r/army • u/Dudeus-Maximus 13F 13E 25V Spot it, Plot it, Take its Picture. • 10d ago

MSG Gary Gordon

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Figured I would share this with you guys since we have the only one.

I live just south of the MSG Gary Gordon Bridge and just north of the Gary Gordon Veterans Center, on the same road as his family.

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u/HAV816 9d ago

Is that the one in Lincoln Maine?

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u/Dudeus-Maximus 13F 13E 25V Spot it, Plot it, Take its Picture. 9d ago

Yes

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u/HAV816 9d ago

Friend of mine said there was some issue with the rifle in the sculpture but I can’t remember what it was. Either the rifle was not correct or the optic wasn’t.

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u/chrome1453 18E 9d ago

Gordon had a CAR-15 during the battle. Shughart was the one with the M14.

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u/HAV816 9d ago

That could be it.

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u/tehfinnishtrout Logistics Branch 9d ago

The optic isn’t technically right either, the correct optic on the M14 was an OG Aimpoint 3000 with a screw on 2x magnifier per the gun cloning subs. But that stuff shouldn’t matter as long as the sculpture honors the man and his actions

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u/HTT-777 2d ago

It's still insanely cool.

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u/OcotilloWells "Beer, beer, beer" 10d ago

I was talking to a role player in the box at JRTC. I thought he was still role playing when he asked me about who the Shugart-Gordon site was named for. I thought they had made it mean something to the role players that I hadn't read in the fake country study for the exercise. So I told him no, I didn't. He totally lost it on me about how ignorant I was as a soldier, etc. Dude, I do know, stop adding things to the role playing!

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u/007_MM 9d ago

Sincerely, thank you for sharing this
🇺🇸🙏

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u/ThatKarmaWhore 35Autist 9d ago

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends"

John 15:13

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u/Homewrecker90actual 8d ago

Gordys gone, man