Nope.
Only providing some inspiration while showing that songs can also be a link to a veteran.
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I met John Glenn when he was running his short lived campaign for President (I lived in Iowa at the time and was a precinct captain for him). Maybe I can use this campaign as a reason to finish his F-86 thatās been sitting on the Shelf of Doom for too long as well.
Michael 
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i take you have seen my reading list of all the MACV-SOG books i have been working my way through, so Iām not surprised you mentioned him.
i was thinking about āMad Dogā Jerry Shriver and his legendary quote āi got the enemy right where i want them, surrounded on the insideā.
There are so many SOG guys and their insane missions, not just the guys awarded the CMOH like Franklin D Miller but people who should have got that medal but didnāt like Lynne Blackā¦but thatās army poltics for you.
i have some SOG figures allegedly on their way to me so i could use those as i was planning to use them for the Vietnam war campaign but they have been delayed.
more about Jerry Shriver if anyone is interested
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A couple of those old timers are in my MC, and a few in the SFA as well. One member of the MCās father was pretty famous and had some books written about him, but I can only recall his road name at the moment.
I was very fortunate to have met Roy several times - he came to speak at the middle school I taught at. (I came back into the army because the odds of killing someone actually went down) I also knew Bob Howard. I may have told the story here about how he saved my SF career when he was the Commandant of Phase I of the Q Course .Iām not sure. But he did.
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Ah. The guyās name is Don Bendell. Does he show up in your books?
He wrote Snake Eater.
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i havenāt heard of Don Bendell or his book āsnake eaterā but most of my MACV-SOG reading has been about CCN & CCC it could be he was with CCS. no matter i have found his book on ebay and have ordered it.
regarding Bob Howard, i believe Stephen Ambrose has written an autobiography about due for release at the end of this year. Iām itching to read it with regards about a POW/MIA mission he was on and was ordered to āterminate the merchandiseā. you can read about it in Monika Stevensonās book āKiss the boys goodbyeā
with regards to Bob Howard saving your career, Iām not familiar with your story, so feel free to send me a PM with all the gory details if you like
kind regards
Klaus
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Iāll give the condensed version here:
Five of us were being sent back to Fort Bragg for failing knot tying of all things. Bob intervened and asked me what we failed. When I told him the bowline he had me tie one. After studying it for a moment he said, āI donāt know whatās wrong with this knot but it just aināt right.ā
Can you figure it out?
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i could never do that bowline not even as kidā¦so what was wrong with? did just look like a blob like mine?
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No, it was perfect on the test and the retest we all failed. We were all left handedā¦
Bob Howard had words with that TAC after he told us to get our azzes back to training.
I took this at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Museum earlier this year:
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Like this one perhaps.
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This one is far more bearable:
This one is good too:
But the first one I ever saw was the best. Iām too tired to leep looking, but ie the second one, it talks of hime being boen to sharecropper parents.
Iām very proud to have known Roy.
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Hey Rob, how far along is to far? My model in honour of brigader general sidney hartnell 2NZEF, i meet him as a young teenager many moons ago, the nz converted sraghound Mk II, is fully built and painted, but needs replacement parts fixed broken ones, then strip and re paint, as well as two figures and diorama base.
Cheers
Mike
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information about the forth coming book about Bob Howard if anyone is interested:
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I donāt know. Seems like if youāre stripping and repainting itās like a new model. Others who have run a campaign might care. I donāt. Itās not like itās a competition where everyone starts on a level playing field. Besides, given that we have over a year makes an early start kind of a moot point for me. I say go for it,
Iām definitely interested. Iāll have to buy it.
Iād love to do something honoring Bob Howard or Roy Benavidez, but how do you do that? Crashed helicopters, dead bodies everywhere, and it you canāt really convey the sense of the time these guys spent under fire during those firefights. (I did one called Durantās Rescue once that was relatively small in scope, and even that was a large dio,)
I think if I did do something for Bob Howard it would be a simple scene - a very large man standing in front of three young soldiers, (five is too many) one of whom is holding out his newly tied bowline for inspection, while a TAC looks on.
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turn that idea on itās head.
instead of a battle scene, do one after the battle such as the picture of him carrying a wounded NVA POW.
you can convey the strength and size of the man compared to the smaller Vietnamese soldier without involving lots of other figures etc.
just a suggestion, you can take it or leave it as you wish.
kind regards
Klaus
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Thatās a great idea, but Iām the guy to model it. My figures used to be pretty good back in the day. Iām not sure now that theyād even be so-so. He deserves better,
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Three of my great uncles with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders travelled through your woods and spent six months after the war there.
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Absolutely!
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Some of your ancestors probably traveled through my woods as well. My mom spent nearly the last three decades of her life living in Kinderhook, less than a mile from the Burgoyne Mansion, which was about 1/4 mile past the Benedict Arnold House.
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Completion time might be the issue with me joining. I would do a LAV III in honour of my son whom did a tour with the PPCLI in 09/10.
If I did one of me it would be quite boring, just a guy behind a desk doing paperwork lol. But hey, I did spend over 1 Ā½ years in Afghanistan.
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