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Nice period photos (all jackets except A-2's)

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Rory Schultz

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I have a funny story about Arnold. During Spring Break from Uni back in early 1980s I took a summer job (it didn't last all summer I got fired for um violating no frat rule) working the Private Security for the Mandalay Four Seasons in Las Colinas Texas. I would escort Famous people through private hallways to special areas that led to their backway to their rooms and dining areas not open to the general public area. I was his body guard/ Escort for almost 2 weeks while he stayed there....Jesh his bicep was larger than my thigh! But I was "the guy" with the keys having to escort both Arnold and Maria Shriver around so that they could hook up and no one knew about it. I mean NO ONE knew about them! I had to sign NDA's with both parties and with the Mandalay Hotel. Another time Stevie Nicks was there---I think buying some land ( she mumbled about....that woman was STONED all the time....whipping out a bottle of coke and snorting away) One day she was so wasted and barely could walk and I had to take her to her dining room. She ordered some weird cereal...whipped out more snort...mumbling some crap ( we were not allowed to hold conversations other than about biz) Then wham, she face plants into her cereal and she is out. I thought she OD or something...I yelled at her to wake up...nothing....I grabbed her hair and yanked her back to make sure she was breathing...she started to snore. I called the Manager and EMS. They came and took her to the hospital. AGAIN NDA's etc.....
 
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Thomas Koehle said:
Sorry for that A2 - just couldn't stand


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OMGinger snaps! Back when it was REAL MEAT~!!! And could afford to eat it too!
 
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Shanghai-Mayne

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Rory Schultz said:
I have a funny story about Arnold. During Spring Break from Uni back in early 1980s I took a summer job (it didn't last all summer I got fired for um violating no frat rule) working the Private Security for the Mandalay Four Seasons in Las Colinas Texas. I would escort Famous people through private hallways to special areas that led to their backway to their rooms and dining areas not open to the general public area. I was his body guard/ Escort for almost 2 weeks while he stayed there....Jesh his bicep was larger than my thigh! But I was "the guy" with the keys having to escort both Arnold and Maria Shriver around so that they could hook up and no one knew about it. I mean NO ONE knew about them! I had to sign NDA's with both parties and with the Mandalay Hotel. Another time Stevie Nicks was there---I think buying some land ( she mumbled about....that woman was STONED all the time....whipping out a bottle of coke and snorting away) One day she was so wasted and barely could walk and I had to take her to her dining room. She ordered some weird cereal...whipped out more snort...mumbling some crap ( we were not allowed to hold conversations other than about biz) Then wham, she face plants into her cereal and she is out. I thought she OD or something...I yelled at her to wake up...nothing....I grabbed her hair and yanked her back to make sure she was breathing...she started to snore. I called the Manager and EMS. They came and took her to the hospital. AGAIN NDA's etc.....
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Thank you! That’s a crazy story.
 
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Shanghai-Mayne

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Rory Schultz said:
I believe the image is reversed, Beret are facing wrong side, Nice, I used to have Charles De Gaulle's Uniform with the Kepi had 2 stars. It was stolen. I still have some other Free French and Algiers period and the Uniforms of one of my good friends who fought at Dien Bien Phu ( he was a teenager at the time ) who became a POW of the Viet Minh then when free rejoined the FFL until war Formally broke out then he was commissioned as a 2nd Lt with the 33rd ARVN. After US pulled out they were still fighting the North for another 3 to 5 years ( 3 years in South Vietnam and another 2 years in Cambodia ) until he became a POW for 5 years. After his release he moved near me here in Texas. Now that man was a die hard HERO. His name was 2nd Lt. Dennis Pham ( Dung Pham ) He was awarded every high decoration of numerous Countries except for the USA.
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Oh, they were trained by British commando , so, they wearing their beret in British manner.
 
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Rory Schultz

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Shanghai-Mayne said:
Thank you! That’s a crazy story.
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You should hear the story as to what got me fired and very funny details that led up to it! If I reveal this one I would get SO sued out the wazoo. Let's just say back then I was a young 3 Balled Tomcat and an opportunity came along......I did not even know who she was at the time. But it was all caught on Security Cam. (BTW- there are Hidden Cams in rooms) About a week later I was called in to meet these 7 Big Huge Corporate Guys in one of the massive Ballrooms of the Hotel. They were behind a long table and one chair out front for me to sit in. And behind them was a large Monitor up on a six foot high type scaffold. They asked my name, what period my shift was- then had me read the rules for employment etc.....I am thinking I am in deep now. They started the video and sure enough there I was......they are staring me down and I am scrunching down in my seat. They asked, "IS THIS YOU IN THIS VIDEO?" They asked, "DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT WOMAN IS? I said no.......They told me WHO and I still said, "Nope, clueless, doesn't ring a bell!" They said, we have no choice but to fire you....BUT YOU MUST SIGN ALL THESE NDA'S Concerning the Client and the Hotel. I said, " I did not force myself---she was all over me as you can see in the video!" They said, " IRRELEVANT!" Sign! Her attorney came around to me and said softly, "she is married and this can not get out at all, please sign her NDA" I signed it all and as I was about to leave. So I asked, "Can I get a copy of the video?" They rolled their eyes and were shaking their heads.... Then one yelled, " GET OFF THE PROPERTY!"
 
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B-Man2 said:
Never knew he was captured
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He was captured twice after crash-landings behind the enemy ( Soviet ) lines.. but managed to escape prior beeing taken POW.
He surrendered with the whole JG52 to the USAAF on May 8th and was then handed over to the Soviets …where he was first sentenced to death, later on it was commuted to 20 years ( if he „cooperates „… which he did not.).. then to 25 years of Gulag…
Finally he was released after 10 years ( in 1955 ) and later under Boris Yeltsin he was not considered as a War criminal anymore but as an ( ex) enemy fighter pilot who did his duty.
 
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