For Ladies Only: ST Revealed!

on human suffering, The Simon Tao, This too shall pass.

Recent photos (Yes you are reading that right – pix plural.) of me are linked. Girls Both Unleashed & Gone Wild for S.X. Templar Fan Club United, your pleas have been heard. Non-female persons are forbidden to open these links – sorry. Enjoy babes.

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    1. I’ll ask Candi when she wakes up. Actually, I think more long term damage was done to the uninjured ankle due to overcompensation. Sometimes life is not fair.

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  3. Fun fact: I wasn’t able to walk on that leg for months and had to ‘re-learn’ to walk after two of the three screws were finally removed. Turns out that our ankles are very important and extremely complicated joints.

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  6. These x-rays are of my right ankle. I recently sprained my left ankle (again) and believe that sprain can be directly linked to all of the stress put on it due to overcompensation caused by this old injury.

    Plus, I paid for those studio-quality pix so I may as well enjoy and share them from time to time with d’Ettes for your viewing pleasures.

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      1. Lol, I would never claim to speak for all womankind, but when it comes to this issue, I feel safe speaking for d’Ettes 🙂

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  8. Anyone want to make a bet that Hypatia misses Simon’s picture again? Hypatia never seems to be around when these pics go up 🙂

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      1. I just got off the phone with her; she’s been out on the range riding with her daughter. She’ll find this; no worries.

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      4. This is one of the few photos of me that exists. I had long forgotten about it until I saw it under a magnet on my mum’s fridge a year or two ago. I must have been in my early 20s because, you know, before USMC hairstylist at Parris Island, SC.

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  9. Ah, yes! Favorite, front and center; I remember someone referring to you as “Goose”, on L1, re: this pic; in order to grasp the comment, I watched “Top Gun”. Never have I been so peeved-off at the outcome of a movie. The other pics were – and are – hard to encounter, for me. Glad you won through the initial injury, but the consequences of over-compensation are a “beach” (thinking of Iwo Jima, sorta). Be kind to yourself, too, hermano.

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      3. Thanks, Hyp, for the reply! You’ve got faster fingers than me. 😀 (Mine’s here, too, somewhere, just so His Graciously Unleashedness! doesn’t think I’m ignoring him.) lol.

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      4. “Goose”is the red-haired, mustached, quiet, experienced, professional, Christian family guy ‘foil’ to Tom Hanks’ rowdy, screwup, privileged glamour boy, “Maverick”. Goose is killed during an encounter with a pair of Soviet MIGs, thanks to a rookie miscalculation on Maverick’s part, that puts them both at greater risk. I was ticked-off at the turn of the plot, big-time. And there’s the rest of my story. 😀

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      6. Yeah, can’t let the “pretty boy” (leading man) ‘buy the farm’, can we? Still, I’d like to see the grownup make good, just once.

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  11. I am reminded of a college friend and fellow Sigma Chi pledge who smuggled cocaine in the soles of his shoes. Remember those ‘stacked’ shoes we wore to disco? My friend was crazy!

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    1. I was born in 1970, but had a slew of older cousins and I would beg and beg and beg them to take me to a disco, but every one of them flatly refused 😦 I cannot overstate how badly I wanted to go to a disco, and how frustrated I was by their refusal to take me 🙂

      The disappointment still stings. I am jealous of those who had the opportunity to go 🙂

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      3. Fortunately for both you and me, JaC, the tunes were on the radio, and not everyone could pull off those platform shoes. Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd’s “Wild and Crazy Guys” bits on Saturday Night Live nailed the look/style of the mainstream, but not the ‘wild side’, Lou Reed-esque vibe Liz describes so well.

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    2. You were NOT a Sigma Chi!!! I was a Chi little sister in college and yes, y’all, they were all as wild as ST.

      Their favorite prank was to line up in front of the freshman girl’s dorm with flash cards numbered 1-10 and rate every young female walking in and out of the building. (Can you even imagine the uproar this would have caused today?)

      Fortunately, this prepared me for walking by construction workers after I moved to NYC. Thanks guys.

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      1. Only one year but I remained tight with a bunch of my pledge brothers until I went to Chile. The Frat was too restrictive and I needed to spread my wings.

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    1. Yep, he got in and out early then moved to Australia, met & married a local, and became a law-abiding citizen of the land down under.
      His nickname: “Dandy Don” — go figure.

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      1. I’m glad some of us are here to “keep the 70s alive”, ST. A great time to almost come of age. I “met Christ” then, actually.

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  13. We had a Naval Academy graduate take over Rob’s platoon when Lt Paz got injured. I hated Rob’s replacement and gave him shit all the time about being a silver spoon, know nothing on an ego trip. We did not get along well.

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    1. Good for you for refusing to tolerate a silver spoon know nothing on an ego trip: we are all familiar with the type, and the world would be a better place if more people stood up to them.

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      1. Sometimes, those types need a dose of reality; glad the platoon gave it to him good – and that you moved on. LAR sounds like “out of the frying pan, and into the fire”, though. Yikes!

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      3. Universities and hospitals are full of them, too: Profs whose lecture notes are yellow with age; department heads who’re so secure they haven’t had an original thought in fifty years. Physicians’ assistants who dismissed the value of a chaplain’s work, until one of them responded to my noticing the Rush Limbaugh calendar in his office.

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      4. “Sometimes, those types need a dose of reality; glad the platoon gave it to him good – and that you moved on. LAR sounds like “out of the frying pan, and into the fire”, though. Yikes!”

        So I have been asking you, from where do you know guys like Lt Silver Spoon and how do you know what they need?

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      5. I think it’s best that I sue for peace: I really do need to sleep. Chao for now and Peace be with you, ST. I’ll be back here later. I enjoyed the joust.

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      6. I am just trying to understand you or discover the misunderstanding. One of your comments today was crystal clear. I gave it the ‘thank you so much’ award.

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      7. I know, it’s maddening that we’re on different wavelengths often ST, but I can’t think straight, (even less than usual), so I’d better get some sleep, ‘K?

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  15. BTW, we had a horrible friendly fire incident during Persian Gulf I. A US Air Force pilot smoked us and killed a bunch of grunt FNGs. Memorial Day brings out these thoughts, I think.

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  16. ST, thank you 🙏 for being the “witness” to us about this; for yourself and those who were killed/wounded: We will not forget!

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      1. Forgive me; I’m grateful that you shared the story here. The ‘Ettes will remember, even if the rest of the country doesn’t.

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      2. Nanda, you never even heard of Rob Paz until I started dropping his name on L1 every Memorial Day. We will not remember is a better way to put it.

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      3. Now that we *are* aware, ST, we’ve chosen to make an effort to remember – precisely because you’ve made him known to us. The same holds true for the ‘friendly fire’ incident you’ve also chosen to say something about. Those of us who *can’t* fight better doshgarned well *remember* what it costs.

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      5. Fighting for things the Founders knew, that Flyover Country still knows, for and with each other….You’re the one who keeps me and others here aware that the Ruling Class and their cadre of career bureaucrat flunkies are out there; you also remind us to be critical of the narrative – and to think. If the chinkbug has shown me anything, it’s that there are still people who aren’t sheeple out here; we’re being encouraged to force these one-size-fits-all lockdowns to end – and to recognize the Ruling Class and the Deep State as opportunistic bottom-feeders that they are.

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      6. Nanda and I will never forget. Liz and Hypatia won’t forget either; Sandomina will not forget. Many of those reading whose names we do not know will not forget.

        As for those who want to forget, we can’t allow them to. Thank you, Simon, for everything you do and have done: Thank you for bearing witness.

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  17. His whole grunt platoon failed a uniform inspection. That one I saw with my own two eyeballs. It was one of the craziest things you ever saw. They all looked good at the pre-inspection then switched over to box of rocks look for the final inspection. Eyebrows were raised.

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  19. They – and you – were and are willing and able to take on danger and evil on our behalf, even when it’s all-but-certain we aren’t behaving in a way worthy of your commitment to us.

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  20. “Universities and hospitals are full of them, too: Profs whose lecture notes are yellow with age; department heads who’re so secure they haven’t had an original thought in fifty years. Physicians’ assistants who dismissed the value of a chaplain’s work, until one of them responded to my noticing the Rush Limbaugh calendar in his office.”

    They are all trained killers?

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  21. That’s a reference to complacent, self-satisfied “silver-spoons” like the odious Lt. you had to endure, ST. (It didn’t nest right.)

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    1. Yes, I got that and I was asking you what you know about those types and you responded with this:

      Sometimes, those types need a dose of reality; glad the platoon gave it to him good – and that you moved on. LAR sounds like “out of the frying pan, and into the fire”, though. Yikes!

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      1. A) The eejit needed taken down a peg; glad his platoon did it. B) Glad you didn’t have to deal with this stuck-up fool anymore; but I’d read a sample from a book on Persian Gulf I (Desert Storm: The Forgotten War) that you’d posted awhile ago, that describes this incident involving 1st LAR -hence: “Yikes!, etc.” C) Referring to ‘those types’ that I’ve run across as a student and in the workplace: There is no escaping them. They’re everywhere. I just encountered the civilian species.

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      2. Referring to ‘those types’ that I’ve run across as a student and in the workplace: There is no escaping them. They’re everywhere. I just encountered the civilian species.

        Are they also trained killers?

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      3. Grant you that, no, but a stuck on himself preening prig is to a certain degree lethal (to cohesive functioning and staff mental health), if not to physical existence on the planet.

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      4. I think it is quite different to ‘correct’ someone in the harshest of terms who is capable of permanently closing one’s medical records.

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  22. You, D’Nanda, responded with something about uni-professors and others.

    I asked you if any of those guys were trained to kill?

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    1. I did but I don’t think the people you are talking about are anything like the Lt I am talking about. I suspect you have no idea what it is like to be eye to eye with a trained killer in an isolated spot with no witnesses and giving him a non-stop ration of shit.

      Were the people you were talking about also stone cold killers?

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  24. I think you people think there is never any conflict between your Marines. If so, you could not be more wronger. I think leading grunts is not as easy as you would imagine. You can’t just let your Plt Sgt do everything and pretend you are an idiot. The real ain’t like in the movies.

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    2. You are right, Simon: civilians have no idea what Marines go through. Thank you for bearing witness, Thank you so much for everything you do and have done. There are no words.

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    1. “Now we truly know what catches readers’ attention…”

      Pix of my internal hardware? Silly me, I always thought gaining attention was why God invented chix n’ bikinis.

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