glad you didn't give up on us. Sometimes these computers and websites can be a little daunting.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Been down sick and just hitting the computer a little here and there.
It "should be" [catch phrase] (fairly) easy to change your profile photo [not always the case, right?].
On your personal page here at Dragoon Base, in the column on the right, is a set of links you can click on titled Inbox, Alerts, Friends, and Settings.
Click on the Settings link.
Right at the top on your settings page will be PHOTO. Click on the Browse button. A window will open up and you can search your computer for the photo you want. When you find the photo you want, click on it and then click where it says "open".
Now you should be back at your settings page. Go to the bottom of the page and click where it says SAVE. Your new picture should be on your profile.
Hi Robert, I just put 3 photos on my page from the Patton Museum in Charaico Summit, Ca. I thought I had more and am talking to my son in law who was on the trip also to see what he has. Have a great Thanksgiving
Hello Robert. Let me introduce my self, I served 2 tours with the 2 A/C My first was 59-61 then 62-64. Now retired Military 21 years an retired from Lockheed Aircraft building the F-16. You can get all that on my profile page. I was browsing our net. I notice you were a youngster like I was, when you entered the service, I was 15 when I joined the Ohio National Guard and 16 when I enlisted For the US Constabulary in Germany. I am one the Texas State Vice Commanders, for (( Veterans of Underage Service )) we are a National Organization, I was wondering if you were a member, if not I would like to invite you to join our organization. One of our other Texas State Vice Commaders lives there in Amarrillo, also you can pull up our web site on the net. Welcome aboard.
At 11:30am on November 4, 2009, Dave Gettman said…
Bye the way the map brought back lots of good memories. I viewed my CD of our vacation last year and only had 3 shots of the Patton Museum so I'm contacting my son in law to see if he has any also
Last year I took a trip with some of my kids and grandson and one of our first stops was Chaicaio Summit and the patton Museum. It was early so I didn't get to go inside but the outside was impresive, lots of vehicles around and a large statue of Patton outside. But what impressed me the momost was a wall leading up to the visitor center with bricks engraved with some of the names of soldiers who fought with Patton and some were 2nd ACR soldiers. If you haven't heard of Pattons Ghost Soldiers do some research and you will find out it was the 2nd ACR. Iv'e got some pictures of that trip and our stop i'll see if I can download some for u.
Good Morning Robert, No I don't have any of those pictures, I guess I didn't think they were important at the time I was there, but if you check out some of the other guys pictures on Dragoon I know you can find them because Iv'e seen some
Hi Bob, I just added some new pictures to my web page in Dragoon, from the phamphlet/ book on our tour over there. Unfortunatly they are rather small and hard to read. If you have an email adress I can email them to you full size. Acouple of page contain !st Bn. stuff. 2nd Batt. patroled the border section around Coburg. You may have heard of this incident and no I wasn't involved but every one in 2nd Batt. knew about it after it happened. Some of our guys were on patrol and there was a section of Check. that was shaped like Florida with the gulf and Atlantic being like the west so the Check. was like a finger sticking down into west territory. Any way the soldiers always would pull up to that section and if they didn't see any Check soldiers patroling the area they would scoot across the east section and back into the west, it was a quote Shortcut. Well this one time they got into east territory and got caught by the Chack soldiers. It took several days to free them and it was the Commanding General of 7th Army that did the negotiating. Needless to say we were ORDERED never to take the shortcut again. A border incident I will always remenber. And who can forget May1 or May Day as the east called it.
I guess time messes with your memory. I had the ships in reverse I looked in the phamplet?book I have called the " Border our Mission " and it was the Buckner I went over on and returned on the Rose. Do you remember the weather we hit in the English Channel and the refusal of the pilot ship to come out and guide us through the channel and how we had to wait out the storm, pretty rough weather for us land lovers. My phamplet/book also has pictures in it from all three battalions, our trip over, and some of the units attached to us, ordinance,medical, engineers, Armed Forces Day 1957 and operation Gyroscope. Lots of good memories even though they were a long way off.
So younalso took basic at Ft. Meade and Gyro'd over on the Gen. Rose. I was with the 2nd Batt. at Bamberg till march 60. Oh the fun of border patrol and trips to Graf.
At 11:38am on September 20, 2009, Dave Gettman said…
Welcome to Dragoon Base, Robert.
We just missed you in Bindlach. Dad (CWO2 Henry Gettman) was the 1st Bn motors officer from 1953-1956.
Tacoma Dave
At 7:35am on September 20, 2009, Jesse Kelley said…
Toujours Pret Robert,
Welcome to the new DragoonBase, the new Base has plenty of newer features, lots of sub-groups,(ie,F-Trp,Amberg,Medics,etc.) and links for 2nd Cav News and History.
Robb Russell has posted some tips for navigating the site (ie,photos,links,ect) in the Forum.
Make sure you stop by and read the latest Tacoma Dave ‘Triva Quiz’, learn some 2nd Cav history and you can even win a kool prize.
If you need any help, you can contact Robb, or any of the 5 admins listed at the top of the page, or just yell out, another member may be able to help you.
And our only wish, ‘Keep it clean’, use our Real names/with Pictures(pix from back in the day, work best for searching for Brothers, but any picture will do).
And that you please tell all your friends about the new DragoonBase.
Thanks again for joining Dragoon Base, and for your service to our great country,
Jesse Kelley
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Please call me Dave. Mr. Gettman was my father. He was a Chief Warrant Officer with the 2nd ACR. We left Bindlach in May 1955 prior to the 2nd Cavalry leaving for Ft. Meade.
I see you got your picture changed. HOORAH!! Robb is hard to get hold of sometimes. He has numerous websites to deal with, so he is a pretty busy guy. I also drop out of sight from time-to-time in order to take care of business.
As far as the F-word in the horse story, I did have the G-rated version posted for awhile, but as the warning on the front page of my site reads:
"This is a Cavalry site. Many of the stories here are told in the words of the men who experienced them. No attempt has been made to 'smooth the edges' or 'soften the story' for the viewing public. In the same aspect, no attempt has been made to cover up the names of the men who fought and died, nor the circumstances that brought about their final acts. It is the task of the Cavalry to take the fight to the enemy and disrupt his ability to function - a task that we perform quite well. Family members seeking information about a loved one may find more than they had hoped for."
I did refrain from posting Patton's "full" speech though. That one was a real scorcher!!!
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Been down sick and just hitting the computer a little here and there.
It "should be" [catch phrase] (fairly) easy to change your profile photo [not always the case, right?].
On your personal page here at Dragoon Base, in the column on the right, is a set of links you can click on titled Inbox, Alerts, Friends, and Settings.
Click on the Settings link.
Right at the top on your settings page will be PHOTO. Click on the Browse button. A window will open up and you can search your computer for the photo you want. When you find the photo you want, click on it and then click where it says "open".
Now you should be back at your settings page. Go to the bottom of the page and click where it says SAVE. Your new picture should be on your profile.
What happened to your profile?
We just missed you in Bindlach. Dad (CWO2 Henry Gettman) was the 1st Bn motors officer from 1953-1956.
Tacoma Dave
Toujours Pret Robert,Welcome to the new DragoonBase, the new Base has plenty of newer features, lots of sub-groups,(ie,F-Trp,Amberg,Medics,etc.) and links for 2nd Cav News and History.
Robb Russell has posted some tips for navigating the site (ie,photos,links,ect) in the Forum.
Make sure you stop by and read the latest Tacoma Dave ‘Triva Quiz’, learn some 2nd Cav history and you can even win a kool prize.
If you need any help, you can contact Robb, or any of the 5 admins listed at the top of the page, or just yell out, another member may be able to help you.
And our only wish, ‘Keep it clean’, use our Real names/with Pictures(pix from back in the day, work best for searching for Brothers, but any picture will do).
And that you please tell all your friends about the new DragoonBase.
Thanks again for joining Dragoon Base, and for your service to our great country,
Jesse Kelley
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