The Bad Ass Brigade

Those of you that belong in the Bad Ass Brigade already know who you are. Most are Vietnam Veterans but there are a couple of you who have done your time with various Law Enforcement Agencies including a couple of former or reserve U.S. Marshall Service guys.

I really haven't been allowed to travel but I'm going to the Doctor tomorrow to see if there are any arrangements that can be made that would allow me to spend a week end in Gilbert, Arkansas on the Buffalo River. I keep asking and they keep saying no but I figure that persistence may produce some kind of a permission slip that mandates a baby sitter for me or something along those lines.

I'm making a feeble attempt at writing a book but have only finished 53 pages at this point. I want to get a group of guys from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 199th Light Infantry Brigade together and meet in Gilbert to discuss their part in the book. It's a fictional account of what we might do should another "shit hit the fan" situation unfold in our Country.

I've already asked Lambert and Tobias. Curt has to work something out as he's undergoing things at the VA that might prevent that. Tobi hasn't answered yet as I just sent him an email this morning with an open end invitation. Many of our group have already gone to Fiddler's Green but others are still hanging in and might be able to come.

The basic plan is to meet at the airport in Little Rock and drive to Gilbert from there. I know the mayor in Gilbert and I'm sure that he will be more than pleased to allow us the use of the Gilbert Town Hall building that is plenty big enough to accommodate as many people as we can get together.

Aside from seeing a lot of bad ass American Patriots, I wanted to more or less tell the story from the proposed novel that finds all of us united in an effort to react to the next attack that all of us are certain "will come".

I hope to see LT. He's from New York. Maybe Bill and Ed will come and bring some of that Pennsylvania Patriotism with them. Curt and Manny are from California and both of them have seen and lived through some of the immigration issues that are contained in the book. Diable lives in Kansas City and if he can come, he'd almost certainly do that by car.

Maybe Olinger, Lurch, Ted and some of the other pilots can show up. That would be nice. If that comes together, I wanted to explain some things to them about each State having a large number of Veterans that could get together, organize themselves into a wide spread group and deliver a real nice answer to the assholes that want to kill more of us when the next suicide bombers show up. Once that's done, I would like to hear their ideas and input for the book.

In any event, here is the invitation. No date yet, no time frame only a week end get away to visit and discuss the things that we would like to do when THE DAY comes...........and it will come.

For you regular readers, I'll just leave my email address as I understand that it's hard as hell to leave a comment on this site. TButler94@hotmail.com is still good.

For you that are not regular readers, I will send a personal email to make sure you get the invitation (Brophy and Chuck as well as Doc, Craig and Kat).  Just remember, most of you are already in the Bad Ass Brigade so you don't have to join anything.