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    Posted: May-01-2012 at 12:05pm
Again thanks to all for the prayers and support. I will certainly be keeping watch on the various webpages to keep up with you all as your cross our great country in a couple weeks. Be safe and God Bless.

Semper Fidelis
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Thank you for the update, Sixshooter... we're proud of the job you, and your Marines, are doing over there.  You have a lot of us hitting our knees every day praying for your safety and that you all will soon return to your families, and to our family.  Semper Fi, Brother.
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Hi Tim,
 
It's great to hear that you are doing well.  Prayers go out to the families of the fallen.
 
Magnum is doing great.  I will do my best to send you some pictures before I leave for Rancho.
 
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Thanks for the status report Sixshooter,
I wish you and all your comrades all the best; keep your heads down and powder dry. Semper Fi Brothers
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Six Shooter,

Thank you for the update, your service & dedication. Prayers going out for your safe return and all those in harms way!!
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Six Shooter,
Thank You for your service,dedication,and commitment to completing
the mission and tasks at hand that you and your fellow Marines have
been assigned. What a update you have given us, your leadership is
what makes others want to step up and do that little extra. I look
forward to meeting you next year and until then stay safe Marine.
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Sixshooter it is great to hear from you and your updates.  I love Toby and I am glad he got over there to give you guys a show.  Thank you so much for your service and your family for their sacrafice as well.  I look forward to meeting you and hope I am at your Welcome Home when you return state side.  God Bless you and your men and women. 
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Sixshooter, Thanks for the update.  See you next year in RC for the Run. 
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Thank you Sixshooter. Please ask any of you Marines that are staying for the whole year like you are to send a e-mail to the families that are supporting them so that we can coutinue to support them all during thier deployment.
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Thanks for the update Sixshooter......we will miss you on the Run this year, but will be looking for you next year! Stay safe and bring yourself on home soon!
Will be looking for the wife and kids in Monroe.

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Sixshooter,

   Thank you and all of your men and women for their service.  Your wife and family need to be thanked as well.  "Semper-FI Marine 
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Thank you sixshooter for the update, and Thank you and all of your fellow Marines for their service.  We will make you proud, keep  all of you in our prayers for a safe return
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Thanks to everyone for your support...it makes it much easier being over here knowing we are supported. Raven, thanks for looking out for Cathy and the kids...I know they are looking forward to seeing everyone come in at Monroe. They didn't get to see us leave last year from RC due to the weather and the little ones. 
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Thanks Sixshooter for the update.  Thank you for all you do and thanks to your family as well!  We will take good care of them in Monroe, so much so that they will want to come back again in 2013.
Take care and be SAFE! 
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ClapThanks for the information and most of all, your service.  Please take care and get back here safely.  thank you for being one of those people that show the best of what the United States of America stands for and how we think and function.  God Bless You.  be safe
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Thanks for the good news from Afghanistan, Sixshooter. That's the kind of updates that are good to hear, would like to hear more of it on the news. Can't say that I've dressed that way for a concert for a few years but you look sharp! Stay cool and we'll try not to complain too much when it gets a little warm here.
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Six Shooter

Great to hear the update and the troops are doing well.  Also glad to hear some of them will be coming home -- for the folks staying, prayers for them to take care of the mission, each other and to stay out of harms way. 

You'll be missed this year but absolutely not forgotten!  Stay safe, plenty of other opportunities to Lead by Example wait for you upon your return.

Take care brother
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SixShooter,
 
What a post---something that definitely lifts our spirits up.     Thank you so much for giving us some insight as to what is going on over there.    To know that there actually are good things happening for the people over there.     Wish I could give you a thank you hug...
We will miss you, your humor, your efficiency---everything---on the run.   But rest assured that you'll be thought about the entire time.    We know you're doing all you can to keep your fellow comrades safe.   You be safe, too.    And we look for the time when you're back on the run---and home--again.
 
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Thx SixShooter for the message.

I am glad to hear a good report from you. Thank you for attending the HERO ceremonies over there and just know that we meet and greet them as HEROS when they get home also.

Keep your head down and hope you are back on the run next year with us.

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