Monthly Archives: July 2014
PTSD
The VA, about the time PTSD in mid-80’s became a subject to study not shun, diagnosed mine but was 20 years later for me. Found all that really assists is to talk about what you did with others have done the same or similar. Only one’s can actually really understand. Why later life military reunions are so ongoing to the Last Man bottle. Since a lot of it is “Why did I survive?” All there did. Civilian life instances do not usually include choice. Thus the “I lived through Katrina” T shirt. If they’d known about it ? Would have left. I remember Jan ’73 end of the Draft. after that everyone working for me had to be a volunteer in due time. Couldn’t quit and walk away but just a different feeling about your troops wanting to be there not told ” Take one step forward, March!” Then on you had to respect a decision to join not simply a choice of service to serve under. To be other than a 2 year draftee, had to have qualifications. After much time you learn to roll with the punches. I spend so much time wandering around large airfields trying to get somewhere I can’t that it makes real iife security processing a breeze. When finally back with some unit I’m the old guy my age, them all fresh and young. Funniest ever was dive bombing training on a roller coaster! Back in the day I might have won a cash saving award!
So I always tell any with a grandpa, father, uncle, brother, friend who wont talk about their service? Draw them out and get them talking. Just might both of you have a good cry or a great laugh together. Nothing strange about what was real at sometime in a life both well lived and worth respect. Those who can’t respect honor? Not considered human, my book. Some animal came in with somewhere an open door, Toss it back outside with others that ilk and close that door. Hang, instead, with decent folk.
Always get a courtesy response from MMB. Best of the arbiter/pontificator pros. 8
“Dear Don,
Thank you for checking in. “Mario, Mario”, such wondrous days of yore. How our culture has found its way into filth all ’round.
Hang onto your Gold & Health,
…m…
—–Original Message—–
From: don phillips
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 12:27 AM
To: mmb@deMeadville.com
Subject: Lake effect thaw
Mark; Cleveland may get used to “Happy Days are here again” with both Return of the King and a a good shot at pushing on a decent POTUS come ’16. JRR Tolkien could do a Trilogy with less!. I usually prefer GOOD triumphs! and hometown San Antonio is proof. Today? Wife and son Germany born, extra time TOR!!!, MORE Happy Days! For rest of story after Memorial Day ’66…I do yak on near forever. Gotta love Romberg’s take Light Opera on a heavy metal! Don I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myx-7amfJG4
Merciful stroke out of misery
SOME simpleton CHANGE the frappin Thread!!!
“Cut them off just above the skinny knees and right at their undescended balls!” Martial arts instructor,USAF Survival School Stead AFB,Mar 1964. But we used bamboo swords and yelled KEE YAI! lot to compensate… then hit Virginia St. Reno casinos. At 26? were the days!
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160791/000107997310000063/grc_postam-6.htm#sellingholder
Check GORO Prospectus Pg 48 and 49. Don I and Dorothea 480K, Don I and Thomas 40K. Makes 520K as of 2004 cost .25 PPS. Now check April 25, 2011 PPS $30.15 at time I began selling to take on MXSG when Julio/Elena Rancho was acquired in March. 520K times $30.15? $15,678,000. NOW how ya’s hanging, bare balls? Crazy like a Fox is my logo. Oh yes, ’04 I was a 67 old Geezer . Hang somewhere you COULD be tolerated. In Military City? out of town on rail. And DON’T drip tar and feathers. TX Ranger will cite you fer Mess With Texas ! 8
Bering Gifts
Fortunately some folks can walk , chew gum and hum a tune same time. Placer PR was on 8TH JULY, hey! Permit known of on 2nd and now in hand, can’t be too careful there jumping gun! Bering dredge deal PR was on 9th and an entirely separate matter of cheap additional publicity on a rather amazing world famed Discovery Channel series lasting now 5 years. NOT a mining corporation, as such, just a small one man LLC. ONE DREDGE barge in a FAMOUS yearly contest Gonna say BIG GOLD LETTERS on a green machine MEXUS GOLD US and PT Jr an advisor not an employee or owner will run the show.
Now, I’ll bet it will take more than a day 8th to 9th to move placer machinery , pretty large heavy things AND generator operating panel before we get any production at all. I’d say from personal experience about 2 weeks minimum. As I’ve watched it done twice as first trommel tube then placer shaker tables take my word for that. Better yet? Run on down, only 104F today. Tell them “I’m here , sharp as a thumb tack”, don a hard had and MAKE gold. Tell us all about it next day. We’ll await baited breath. GEEZE! You’d think by this time the light’d dawn. Dumb as ever and even more so it seems . Isn’t it embarrassing to post total nonsense day after day and tell me any of my experienced info is the same? Perhaps God has a plan for you sillies there but nobody else can figger it. If she’d talk I’d ask her. 8
Peace was our Profession
Strategic Air Command was for sure a way of life committed do or die. Or do and die. One final last resort was called “Parachute descent into a nuclear explosion” . No escape going down, set the altimeter switch and that was it. Punch out. Got it close enough, did your job.
I also had a very unusual one day job. Called Aide for a day to Curt Lemay. April 1966 I was unattached after the March B-52s retired oldest B Models and joined with closing Larson AF Base Moses Lake WA using their newer E Models which became the standard SAC bomber in SEA. 2 wings had been on Guam since the day in spring 1965 the Command Post called the 10 Nuc Alert sqdns crews TDY from March and Biggs AFB El Paso to go out on the balcony and watch what is going to happen. Next 4 hours 2 SAC squadrons from Mather CA and Barksdale LA landed and were taking up every inch of parking space and every room on base and some off base hotels. With no notice , air controllers in western US began to see the fleetof 40 leaving and thought was IT’S THE BIG ONE, WW3! Nope, the start of Arc Light operations in SEA and were to take our place as Guam Nuc Alert after the next 2-3 months we shared the base. We moved back to March alert facility until New Years eve ’65 when it closed until the new E models could be integrated in the Single Integrated OPs Plan coordinating all Nuc forces . I was on alert and got off a day early. There were quick organized parties all over the base on the NUC stand down. Whoop te doo!
Lemay had been forced to retire in ’65 by LBJ and McNamara to Simi Valley CA, entered politics, joined Rockwell Intl and flew their twin turbo Aero Commander all over the place campaigning. 15th Air Force held a commander’s conference and Lemay was the big cheese speaker in his USAF retired role. I was senior 1st Lt with Top Secret , Nuc qualified so was to be Aide for the day. It meant I carried the Antonio Y Cleopatra Grenadier Natural Panetelas in a box. Met him on the Flight Line with staff car , saluted , shook hands and was stting aside a bit to hear him call Bobby Kennedy a rat face lying little son of a bitch to all the 3 and 4 stars there. One of my more memorable additional duties. Guess I pleased the man. Shook hands and saluted when he took off, wasn’t fired. He did know I was one of his SAC trained killers and doing my job he fashioned 2 decades past. Simply being there meant I’d passed inspection. 8
Audi Murphy VA Hospital.
Jan to Oct. 1977 I was assigned 9 months to Patient Sqdn Wilford Hall Med Center, Lackland AFB, biggest USAF then. and where we moved to San Antonio from final base Dyess AFB, Abilene for life long follow up promised in 1979. Neurosurgery Ward began to run tests next 9 months. It had no Neurolgy so we went to Audi Murphy when nerve conduction was needed. Funny stuff to stick 2 needles along a nerve. “Does that hurt?” YES! “GOOD! A shock comes timed in miliseconds then pick a new nerve and chart that. Tries to see where is nerve loss location. Feels good to go back where guys simply scream next bed at night. So Jan to Sept were spent running down all the problems stemming from combat injury April Fools 1967, active flying career worsened by a decade trying to keep flying with yearly waivers. In addition to cool jobs doing unusual things , Flight Pay is a way of life you lie about to maintain. I’d been in 2 , month long bed rests in Wiesbaden AB ’74 and ’75 after 2 weeks traction at Bitburg AB in March ’71 just before we were on leave to marry at Carson City May 25th. Every day about 4:30 I’d hear Dorly’s heels click down the asphalt tiles. In walks this beautiful lady, 95 pounds of “all tits and eyeballs ” my married friends all said. Was I luckiest fellow in the whole damn world? One Monday after a 3 day alert tour in freezing alert facility… REALLY lousy GI bunk, I could not move my legs. Flight Surgeon sent me to Orthopod MD at Hosp and he ordered weights on both legs just like some Catch 22 chapter in life. Yossarian, B-25 Nav, had a golden liver and I a golden back would hit each first freeze of winter. Gave lecture on the subject in my MA, Ball St U in Europe class on effective public speaking.
Anyway, VA A. Murphy discovered a mastoid bone infection was due to kill me quick Feb 1980. While looking at an oddly unusual missing middle ear process it was necessary to take off my skull , clean the soupy mess up and do a bone graft to cover the open fascia , pulsing carotid artery along the 9th facial nerve paralyzed my face a few months recovering all bodily insults that AM.” We’ll see ya later “. Gambler’s luck held and they did. Dorly was holding my hand, still all tits and eyeballs when I woke with a giant white ball covering my head. Back to Catch 22. Was that classic in case severe shock? “All the time he was coming he was going!”
Next VA stay was Easter 1991 as left arm was paralyzed a few months for first time. Admitted back to neurosurgery Wilford Hall, then told “We no longer are treating Vets due to cut backs, Go To the VA” A. Murphy did some nerve tests,2 weeks later said no help seen here go home and wait it out. Probably regain use. It has twice since . Was the time due Reagan’s “clean up cheating welfare mothers” I was tossed off SS Disability, no appeal, and was back to 1977 all over again. Reapplied thanks again to marvelous Disabled American Vets. My legal counsel 4th time as I met again 3rd time with the SS Admin Judge and was recovering both health and finances by Dec. ’91.
I began to think there’s gotta be a better way to pay for things we need . 1993 I took over Dorly’s investment act. never made a cent except for Thompson Financial Products broker in LA Land. She was doing well selling homes but the stock she took on, great names but pure shit returns. Problem as Realtor is expenses are FIERCE and you need to SAVE when the cash comes in after long weeks of work in that severe Savings and Loan crash era. Only big Texas bank to survive was Frost who just did not do bad loans. Rest sold off to out of state nationals still. But is a story there yet. 8
BTW
I really have never thought about my accomplishments before age 40 since I was doing my best to keep USA free. And at a great cost since. I guess to some that freedom won is just doing any selfish , me first, thing you wish on the back of others and to hell with them. When you bury heros, you hug their family , tell them you’ll try see them somewhere sometime if assignments allow , pause a time and go about your duty. Roll call’s usually 8 AM for flight assignments by crew. One unusual day you can sleep past 8! Rest of day totally up to you to carpe forever. Weird feeling I’ll tell you fer sure. All them medals and awards don’t make a damn dime. What does is disability retirement and some wise old Lt Col took your ejection seat one day and lived to tell you how it works. Want to know a soul brother? He lived through fire by sheer guts. I always told Frank Fucich , he was me that managed to live. Pilot, best friend Ken, and recent new EWO Tony crashed on take off,have a spot in Arlington. I was on leave delivering a Goony Bird to Florida. Sqdn shitheads never even managed to call emergency form number to tell me I was to be their escort officer. Found out 3 weeks later when a friend, on my hop going back to Germany asked where I’d been. It was a period early 70s when EVERYONE I knew was in PTSD. Combat flying 3 Stars down to E-1 on the ground been in a real shooting war where EVERYONE in 4 countries were trying hard to kill you many times a day. Didn’t need to look where on a map. ALL! 8
I recall buying first mine share ever in USGL Oct 1998. Began to buy down to .11 and was largest investor when Rob took it to $7 in ‘ 07. Until to Jan 06 when first saw initial million. Is NOT baggers, dumbo, is the millions made. Makes me age 61 then and was POG $300 era. Then it fell to $250. twice. Any under 40’d then have had 12 years from 2002 low in up to $1950 POG and now still remains $1000 higher. Exact period to begin in gold and pick the best risers. EASY breezy stuff. Of course everyone knows now that brilliant investor darth gold of the ” scary names ” Golds. Way you learn to tell a coward They back off quick into a “but but but” defensive croutch. As I learned from experts, best kill them quick for the best put out of any extended misery. Nothing to offer but tend to hang on and require one to assist the death. Does anyone have ANY idea who the silly Lout N Flouts actually are. Never heard from one knows by name. Creatures of the night . To even see a crazy ranter inform on combat PTSD? Deserves a fated nice Phoenix VA bed assignment. I’d give up any of mine at Audi Murphy VA (yep, a personal, hero, local kid here and like me killed few 100 enemy too) where they took my skull apart Mar 1980. How ridiculous can one silly Lout get?
A few minor incidents to be sure got me to early retired at 40. In addition to full 28 of formal education, BA San Jose St; MA Ball St; EdD Tx Tech, course work completed; I ‘d done 3 full years of toughest technical flying program going. Enlisted day after 24th birthday Sept 25, 1961 . Meant planned retirement date as reservist , midnight Sept 24 1983 day I was 54. Seemed simple enough.
What came was USAF, Basic Tng E-1; , Officer’s Trng School Reserve Commission 2nd Lt; Navigator Flight Tng, rating Nav; Advanced Navigator Bombardier Traning , Nav Bomb rating ; AirCrew Combat Survival School ( Winter); B-52 Transition School, B-52 crew member, Nav Bomb ; Assigned 22nd Bomb Wing ( Heavy) March AFB CA, 2nd Bomb Sqdn ground school; B-52B Combat Crew Certification Combat Ready. Now I was 27 in Sept 1964 and ready to commute monthly to Guam on 15 min Nuc Alert response. Talk about never ending trainng! I was very expensive meat in a seat. Entire program was designed by Gen Curtis Lemay ( big boss man on only atomic drops on Japan) to deliver a bomb any place any time by getting within 25 miles radar or visual range. Especially over the pole where there are no landmarks OR a compass. A thing called Grid Navigation. Concept is a world where neat 60 mile latitude blocks are laid out all in the direction of 180 degrees W. Try it sometime. BLANK MAP! Use Celestial Navigation observations. Get on a known heading, unslave the magnetic compass from Magnetic N Pole and enter Grid. Have already charted hourly precession/recession/nutation rate so apply to Grid Heading on compass to all fixes over N Pole. When estimated time is up exit Grid as an assumed spot on a real map and begin using radar and mag compass again. Prepare to drop the 4 one point one megaton weapons on enemy territory. Sound easy? No satellites, no GPS, even no inertial nav system at that time. Everything self contained in the brain and BIG books you have learned to use very rapidly. Do that and Curt lets you go on his team. By then he’d retired as Chair Joint Chief’s after time of Cuban Crisis Oct ’62. I had been in Nav School Waco and our Instructors were packed to navigate C-123’s flown in and parked with troops from Ft Hood Armored training school on a short notice. Was actually scarier than when I eventually went to war. Was calling for even Nuc Response until USSR blinked! Will never forget 13 Days In October! Doing exactly same things day I retired Oct 17, 1977! Head out to the Soviet Union and take them out some fashion . Call it a rough 16 years and a month. But I was now a stay at home dad!
On Guam we’d replaced the B-47’s assigned to March before the Riverside CA runway was lengthened for B-52s. Called Reflex Deployment it put them 14 hours closer to Manchurian/Siberian bases to roll back. One mission assigned was to recover on possible survival by landing unannounced in India. Surprise surprise! No tanker would be at the ending. Most just trying to get out of USSR to fuel for any homewards after the world blew up. Alert tour began with crew checking on from last alert crew. Other than making sure the system to get you there to drop them was in order, one of the 2 Bombing Navs ( a 3rd was a defensive systems operator for ECM and radio control work) had to certify to the other that the dial readings in little clear windows were correct. Smaller nav was lifted by larger to read them by crawling in between the 4 large, white, big pointy nosed bombs hanging on shackles foreward bay. 2 bays were the same just called front/ back for loading weights/ measures . I was the smaller! So was crawling over 4 Hydrogen bombs before breakfast! Just once a tour however. Nice work If you qualify. Then a rifle toting guard and a BIG dog made sure 24/7 nobody could mess them up before the next crew check in. Then the guards on either side AND dog made sure the quard was there awake. I understand things have gotten VERY sloppy! Curt’d have you shot! 8
“Take him out and shoot him,” ordered General Dreedle. (21.86-90)
http://www.shmoop.com/catch-22/power-quotes-6.html
Command and Staff College Lesson 1
Don’t joust with midgets. KILL THEM quick and get to the giants if any. So far? None. No RB detestation just of total shits that post nothing better to do with a sad existence. I can’t post on my own RB board, buttwipe, thanks to trash talkers of your elk. . Let’s have that great set of accomplishments AND a face with a name. Not heard yet?. WE LOVE our brave military heros. Just toss them off during SW Asia deployments . Been there done that in 70’s
.Age 40 I was suddenly an unemployed 100% combat disabled retired USAF Navigator Bombardier with 35 medals ranging down from Heroism to Commendation Medal delivering mail as a combat sqdn certified postmaster. PS we mailed home free from combat zone so we GOT letters! ’74 had completed my MA and 1977 Texas Tech Doctorlal candidate was looking to finish submissions polishing my Doctorate dissertation Feb 1980 when suddenly needed an emergency VA ( it was working back then) operation cleaning out my right skull of 25year’s infection. Dive bombing is TOUGH SHIT on ears and backs. Saved life lost hearing.
6 months protecting skull growing back ( could scratch my fake right ear drum until XMAS), decided college teaching no longer my goal so remained raising son while Dorly sold real estate. BTW meet the kid, Broker/owner Phillips & Assoc Realtors, across street in the family compound. Sadly G son Jordon turning 20 and no longer youngest ever TX Realtor ,18. ( Runs in family, now in Aug JR year UTSA. What were you doing at 18?) When son out of school, and, 20, in USAF as Combat Evac MedTech Iraq 1, I went into explorative mines and made a fortune for us and many others. Here I am; TA DAH!
Now let’s hear yo better? When impossible to defeat ? Defame! Propaganda; that’s 2nd lesson Cmd & Staff; courtesy J Gobbels. We though so. 8
darth_gold 8 hours ago
http://www.phillipsrealty.co/
Wise men Bering Gifts
When we’ve discussed the Discovery stuff I mention lot of you say they watch and he laughs and says what they try is so much wasted effort nonsense but fun to see the mistakes over and over. That’s been the sell success so far. Now we’ll perhaps see what production success goes for.
It’s Jr’s project but consider a Mexus new maritime arm. Longun has it dead on correct. PTJr gonna be a star. Thompson fam’s NOT dysfunctional for one thing. They live on CA largest river, much time on Cortez Sea and Puget Sound and in mines Sr since 16 and Jr since birth. Look out Nome! Profits share I’ve no idea. 4 years biggest cut seems in dredging $1 mil yearly but this is NEW fangled gear built for the task. Hank’s now a decent shareholder, rough .5% , and makes PPS money to show Mexus Gold US off to world. Stuff you CAN’t buy for current PPS. I’ve told him I’d have traded in 1.2 mil of mine REGISTERED for the chance. He’s always said the cable idea is not dead. Folks we worked with parted as friends with compensation. That’s Paul’s modus. I know well . Ask JJ. Big screamers seem to never met an honest man. Probs lay with civil fraud acts by UVSS. Might check St of Limits on the crime. Can easily see the blinders on dumbs yelling Mexis Mexico is entire Mexus. Just the easiest money and we know not all that easy. Takes years and these dumbells can’t EVER fathom that exploration is not get quick; It’s get it right finally after all the turns and dead ends defeated next 30 years. Ever quit screaming DOWN the PPS it will rise. Flat for certain with cash flow. 8
“Don,
I couldn’t tell from the PR, are we participating in the company operation, i.e., profits, or just buying advertising ? Do you know? I think it’s probably a good idea. I’ve never seen the show, but lots of potential investors watch it. It probably won’t take many of them to start some momentum.”
Real National Father
My vote’s Edmund Burke, or maybe Walt Kelly
“all it takes for evil to win is for a good man to do nothing”
If many of you reading would speak up? Louts and Flouts would scoot. Any progress would be a PPS gain. You allow them to prosper at great loss. Any welcome to post here and let ME not RB Or Yahoo judge worth. RB’s a swamp up to ass in gators! But this swamp, enemy is them! he go she go we go me go Pogo.
ttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1460