Thread: A hunt for Capt'n Ron

Originally Posted by Trout

Just read yr hunting story twice over a couple of double bourbons.Nice bit of history with yr old mates rifle,look after his rifle.Just got told yesterday i gota have some big sun cancer removed off my cheek near my left eye bugger it gr.So your story was a nice stress relieve to get me out hunting soon.

@Trout Wishing you all the best with the treatment mate ,amazing what they can do now .I spent a lot of time in the tropics running Dive boats & driving open jeeps in the Top End of Oz & Africa & have to have spots cut out of the back of my hands where they were exposed on steering wheels for so long .Would always cover up the head & wear sun screen on the face etc ,never ever really gave the back of the hands much thought & any sunscreen on them quickly rubbed/washed off.

Capt Ron was involved in most of the conflicts we grew up with & plenty we never heard & had Commies World wide of all sorts after his scalp,but in the end it was good old Agent Orange from the Vietnam War & his time going into the Run Sat Special Zone on missions in 68/69, that included mapping the freshly sprayed AO saturation reach in the mangroves & jungles thickets ,their Levis would go stiff from it & get thrown out. When they did research on it decades later they found even the local laundry women on base died of it from handling their contaminated jeans etc .