[DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

Mad Dog Antenucci teampantera at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 1 17:52:44 EDT 2009


In 22 months in Nam I am proud to say I never cooked or ate any ham and lima beans.  Any GI worth his salt knows only Marines ate that sheeit...which is why you all had a gas problem!  

 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com




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From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>; Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:24:55 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts


Um, did you toss a can of ham and limas to some kid, and he shot you?
 
If you ever really used these things, you'd remember using them to cut holes along the bottom of an empty can to make vents for an oven.  Of course, YOU probably burned C4 instead of the heat tabs that came in the C rats to make it more interesting.
 
Ken



 
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From: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts
To: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>, detomaso at realbig.com, "Robert Simpson" <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 1:52 PM


 
You don't think? 

Have any of you slackers ever had to eat C-rats? No, I didn't think so.

I have a bad gunshot scar on my shoulder. Its uglier then I am....The reason its so ugly is our team medic had to use a P38 to dig the bullet out. I'll finish the story when I can remember the rest of it. By then it should have got more interesting.


Mad Dawg Antenucci 

Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com 




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 From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com; Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 1:14:39 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts

I don't think the beans and franks were the hated meal, it was the ham and limas.  It was widely believed that if you tossed a can of ham and limas to the kids along the sides of the road in Vietnam, they'd throw it back.
 
Ken


 
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--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net> wrote:


From: Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:36 PM


We used to call them John Waynes.  I grew up on SAC bases from 1967 to the 
early 1980s.  I will never forget the day when the base commissary was 
selling old C rats on pallets, each box of rats was .25 cents each.  I was a 
bag boy at the time and bought $10.00 worth of C rats and my dad flipped his 
lid when he saw them.

I'll never forget what happened when I opened a can of beans and franks at 
the dinning room table, Dad walked over and yelled "What the 
hell..........beans and MOTHERF***ERS????????"

He proceeded to throw the can into the back yard, beans exploded on the back 
fence and the dog was happy and content eating the bright red mess.

Dad was a Korean war vet and was a grunt in Vietnam before enlisting in the 
Airforce.  I deduced he had some bad memories associated with C rats, YA 
THINK?????  LOL

I went to basic in the MRE era (1985)and my 18 year old son is at Ft. 
Benning as I write this and is supposed to attend Air Assault and Airborne 
School and graduates late June.

Bob
3468 

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