Re: 101st Geronimo Beret
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: K_4c</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kraigWY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Never saw one of those hats.........neat though.
I was in the Recon Plt (Recondos), HHC 2/502nd Inf, 101st Abn Div in Vietnam (when the 101st was still airborne)
We wore black berets with the 101st Arrow Head Patch.
I still have mine, but its getting pretty ragged.
I was a bit younger back then, this was taken in '67. I'm the thrid guy from the left.
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I just got a chill up my back.... I too served withe 2/502 scout plt, represented the same patch and served two tours with em (OIF 1 & 3). Part of our tests to get into scouts was to know our past... Thanks much for your service. I'll follow up with a pic of our sniper section PT shirt (sports the recon sign as well).
I looked as young as you brother.</div></div>
Different unit, similar story. I was in Bco. 3-21 in the first two Stryker Bde. and was for a (very) short time, the ratelo, "Gimlet 6 Romeo". So imagine my surprise when, as I'm laying on the table waiting for the anesthesiologist to put me to sleep for an appendectomy, I find that same person was the last Gimlet 6 Romeo before the unit was pulled out of Vietnam and reactivated --the very last ground combat unit in the country.
I was the very first ratelo after reactivation in APR02, so in a way, that job went from him to me. Small world, huh?