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Hi everyone -- since the old message board went *boom* again we've decided it's time to move to something more stable, robust, and most importantly, able to be backed up and restored in a pinch. We've also fixed the problems that were causing us to run out of web space.

So, with this new board, you may post as a Guest just like the old forum. However, you'll have to input a "challenge code" from an image each time you post. This prevents automated spam from "bot" software. Or, you can register by signing up with a username and your email address.

This new board has some very cool features, not all of which we'll use, but a short list in order of approximate usefulness (really cool ones in green):

User side:

• Registration (optional - needed for most features besides posting)
• Search System
• Message "bump" -- new post brings topic to top of forum list (so nice - new posts always on top)
• List of new posts since your last visit (your new favorite feature)
• Preview / edit posts
• Underline / bold / italic / lists / bullets / smileys
• Attach files to posts (max size = 128 KB)
• Embed images in posts
• Subscribe to forums/posts (notifications by email)
• Polls
• User profiles
• Private Messages
• User signatures (show up at bottom of each of your posts)
• User avatars (up to 80x80 pixel picture)
• "Sticky" posts that stay at top of forum (admin approval required)

Admin side:

• Warnings
• Permanent bans on username, email address, and/or IP address
• Give users moderation privileges
• CAPTCHA images for guest posts / registration (prevent spambots)
• Post moderation / deletion
• Flood protection (limit time between posts)
• Create multiple forums and private forums

Don't hesitate to email me or Jim with any questions about the new board. It's a pretty painless setup and it's a lot more organized and faster to find posts and quickly locate the new posts (unlike the old board, where posts made more than a few lines down were often ignored).

Our emails are:

(As an image to prevent *us* from getting spammed to death.)

Let me know how it's working out -- and our apologies for the old board going down so close to Memorial Day. Thank you to all who sacrificed to make our country what it is today!

-- R. J. Smith

Just created my personal user account (always a bad idea to run on the admin account...). Took about 2 minutes -- just make sure you put in a *valid* email address and you'll get the registration email.

And if you have trouble reading the picture of letters just hit "Reset" and you'll get a different one .

Looks good so far. Pretty easy to set things up, hopefully this will also cut down on some of the spam.

Thanks for all your hard work Randy!

Thank you RJ. Hello Bob and everyone. James out.

looks great

mick hawkins

Hi guys, Somebody thanked me for all the hard work but I can't take the credit for what my son has done. RJ is the computer whiz not me. I barely knew enough to get registered to use this new board but hey if I can do it anybody can. Hope this eleviates a lot of the problems we had before. Hope everyone had a memorable Memorial Day. We had a wonderful ceremony at our local cemetary and although it rained steadily we still had a decent turnout. Toby Milroy (B-Co. senior medic) and I were together for that ceremony. See you all at the reunion August 4-7.

i all, i;m looking for unit crests for my brother who was in the 50th Armored Inf in Germany (about 1958) can you tell me whre i can purchase a set, Thanks, E Giese

For unit crests (As we call them) you have several options. If you are anywhere near Fort Benning, GA...you can visit any Army-Navy type store (I think it's "Trader Joe's" or something like that near the base). Second, you can surf the Internet to see if you can find a set. Keep an eye on eBay...that's where I have gotten most of mine.

Association Secretary Gary Quint probably has some (He sells them at our reunions)...I would suggest you contact him directly to arrange a sale.