Jocko the Wonder Llama Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 We were running convoy escort outside Mosul and we passed a convoy heading the other way. We slowed down for some ungodly reason and I noticed we were passing a humvee with the Phantom logo painted on the door. I yelled to ask him if he marched in Phantom and he nodded yes. So I spun my turret around so he could see the Bluecoats "B" that I had painted on my track. He smiled, I waved and then we were on the move again.-Travis <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Having done a few convoy escort missions in Mosul myself, I can attest to that being the coolest encounter on that road. I salute you Travis, and all of the troops. Keep your head down, and come home safe (The senior corps need all the people that we can get! :P ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer19 Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Browsing around at the A&F on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, ran into a guy I marched with in 1999. In 2003 I was working for the AmeriCorps program on a trail building project in Birmingham, AL. My team and I decided to head out to this great little restaurant in the five points area and wound up being seated next to the cast of BLAST! I introduced myself and we chatted for a little bit. Same night, kind of random, also ran into Ruben Studdard at the same restaurant. I don't think he marched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2oldcadets Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 A little over 20 years ago, while welcoming couples from our church - of various ages, to a small group at our apartment, one of the couples noticed a Garfield Cadet plaque we had displayed. It ended up, one of our guest's marched in Holy Name back in the 1950's. It has made for a very nice friendship through the years... And just last week, as I was getting ready to be discharged from the hospital and making some last minute rounds to say good-bye to the others I met on the floor, while yakking outdoors in the courtyard, someone visiting somebody else on the next wing saw my Cadet t-shirt, came out and approached us and stated he just had to ask, Cadets drum corps or something else? Then when he realized that both my husband - who was also there, and myself had marched, he proceeded to salute and tell us what a total drum corps fan he has been for the past 40+ years, even though he never marched. We'll be looking for him at Giant's Stadium next week... I'm sure there are a few others I can't think of at the moment, but as far as I'm concerned, you could never run into enough drum corp people... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torn8o Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) How's this one for a VERY BIZZARE coinkeedink! I was in Wal Mart while I was visiting family in California a while back. As I got in line to buy some odds and ends, a former drum corps buddy was in front of me. Oh wait, it gets weirder. As Some of you know I play professionally now. Well, the guy was purchasing a CD that I happened to be on and didn't even know it. My picture was even on the cover (though I can see how I might not resemble what I used to look like now that I have a buzz cut and weigh about 50 pounds more than I used to). Will something like that ever happen again in my life? Doubtful. Something like that only happens once. Edited July 29, 2005 by torn8o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisTS Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Another one: In '02, we did a Walmart (or some other equally horrid store) run. One of the employees used to march Americanos, and said we were the second corps in there that day. (I think the fact that no other people our age go into a store and buy multiple bottles of silver polish might have given it away). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD2Rings Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 First to you guys who served in Iraq / Mosul, I salute you and give thanks. My son was in the same neighborhood as you guys. He spent about 9+ months of his tour with the 101st in Mosul, much of it driving a truck. He was trained as a fister, but not much call for that for most of the time. He was with the 3-502 and his squad called him Pokey, as in Gumby. He did march march when he was really young with the BD C corps. As for me, some year in the late '80s, a large group of family chose to spend Thanksgiving week in Las Vegas. We have always lived in the Concord area and I had been out of drum corps for 10+ years at this point. We were walking thru a very crowded mass of humanity in some casino, when much to my surprise I find myself virtually nose to nose with Mac (Mark MacIntyre) whom I had not seen for a number of years. He and his wife were living in St. Louis at the time, 2,000+ miles away from us and the BD area (yes we marched together in '76 and '77). Now that was random. Second story, totally unrelated to drum corps. My wife is from Poland. We have taken several trips to Poland to visit her family. On one such trip we were flying from Warsaw to Amsterdamn, and as luck would have it, we were directly across from Lech Walensa, the former leader of the Solidarity movement and former president of Poland. My wife is nowhere near as outgoing as I, and she wanted me to leave the man alone. Since he was involved with his laptop, I left him alone. But when we were getting off the plane in Amsterdamn, I just wanted to shake the man's hand. With his efforts in Solidarity, his life was on the line for years. The Soviets could have taken him out at any time. We were near the front of the plane, and Mr. Walensa's security was near the back. So when we got off, he had to wait for his security to catch up. I walked up to the man, and in my broken Polish greeted him and shook his hand. He began speaking in rapid staccato Polish to me, which I could not understand, so I asked to wait a moment as I called over my Polish wife. Mr. Walensa looks my wife over slowly, and deliberatly, head to toe, then says something that had everybody who understood Polish laughing (which meant I was standing quietly). He said he approved of my choice of women, but I had to work on my language skills. Now somebody tell me whether that was politically correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Bennett3rd Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 I haven't seen people I marched with but AGAINST. I work at IKEA, and there are many times I look at a customers T-shirt and it looks oddly familiar. One instance in particular was a guy with a SUTA shirt. None of my coworkers even noticed, but I started singing "i march with Phantom 'cause I like staight lines......." (I have a few more derogatory lines for that song, but this is a family board) and the guy just cracked up. ended up talking for about 20 minutes, while I "showed" him how a sofa bed worked. Good times.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiBoyinLA Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Walking up Masada (in the Israeli Desert). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScribeToo Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Random:SCV VK met on LAPD SIDE NOTE: I have a brother SCOUT here on-the-job(he marched 7 years, as did his two brothers!) from WI. Brothers in Blue (LAPD) and Brothers in Green (Madison Scouts) GO MADISON! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey, I know that guy! I got beaned in the forehead with the bouquet his wife threw at their wedding reception a couple weeks ago! hahahahaha Were you at the wedding?? I guess now I should add my own stories... I run into people I know from drum corps all the time but I have my "most favorites" -- here's two of them.. When I lived in Normal Heights (San Diego), I was wearing my denim patch jacket one night at the grocery store.. standing in line to checkout, the guy behind me starts saying, "seen them... seen them.. heard of them..." I turned around and it just turned out he was a random fan who hadn't seen a corps show in about 20 years and was so shocked to see anything regarding drum corps that he just started speaking what he was thinking right out loud.. My other favorite was driving along the highway in Scranton a couple of years ago and seeing a guy driving his Jeep Cherokee with his cell phone earbud in one ear.. and HOLDING HIS SOPRANO BUGLE while he played and drove.. we pulled up to take a picture of something so random and hysterical.. Imagine my surprise when he looked over at us and I KNEW HIM!! We almost peed ourselves laughing! Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Same night, kind of random, also ran into Ruben Studdard at the same restaurant. I don't think he marched. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'd say that was a safe bet !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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