El Paso is literally walking distance from Mexico.
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polara71
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Thats in Texas? I thought Texas was flat with some cities, otherwise desert like
Barely in Southwest Texas. It's a few miles east of New Mexico, and a mile (if that) north of the Mexican border. El Paso has expanded greatly since I was stationed there. It's all desert and flat as a pancake except the Franklin Mountains rolls through El Paso. It's all rock and sand. Very little green anywhere.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I guess the John Wayne movies are accurate then
We also tested XM-1 Tanks while I was there in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Mostly in the field at Donna Ana Base Camp in New Mexico.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
All that is gibberish to me.....
Ok, we tested the M-1 tank when it was a protype in the desert in New Mexico when I was in the Army.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Thats better, now I feel smart
Sorry Dave, I'm so engrained with the military lingo.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
You should be.........
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
El Paso is the place with all the dirt tunnels, right?
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70NPORT
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Reason #154.
Funny how I can recall every bit of evolutionary change over 35 years. Saw construction, reconstruction, re-reconstruction and re-re-reconstruction.
During reconstruction, I would watch layers peeled back like on an onion to the the original designs. Like during an archeological excavation, I'd see how the 4 lane asphalt was buit over the three lane which was built over the two lane concrete. Jersey barrier back to double gaurd rail to single guard rail to the original concrete poles connected by a cable. Through the trees, see dilapitated motels with unbelievable vintage remains of neion signs. I'd see small areas of tall grass and remember that's where yet another PITA toll booth was. I'd remember the Micky-D service plazas when there was just a Ho-Jo's and an Atlantic gas station. One thing never changed. What a pit of hell the Cross-Bronx is.
I will go to my grave never forgetting 1978, though...
Jeezus, I'll have to call the old man and ask about that one because I have no memories of it.
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
I remember that snow storm, I made lots o'dough shoveling driveways with that winter...like about $2 or 3 hundred bucks or so. Man that was great.
There's tunnels from California to Texas. El Paso is right across the border from Juarez, Mexico. Open warfare in the streets of Juarez now. There was 3,115 murders in Juarez in 2010. Partying GI's was the problem (if you want to call it a problem) in Juarez when I was stationed there. Juarez is off limits to GI's now.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
I remember the snow of 96'.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
95 and back is blank, huh?
Personally I only fought the Tijuana Campaign but they were vanquished! Spent more time in Ellensburg waiting for avalances to be cleared. More days in Moorhead drinking coffee and pumping rationed #1 fuel trying to get to Winnipeg, and we won't talk about sitting in an old Shell T-Stop hillbilly honkytonk up where 495+95 get together north of Bean town. Oh yeah, then there waz the time I went past the south bound chicken house comin' north off the grape vine with a cracked air line at something over 100MPH. I got all the way to the 5+99 split before I slowed down enough to find the 13th hole again. Some day we'll have to share war storys Stan. You know the new breed doesn't even know of or ever heard of ah Bingo Card iz?
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
Parts of it...yes. But mainly I was too young to remember a snow storm in 78', ya know.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
32" in 96 all in one shot, it was amazing..... and Gone in two weeks.
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