January 8, 201016 yr USMC Sgt helicopters 63-69 Avionics/door gunner. No stress cards here. HMM 162. 261.263 New River AFC Ken.
January 12, 201016 yr Does USAF count? 42355 Ground Support Equipment Specialist 1984-1988 Barksdale AFB, Shreveport Louisiana I was GSE here at BOEING, Mesa AZ for several years, but in the Service I was Security Police from 1979-1983 at Howard AFB, Panama. I also worked as a liason to none other than the Guardia Nacional under Manuel Noriega. I got out for awhile, then went into the Army National guard as a POW interrogator in the Romanian Language. When Romania went from enemy to ally, I cross trained back into the Air Force as an Airborn Crypto Linguist. I spent another 2 +/- years in Panama. I got out in 1994.
January 12, 201016 yr Utah National Guard, 89-02, Activated in 02-03(because of 9 11 State side mission) 03-07, Activated in May 07 OIF till May 08. waiting patiently for Nov 09(will have my 20!?!). then hopefully retire. About 9 days after i got home joined IFI. 13 B20 Artillery. I was a POW interrogator with the Ut. Nat'l Guard linguist group at Draper! 1988-91 I think! Hard to remember that far back. Heck, I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning!
January 13, 201016 yr USMC 1975 - 1995. First 8 years made it to SSgt as 2549, Comm Center Chief. Went to OCS under ECP and changed MOS to 2602, Sigint/EW officer. Had a blast pretty much the whole time in! Retired out of Quantico in Nov 95 and settled in Mount Olive, NC. Did tours in: Okinawa (3rd FSR) Iwakuni (ist MAW) Rota,Spain (Co B, MarSptBn - flew with VQ-2) Camp Pendleton (5th Mar/11 Mar) Quantico (OCS, TBS, CommO School, MACOTEA) Kaneohe Bay (1ST Radio Bn) NavBase Norfolk (HQ, FMFLant G2) Little Creek (4th MEB) Did the first Gulf War thing (Desert Shield, Desert Storm).
January 18, 201016 yr I was a POW interrogator with the Ut. Nat'l Guard linguist group at Draper! 1988-91 I think! Hard to remember that far back. Heck, I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning! Probably rubbed shoulders once or twice, and not even knowing it. Chad
January 18, 201016 yr US Coast Guard Electrician's Mate 88-90 Station Oak Island, NC 90-92 USCGC Planetree, Ketchikan, AK Don Wankel
January 22, 201016 yr Another snipe here. Nuclear Machinest Mate, ELT 1970-78. USS Guardfish and the USS Memphis. They steered and we pushed! Also known as the "steelie eyed hunter killers of the deep". :rolleyes:
January 22, 201016 yr USN 1998 - 2006, Nuclear Machinist Mate, USS Ohio (SSBN/SSGN 726), and a touch of shore duty doing QA at Point Loma California. Funnily enough, now work at PSNS fixing the very boats I once served on Nice to see the number of former military present. Blue
February 12, 201016 yr a.r.a. 79-83 did nothin went nowhere......lol.....and thats a "A" aus reg army
February 15, 201016 yr U.S. Army 1971-1974 11E20, Tank Crewman; Distinquished driver and gunner. B Co 3d Bn 32D Armored; "Iron Dukes" Friedberg Germany
February 16, 201016 yr Is this one of the forums that got reset? Oh, well here goes again. USS Horne DLG30, built at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California 1966-1967 Boiler Tender, Bilge Rat
February 21, 201016 yr USMC aircraft Ground Support electrical. San Diego boot ,Cherry Point SC , New River NC H&HS 73_75 Mike McCoy
March 1, 201016 yr Drafted 1969 and didn't like it one bit. Didn't agree with the idea of killing the yellow man, I Corp, Americal division. Came back to the states bitter as hell carrying a Silver Star, purple heart and a bronze star with v device. Couldn't get hired for a job cleaning toilets. Some of you guys know what the score was back then. Retired in 93 from Army and Army Reserves with a firm belief that a soldier is trained to do a job and it's not being butt wipers for third world countries.
March 1, 201016 yr Sawyer04, Thanks for serving that long even if you were bitter. Couldn't agree with you more about wiping yellow rear ends and that of rag hats but after the Navy I did get a job cleaning toilets, Navy gave me lots of experience doing just that, and I did move up in the job market. We who served during that time period sure didn't get treated well on our homecoming and in some cases still don't as we are the "drugged out", "dropped out" generation of "quitters". Life moved on and so did we with our PTSD and all that stuff and have been quite successful at life just like our fathers who served in other wars and so it will be in the future. Some will be treated well and others not but as Patriots we move on. God bless you for serving, Thanks.
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