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Armybrat

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  1. *Ninnies.
  2. Maybe it’s the strong influence leftover from A&M’s longtime close association with Qatar…..
  3. He didn’t while he was still in the Army. He does wear it in civilian retirement so as not to frighten the squeamish.
  4. He was also an All-District football player at Taylor high school. I broke up with this gal after meeting the future Mrs. Brat two months after they had broken up.
  5. He is wearing a toupee to cover the severe burn scars all over his head. He was shot down while piloting his helicopter in Vietnam in 1968. It caught on fire, burning off his nose, ears, hair, and his forearm that he was holding over his eyes (saving his eyesight). He spent two years recovering through many surgeries at the Brook Army Hospital burn unit in San Antonio, with many months lying face down. Then many months more with his good arm strapped up by his head while a strip of flesh was attached to grow him a new nose. In spite of the severity of his wounds, he recovered well enough to remain in the Army, becoming a helicopter battalion commander and eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Along the way he married a beautiful Army nurse, adopted a child who grew up & graduated A&M, becoming a nurse herself. Unfortunately his wife passed away a decade ago from an aneurysm. Their daughter got married and recently made him a proud grandfather who enjoys making the infant smile by singing military cadence songs (clean ones) to him. He is a true BAMF He and Mrs. Brat were a steady couple from their high school senior year until they broke up their last year in college. We are all good friends to this day.
  6. Mrs. Brat wasa Taylor Duck….but never posed with a real duck, just the other geezers:
  7. Why not both?
  8. saw this elsewhere today: 81 years ago today on June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver(and later Sarnia) was shot 6 times on Juno beach while fighting for Canada on D-Day. He would later go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.
  9. Reveille sniffs their butts?
  10. My Brit friend’s secretary…..
  11. Are they trying to make the local sheep jealous?
  12. Might be useful to get the rust & oil stains off your driveway.
  13. Excuuuuse me, but this Horn directed that operation…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Operation_Neptune_Spear
  14. Looks kinda yellowish. Did the aTm sewage system overflow again?
  15. Just a little Bondo and they’re good to go.
  16. Not really….we were interrupted by a carload of Westlake kids.
  17. This granny had trouble shooting .38 specials out of my New Vaquero. Too heavy she said.
  18. Naw, just VY.
  19. With a burned out hole in the center. The exhaust pipe had apparently been jammed up against it after I had run over a chunk of retread tire on 290 in northeast Austin. My MG looked just like this one….
  20. My 1960 was red, and I called the trunk the trunk. The wood floorboard under my driver’s seat caught on fire once.
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