Rare and very interesting photos

[godofwine]

Bruh, that was an excellent breakdown. My response to the question was, "Duh, muhfucka, the photos speak for themselves."
That is not the case though. Not everyone is aware of what you've explained here because the Media and Pop Culture has white washed us out of the picture.

My First Sergeant at Camp Red Cloud, Korea was one of those Brother Bloods. Bruh, I don't know why, but he took a liking to me and looked out for me while he was still there. He retired about 4 or 5 months into my tour there.

He got me my first piece of ass in Country after trying to drink the Ville dry. Captain Q, OB beer, Soju, and Jungle Juice abound. The next morning he'd run our asses until 85% of the Company was tossing their last meal on the side of the road.

Any complaints, bitches, and gripes were met with, "Shut up! You volunteered...I was drafted!" A muhfucka's only reply to that was, "But, but, but...Roger Top!"

I joined at a time that was the transition from the Vietnam Era Army and I was the new boot who was issued BDUs, show up to Ft. Lewis and everybody is in OD Greens and Jungle Fatigues. I was the face of change at that time. Out with the old and in with the new.

You, @Shadow and a lot more are family as veterans. Y'all came more and then a few years ahead of me

I'm 42, Navy, deployed to Kuwait in 2006. How old are you guys and are y'all still in good shape?

 

[Shaka54]

You, @Shadow and a lot more are family as veterans. Y'all came more and then a few years ahead of me

I'm 42, Navy, deployed to Kuwait in 2006. How old are you guys and are y'all still in good shape?

I'll be 55 in late October, 100% disabled. My back is shot from degenerative discs, Carpal and Cubital Tunnel surgeries from nerve damage, sciatica, arthritis like a muhfucka, and "Non-Service Connected" Anxiety...just shy of PTSD cuz they don't wanna pay for my back and my brain.

My body is beat the fuck up. When you're a young Stud, you don't wanna go to Sick Call and when you have rank, you don't have TIME to go to sick call, so you medicate over the counter and at the bottom of a bottle until retirement and have to fight the bureaucracy for your benefits.

I hurt just about every day but it's not debilitating just yet. I spent 14 years Active and 16 Reserve Component.

 

[Shadow]

I'll be 55 in late October, 100% disabled. My back is shot from degenerative discs, Carpal and Cubital Tunnel surgeries from nerve damage, sciatica, arthritis like a muhfucka, and "Non-Service Connected" Anxiety...just shy of PTSD cuz they don't wanna pay for my back and my brain.

My body is beat the fuck up. When you're a young Stud, you don't wanna go to Sick Call and when you have rank, you don't have TIME to go to sick call, so you medicate over the counter and at the bottom of a bottle until retirement and have to fight the bureaucracy for your benefits.

I hurt just about every day but it's not debilitating just yet. I spent 14 years Active and 16 Reserve Component.

I am 46, aand still in decent fitness shape, or close to what a Army E9 is supposed to be. I am closing in on 30 years, but mentally i am finished. I am just paying what i owe so my daughter can finish her Ivy League education. I just completed my own MBA (two weeks ago), so there is nothing holding me back anymore.

I am pretty positive i got enough for 100% without the PTSD, which i am sure i willget as well given my military career. CPAP machine makes that so much easier....

 

[Shaka54]

I am 46, aand still in decent fitness shape, or close to what a Army E9 is supposed to be. I am closing in on 30 years, but mentally i am finished. I am just paying what i owe so my daughter can finish her Ivy League education. I just completed my own MBA (two weeks ago), so there is nothing holding me back anymore.

I am pretty positive i got enough for 100% without the PTSD, which i am sure i willget as well given my military career. CPAP machine makes that so much easier....

Yeah, I was dealing with Sleep Apnea for years but it subsided for the most part by the time I had filed any claims. 46! You must've been on the fast track to CSM in your field...all the chips fell into place. What Branch are you in, might I ask?
You ought to be a shoe-in for any claim that you make. Even if you don't have a paper trail started, it'll be easy because you will have JUST separated from Service.
After reading your post, I was reminded of how many Brothers were brought into Special Forces because they were so much more nimble, athletic, and able to adapt to survival situations (probably due to Jim Crow, etc.) in the founding of the group.

My hat's off to ya Sarn Major and congrats to your daughter as well.

 

[godofwine]

Yeah, I was dealing with Sleep Apnea for years but it subsided for the most part by the time I had filed any claims. 46! You must've been on the fast track to CSM in your field...all the chips fell into place. What Branch are you in, might I ask?
You ought to be a shoe-in for any claim that you make. Even if you don't have a paper trail started, it'll be easy because you will have JUST separated from Service.
After reading your post, I was reminded of how many Brothers were brought into Special Forces because they were so much more nimble, athletic, and able to adapt to survival situations (probably due to Jim Crow, etc.) in the founding of the group.

My hat's off to ya Sarn Major and congrats to your daughter as well.

Ditto fam. Both of you stay up.

I get what you're saying about not going to sick call. When you showed up at the door they threatened you with malingering, tossed some Motrin your way and put you out.

I need to get up off my ass and refile for disability. The only game be 10% from my left knee and 0% for my right knee and ankle. You know that when you hurt your left knee, you overcompensate for your right knee now both of them sound like snap crackle Pop Rice Krispies

Shoulders hurting from "working parties" loading and unloading supplies, back issues, tinnitus. You name it. I saw this meme a little while ago and it's so damn true

 

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Cuba 1972

 

[Shaka54]

Ditto fam. Both of you stay up.

I get what you're saying about not going to sick call. When you showed up at the door they threatened you with malingering, tossed some Motrin your way and put you out.

I need to get up off my ass and refile for disability. The only game be 10% from my left knee and 0% for my right knee and ankle. You know that when you hurt your left knee, you overcompensate for your right knee now both of them sound like snap crackle Pop Rice Krispies

Shoulders hurting from "working parties" loading and unloading supplies, back issues, tinnitus. You name it. I saw this meme a little while ago and it's so damn true

That shit is on the money. Listen Bruh, they lowball you on your initial claim to see if you'll go away. You gotta be persistent with the bureaucracy.
I didn't even mention my frozen shoulder capsule that malingers on my left side and the right side is Rice Krispie like a muhfucka too but still kept range of motion.

I feel you on your knees too. The clowns didn't want to pay for my knees either for all of the years of running not just PT, but on Unit Cross-Country teams and shit. They finally relented and rated me at like 10% for one and 0 for the other.

Keep pressing Bruh.

 

[Shaka54]

Cuba 1972

Man, these pics from Cuba are outstanding. I luv 'em.

 

[the13thround]

Cleveland, Ohio. Scovill Avenue. 1947-55

 

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Freedom Riders, 1961.

 

[HeathCliff]

Those are some dope pics.

 

[Casca]

George McJunkin (1856–1922)[1] was an African American cowboy, amateur archaeologist and historian in New Mexico. He discovered the Folsom Site in 1908
Born to slaves in Midway, Texas, McJunkin was approximately 9 years old when the Civil War ended. He worked as a cowboy for freighters. He reportedly learned how to read from fellow cow punchers. McJunkin taught himself to read, write, speak Spanish, play the fiddle and guitar, eventually becoming an amateur archaeologist and historian.[2] In 1868, McJunkin arrived in New Mexico and became a foreman on the Thomas Owens Pitchfork Ranch.[3] McJunkin became a buffalo hunter and worked for several ranches in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. He was also reported to be an expert bronc rider and one of the best ropers in the United States. He became foreman of the Crowfoot ranch near Folsom, New Mexico.[4]

 

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One of the best threads on the board

 

[the13thround]

Brazil 1980

 

[SirRahX]

Egypt 1875

Dont remember where I got these pics. If a repost. MY BAD!

 

[SirRahX]

Mayan skull....Check the jewels!

 

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[SirRahX]

The timeline they dont show show in many museums. The Black part

 

[SirRahX]

Holy Roman Empire flag!

 

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[Helico-pterFunk]

90 pages and counting. Great thread.

 

[SirRahX]

http://imgbox.com/g/d8khThUwAe

 

[ShortyCumStain]

Man, these pics from Cuba are outstanding. I luv 'em.

Word.

 

[Casca]

Ellen Craft(1826–1891) andWilliam Craft(September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900)[1]wereslavesfromMacon, Georgiain the United States who escaped tothe Northin December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia onChristmas Day. Shepassedas a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves.Abolitionistsfeatured them in public lectures to gain support in the struggle to end the institution.

As the light-skinnedquadroondaughter of amulattoslave and her white master, Ellen Craft used her appearance to pass as a white man,dressed in male clothing, during their escape.

As prominent fugitives, they were threatened byslave catchersinBostonafter passage of theFugitive Slave Act of 1850, so the Crafts emigrated to England. They lived there for nearly two decades and reared five children. The Crafts lectured publicly about their escape. In 1860 they published a written account,Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. One of the most compelling of the manyslave narrativespublished before theAmerican Civil War, their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States. After their return to the US in 1868, the Crafts opened an agricultural school forfreedmen's children in Georgia. They worked at the school and its farm until 1890. Their account was reprinted in the United States in 1999, with both the Crafts credited as authors, and it is available online atProject Gutenbergand theUniversity of Virginia.

 

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Toni Morrison @ Howard University

 

[Slowhands]

nice

 

[zuluking]

 

[moblack]

Freedom Riders, 1961.

These are the people Tariq clowns from the comforts of his gated community.

 

[the13thround]

Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1953.

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On July 24, 1972, the Washington Star newspaper in Washington D.C. published an article exposing details of an ongoing syphilis experiment that withheld diagnosis information and treatment from black men in Alabama in order to study the effects of the disease. The article incited public outrage over the unethical treatment of participants, leading to the experiment’s termination later that year.

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40 years earlier, in 1932, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) partnered with the Tuskegee Institute on a study to examine the effects of untreated syphilis in black men in Macon County, Alabama. PHS workers persuaded 600 black men, 399 with syphilis, and 201 without the disease, to participate in the experiment. They were not given full details about the scope of the study, and were just told they would be receiving treatment for “bad blood” a vague term with many meanings in the rural, southern community.
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Nearly all of the men studied were poorly educated, impoverished sharecroppers. The study took advantage of their poverty, promising that their participation would be compensated with burial stipends, hot meals, and free medical exams. Those with syphilis were not told they were infected and did not receive treatment, even after Penicillin was discovered to be an effective cure for the disease in the 1940s.
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Their access to treatment outside of the study was also thwarted, as local health workers not affiliated with the project were prevented from caring for syphilis-infected individuals participating in the experiment. Over the study's 40 year span, 128 participants died of syphilis or syphilis-related complications.

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One year after the Washington Star broke the story, the NAACP represented survivors in a class action lawsuit. In 1974, the federal government settled for $10 million and agreed to provide survivors and their infected family members with free medical services. It would take another 23 years, however, for the government to issue a formal apology for its actions.

 

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Ted Mack, master of ceremonies for “The Original Amateur Hour,” hands a gold trophy to eight year old Gladys Knight in New York on July 1, 1952. Knight was voted winner of three nationwide broadcasts of the TV talent show.‬