It's kind of an unusual name, at least around here, so I thought you might be related. They're really nice, really solid folks.
What was the inspiration for your Username?
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It ain't as common as my surname, there are seven people with my first and last name in our directory. I've never met a Kinman outside of the family, my mother's first name was Ardella. I've only met one other Ardella in my life. When I was doing some genealogy on Ancestry.com I ran across a feller from Texas that was related, but he came down through his mother's side which was another rather uncommon name of Herzog.
Cities N Dust
Siouxsie and the Banshees Song .... Basically about what happens to the body from fallout=Nuclear Death
All of my handles are song titles
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Siouxsie and the Banshees Song .... Basically about what happens to the body from fallout=Nuclear Death
All of my handles are song titles
Cities
Former occupation. But not what you think.
Rimfire Fanatic
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Mine is 1911 Fanatic on another forum. My favorite platform is a 1911. But due to increasing health concerns and disability, I can't take shooting as much centerfire ammo as I used to. I have 5 .22 cal handguns and a rifle.
I am having fun shooting the 22's. They don't bug my arthritis like my centerfire handguns. I can shoot hundreds of rounds during a single range session with no problem. I have other problems though that preclude me from shooting a long time, multiple hours, during a single day.
I can't stand for long periods and after an hour or two I'm beat. I also shoot rimfire before I shoot centerfire handguns as a warm up.
I will shoot a hundred rounds out of my 22's, and then my 45's, 9MM's, and my 357 with 38's. I can only shoot a few mags or a few cylinders with the center fire guns. Then I'm worn out.
But I'm back to loving shooting again. My son got me back into it.
I am currently planning on a couple more rifles and a couple more pistols in 22LR. One being a 22 cal 1911.
I am having fun shooting the 22's. They don't bug my arthritis like my centerfire handguns. I can shoot hundreds of rounds during a single range session with no problem. I have other problems though that preclude me from shooting a long time, multiple hours, during a single day.
I can't stand for long periods and after an hour or two I'm beat. I also shoot rimfire before I shoot centerfire handguns as a warm up.
I will shoot a hundred rounds out of my 22's, and then my 45's, 9MM's, and my 357 with 38's. I can only shoot a few mags or a few cylinders with the center fire guns. Then I'm worn out.
But I'm back to loving shooting again. My son got me back into it.
I am currently planning on a couple more rifles and a couple more pistols in 22LR. One being a 22 cal 1911.
I have a mechanical engineering degree, like 1911 pistols, was a Bullseye shooter (2700 competition) from 1989 until 2007. I never broke 2400, but came close with a 2387 one time. There are more than three S&W revolvers at our house. Several snub nose revolvers have been added, and 4 M29 / M629 have left the herd.
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I live in a beach community in San Diego. Every summer we are swamped with folks from Arizona coming here for a vacation and/or to beat the heat in AZ this time of year. They're everywhere....on the roads, in the stores etc. The locals started referring to them as zoners.
A while back I bought a place in Apache Junction, AZ so my wife could go there and visit her parents while they spent the winter there. I still have my place in San Diego(my primary residence) but I'm also one of the "Zoners"........
A while back I bought a place in Apache Junction, AZ so my wife could go there and visit her parents while they spent the winter there. I still have my place in San Diego(my primary residence) but I'm also one of the "Zoners"........
Rimfire Fanatic
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Nice. I used to shoot Bullseye when I was in college. I had a model 10, a Browning Buckmark, and a Colt Gold Cup. I only did it for a couple of years. Never got a box like the other guys. And I wasn't the top shooter either. But I became a much better shooter.
I've got a buddy served on the Tunny in that time frame.
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Since no one asked I'll tell of my strange name. My late wife had some stuffed animals in our living room. One of those looked like the Farfel puppet in the old Nestles comercials. My daughter misspelled the name when it became my wife's online username. I just added the X to keep things seperate.
I flew Green Hornet Helicopter gunships in Daniel Boone 
To supply their forces in South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese built a secret road system through neutral Laos and Cambodia. This supply line, named the Truong Son Road but called the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" by Americans, consisted of a network of roads and hiding places concealed by jungle. In an effort to stop the communists' flow of supplies while appearing to respect Laotian and Cambodian neutrality, the United States secretly placed radar stations to guide air strikes and sent small reconnaissance teams of native personnel into Laos and Cambodia. Led by U.S. Army Special Forces personnel, those reconnaissance teams found targets for airstrikes and later assessed the damage. These cross-border or "over the fence" operations relied upon U.S. Air Force helicopters for transportation and resupply.
Covert reconnaissance operations into Laos, code named SHINING BRASS and later PRAIRIE FIRE, began in1965. Using the call sign Pony Express, Sikorsky CH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopters from the 20th Helicopter Squadron (later re-designated the 20th Special Operations Squadron) operated from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in support of these secret missions and the radar sites. Later, the squadron received BellUH-1F/P "Huey" helicopters to support the effort. The20th's mission expanded as they started working closely with forward air controllers and other USAF aircraft in Laos to rescue downed American pilots.
In 1967 the U.S. expanded its secret reconnaissance operations into Cambodia under the code names DANIEL BOONE and later SALEM HOUSE. The 20th's UH-1s supported these operations using the call sign Green Hornet. During a Green Hornet mission on Nov. 26, 1968, Capt. James P. Fleming earned the Medal of Honor while rescuing a six-man reconnaissance team.
The group rescued was code named "RT Chisel," and it was composed of Staff Sergeant Ancil "Sonny" Franks, Sergeant Charles Hughes, three Montagnards, and Captain Randolph Harrison (he was the new CCS Recon Company commander and there to learn ops). The Americans were SOG personnel (Green Berets) while the Montagnards were indigenous personnel that worked with SOG. All six were safely recovered during the operation.
The 20th's SikorskyCH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopters were separated into the 21stHelicopter Squadron (later re-designated the 21st Special Operations Squadron) in 1967. The 21st continued supporting the covert operations in Laos, including the placement of IGLOO WHITE electronic sensors, from Nakhon Phanom under the call sign of Dust Devils.
To insert and resupply covert reconnaissance teams deep into North Vietnam, the USAF used special Lockheed C-130E(I) aircraft. Later redesignated the MC-130E Combat Talon I, this aircraft was equipped with the Fulton Recovery System to pick up personnel and packages.This system used a balloon to suspend a cable which the MC-130E would snag in flight. At first using the innocuous designation Detachment1, 314th Tactical Airlift Wing (later the 15th Special Operations Squadron), they operated from Nha Trang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. Nicknamed "Blackbirds" because of their special green and black paint scheme, these MC-130Es avoided enemy detection by using terrain-following radar to fly very low at night.
While these secret missions never stopped the flow of supplies to the communists in the south, they caused severe disruptions. In addition,the need to defend against these reconnaissance teams caused the North Vietnamese to hold back troops that could have been fighting in South Vietnam.
Secret War: Green Hornets
To supply their forces in South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese built a secret road system through neutral Laos and Cambodia. This supply line, named the Truong Son Road but called the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" by Americans, consisted of a network of roads and hiding places concealed by jungle. In an effort to stop the communists' flow of supplies while appearing to respect Laotian and Cambodian neutrality, the United States secretly placed radar stations to guide air strikes and sent small reconnaissance teams of native personnel into Laos and Cambodia. Led by U.S. Army Special Forces personnel, those reconnaissance teams found targets for airstrikes and later assessed the damage. These cross-border or "over the fence" operations relied upon U.S. Air Force helicopters for transportation and resupply.
Covert reconnaissance operations into Laos, code named SHINING BRASS and later PRAIRIE FIRE, began in1965. Using the call sign Pony Express, Sikorsky CH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopters from the 20th Helicopter Squadron (later re-designated the 20th Special Operations Squadron) operated from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in support of these secret missions and the radar sites. Later, the squadron received BellUH-1F/P "Huey" helicopters to support the effort. The20th's mission expanded as they started working closely with forward air controllers and other USAF aircraft in Laos to rescue downed American pilots.
In 1967 the U.S. expanded its secret reconnaissance operations into Cambodia under the code names DANIEL BOONE and later SALEM HOUSE. The 20th's UH-1s supported these operations using the call sign Green Hornet. During a Green Hornet mission on Nov. 26, 1968, Capt. James P. Fleming earned the Medal of Honor while rescuing a six-man reconnaissance team.
The group rescued was code named "RT Chisel," and it was composed of Staff Sergeant Ancil "Sonny" Franks, Sergeant Charles Hughes, three Montagnards, and Captain Randolph Harrison (he was the new CCS Recon Company commander and there to learn ops). The Americans were SOG personnel (Green Berets) while the Montagnards were indigenous personnel that worked with SOG. All six were safely recovered during the operation.
The 20th's SikorskyCH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopters were separated into the 21stHelicopter Squadron (later re-designated the 21st Special Operations Squadron) in 1967. The 21st continued supporting the covert operations in Laos, including the placement of IGLOO WHITE electronic sensors, from Nakhon Phanom under the call sign of Dust Devils.
To insert and resupply covert reconnaissance teams deep into North Vietnam, the USAF used special Lockheed C-130E(I) aircraft. Later redesignated the MC-130E Combat Talon I, this aircraft was equipped with the Fulton Recovery System to pick up personnel and packages.This system used a balloon to suspend a cable which the MC-130E would snag in flight. At first using the innocuous designation Detachment1, 314th Tactical Airlift Wing (later the 15th Special Operations Squadron), they operated from Nha Trang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. Nicknamed "Blackbirds" because of their special green and black paint scheme, these MC-130Es avoided enemy detection by using terrain-following radar to fly very low at night.
While these secret missions never stopped the flow of supplies to the communists in the south, they caused severe disruptions. In addition,the need to defend against these reconnaissance teams caused the North Vietnamese to hold back troops that could have been fighting in South Vietnam.
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GyMac
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My rank and nickname in the Marine Corps
besshoudini
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I am related to Bess Houdini
Pretty complicated. I live in Alabama and I shoot.
