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The badge that Tomb Guards wear is the second-least frequently awarded occupational badge (not to be confused with medals) awarded across all of the Armed Services. The rarest one, you ask? Would you believe that the Army has a version of Astronaut wings?

Link to the original post containing the pics is here. If your friend or anyone wants full-res originals, do let me know.

Thank you, sir. I'll pass the link, and the above information. It is a nephew who now wears that badge (not now in guard), and he is understandably proud. He may not know that information.

Are there any Army astronauts? Naming one is a beer-winning bar question at the right bar, for sure.

cheepneezy

Nov 9, 2009 6:41 pm

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Originally Posted by GTITAN (Post 12796138)

You know IIRC, Utica is the only stretch of the Thruway in NYS that has street lights. Wonder why that is?;)

Most of the street lights are usually burned out.:D

ConciergeMike

Nov 9, 2009 6:41 pm

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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 12796127)

You mean it's happend to other Boxers besides me and possibly Fozz? (he's now in the midwest or is he back in SEA?)

It didn't possibly happen to fozz. It happened to you, fozz, and to fozz's friend at our brunch table.

GTITAN

Nov 9, 2009 6:44 pm

Yeah, the 2d Amendment is a good one, CM, but I thank God for the 21st Amendment.:-:

xFF	Nov 9, 2009 6:44 pm

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12796142)

Ahhh...even the police state of New Jersey cannot defeat me. SuperG1955 and I (and possibly mwg25) will be enjoying an exercising of our Second Amendment rights on Thursday. So far there are 1,400 rounds of 9mm to be split among us, and another 400 rounds of .380ACP. I love the smell of primer...smells like freedom. :D

One thousand, four hundred rounds? Clean and cool; clean and cool.

Olton Hall

Nov 9, 2009 6:44 pm

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Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12796136)

I'm sorry. Utica is a city best viewed speeding past on the NYS Thruway.

Agreed. I have friends who work there when they escaped the wilds of Manhattan. They live in New Hartford which is a nice place. I was there for Riggie Fest a few years ago since I was working in Syracuse a bunch at that time.

xFF	Nov 9, 2009 6:46 pm

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Originally Posted by GTITAN (Post 12796162)

I thank God for the 21st Amendment.:-:

I curse the need for that amendment in the first place.

fozz	Nov 9, 2009 6:47 pm

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12796114)

Never happen, sadly. All of the Concordes are up on sticks or on museum display.

I believe BA has kept at least one, if not two, in fly worthy condition. There is always one parked by the hangars at LHR that isn't on sticks.

GTITAN

Nov 9, 2009 6:48 pm

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12796184)

I curse the need for that amendment in the first place.

Now, now, now, I always find the humor that the "18th" was repealed by the "21st".;)

ConciergeMike

Nov 9, 2009 6:48 pm

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12796147)

According to Wiki, 18 such individuals exist, and two of them are rather well-known.

Tomb Guards are required to recall on command more than 300 gravesites. If your friend's nephew was a Tomb Guard, I'd be willing to bet that your friend knows how scarce the Guard badge is. One of my teachers in middle school has a son that worked the Tomb. On our 8th grade trip to DC, the school scheduled the trip around seeing him participate in a changing.

fozz	Nov 9, 2009 6:49 pm

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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 12796127)

You mean it's happend to other Boxers besides me and possibly Fozz? (he's now in the midwest or is he back in SEA?)

He may be back in the midwest. He was in rare form this past week.

Said person was harassing one of the girls about being married and a boxer quickly replied, rather loudly, "she's not your type".

That was rather priceless.

Olton Hall

Nov 9, 2009 6:49 pm

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12796153)

It didn't possibly happen to fozz. It happened to you, fozz, and to fozz's friend at our brunch table.

I'm the only one with the misfortune of the bathroom incident I believe. Those two were at the same table as the other party which may have been worse.

Olton Hall

Nov 9, 2009 6:50 pm

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Originally Posted by fozz (Post 12796197)

classic. ^

ConciergeMike

Nov 9, 2009 6:52 pm

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Originally Posted by fozz (Post 12796191)

I believe BA has kept at least one, if not two, in fly worthy condition. There is always one parked by the hangars at LHR that isn't on sticks.

News to me, wow. I thought Concorde was treated by the airlines basically the same as the USAF treated the SR-71. There are two flyable Blackbirds left at Dryden Research Center, but there has been no federal budgeting allocated to them for about ten years now. All of the tooling and such for Blackbird was destroyed, so I'm not even sure that those two examples are even capable of flying again...that's what I meant by the similarity to Concorde.

tommy777

Nov 9, 2009 6:55 pm

Holy smokes! My LH flights yesterday has already posted to my OP account. Talk about German efficiency ;)

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