On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:30:52 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:37:59 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:54:55 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:31:26 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

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"Ive got 3 clusters on my Purple Heart. ÿAnd 2 tours
in SEA. And another one in Rhodesia. And 8 yrs on the
street as a cop."
Gunner Asch, (aka Mark R. Wieber) Apr 21, 2010

Rhodesia? Oh, Gunner, have you been holding out on us?

What was that all about? Were you one of Smith's mercenaries, or were
you a guard for the tobacco smugglers?
I taught in the former Northern Rhodesia

I did 6 months as a "security guard on a farm"..they wanted someone with
my skillsets from SEA to lay out and kill "terrorists"..Communist
terrorists or not. So after a bit of this and that..I got disgusted
with the entire thing, broke contract and came back to the US, and never
hired out again. The war was heating up in the early/mid 1970s..I was
there in the last half of 1974 and got more than my belly full of it. I
was up near Lake Mebwu . North Rhodesia in a area not far out of
Bulaya..and ran patrols around the game reserves and the big lakes.

I was a soldier..and a damned good one..and a exceptionally effective
one..but I was never a murderer. Not for my country..nor for money. So I
came home. Its easy to kill, but making sure the right people die..in
that situation..was a right *******. Particularly for someone who had
marched with Dr. King...shrug. Rhodesia turned into a bloody nasty and
exceptionally brutal pool of **** for the next 6 or so years after I
left. Im glad I bailed out when I did. It was getting bad..real bad
before I left..and it got worse...much much much worse......

All I can say is Mr Smith paid well enough. Shrug. And I never ran low
on gear or ammo. Though the food...some of that was a bit hard to get
used to......

But I never did lose my hatred for Communists either..not after SEA and
Rhodesia.

Where were you at?

I was in Livingstone from '73 to '75. I arrived just weeks after the
zambezi gorge killings (May 15, 1973) where several Canadians and
Americans were shot by Zambian soldiers on the Rhodesian side of the
river. Apparently "their guns were loaded and so were they".

With the border closed, L'stone was litterally the "end of the road"
so there were shortages of just about everything at one time or other.
The political situation was tenuous, and being so close to Rhodesia,
Angola, and Mozambique, as well as Namibia, we did hear gunfire at
night occaisionally.

Beautiful part of the world though - Love to go back to visit. My
daughter dropped in over Christmas a few years back and saw where I
used to live, as well as the school (Livingstone Trades Training
Institute back then)

Travelled down to Chobe Botswana and up to Mbereshi in NorthEast
province (through Zaire - another story).

Gunner

One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch