In case some of you didnt get the e-mail that I sent out a few months ago, here are some pictures of the 4th Battalion, 17th Infantry presence at the reunion ... about 35 total .. off and on. There were a total of 350 people at the reunion and 35 lightfighters might not sound like a lot, but it was better than my first reunion (2002) where there was 1 lightfighter (me)
Ernest "Little Daddy" Echoles and the "Chief" CSM Robert Collins
Barbeque at the CSM's .. L-RDon Shook, Terry Tlumac, Clayton Plumley, James Spivey, Mike Vasquez, Jon Dave Ray, Steve Goodwin, Kevin Ryan, Doug Bell, and William "Big Al" Allen
BuffaFuckingLo .. You have to see this thing in person to fully appreciate it ...
Don Shook and Doug Bell stop by the Memorial before heading home on Sunday.
The memorial before it was "unveiled"
Top Row L-R
Don Shook (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Dan Jeans (B and HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Steve Goodwin (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Mike Kipp (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Kevin Ryan (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Doug Bell (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Clayton Plumley (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
Terry Tlumac (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Jon Ray (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
CSM Robert Collins (CSM 4-17: 84 to 88)
LTC Frank Norton (LTC 4-17: 84 to 87)
Cody Kay (C & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
Bottom Row L-R
James Wilson (C 4-17: 84 to 88)
Mike Vasquez (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
William Allen (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Charles Gibson III (C 4-17: 92 to 94)
Ernest Echoles (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Dan Jeans (B and HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Nelson Sanderlain (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Don Shook (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Bob Munion (C & B 4-17: 84 to 92)
Mike Vasquez (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Terry Tlumac (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
1SG James Spivey (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Mike Kipp (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Jon Ray (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
Ernest Echoles (Blue Flowered Shirt)(B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Steve Goodwin (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Kevin Ryan (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Doug Bell (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Bottom Row L-R
James Aspey (B 4-17: 84 to 87)
Clayton Plumley (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
CSM Robert Collins (CSM 4-17: 84 to 88)
William Allen (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
William's Son
James Wilson (C 4-17: 84 to 88)
SFC James Apsey, SFC Jon David Ray, and 1SG Clayton Plumley
L-R
Kimberly Gibbs (William Delaney Gibbs's widow)
Charles Gibson III (C 4-17: 92 to 94)
Bob Munion (C & B 4-17: 84 to 92)
Jon Ray (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
Doug Bell (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Matt Lissner (B 4-17 PL: 88 to 91)
Delaney Gibbs (William Delaney Gibbs's daughter)
1SG James Spivey (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Don Shook (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
LTC Frank Norton (LTC 4-17: 84 to 87)
Nelson Sanderlain (B 4-17: 84 to 88)
Kevin Ryan (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Steve Goodwin (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
Clayton Plumley (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 89)
William Allen (HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
David Anthony De La Sierra (HHC 4-17 Medic: 88 to 90)
Mike Kipp (B & HHC 4-17: 84 to 88)
William's Son
James Aspey (B 4-17: 84 to 87)
A bunch of 4th Battalion Buffalo gather around in one of the hospitality rooms to pass around photographs and bullshit about our days on the planet .. Starting with the guy in the Chevy shirt and going clockwise:Cody Kay (Chevy shirt), Doug Bell, Kevin Ryan, Steve Goodwin, Bob Munion, Don Shook, Mike Kipp, Terry Tlumac, Mike Vasquez, and Dan Jeans
The 2006 Reunion is September 13th through the 16th at Colorado Springs, Colorado. If you want further info on going then give me a call or e-mail me at deshook@7thinfantry.com I'm trying to get together a guided day of rappelling or something like that for us younger guys ... Perfect place to do it and we should all remember a little bit about it.
4 comments:
holy crap! - don just said that some of you lightfighters and buffalos are too old to do "guided rappelling"...so which of you is gonna beat his "younger guy" ass first?! Ha!
(ain't gonna be me - i'm one of the "younger guys"... Whoo! [slap!])
LOL ... by older I mean the folks in the Association that are WWII and Korean War veterans .. however, not that you said something, it would be kinda cool to rig up something with a wheel chair ... a lot easier going down with wheels don't you think?
Holy...wow! Is that Gibbs' daughter who was at the time yet-to-be born?
I may be a younger guy, but that makes me feel old.
Yep, that's her. She's a great kid and it was good to meet her and Kimberly. She's a talented singer and actress in her local area.
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