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Gerald
11-26-11, 09:49 AM
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — Rick Perry arrived on the campus of Texas A&M University in the tumultuous fall of 1968, cut his hair short, regulation military style, and donned a uniform. College students across America were rising up against the Vietnam War, but Mr. Perry, a member of the Corps of Cadets here, would not be among them. “There will be no Columbia, no Berkeley here,” the university president, Earl Rudder, declared that fall. When a small band of antiwar protesters took to the steps of the Memorial Student Center, a building dedicated to “Aggies who gave their lives for our country,” young Mr. Perry was incensed.“I don’t want to use the word ‘long-haired hippie types,’ ” said John Sharp, a Perry classmate and chancellor of the Texas A&M University system, “but a person who did not look like they fit into A&M said some kind of Jane Fonda-type stuff, and I remember Perry got up in his face pretty quick over that. He took exception to it, shouted the guy down.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/us/politics/for-rick-perry-air-force-service-broadened-and-narrowed-life.html?_r=1&hp

Note: November 25, 2011
Gerald
11-26-11, 02:45 PM
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2461/yesperryinairforceimage.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/689/yesperryinairforceimage.jpg/)
vienna
11-26-11, 06:06 PM
Kinda brings to mind that other great Texas Governor/Warrior:


http://wyolife.com/Thanks%20Part%202/mission-accomplished.jpg

"Mission Accomplished!..."
August
11-26-11, 06:32 PM
This future president flew 53 combat missions.

http://www.bobmccaughey.com/post1865/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GeorgeHWBush.jpg
frau kaleun
11-26-11, 06:41 PM
“but a person who did not look like they fit into A&M said some kind of Jane Fonda-type stuff, and I remember Perry got up in his face pretty quick over that. He took exception to it, shouted the guy down.”

"He really told that kid off," Sharp continued. "I remember he yelled at him to cut his hair, and to get a job, and.... well, I think he was gonna yell a third thing but it looked kinda like he forgot what it was."
mookiemookie
11-26-11, 08:39 PM
"He really told that kid off," Sharp continued. "I remember he yelled at him to cut his hair, and to get a job, and.... well, I think he was gonna yell a third thing but it looked kinda like he forgot what it was."

:rotfl2:
Platapus
11-26-11, 10:10 PM
"He really told that kid off," Sharp continued. "I remember he yelled at him to cut his hair, and to get a job, and.... well, I think he was gonna yell a third thing but it looked kinda like he forgot what it was."

you are so bad. :yeah:
Ducimus
11-27-11, 08:13 AM
Glossing over the article, sounds like Perry flew on a C5 or C141 around CONUS for a couple of years.
Gerald
11-27-11, 12:01 PM
Lockheed,,,right!?
Platapus
11-27-11, 12:09 PM
Glossing over the article, sounds like Perry flew on a C5 or C141 around CONUS for a couple of years.

C-130 actually.
Gerald
11-27-11, 12:29 PM
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8415/c1304.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/c1304.jpg/)
August
11-27-11, 12:42 PM
That makes him little more than a glorified bus driver.
TLAM Strike
11-27-11, 12:46 PM
That makes him little more than a glorified bus driver.
I'm guess you flapped your arms really hard to fly in to battle... :O:
nikimcbee
11-27-11, 01:49 PM
That makes him little more than a glorified bus driver.


So you must have been the kid at the back of the bus, the bus-driver always had to watch.:hmmm::haha:
August
11-27-11, 02:02 PM
I'm guess you flapped your arms really hard to fly in to battle... :O:

True but when the shooing starts we get dropped off and they turn around and go back home to Alice. :DL

http://www.jackiegleason.com/photos/ralph-kramden.jpghttp://www.paratrooper.net/images/AirborneSchool.jpg
Gerald
11-27-11, 02:17 PM
Not bad, compared to images, :DL
TLAM Strike
11-27-11, 06:22 PM
True but when the shooing starts we get dropped off and they turn around and go back home to Alice. :DL

You don't have to jump out of the plane when they turn back, they just open the doors to see if anyone is crazy enough too... :O:
Rockstar
11-27-11, 08:15 PM
You don't have to jump out of the plane when they turn back, they just open the doors to see if anyone is crazy enough too... :O:


Thats true, legally the military can't make do anything you don't want to do. It can however make you wish you had done it. :salute:
August
11-27-11, 09:02 PM
Thats true, legally the military can't make do anything you don't want to do. It can however make you wish you had done it. :salute:

Eh, they weed out those that won't go on the green light back in jump school. Being a Paratrooper means more than just jumping out of planes.
TLAM Strike
11-27-11, 09:08 PM
Being a Paratrooper means more than just jumping out of planes.
Yea, you have to be able to open the parachute to be successful...



Otherwise your just a meat bomb...


:O:
Ducimus
11-28-11, 01:16 PM
C-130 actually.

That would actually be respectable if he did something other then ferry crap around CONUS. Ferry Perry? :har:

Personally, I woudln't bring up my service record at all given the current age in which there's alot of enlisted who've done a helluva lot more in their contract then he did. I'm proud of what I did, but when it comes to "show and tell", I just keep my mouth shut, cause i didn't have it as bad as anyone serving in Iraq or Afganistan.