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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Bob Williams Message: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of a fellow member, Craig Polzin. We always looked forward to seeing him at the annual Critter Cookout. He was a great soldier and just a nice man. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Willard Langdon Message: Glad to hear Chuck is home. |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Bob Suchke- Treasurer Message: Raffle Ticket sales are going very well. At last count there are only about 50 or so tickets left to sell, so if you plan to get in on the raffle drawing, don't delay. Raffle Tickets may be purchased at TRITT's Sporting Goods in Dahlonega, through me and from Gary Kansky. The Raffle tickets are $10.00 each and you will be eligible for any of the five items we will be giving away to the winners. Details are on one of the previous messages. The drawings will be held at Critter Cookout/Open House on 28 April 2018. See you there! Reminder all proceeds go to help fund USMRA projects. RLTW! |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: Joe Mattison Message: For Ew: Are you ok? Do you need to talk to somebody? I have a great phone number for you if you need it. Just let me know. Congrats on your Iron Man accomplishment, but to tell you the truth, I did 300 feet on a warm beach, and was able to slather 12 ounces of tanning oil on my skin, while wearing dark sunglasses and a straw hat. Did some Corona Light with Lime, and watched the sunset. Sang songs like..."sailing away to Key Largo". I know, I know....once again, I've got my priorities screwed up! Take care Iron Man....Joe |
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Posted: 12/31/1969 Name: ron rice Message: to answer some more questions and give some more fill in. i did not know heinz ketchum nor t tilson chinquipin miller or mike smith. a coup[le of other folks that served at mrc was walter marm medal of honor 1st cav known as "joe" he was a capt on pat comm. ret. as a full bull. also MOH gary littrell was on rope comm. got his as a vn reanger advisor. james tibbits drove a '57 chev and was always running out of gas. maybe because he and his wife had six kids. its been so long since i was there and i retired over 30 years ago i do not remember much about the field problems (ftx) i do remember we had h34"s at one time and we used otters and beavers taking off from camp airfield. also slicks and dustoffs. we jumped a lot on top of a bare mtn and the cadre jumped a lot in a farmers field on mrc road on the right where there was a stream and bridge lots of trees and barb wire. but i do not remember anyone getting seriously hurt. i do remember a mountain that we all called triple 3 six right o/s of mrc. i certainly climbed it a lot while being a lane grader. also the many streams snake, bears and stills. which were mostly abandoned but we were cautioned that if we came upon one to move awy from it quickly. also, on one particular patrol i ran into and old shack that had kkk propaganda all over it. we often used the old triple c camp for a base of patrol ops. i remember one night that i came into the tent and we had a gasoline lantern and one of those old gas pot belly stoves in there and capt scruggs took his boots off to dry his socks and he had one black and one o d sock on. we all had a good laugh over that. he was a great officer and said he was related to earl scruggs. maj bischoff came up to me after grading a 3 day patrol and said rice you know that intermittent stream right here as he pointed to the topo and i said yes sir and he said well it is mittent. he was soaken wet. most of our patrols left camp on foot. later on some jumping and fly ins. at one time we had support from a marine air wing and they supported us fairly often. i was not there when they added the cinder block section to the nco club. sometimes when "8" wolcott would tell me to lead the students to the 60ft cliff area i always went by the club and the officers swimming pool lagoon and always made sure they knew what we called it. i do n ot know about now but when i was there no students wore any rank. they were called ranger. unless they were field grade and then they did not do much except watch and tag along. i was not there when all the new buildings were built. the last time i was stationed there . the permanet buildings were the head shed, briefing shed, medical bldg, barracks, mess hall and thats about it. RLTH rice |
