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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:14 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:24 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:26 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:36 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:41 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:43 am
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Das Rabble Rouser Private Sanders Das Rabble Rouser No big surprise but before coming to America Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the Austrian special forces. Really? I read he was a plain old conscript. I heard that he was in their equivalent to the green berets. |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:12 pm
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Private Sanders Das Rabble Rouser Private Sanders Das Rabble Rouser No big surprise but before coming to America Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the Austrian special forces. Really? I read he was a plain old conscript. I heard that he was in their equivalent to the green berets. I'll just put him down as Austrian Army and leave what he did as ambiguous, then. |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:26 pm
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James Marshall Hendrix.
U.S. Army.
Quote: Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing basic training, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a subpar soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding officers submitted a request that Hendrix be discharged from the military after he had served only one year. Hendrix did not object when the opportunity to leave arose. He would later tell reporters that he received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. The rock music journalist Charles Cross contended in his biography of Hendrix, Room Full of Mirrors (2005) that Hendrix feigned being homosexual—claiming to have fallen in love with a fellow soldier—in order to be discharged, but did not produce credible evidence to support this contention. At the base recreation center, Hendrix met fellow soldier and bass player Billy Cox, and the two forged a loyal friendship that Hendrix would call upon from April 1969 until Billy's breakdown shortly before Hendrix's death. The two would often perform with other musicians at venues both on and off the base as a loosely organized band there named the Casuals. As a celebrity in the UK, Hendrix mentioned his military service in three published interviews; one in 1967 for the film See My Music Talking (much later released under the title Experience), which was intended for TV to promote his recently released Axis: Bold as Love LP, in which he spoke very briefly of his first parachuting experience: "...once you get out there everything is so quiet, all you hear is the breezes-s-s-s..." This comment has later been used to claim that he was saying that this was one of the sources of his "spacy" guitar sound. The second and third mentions of his military experience were in interviews for Melody Maker in 1967 and 1969, where he spoke of his dislike of the army. In interviews in the US, Hendrix almost never mentioned it, and when d**k Cavett brought it up in his TV interview, Hendrix's only response was to verify that he had been based at Fort Campbell.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:42 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:59 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:23 pm
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Requiem in Mortis R. Lee Ermey- Marine Corps (seriously, why hasn't anyone mentioned him?) Montel Williams- Marine Corps Bill Cosby- Navy Ice-T- Army MC Hammer- Navy Art Carney- Army (was wounded at Normandy) Clint Eastwood- Army (he stacked gooks as sandbags in Korea) Don Knotts- Army Hugh Hefner- Army (WWII) Jimmy Stewart- Air Force Reserves James Earl Jones- Army Rangers Gene Hackman- Marine Corps George Carlin- Air Force Chuck Norris- Air Force Drew Carey- Marine Corps Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)- Marine Corps Andy Roony- Army Alec Guiness- Royal Navy George C. Scott- Marine Corps Humphrey Bogart- Navy (WWI) Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon- Navy Rod Serling- Army Ronald Reagan- Army (hey, he counts as a celebrity)
Singer James Blunt (British Army) has been added, as will Pornographer Larry Flint (US Army and US Navy [He served in the Army, was discharged, then later joined the Navy]). |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:24 pm
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Fresnel Requiem in Mortis James Earl Jones- Army Rangers Please god tell me he was the radio guy. xd Served as backup catapult on the USS Enterprise. The phrase "disgusting fatbody" comes to mind. Either it's a miracle he made it through basic, or he's really let himself go.
Took me a moment to catch the joke about Jones. I need to watch that movie again... |
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:16 pm
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Requiem in Mortis Fresnel Requiem in Mortis James Earl Jones- Army Rangers Please god tell me he was the radio guy. xd Served as backup catapult on the USS Enterprise. The phrase "disgusting fatbody" comes to mind. Either it's a miracle he made it through basic, or he's really let himself go. He let himself go after he got out. Although recently he's gotten into better shape. Took me a moment to catch the joke about Jones. I need to watch that movie again... |
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