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Birthday:
February 19
What unit(s) did you serve in with the 2d Cavalry?
HHT
Where were you stationed?
Fort Lewis, WA & Fort Polk, LA
What MOS or job description did you have?
75Z40 Personnel Sergeant
What was your rank/title?
SFC, 2d ACR, SI NCOIC
What years were you assigned to the 2nd Cavalry?
A total of 8 yrs.
Tell us a little about you now.
Prior to retiring, I was on orders for 8th PERSCOM Seoul Korea. Unfortunately, I was forced to retire from military service due to medical issues that have since placed me on the total disabled rankings of the VA system. However, I am married and have a teenage daughter who will soon graduate from high school and pursue a career as a teacher for special needs children. With God’s blessing, I hope to be around to see my daughter graduate and start a life of her own.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICK
Wishing you many more, from all of us at DragoonBase!!!
Welcome home Troop.
The DragoonBase here at Ning.com, has
plenty of updated features
(similar to MySpace), lots of sub-groups,
(Officers Club,F-Trp,Amberg,Medics,etc),
and links for “2nd Cavalry Assn.”
News and History Centers.
Robb Russell has posted some tips for
navigating the site(ie,photos,links,ect)
in the Forum.
Please feel free to stop by and read the
latest “Tacoma Dave's ‘Triva Quiz’”,
you can learn some 2nd Cav history,
and you could even, win a kool prize.
If you need any help, you may contact
Robb Russell, 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 is to,
‘Keep it clean’.
Use your real name and picture,
(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, where to find the DragoonBase.
Thanks again for joining Dragoon Base,
and for your Service and Dedication,
to Our Great Country.
Jesse Kelley
F Troop 2/2ACR
72-75
I've tossed out the idea for an NCO Club, but nobody has jumped on it yet. You're more than welcome to jump on it. If you start the club, you set the rules. You can have it open to anyone, or restrict it to invitation only, inviting only NCO's.
Let me know if you need some help.
"Tacoma Dave"
Washington State National Guard 1930-38.
U.S. Army 1942-71
WW II 1944-47 (Occupation duty in Germany/Austria also); Korea 1950-51, Germany 1953-56; Korea 1960-62; Germany 1963-65; Vietnam 1966-67; Panama 1968; Thailand 1969-70. That was just the overseas assignments!
Robb Russell started this site so a few of the old Dragoon Base members kicked in and we started all over again. Blossomed pretty well in the last year!
On battling the VA, took me about 27 years to get my 100%. Social Security Disability is even tougher. Still can't get it.
Sorry I missed you guys when you were out here at Ft. Lewis. Was Tom Molino Regimental Commander then? He and Pete Schoomaker were my old C Troop CO's. Tom just stepped down recently after serving several years as President of the 2d Cavalry Association. Pete went on to command Delta Force, and later President Bush brought him out of retirement to be Chief of Staff of the Army.
The regiment was back here at Ft. Lewis again briefly from 2005-06, and I got to visit the museum a few times.
Here's my dad Hank, all five foot zero inches of him, taken at the Camp Perry National Rifle Matches in 1931 (he took 1st in 1935 NG division), and again in about 1967.
When the 2d Infantry lost all it's records in Pyongyang, North Korea, winter 1950, because the Chinese ran them out most hastily, the military used dad's copies to reconstruct his files. Those files have been a window to a life-long military career he never brought home with him, and helped me get to know a man I rarely saw when growing up.
Sounds like your career ended like my dad's. They booted him after 37 years on a medical discharge, then he had to fight the VA for his 100%.