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Posted: 7/29/2011 2:47:30 PM EST

[#1]

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<––––––––-stationed at knox

this is nothing new, good riddance to seeing recruits in the main post area acting like they're hot shit.

Really? We were scared shitless outside the BCT area.

D/1-46 IN 1/93-3/93

D 1/46 Dragons 2/98- 4/98

Posted: 7/29/2011 2:48:00 PM EST

[#2]

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I went through there in 87 as a 45N then again in 90 as a quicky recall school as a 45E.

I did AIT as a 45E in April 98 with A 1/81 AR. Went back around February 2000 to get reclassed as a 63A.

Posted: 7/29/2011 2:48:52 PM EST

[#3]

Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

Posted: 7/29/2011 2:50:02 PM EST

[#4]

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So they gonna fold Ft. Knox up? I mean what is left there other than sending folks through basic?

My dad went through there in basic in 69' coldest damn winter he ever spent

No Shit! I was a winter cycle back in '81-'82 and walking guard around Holder complex in the snow sucked on more levels than I can explain.

BTW, Tanks do INDEED slide on ice....

This is true!

I had my first "oh shit" moment as a young PFC driver who hit a patch of ice in our motor pool trying to park. Wheeeeeee!

I slid a bradley sideways down a muddy hill..i think I pooped a little. I went through knox in winter...it effin sucked...by the time I graduated it was hot as balls

Posted: 7/29/2011 2:56:02 PM EST

[#5]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

gimme a second to dig some up

Posted: 7/29/2011 2:56:53 PM EST

[#6]

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NTC GLakes just graduated the last class of Hospital Corpsmen this week.

All the medics from the various services going to Sam Houston for medical training now.

I guess it makes some kind of sense from a money standpoint.

Don't all the K9 handlers train at Lackland?

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:13:21 PM EST

[#7]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

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gimme a second to dig some up

See, this right here is a good man, folks.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:20:17 PM EST

[#8]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

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gimme a second to dig some up

See, this right here is a good man, folks.

This sure looks like the one I stayed in during reception.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:20:53 PM EST

[#9]

All three of these were at NTC in 2001.
On that last pic, we blew up something in the 88s engine. Maybe an oil cooler line or some other shit that I can't remember. You can see the oil dripping down both sides under the tow bar.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:22:33 PM EST

[#10]

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:26:48 PM EST

[#11]

Who can forget those miserable fucking hills? You felt like the fucking yodeler in "The price is right"

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:28:53 PM EST

[#12]

Also in Reception Battalion.

I stayed in the row of barracks just behind those in the background.

Fort Knox was "Fort Arnold" in the movie.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:30:35 PM EST

[#13]

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Who can forget those miserable fucking hills? You felt like the fucking yodeler in "The price is right"

I never got straight which one was which, but I remember one that I felt like I was scrapeing my nose on
the pavement....We got up that one and, we could hear the guys that just rounded the corner
going..."OH MOTHER *FUCKER*!" when the next hill was steeper still.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:39:13 PM EST

[#14]

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Former D 1/81 here.

Any other Marine tankers?

You guys' barracks was right next door to us when I went through Basic.
You fuckers were allowed to smoke and shit. Bastards.

I bet you Marines learned a lot more about the M1 than we did.

I'm so old that the Marine tankers in D/1-81 were still training on M60’s; they had not transitioned to the M1's yet.

A PSG I had started in M60s and he always spoke highly of them. I'd have liked to climb around in one but I never got the chance.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:43:25 PM EST

[#15]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

gimme a second to dig some up

All I have are actual pictures, no digital ones.
I should probably scan some of my old pics.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:45:29 PM EST

[#16]

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Who can forget those miserable fucking hills? You felt like the fucking yodeler in "The price is right"

The second to last one (?) or maybe it was the last one I thought I was going to die.

You know it's a steep hill when there are signs warning you that vehicles might not make it up.

Posted: 7/29/2011 3:49:11 PM EST

[#17]

The weekend I graduated my unit had drill...at Ft Knox. I was excused though.

My PSG and Readiness NCO visted me in basic and mentioned something about deploying to Bosnia, Sinai, or some place called Kosovo, yadda, yadda, yadda in 2004. "That's like 4 years away", I said.
And 4 years later we're in Kosovo.

Sadly 2004 was the last year my unit did any tank training as OH got rid of most of the tank units, and we became a RSTA unit. No place for tankers,

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:11:14 PM EST

[#18]

I graduated a 19E from Ft. Know back in '86. Sorry to see the shutting it down.
Ironically I was stationed and Ft. Benning (2/69th armor, Kelly hill) right after that. I have heard Benning has changed but I had no idea how much.
BTW, do they still have the airborne school, ANCOC/BNCOC, School of the Americas etc. still there?

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:16:34 PM EST

[#19]

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http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

When we first got assigned there my wife at the time and I was driving around the range roads checking out the area just for the hell of it. She literally freaked out on the last hill before the range road that takes you out to Baum and St. Vith. She didn't think the car could make it

. I dont know which hill is which but they were all pretty brutal.

Got some pretty good pics of HETT crash in 02 or 03 on some of the hills there. I will try to dig them up. 4 or 5 HETTs were wrecked IIRC. One of our M1s was coded out of the system as well.

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:40:04 PM EST

[#20]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

I took this pic a couple days ago when I was driving by the 19K OSUT barracks at Benning.

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:44:54 PM EST

[#21]

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I guess the last troop of 19Ds already graduated. Had to get the scouts down to Benning so they could keep the CDATs from getting lost.

B Trp 5/15 CAV, Graduated OSUT 19 Mar 2009

E Troop 5/15 CAV August 21 '96

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:53:59 PM EST

[#22]

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Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

I took this pic a couple days ago when I was driving by the 19K OSUT barracks at Benning.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0eCsbZlL3nk/TjNfdtYB0RI/AAAAAAAAAA8/fNiNRNv99PE/s800/benningparkingsign.jpg

Those are OSUT barracks? holy fuck do they get their own rooms?

Can't have these poor guys sharing a shit hole.

Posted: 7/29/2011 4:58:36 PM EST

[#23]

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Quoted:
Funny. This screams 'PIC THREAD'

And yet, no pics.

...

I took this pic a couple days ago when I was driving by the 19K OSUT barracks at Benning.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0eCsbZlL3nk/TjNfdtYB0RI/AAAAAAAAAA8/fNiNRNv99PE/s800/benningparkingsign.jpg

Those are OSUT barracks? holy fuck do they get their own rooms?

Can't have these poor guys sharing a shit hole.

Still open bay, that's just the new design.

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:12:09 PM EST

[#24]

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http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

When we first got assigned there my wife at the time and I was driving around the range roads checking out the area just for the hell of it. She literally freaked out on the last hill before the range road that takes you out to Baum and St. Vith. She didn't think the car could make it

. I dont know which hill is which but they were all pretty brutal.

Got some pretty good pics of HETT crash in 02 or 03 on some of the hills there. I will try to dig them up. 4 or 5 HETTs were wrecked IIRC. One of our M1s was coded out of the system as well.

One thing I will tell you is that those hills were the most god damn motivating things in the world
to us at the time. It was inspiring to see guys that were literally not with the program, suddenly
become "with" the program up those hills. It wasn't just the ones that got their feelings hurt.
It was the ones who were just.....*NOT* with the program stepping up and taking a guy's ruck
that might have been falling back. 2nd platoon was known as the road marching platoon, and we
took it seriously. I remember at one point we were frothing at the mouth to pass up the
lead platoon and pace the company home. Some of our guys were carrying THEIR packs
from their stragglers. We were literally screaming at our DS to let us pass them. He just
held up his index finger and waggled it back and forth.

The whole 27 of us felt like we were the complete masters of everything that day.

Of course, the reason we were carrying people's packs was that we left one of our
stragglers fall back in our eagerness to smoke everyone the road march before, and
our DS let us pass the lead platoon and stretch out.

We got back early and got to be in the front leaning rest with our rucks on until our
straggler made it back. The lesson stuck. We weren't going to let another guy fall behind
EVER again.

Damn...Good times.

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:31:55 PM EST

[#25]

God I remeber them. I was leading the rear. I had never been outside La. til then.

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:34:23 PM EST

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
<––––––––-stationed at knox

this is nothing new, good riddance to seeing recruits in the main post area acting like they're hot shit.

Really? We were scared shitless outside the BCT area.

D/1-46 IN 1/93-3/93

We didn't leave the training area....

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:36:23 PM EST

[#27]

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Quoted:
<––––––––-stationed at knox

this is nothing new, good riddance to seeing recruits in the main post area acting like they're hot shit.

Really? We were scared shitless outside the BCT area.

D/1-46 IN 1/93-3/93

Funny. You were there almost the exact same time I was at MCRD PISC. I actually started in December 1992, but who's counting?

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:37:16 PM EST

[#28]

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I went through there in 87 as a 45N then again in 90 as a quicky recall school as a 45E.

Wow!Me too!Turret mechanic for the old crusty M60A3! Too funny. You have any pics? I was there in 87 as well. June to Late August!

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:42:53 PM EST

[#29]

I knew this was coming, but its sort of a drag. I am hoping to go through the Armor Officer Basic Course in a few months and Ft Knox would have been a lot closer to home than Benning.

I wonder what the purpose behind the move is?

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:48:02 PM EST

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
<––––––––-stationed at knox

this is nothing new, good riddance to seeing recruits in the main post area acting like they're hot shit.

Really? We were scared shitless outside the BCT area.

D/1-46 IN 1/93-3/93

Funny. You were there almost the exact same time I was at MCRD PISC. I actually started in December 1992, but who's counting?

MEPS 8/92, 1/21/93 I hit the ground at Knox.

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:49:06 PM EST

[#31]

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I knew this was coming, but its sort of a drag. I am hoping to go through the Armor Officer Basic Course in a few months and Ft Knox would have been a lot closer to home than Benning.

I wonder what the purpose behind the move is?

Streamlining.

At least they kept Benning all combat arms.

Posted: 7/29/2011 5:52:25 PM EST

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
<––––––––-stationed at knox

this is nothing new, good riddance to seeing recruits in the main post area acting like they're hot shit.

Really? We were scared shitless outside the BCT area.

D/1-46 IN 1/93-3/93

We didn't leave the training area....

We did the main PX one or two times, IIRC.

Other than that there was a shopette that we went to.

We also got to go to the post theatre once. The Star Trek
movie that everyone quotes Shakespear that's an allegory for the
cold war. It's funny, I remember when the last photon went out
"Identified Klingon! Fire! On the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:21:02 PM EST

[#33]

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:29:33 PM EST

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2021.jpg

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2011.jpg

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

IIRC the twist at the top of the first picture was what lead to the last one.

I'm glad I went to Fort Sham for AIT

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:30:35 PM EST

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2021.jpg

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2011.jpg

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

See my post about raodmarching up and down those motherfuckers. I agree.

I'm sure "Sand Hill" is hard....But....

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:35:45 PM EST

[#36]

I hate to see the tradition end.

F co 1/81 armor 1992

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:41:09 PM EST

[#37]

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I hate to see the tradition end.

F co 1/81 armor 1992

The bitch of it is the tradition

Knox is home of armor. Benning is crunchie turf.

The only good of it is that at least the business end
of combat arms are together. Hell...It may make for
better co operation.

Posted: 7/29/2011 6:47:40 PM EST

[#38]

Heartbreak, I pulled this one off an online group so I covered his face for privacy.

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:00:59 PM EST

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2021.jpg

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2011.jpg

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

IIRC the twist at the top of the first picture was what lead to the last one.

I'm glad I went to Fort Sham for AIT

Damn, I'm a dumbass, started off C Troop in Jan 91, hospitalized for 10 days at Ireland Army hospital and missed 3 weeks of training. After that it was left, right, Bravo. I should have replied B Troop in my first post. It sucked to go through basic twice.

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:01:24 PM EST

[#40]

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Heartbreak, I pulled this one off an online group so I covered his face for privacy.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/282773_2197452506957_1566570033_2274507_8340535_n.jpg

Only the road guards had to wear the faggoty vests when
I was there.

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:05:25 PM EST

[#41]

Sorry to hear about Ft. Knox, my uncle trained there for World War II. I chose Infantry when I returned to the service. Those hills are pretty bad, just be glad you didn't face them everyday like we did in the Infantry. Now I understand why you don't want to dismount from you iron horse. On second thought Bradlys certainly made the Ks go by faster than walking or road marching.

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:06:09 PM EST

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2021.jpg

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2011.jpg

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

IIRC the twist at the top of the first picture was what lead to the last one.

I'm glad I went to Fort Sham for AIT

Damn, I'm a dumbass, started off C Troop in Jan 91, hospitalized for 10 days at Ireland Army hospital and missed 3 weeks of training. After that it was left, right, Bravo. I should have replied B Troop in my first post. It sucked to go through basic twice.

We had a guy named Mackey. He was always a slacker and we got smoked endlessly
becasue of him. Long story short, he had pneumonia but wouldn't say anything because
he didn't want to be recycled. They hauled him out to Ireland by Ambo in the middle of
the night.

Next day it went from.."You have let PVT Mackey fail!" to...."If any one of you slackass shitbirds
had one OUNCE of what Mackey had you'd ______________!"

He was able to rehab and got to go back into BCT. He came and saw us at our graduation.

You would've thought he was a war hero

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:29:35 PM EST

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Heartbreak, I pulled this one off an online group so I covered his face for privacy.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/282773_2197452506957_1566570033_2274507_8340535_n.jpg

Only the road guards had to wear the faggoty vests when
I was there.

Same here

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:36:12 PM EST

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4810/1077610-a4508_15th_cav_tactical_roa_super.jpg

These young scouts are on the way up one of the trilogy of hills
named "Agony, Heartbreak, and Misery".

If you notice the shocked look on the faces of the ones up
front, they probably just saw the next hill.

C Trp 6/16 CAV April 1991
I'm sure my face had a similar look the first time I saw them.

IIRC this one is agony, my lungs and legs hurt and seized when I found these pictures. This one is an anthill compared to Heartbreak.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2021.jpg

We went to the right of this picture and climbed this one, there was the rope netting on the slope so we could get traction.
http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq140/wsmith70/Ft20Knox2011.jpg

You bastards are going to give me nightmares now.

ETA: In my opinion, they are going to be turning out puddin asses w/o Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and Mt. Mother Fucker to toughen em up.

IIRC the twist at the top of the first picture was what lead to the last one.

I'm glad I went to Fort Sham for AIT

Damn, I'm a dumbass, started off C Troop in Jan 91, hospitalized for 10 days at Ireland Army hospital and missed 3 weeks of training. After that it was left, right, Bravo. I should have replied B Troop in my first post. It sucked to go through basic twice.

We had a guy named Mackey. He was always a slacker and we got smoked endlessly
becasue of him. Long story short, he had pneumonia but wouldn't say anything because
he didn't want to be recycled. They hauled him out to Ireland by Ambo in the middle of
the night.

Next day it went from.."You have let PVT Mackey fail!" to...."If any one of you slackass shitbirds
had one OUNCE of what Mackey had you'd ______________!"

He was able to rehab and got to go back into BCT. He came and saw us at our graduation.

You would've thought he was a war hero

Strep Throat and Bronchitis at the same time. If they kept me in the hospital 10 days during basic you know I was in bad shape.
2 week indoor profile after that.

Posted: 7/29/2011 7:43:20 PM EST

[#45]