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Presque Isle, WI, whistler Canada, and Cabo where the guy hooked me up for two seats at a front table for Dallas Coaches Night. Almost everywhere I've been.

Rob-96 said:

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Presque Isle, WI, whistler Canada, and Cabo where the guy hooked me up for two seats at a front table for Dallas Coaches Night. Almost everywhere I've been.

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Love the Aggie hookup, I once got an upgrade on my flight home from Qatar because I was wearing my ring while checking on my flight. I started talking with the gate attendant and he had friends who went to our school in Qatar, bumped to business class due to an open seat!

Singapore. Ran into another Ag working out there in O&G.

Frankfurt, Germany at an expat social gathering in 1996.

Sea of Tranquility.

All the championship games I attend, where we aren't playing.

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jerusalem

Downtown Seattle. Having lunch with my client. Guy eating next to us asked what class I was. Spoke for about 10 minutes. Outside the restaurant my client asked if I knew him. Nope. Then had to explain the Aggie Ring and Aggie Network. He was amazed.

While in Jackson Hole I was asked about my ring. Guy asking was wearing a Citadel Ring. Very similar.

Bora Bora

Freer

On a bus in Rome, Italy.

Cafe in Venice Italy

Geriatric Punk said:

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Sea of Tranquility.

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Is that what they are calling the mens bathroom in Casa Ole these days?

Abu Dhabi, walking thru the market - 1995, by an Emiratee Ag - we had lunch.

Hofbrau Haus Munich, Germany 2012
Just before Oktoberfest

Nigeria

Trinidad

Dubai

A hotel restaurant in San Juan, PR, in 1996. I had just spent most of the past day listening to two LSU tigers talking about how awesome they were and how Aggies weren't that special.

During breakfast, and Aggie class of 41 or 42 walked over and introduced himself. It was his first time back in PR since enlisting in the Army Air Corps so he brought his wife to show her the sights. He invited me over to meet her, and they insisted I have breakfast with them and talk about A&M, PR, my work, etc.

After 30 mins or so, I needed to go and get ready to go to the job site. The tigers asked if I'd set that up and met them the night before. I convinced them it was just an Aggie ring deal and happens sometimes. They admitted that connection is different and LSU grads don't have it unless they're drunk on a Saturday in the Fall

Presque Isle is an impressive place to have your Aggie ring noticed! Been there a few times and might as well be in Siberia!

Poker table at the Lucky Eagle Casino Eagle Pass. 1 May 20233

Antigua. On my honeymoon. From about 50 feet away.

• strip club in Montreal
• massage parlor in Bangkok
• brothel in Guadalajara
• Vandersexx Amsterdam
• group love cabin HolyShip
• group love cabin Groove Cruise
• group love tent Burning Man

tamc91 said:

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A hotel restaurant in San Juan, PR, in 1996. I had just spent most of the past day listening to two LSU tigers talking about how awesome they were and how Aggies weren't that special.

During breakfast, and Aggie class of 41 or 42 walked over and introduced himself. It was his first time back in PR since enlisting in the Army Air Corps so he brought his wife to show her the sights. He invited me over to meet her, and they insisted I have breakfast with them and talk about A&M, PR, my work, etc.

After 30 mins or so, I needed to go and get ready to go to the job site. The tigers asked if I'd set that up and met them the night before. I convinced them it was just an Aggie ring deal and happens sometimes. They admitted that connection is different and LSU grads don't have it unless they're drunk on a Saturday in the Fall

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That Aggie connection runs deep - true Aggies continue the tradition!

Aggie63 said:

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Standing in a chow line in our base camp at An Khe Vietnam, 1966, the guy standing next to me whipped out to me, "Bill Becker" class of..." (I forget what year).I returned the favor. We chatted. I went back to where some other troops had noticed the interaction. They asked me--"what were you talking to General Becker about"? I said, "oh, you mean Bill"? Here I was, in the boonies with the 1st Cav, with General Becker whipping out to me, dropping handles with me.!

Footnote: After I returned to the U.S. I was at A&M to watch Final Review,; Gen. Becker being the reviewing Officer for Final Review. I caught up with him on the steps to the M.S.C and tapped him on the shoulder and refreshed the memory of our meeting in Vietnam. Gig Em Ags.

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Wonderful story!

AggieMD95 said:

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Hofbrau Haus Munich, Germany 2012
Just before Oktoberfest

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Had the same experience, same year, same place. But in March.

When it landed on a tsips face, that Nancy noticed it pretty damn quick

Jackson Hole, Wyoming at a professor conference

This March by a USCBP agent in the Dublin airport as my family and I were headed home from spring break. He was C/O '94

Bought mine for $333 but never wore it.

Dunvegan Hotel in St. Andrews, Scotland right after playing the Old Course. They played the Aggie War Hymn in the bar for me.

Downtown Hearne, TX believe it or not.

Ethiopia, Bolivia, Thailand and NZ

I was in Scotland on a golf trip. There's a famous bar/restaurant/hotel in St Andrews called The Dunvegan. At the time it was owned by an Aggie and his Scottish wife. My group and I were sitting in the bar drinking beer. I had my right hand wrapped around my pint glass, with my Ring on of course. A lady walked by the table and stopped and said (in her charming Scottish accent) "Oh, you're an Aggie!" I said " I sure am". She said "my husband's an Aggie too", and I knew right away who she was.

She said she would have her husband come out and visit with us, which he did. But before he came out, what comes on the bar's sound system but The Spirit of Aggieland followed by the War Hymn. A great memory, all because of my Aggie Ring.

Your mom's house.