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Anyone help me out with drill and ceremonies.

Tangmo said:
Correct.

From 1966-70. Third Infantry Regiment The Old Guard, Ft. Myer Va next to Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon. TOG is the Army and definitely the major military ceremonial unit for the National Capital Region, Military District of Washington. Given it is an active infantry regiment there are always FTE regularly at Ft. A.P. Hill in central Virginia where gunts do individual qualifications and unit maneuvers.

At the time the Army four-year promotion schedule of almost all commissioned officers was one year as 2Lt, one year as 1LT, two years as Captain. The schedule applied to graduates of Rotc and the USMA to include a number of private or state supported military colleges or academies, such as The Citadel, Texas A&M, Norwich, VMI etc. We used to joke that the only way to avoid promotion was to go awol. OCS grads who did not have a four-year degree were subject to the promotion schedule but not necessarily.

I have made clear in my many reply posts among the several thousand posts initiated by Fledermaus denying my voluntary honorable active duty military service that my time in TOG was most successful. I have made clear I was propelled by three lifer career NCO who carried me through the whole of it. While I did what I did, I did it with the three career NCO clearing the way for me and seeing me through it -- the whole of it. I am indebted to them for their confidence and loyalty at the time -- and I am forever appreciative to each of 'em.

At a reunion of the officially sponsored Old Guard Association of former members someone once said in a salient statement: "The Old Guard is the best job you'll ever have." Absolutely. It's just that to do it right you have to have a lot of Hollywood in you and about you. :cool: You're a grunt in the mud one week and marching down Pennsylvania Avenue the next week.


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The Tomb Guard shown at the conclusion is the then Spec 4 Richard Azzaro who is now retired after getting a B.S. in physics, a law degree and putting in a career at the Pentagon in nuclear arms law. He's interviewed briefly in a couple of videos in his Pentagon office. Mr. Azzaro was a Tomb Guard star infantry soldier.

All the videos are accurate in that they show officers out front and NCO at the back. However, officers appear before the ceremony and disappear after each of 'em. It's the NCO that make The Old Guard what it is. NCO teach 'em, train 'em, drill 'em, discipline the troops and share every moment with 'em. The Old Guard I see today is The Old Guard I was in many moons ago, during conscription. So while each company of TOG is smaller in number by one platoon due to the All Volunteer Force, TOG is of the identical quality and caliber as it was then. Some things never change.
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Cool story.

Ever get up the nerve to share with TOG your hatred for The Old Guard NCOs that lost all the wars since 1945 and have fat paychecks, fat pensions and are living off the public teat?
 
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Fledermaus said:
Cool story.

Ever get up the nerve to share with TOG your hatred for The Old Guard NCOs that lost all the wars since 1945 and have fat paychecks, fat pensions and are living off the public teat?
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Each poster is within the rules of DP to choose to respond or not to respond to another poster. You and the rightwing arbitrarily denied my honorable active duty military service from my first passing mention of it approximate to Thanksgiving last year.

Given the post is a loaded question that derives from a personal mania this is the only reply you will get from here.

You have stated a bent mania in thousands of repeated and rote posts to a dozen threads over the past 11 months. In contrast, rational and sane people state their point then they move on to bigger and better things.

So it's a good thingy for all of us that posting is for free. Right?

Carry on.
 
Tangmo said:
Each poster is within the rules of DP to choose to respond or not to respond to another poster. You and the rightwing arbitrarily denied my honorable active duty military service from my first passing mention of it approximate to Thanksgiving last year.

Given the post is a loaded question that derives from a personal mania this is the only reply you will get from here.

You have stated a bent mania in thousands of repeated and rote posts to a dozen threads over the past 11 months. In contrast, rational and sane people state their point then they move on to bigger and better things.

So it's a good thingy for all of us that posting is for free. Right?

Carry on.
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So, you haven't spoken to TOG of your pathological hatred for good and honorable service members?

SURPRISE, SURPRISE....
 
Fledermaus said:
So, you haven't spoken to TOG of your pathological hatred for good and honorable service members?

SURPRISE, SURPRISE....
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You haven't posted anything new, different or insightful in your several thousand posts to me directly.

This is the most of a reply you will get from here...until or unless you post something new and different than your thousands of repeat and rote posts over the past 11 months.

The DP Hundred Months War.

So it's a good thingy posting is for free. Right?

Carry on.
 
Tangmo said:
You haven't posted anything new, different or insightful in your several thousand posts to me directly.

This is the most of a reply you will get from here...until or unless you post something new and different than your thousands of repeat and rote posts over the past 11 months.

The DP Hundred Months War.

So it's a good thingy posting is for free. Right?

Carry on.
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You haven't retracted your libel?

Your imaginary "war" would be over in a minute if only you retracted your lies.
 
Fledermaus said:
You haven't retracted your libel?

Your imaginary "war" would be over in a minute if only you retracted your lies.
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Same same. You have used the word 'retract' several hundred times in several thousand posts to a dozen threads over 11 months. Some form of the word 'lie' is in a couple of thousand of your several thousand posts to me directly. A little bit obsessed aren't we over there eh.

Good thingy posting is for free. Right?

The Hundred Months DP War.

Carry on.

As always.
 
Tangmo said:
Same same. You have used the word 'retract' several hundred times in several thousand posts to a dozen threads over 11 months. Some form of the word 'lie' is in a couple of thousand of your several thousand posts to me directly. A little bit obsessed aren't we over there eh.

Good thingy posting is for free. Right?

The Hundred Months DP War.

Carry on.

As always.
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No retraction, but crying about a "war".

Got it.
 
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