Recent content by jgviolante

Welcome home!!  We now can smoke meat and veggies instead of villages and people.

'67 - '68 71st assault Americal Division m60 gunner and scout, '68 - '69 123rd scouts Americal Division, scouting and assaulting entire I corps, out of Chu Lai.  Scouted for 5th Special Forces missions during that time, headquarters in Da Nang and stayed at various Special Forces camps through...

Hello Patti, thank you for the welcome.  I am glad to hear your son loves trains.  At his age, he is old enough now for a G scale train of Thomas, they are the largest trains and are built for young hands.  If you go to Walthers.com, Factory Direct Trains, or MicroMark has some nice selections. ...

Hello Richie, thanks for your service also, I see you were in Nam the same years as I.  I was a scout paratrooper carrying an M60 machine gun '67 - ' 69.  Welcome Home!!

Thanks Gary, I have already used some ideas from this site, mostly using maple syrup on my roasted chicken, family loved it.  It has been hot here also, but thank Heaven the beach is only a few minutes from the house and we like to hang out on the beach in the morning then around three we hit...

I live in Parkertown in southern NJ on the shore, just twenty minutes north of Atlantic City.  I just can't seem to move away from the ocean air.  Can't stand cities but occasionally take a train trip to NYC with my son just for sampling food. I am retired from the army and the air force...