100 awesome sports quotes

Aktungbby · 02-24-14, 01:37 PM

Three times Indeed! Williams also flew 39 combat missions over Korea and was nearly shot down by ground fire; winning 3 Air Medals. A true flying Leatherneck! Future Astronaut John Glenn was the operations officer of the same Squadron. https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/remembering-ted-williams-marine-fighter-pilot His call up in the Korean War was considerably more active than his WWII training career where his keen eyesight had made him the highest scoring gunner. "Over the years Theodore S. Williams accumulated a number of nicknames: The Kid, The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Baseball among others, but his squadron mates in Marine Fighter Squadron 311 gave him a new one. They called him Bush (as in "bush league")-an appellation meant to "get his goat," according to his operations officer, frequent wingman and future astronaut and U.S. senator, Major John H. Glenn Jr. Although it may have rankled him at first, Williams eventually accepted his new moniker.
Williams joined the "Willing Lovers" (a nom de guerre taken from the squadron's "WU tail letters) of VMF-311 at Pohang on Korea's eastern coast in early 1953. Captain Williams flew 39 combat missions, his plane was hit by enemy gunfire on at least three occasions, and he was awarded three Air Medals before being sent home with a severe ear infection and recurring viruses in June. Williams was formally discharged from active duty on 28 July 1953, the day after a cease-fire in Korea went into effect."

Sailor Steve · 02-24-14, 01:51 PM

And this has exactly what to do with the subject at hand?

AVGWarhawk · 02-24-14, 02:57 PM

RickC Sniper · 02-24-14, 09:23 PM

Brilliant!

Jimbuna · 02-25-14, 12:30 PM

The true secret to success

02-24-14, 01:37 PM	#1
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,016 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Three times Indeed! Williams also flew 39 combat missions over Korea and was nearly shot down by ground fire; winning 3 Air Medals. A true flying Leatherneck! Future Astronaut John Glenn was the operations officer of the same Squadron. https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/remembering-ted-williams-marine-fighter-pilot His call up in the Korean War was considerably more active than his WWII training career where his keen eyesight had made him the highest scoring gunner. "Over the years Theodore S. Williams accumulated a number of nicknames: The Kid, The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Baseball among others, but his squadron mates in Marine Fighter Squadron 311 gave him a new one. They called him Bush (as in "bush league")-an appellation meant to "get his goat," according to his operations officer, frequent wingman and future astronaut and U.S. senator, Major John H. Glenn Jr. Although it may have rankled him at first, Williams eventually accepted his new moniker. Williams joined the "Willing Lovers" (a nom de guerre taken from the squadron's "WU tail letters) of VMF-311 at Pohang on Korea's eastern coast in early 1953. Captain Williams flew 39 combat missions, his plane was hit by enemy gunfire on at least three occasions, and he was awarded three Air Medals before being sent home with a severe ear infection and recurring viruses in June. Williams was formally discharged from active duty on 28 July 1953, the day after a cease-fire in Korea went into effect." __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

02-24-14, 01:51 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	And this has exactly what to do with the subject at hand? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-24-14, 02:57 PM	#3
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	__________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-25-14, 12:30 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The true secret to success __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-24-14, 09:23 PM	#4
RickC Sniper Undetectable Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,221 Downloads: 132 Uploads: 0	Brilliant!