U.S. Military

kinda off topic but how many vets are on here? what branch, rank, and when and where did you go to boot?

U.S. Navy-GMSN- Great Lakes Naval Station,Great Lakes Illinois- 2000

US ARMY, Staff Sergeant , 1971, Ft. Jackson boot camp

U.S. Army 2 years voluntered for draft....PFC.....Medical Corp. Fort Dix, N.J. in the winter about 55 years ago.....about 1 1/2 years in Germany...would be nice to go back with a metal detector as lots of old history but then again not sure as have to be some unexploded ordinances....

for god, country, family, and self

US Air Force 1954 --1958 SGT

USAF 1980 - 2006

US Army 80-83 Basic Ft Knox
8 Months at Ft Polk LA Get me the hell out of here so I signed waivers
The Rest in Hanau Germany

3 Years PA National Guard
Got out SGT



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/2012 07:39PM by goodmore.

USAF 1983-87 SGT

USAF 1965 - 1985, MSgt
Thailand, Guam, Germany

Thank you ALL for your service! Most appreciated -- I owe you all a debt of gratitude for your sacrifice to protect my country and my freedom!

Steve

U. S. Army, Basic '91 in Ft. Benning , Ga. stationed Ft. Myer, Va. then Ft. Leonardwood MO.

goodmore Wrote:
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> US Army 80-83 Basic Ft Knox
> 8 Months at Ft Polk LA Get me the hell out of
> here so I signed waivers
> The Rest in Hanau Germany
>
> 3 Years PA National Guard
> Got out SGT


ahhh fort polk! jungle training!
i hear that!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

USAF 1988 - 2001 All over the effin world

USN, 1981 to 1987, boot at Orlando Naval Training Center (now gone), ET 'A' school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, then to NAVCAMS Med Naples, Italy and Honorably Discharged from the USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17, now scrapped) as an Electronics Technician Petty Officer Second Class. Seems that as always, second class is the BEST I can do...

Yep,thank you do much for your service! Thats my biggest regret now,is not having done my part. I grew up a rebellious army brat. Was a long haired,pot smoking know it all. Now that Ive cleaned up my act,Im a little to old to enlist(45). So thanks again to those that did!

US Army !st Air Cav Viet Nam Crew Chief of UH 1 H , flew Night Hawk missions and Hunter Killer teams Nam 1968-9 Service was from 1967-1969 Spec. 5

hell ya.. i love those choppers. my fav. is the hu infant. i could only imagaine the shock and awe of hearing those rotars beating down and the bm50. cal or the m60 popping off to scare the crap out of people..... danger percieved is threat achieved

Yes..... HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

U. S. Navy, June 1981 - Aug 1987. ISC, Great Lakes............ then on to USS Sturgeon (SSN 637) nuclear powered fast-attack submarine (which is decommissioned....... and no longer exists).

nasa-tom was our shipmate? holy cow. and a chief? insane

Went down town Phila. for my physical to be drafted into the Army, (I think in 1971). My number was 68. Two weeks or so later the draft ended. Fine with me.

ozzie Wrote:
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> Went down town Phila. for my physical to be
> drafted into the Army, (I think in 1971). My
> number was 68. Two weeks or so later the draft
> ended. Fine with me.


Ozzie,

It had to have been 1973. I was drafted in Oct 1972. Number 93. Was the next to the last ever drafted in my county. The last guy was number 94. We left on the same bus for Ft. Leonardwood, Mo for basic.LOL AIT at Fort Polk (Tiger Land) and two weeks before we were to go to Nam, they signed the Paris Peace Accord. They split my unit up and sent half to Korea and the rest of us to Germany.

Cuniagau

“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

Army, 1969-'72. Boot at Ft. Jackson, year in Nam, & 15 mo. in Germany, achieved E-5.

USAF 1950 to 1971. Went to boot at San Antonio. Worked in Aerospace medical research at Wright Patterson AFB and worked in pressure suit development and Flying on the zero G aircraft with the Astronauts.

You are correct Cuniagau, just looked up the year, 1973 it ended. I turned 18 in 1971, graduated high school in 71. I didn't recall that much time between graduating and the date of the physical. Thanks for the correction.
Do you remember your age when you took your physical?

coinseeker, awesome job. i have seen some programs about the "g" suits made during korean war. from what i remember alot of pilots lost during the testing phases of the first couple proto-types. would have never made it to the moon without that field break-thrue

US Army 72 to 94, Ft Knox, Retired MSG(P) on my way to the acadamy. 2 tours Germany on Honduras.... Cal, TX, GA, Wash DC, Ft Bragg 82d, 5th special forces, and IG for the last 4 years. If my wife hadnt gotten sick they would have had to kick me out. Nothing but good times.

Dew

green berret? not familier with 5th special forces at Ft. Bragg. just curious what special forces.... nothing but love for spec operatives. alot of stress and secracy sourounding the job, not easy with family.

ozzie Wrote:
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> You are correct Cuniagau, just looked up the year,
> 1973 it ended. I turned 18 in 1971, graduated high
> school in 71. I didn't recall that much time
> between graduating and the date of the physical.
> Thanks for the correction.
> Do you remember your age when you took your
> physical?

Ozzie,

I was also class of '71. I got my notice for my physical in July, to take the physical in Aug, got my draft notice in Sept to report for basic in Oct. I was 19. Had my first "Cs" on my 20th birthday less than a month later. It was raining cats and dogs and the "Ham and Eggs" can filled up with rain water before I got to eat those "tastie" morsels of #$%@. Oh, the good ole days... LOL

“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

U.S. Air Force, MSgt, 1985-2010, BMT Lackland AFB San Antonio TX.

Assignments: Elmendorf AFB AK, Hurlburt Field FL, Yokota AB Japan, Pope AFB NC, F.E. Warren AFB WY, and RAF Molesworth UK.

Numerous TDY’s and deployments.

Tom

USAF 1968 to 1992