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RAGDOLL MX

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  1. would he need a skin graft? would that help? Jon...get better bud!
  2. i wish i could stop by, but iam still in washington till the 26th, if he is still there on the 27th ill bring him some "Morale" in book form.
  3. CLICK IT OR TICKET! the truck in the dunes goes round and round...round and round....spittin out Haji's on the ground...alllllll the live long dayyyyyyy :clown:
  4. gerald, i hope Jon is doing ok, and iam sorry to hear that he got hurt...gods speed to his rcovery!
  5. yeah i was just asking about that....they are using it alright
  6. well iam up here in FT Lewis washington untill the 26th, iam up here for a class (BNCOC) Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course. its a whole whopping 16 days long. class is from 7am to 5pm everyday. its actually pretty chill and relaxed. but either way its a good time, and i needed this class for the next rank. Eventually ill have my next rank and most likely ill end up going back active duty, only because i have about 8 years left in the military untill i retire...so i figure what the hell...go back active...get stationed up here...do my 8...retire by the time iam 43..or 44...and go duning!
  7. uh huh...you too....bastid...
  8. wa....how tha....but...i...jus..... awe sheet how did i get drug into this?
  9. today (sept 11 2008) i got on a flight for FT Lewis Washington for some well needed military training and schooling. As i walk around post checking out all these young soldiers from 18 on up, most with combat patches, Combat Action Badges, some with prosthetics, some limping. I feel very proud of these kids. at their age they have seen things that will forever change their lives. Iam trying to get a deployment right now over to Afganistan before its all over. I feel that i have been deprived from my last 3 deployments. Its time for me to do my share and keep one of these kids from having to go back. thank you to all my friends who support the soldiers, (you dont have to support the war, just the ones with American flags on their arms) thank you for loving your country. THANK GOD for family, friends, sand dunes and mini mogs..(just kidding about the mog)...but thank all of you for being there for all of us in uniform. SSG Cole George United States Army Reserve
  10. Evan Tanner of Oceanside. SAN DIEGO – A body was found Monday during an air-and-ground search for missing mixed-martial arts fighter Evan Tanner of Oceanside, whose empty campsite was located Sunday in a rugged Imperial County area. The body was spotted Monday in the Palo Verde mountain area, about 60 miles northeast of Brawley, by a helicopter pilot from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma who was participating in the search, said Imperial County Sheriff's Lt. George Moreno. An investigator from the county coroner's office was being flown in to retrieve the body. “About noon we located a body; as to whether or not it is him (Tanner) hasn't been confirmed,” Moreno said. A search for Tanner, 37, began Friday after friends who knew he had gone camping alone in Imperial County were concerned about his welfare. “He had not reported back or checked back with his friends, and they were worried about him,” Moreno said. Tanner, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight and a United States Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion, had driven to the area on an offroad motorcycle and was going camping, Moreno said. His friends, who had been sending him text messages, said he left Oceanside on Wednesday. The body was found several miles from a campsite that was located Sunday in the Clapp Springs area of the Palo Verde mountains, where authorities found Tanner's motorcycle and some of his equipment, Moreno said. Temperatures in the area were very high during the weekend, topping out at 114 on Sunday, Moreno said. On Saturday, Imperial County sheriff's Sgt. Clint Erro said the extensive group looking for Tanner included the sheriff's search-and-rescue team, the Marines, the Highway Patrol and the U.S. Border Patrol.
  11. actually i posted it because i was watching mythbusters, and they did a deal on there about the same thing...so i got to looking around and finally found the story. but by the time i put up the story my wife was hounding me about the computer..or something...either way it was noise in one ear and the best thing to do was run to the garage where she dosent venture, so i just copy and pasted.....thats my story and iam sticking to it....
  12. Man Survived 22,000-Foot Fall Out of Bomber Albuquerque Journal | 2/3/04 | Paul Logan Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:54:26 PM by woofie Alan Magee of Angel Fire ranked among the luckiest of those who served in the Army-Air Force during World War II. A B-17 ball turret gunner, Magee had no choice but to jump out of a disabled, spinning-out-of-control bomber from about 22,000 feet. A drop of more than four miles. Without a parachute. And Magee miraculously lived. His incredible story was featured in a 1981 Smithsonian Magazine on the 10 most amazing survivals during World War II. Magee seldom spoke of that death-defying drop. He died nearly 61 years later on Dec. 20 of complications from a stroke and kidney failure in San Angelo, Texas, said a niece, Jill Greene of Albuquerque. Magee was 84. "He didn't like to talk about it, and he wouldn't dwell on it," Greene said. "One of the guys who saw him come through the roof of the railroad station tracked Alan down (in 1978). Before that, Alan wasn't interested in discussing this." However, Greene recalled him saying, "God was certainly looking out (for me.)" Alan E. Magee, who retired to northern New Mexico in 1979, was born in Plainfield, N.J. The youngest of six children, he enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Greene described her uncle as "just a regular guy." He was 5-foot-7, barely small enough to fit in the B-17's ball turret— a cramped, donut-shaped plastic glass and metal turret on the bomber's underside. It was such a tight fit— a gunner's knees were practically against his chest— that Magee had to leave his chute on the deck of the four-engine Flying Fortress. The ball turret offered a panoramic view and also a precarious target for German fighter planes. B-17 gunners had a high casualty rate, said Don Jenkins of Albuquerque, Magee's friend of 38 years and a World War II Navy veteran. "He was very easy to get along with— very cheerful, very talkative and a very, very sweet guy," Jenkins said. But, he said, Magee only spoke to him three times about the events on Jan. 3, 1943. Sgt. Magee, 24, was one of the oldest of the 10-man crew who flew out of Molesworth, England, on a bomber nicknamed "Snap! Crackle! Pop!" The pilot was only 19. His seventh mission was a daylight bombing run on St. Nazaire, France, called "Flack City" because of the anti-aircraft guns defending the German submarine port. The 360th Bomb Squadron of the 303rd Bomb Group sent 85 B-17s with a fighter escort. Over the target area, flack damaged Magee's plane, and then German fighters shot off a section of the right wing. Magee, who was wounded, scrambled back into the cabin, but his parachute was ruined. "He saw a gap in the spinning plane and jumped out," said Jenkins, who explained that in the confusion Magee forgot he wasn't wearing a chute. "He remembered tumbling," Jenkins said. But at that altitude, Magee quickly lost consciousness. Eyewitnesses saw Magee crash through the Nazaire train station's glass skylight, breaking his fall. When he regained consciousness, Magee said to his captors: "Thank God I'm alive." Magee's injuries included 28 shrapnel wounds. A lung and kidney were hit. His nose and an eye were ripped open. His broken bones included his right leg and ankle. A right arm was nearly severed. Jenkins said the Germans decided that anyone who could miraculously survive deserved "real special attention." With the German doctors' help, Magee fully recovered. Jenkins said Magee later hiked and backpacked and "led a pretty good life." Two of his crewmen also survived. In all, 75 airmen died, seven U.S. planes were destroyed and 47 were damaged that day, he said. Magee was a prisoner of war until May 1945. He received the Air Medal for meritorious conduct and the Purple Heart. "Alan was never the type to look in the past," Greene said. "He always was looking forward, living for the moment." Despite the harrowing experience, Magee loved to fly. He qualified for a private pilot's license. His career included the air freight business and airline reservations. On Jan. 3, 1993, Magee and the other two crewmen were guests of the St. Nazaire townspeople. They hosted a banquet and erected a six-foot-tall memorial to salute the Snap! Crackle! Pop! crew. "He was very excited and honored," Jenkins said. Magee is survived by his wife, Helen; a sister, Adele; six nieces and three nephews. A celebration of his life will be held this spring.
  13. i like how they blend it all together...good stuff!
  14. RIP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8dP4CoFaw...feature=related what a great movie. i remember watching that as a kid...still one of my favorites!
  15. there are some pretty cool cars in here...so far my fav is the bronco concept http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hmYog1_aMM...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b_GLYg0oQ&feature=iv
  16. L.A. rednecks russian rednecks the rip saw 6x6 Dually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9gB5g86I8...feature=related wtf is this?
  17. congrats!!!...names?????
  18. i have a friend of mine, who lives here in vegas, and had his rhino registered...IN STOCK FORM!!! all he added was turn signals, and a horn. Ill have to ask him how he got it registered?
  19. watch out steve...those tend to fall out of the sky too...remember gravity is a law....not an option!
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