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Tom Lumpkins

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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.




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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!sad.gif
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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).

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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!sad.gif


Probably rubbed shoulders once or twice, and not even knowing it. ;) Chad
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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.

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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.

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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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