Retired USAF Hat

Spydermade86 said:
I dig the hat not a big Air Force guy 🤣 but My cousin is a Brigadier General in the Air Force, here he is in Antarctica!
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The Air Force was a great move for me. I was going nowhere fast after dropping out of college in the early 80s. Joined in 1985 and 36.5 years later, aggregate between military and civil servant, retired comfortably.

Pretty cool all expenses paid experience for your cousin. I had many great experiences myself. The USAF gave me purpose and I wouldn't be where I am today without it.
 
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My dad buys all the hats and T shirts and hoodies ... Anything that says US ARMY on it regardless of where it made or the tacky blurry poorly printed images all over it with tanks and stars and eagles and cheesy messages all over...


My 2 cousins were both in the air force .
The oldest was in for 20 years and his sister for probably 15...both usually not allowed to say where they were being sent or what they were doing...
Both went on to various 3 letter agencies where they couldn't say what they were doing...and now they're both DHS agents...
I don't know how many pounds of ribbons and medals they both have on their uniforms...

The Air Force was a great choice for them and both made great lives out of it...
 
Hickory n steel said:
My dad buys all the hats and T shirts and hoodies ... Anything that says US ARMY on it regardless of where it made or the tacky blurry poorly printed images all over it with tanks and stars and eagles and cheesy messages all over...
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My dad is 92 and served just one 4-year term in the Army, in Korea, during the Korean War but did not see action. The VA is now his primary source of health care and a godsend. He is a great man, though overly strict, and was always there for and provided for his family. As a kid, I heard the stories about his time in service - mostly of good times with friends being hellions and the rants about the frequent additional duty of being tasked to help the chow hall peel piles and piles of potatoes. I believe his MOS was an office worker. 30-40 years later, those good times he used to speak of previously have now turned to something that he does not want to talk about as it brings back traumatic flashbacks. 🤨 I am not sure if the new shift is just for attention, onset of dementia or he's somehow convinced himself that its true. When he goes to the VA, he enjoys BSin' with all the other older veterans and talk about their time in the wars. He wears his tacky Korean War Veteran hat and will blatantly point to it for a discount whenever possible.

From my experience, the ones that actually spent time in action are humble and truly do not want the attention.
 
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DennisM said:
My dad is 92 and served just one 4-year term in the Army, in Korea, during the Korean War but did not see action. The VA is now his primary source of health care and a godsend. He is a great man, though overly strict, and was always there for and provided for his family. As a kid, I heard the stories about his time in service - mostly of good times with friends being hellions and the rants about the frequent additional duty of being tasked to help the chow hall peel piles and piles of potatoes. I believe his MOS was an office worker. 30-40 years later, those good times he used to speak of previously have now turned to something that he does not want to talk about as it brings back traumatic flashbacks. 🤨 I am not sure if the new shift is just for attention, onset of dementia or he's somehow convinced himself that its true. When he goes to the VA, he enjoys BSin' with all the other older veterans and talk about their time in the wars. He wears his tacky Korean War Veteran hat and will blatantly point to it for a discount whenever possible.

From my experience, the ones that actually spent time in action are humble and truly do not want the attention.
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Yeah.
My dad served 12 years during peacetime.
From '78-'90, it's common for people who didn't see combat to wear a lot of this flashy stuff.
My grandfather just served 1 tour of duty, from September '44.
Drove his tank through France and Belgium on across the rhine into Germany.
.he did not wear veterans hats or do anything to show it, and I only have 1 VFW card from the early 50,'s , I guess he soon learned how much he wanted to forget it all.
 
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