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EvilCouch · Post by **EvilCouch** » March 21st, 2006, 12:58 am

Name's Hiromi Cota. I was a Joe at Bco 3/75 for two years (May 99-01) 3rd platoon, weapons squad for the first year and AT section for the second.

Never got the tab. Fucked my legs up too many times to make a real effort for it, ended up asking to be let out into legland after two years, instead of being "that guy", hanging out in PTs in the training room, waiting for my knees to get better.

Ended up getting to go to combat with 2ID a few years later. I got out at the end of 2005 and that's about that.

I know that the intro FAQ asks me not to use my real name, but my handle and my real name are already pretty well tied together, so I don't much care. Besides, maybe someone remembers me.

Let the beatings of the cherriest bastard to the website commence!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » March 21st, 2006, 1:31 am

Wow...

RTO · Post by **RTO** » March 21st, 2006, 4:20 am

um..........welcome?

Chiron · Post by **Chiron** » March 21st, 2006, 4:57 am

Welcome.

msg_dman · Post by **msg_dman** » March 21st, 2006, 6:15 am

Welcome

What exactly was wrong with your knees that wouldnt allow you to do PT with Bn, but would allow you to go into combat? Did you have surgery that you were recovering from? How did you mess up you legs "too many times" in less then 2 years? You opened the can of worms not me. You can't just mention that your knees were messed up, I had major reconstructive surgery on a torn Patella tendon, and went on to make 50 more jumps, so explain your statement to us.

Thanks

Earthpig · Post by **Earthpig** » March 21st, 2006, 6:17 am

Welcome aboard.
RLTW
EP

Jim · Post by **Jim** » March 21st, 2006, 6:36 am

Welcome...

Gordo173 · Post by **Gordo173** » March 21st, 2006, 6:39 am

Welcome

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » March 21st, 2006, 7:46 am

Welcome.

Steadfast · Post by **Steadfast** » March 21st, 2006, 8:24 am

You're a lucky guy. Today we are taking Tabless biatches.

Welcome Ranger

fireranger · Post by **fireranger** » March 21st, 2006, 8:47 am

Steadfast wrote:You're a lucky guy. Today we are taking Tabless biatches.

Welcome Ranger

Welcome.

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » March 21st, 2006, 9:33 am

Welcome youngster.

Ranger Bill · Post by **Ranger Bill** » March 21st, 2006, 1:35 pm

Welcome.

EvilCouch · Post by **EvilCouch** » March 21st, 2006, 3:21 pm

msg_dman wrote:Welcome

What exactly was wrong with your knees that wouldnt allow you to do PT with Bn, but would allow you to go into combat? Did you have surgery that you were recovering from? How did you mess up you legs "too many times" in less then 2 years? You opened the can of worms not me. You can't just mention that your knees were messed up, I had major reconstructive surgery on a torn Patella tendon, and went on to make 50 more jumps, so explain your statement to us.

Thanks

Fair enough.

After almost a year in Battalion, my knees started hurting like hell. I was trying to do the "strong" Ranger thing and just gut it out instead of seeing the medics about it. Naturally, my PT took a nosedive and SFC Seally sent me to HQ platoon. After a few weeks of being lazy, my knees felt great, so I tried getting into AT section and they were happy to have me.

After a bit more of that, I went into a monthly cycle of doing well, beating up my knees, going to sick call and getting a few days break.They told me at the time that the cartilidge on the back of my knees was burring up and scratching the hell out of the inside of my knees. They told me that there wasn't any surgury that could fix it and basically the only thing that was going to make it better was rest. (Which was why I could go to sick call, be out a few days and then come back ready to work) When they told me that I needed to be off my feet for a year, I decided to leave Battalion. Not only was I a tab-less bitch after two years in Battalion, the docs were telling me that I had to be gimp AND a tab-less bitch for another year.

So, I went to leg-land with the 11th regt. and pushed papers around for a few years, getting better. I got a PERSGRAM to report to 2ID in Korea and a few months into that we got orders to deploy to Iraq from there. My knees seemed like they were still being shitty, but I didn't want to puss out again, so I went. It ended up being fine with my knee problems, because my platoon was turned into a mobilized infantry platoon, driving around in vehicles hauling supplies and providing security. I basically spent the deployment sitting in a sling-seat of a HMMWV, shooting up cars that got too close to our convoys. I only really got boots on the ground once over there and no one was shooting at us and I didn't have to run or anything.

After we deployed back to the States, I finally saw a physical therapist about my knees and he told me that they weren't burred any more, but the knee caps were crooked and it'd take about 6 months of heavy physical therapy to get that fixed. So, I ETSed after 7 years and change and am trying to link up with a VA physical therapist to get this thing finally fixed.

LRP1 · Post by **LRP1** » March 21st, 2006, 3:58 pm

Welcome anyway....

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