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Ray Smith

@z06driver.bsky.social

4.8K followers 5.1K following 2.1K posts

Combat Veteran 1st Battalion 69th Armor 4th Infantry Division, Vietnam. Registered proud Democrat. Private Pilot and FAA certified Ground Instructor Owner and lover of a 2024 Corvette Z06.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am a Vietnam combat vet. My father, who fought in two theaters in WWII, is buried there. I will be buried there. Captain Bone Spurs is a six time draft dodger who does not deserve a monument to his cowardice. If he builds it, we must tear it down after we win in 2028. Fuck Trump.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hope you can see it.

Parody recruiting poster made by Stretch Grohman at the Pentagon show Sergeant Ray Smith with his M-16 and flowers in his hair.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I fly the flag. I fly this next to it.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Good idea, but I don't think they allow returns on guns ... I don't know, I haven't touched a gun since February 16, 1969 when I turned in my M-16A1 to the armorer in Pleiku, Vietnam. I didn't feel the need to kill anyone after leaving the field.

Sergeant Ray Smith on the coastal plain near Bong Son, Republic of Vietnam with flowers in his camouflage cover holding his M-16A1 rifle

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My goalie mask from when I played ice hockey. An homage to the Flyers. People would skate up to me and ask "What's your name?". Duh ...

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On behalf of my entire 1st Platoon of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion 69th Armor Regiment, 4thInfantry Division, you are welcome.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I personally gave up on the VA in 1974. But in 1979 the VA saved my life by helping to get me sober at the Coatesville VA Medical Center in PA. Been sober for 45 years. Thank you.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I return the salute ...

Sergeant Ray Smith holding an M-85 Caliber 50 machine gun in the tank park at Coleman Kaserne in west Germany 1968.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You're welcome America! It was an honor and a privilege to serve and fight.

Specialist Ray Smith holding a 105mm HEP round in West Germany 1967.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This veteran says "you are welcome".

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You are welcom.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You are welcome.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I sold this to buy the Z06.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Me (right) with two of my fellow antifa members.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

He couldn't lace my jungle boots ...

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Fellow antifa members after a mission. 1st Platoon, Charlie Company 1st Battalion 69th Armor Regiment, 1968

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm antifa. I enlisted in 1966. I fought commies who are one form of fascism. I'm fighting fascists now.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This is my father's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. He fought in the Aleutian Islands against the Japanese. Then he was shipped to France to fight the Nazis. My father is, by definition, Antifa. So am I. Proudly.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Georges Seurat

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My father, a combat veteran of WWII in the Aleutian Islands and in Germany, is buried in Arlington. As a combat veteran of Vietnam I am eligible to be buried with him. It is a disgrace to have an insurrectionist receive military honors. I attended my father's burial. It is a solemn ceremony.

At my father's grave in Arlington National Cemetery. In D.C. for a regimental reunion.

SGT Ray Smith, with my trusty M-16A1 on the Bong Son plain, 1968.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The problem is that most bike lanes look exactly like this one: EMPTY.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Most people don't know it, but if you need to move a tank more than about 50 miles, you need a tank transporter to save wear and tear. Tracks wear out at about 200 miles. I know, I spent three years on them.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Nice ride. I had one.

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Ray Smith @z06driver.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Meal Team Six Gravy Seals

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