While My Mom was cleaning out My Grandfathers things She found these...sorry for the crooked scans.I think this was in '50 or '51..
My Grandfather is the Guy with the bucket on His head..
Grandpa using His 1903 as a club..
using 1903's as rests..
just a bonus shot of the 5" main Batteries (and another DD)on the Ship He was on,U.S.S.Walke,DD 723......
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Great pics Hump
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I'm no expert but those uniforms look earlier than the fifties...
Nice pics...
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Naww. That's what we had in the late 50's & early 60's.But we didn't wear the leggins.Originally Posted by canes7
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The leggings were what caused me to question the date, I thought they were done away with by '43. Maybe the Navy kept using them for a while after the Army dumped 'em.
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In boot camp in 58 we wore them everyday.YUCH.
I never got a bucket.
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Dude! Are they holdin a gun on a Brotha? Good thing that didn't happen now days!
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Good stuff!
Hump, I think after seeing your grandfather wearing a bucket on his head it kind of explains some of your strange conduct from time to time!
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Pappy's Rule #1-The truth is the truth and sometimes it hurts, but you never have to apologize for it.
Pappy's Rule #2-Politicans like baby diapers should be changed regularly and for the same reason.
Pappy's Rule #3-Dealing with some people is like wiping your ass with a hula hoop, there's no end to it and there's no part of it that smells good.
Pappy's Rule #4-When you discover someone has a burr under their saddle the best thing to do is hop right up on the saddle and grind that burr in a little deeper.
Pappy's Rule #5-The squeaky wheel gets the grease, until it squeaks to long or to loud, then it gets replaced.
See,it's not My fault!I can blame genetics
"The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." -- James Madison (1788)
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