Beagles
How about this then? - Forum member Windy Hill started out as a Pussers Beagle and ended up being a US Army Ranger gun Which one is you in the Platoon photo Windy - I take it that you are not one of the 4 in the upper left :P

G'day Cliff ! and everyone else.............. I've been away for quite a while, first from Pneumonia, then bloody Hepatitis C ? ( Must of been from a trip Up Top ? ) and more recently with Bloody Lung Cancer ! had to chop it off, so only breathing on half a tank ! ! But it'll take a lot more than this to keep me from going in the hole.......... Windy

G'day Cliff, I was at home in bed, one cold Morning on the 30th June when I developed the pains in the Chest, pain when breathing out and at 5.45 AM had to make that hard decision to call an Ambulance. After some x-rays, they said it was Pneumonia ! but futher CT scans revealed a tumour, which was the cause of the Pneumonia. The tumour itself wasn't actually causing me grief, but was pretty big, and had likely been growing for years ! Anyway, I was having some normal Blood Tests, when I mentioned that I had lived in Vietnam for 4 years and the Dr just happenned to include a test for Hep C and sure enough, I had it ! AND as it appears must have passed it onto my wife ? As she was tested in 2002 prior to our Sons Birth and She, didn't have it then ? Very Odd ? As I never had any Tattoos, or did any Intravenous Drugs, or had any Blood Transfusions ? So now , she is being Tested for possible Treatment for Hep C ? Which is Injections and drugs , which can make you feel sick so I believe ? Anyway, I had a Broncoscopy where a Biopsy was taken from the tumour and sure enough it was cancerous ! So, the surgeon wasn't going to take any chances and cut away the wholel of the Left lower Lung ! which was done on the 1st August ! So all this Shit hit the fan between 30 June and the 1st August ! 3 Life changing events ! So now I am just trying to get better. I've got another huge scar on my back now, around the left shoulder blade which hurts like buggery, as it's where you lean on when your sitting, and where you lie on, when your Lying down. It was from here that they operated on me. SO, it's been a month now since the Lung has gone, and I am quite tired, but it's more of a ' Lack of Oxygen ' tiredness than wanting to sleep. The Dr reckons it'll take another 2 months before I'll be able to breathe easy again ! It feels like someone is sitting on your Chest ! And No, not a nice Sheila ! It's like a bloody big Stoker ! So Mate, there you have it ! And if that wasn't enough, your right, My back is also killing me ! I had just about had that sorted, by going for Chiropractic 5 mornings a week from Carseldine to Forest lakes ! = $225.00 a week ! Which bsides the Adjustment, included some traction, two lots of 20 minutes , one for the neck and one for the back. It was really starting to make a difference after 3 months ! Now it's all gone to buggery and I have to start again, slowly working up the time and weights which got up to 20 kilos from a start of 5 kilos and 5 minutes to 20 minutes ! Oh Well................... Seeya Cliff and Thanks for caring Mate Windy

Im glad to see you can manage to write an email on this forum. I hope you have good health insurance since some of that treatment can be exspensive. My Dad died from secondaries are having lung cancer for about a year.

Hope all goes well with your future treatment Windy. With the rangers photo is that dog tags around your neck and if so, why not on the instructors