Vincent Hourican

Army regular and Reserve in Ireland/USA-Retired Garda(Police) and reservist.🇮🇪🇺🇸

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@PepsiBann @Mupper41 @GardaTraffic Real community policing is best done alone & being armed would prevent that.I spent the majority of my career in it.

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@MilHistNow It had a charity premiere in the Savoy Cinema in Dublin with all (then) 5 barracks sending lads in No.1 uniform except yours truly…who was stuck on guard.

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@PepsiBann @Mupper41 @GardaTraffic Then the days of a garda patrolling independently would be over and by extension:community policing.

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@VoicesofWW2 @robggill Channel 4 had a documentary on this some years ago.

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@SGTWipper1Each Only spent a year at Riley after 2 years in FRG but the extremes of cold & heat were something else…then add tornadoes…👎

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@AngryVet101 @SGTWipper1Each Gelnhausen or Büdingen were the best Kasernes in 3AD.🇺🇸🇩🇪

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@EchoesofWarYT @SoldiersWhisper 18th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division.

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@Chieftain_armor I wore them as an acting jack.

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@OfficerDave2 @donlav I’ve seen a photo of the Specialist on the left with a right arm patch featuring the USMC crest but couldn’t make out the detail.

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@InspGadgetBlogs “Battleground”(1949)

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@EODHappyCaptain This is one memory of Knox ‘79…fortunately,Reception Station was only 4 nights.😂
(not my photo)

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@SGTWipper1Each I’d go for the Marine Corps like my late uncle wanted but was happy that I enlisted at all.He was WWII USMC and retired NYPD.

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@SGTWipper1Each Ft.Riley…in MOPP4🥵

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@EODHappyCaptain What’s your reaction to the Irish cavalry crew that won the Bradley section of the “Sullivan Cup” last week after only 2 weeks familiarisation on it?

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@SGTWipper1Each Gamma goat…even louder than a tank although I only had the “pleasure” of riding in one once.

[Vincent Hourican @HouricanVincent]

@dubshn1028 @brendancruise @roy_kinsella @DFCavalryCorps If it’s back over 20 years ago…he also did time in the Navy before that.

[Vincent Hourican @HouricanVincent]

@dubshn1028 @brendancruise @roy_kinsella @DFCavalryCorps No…Queen’s Royal Hussars.

[Vincent Hourican @HouricanVincent]

@dubshn1028 @brendancruise @roy_kinsella @DFCavalryCorps The British TC is a Dub.

[Vincent Hourican @HouricanVincent]

@rArmyReddit My training in the Cav in Ireland 🇮🇪 stood to me in these Divisions 🇺🇸later (19E)

[Vincent Hourican @HouricanVincent]

@baszar_al_pasat @sonofbelial @MCoEFortBenning My Armored battalion in W.Germany reflagged to a Cavalry squadron a few years after I left…it’s fairly common.