Who has Served?

ex 11bang bang :D

-3/325 Airborne Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division
-Long Range Surveillance Teams
 
US Navy 1986-1992

Gas Turbine Systems Technician Electrical First Class (E-6)

FFG-47 USS Nicholas, Persian Gulf During the tanker wars. Escorted reflagged Kuwaiti tankers into and out of the Persian Gulf. Sank two Iranian boghammers who attacked a tanker in the vicinity of MSB Hercules. Security duty after the USS Vincenes shot down the Iranian air bus. Went TAD to an SBU for a bit and served on raggety old PBRs. Same Escort duty

FFG-58 USS Samuel B. Roberts, Assisted a bunch of Haitian refugees near Cuba during some mass exodus. Brought them to Guantanamo Bay. Went back to the damn Gulf for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Did blockade, escort, and search and seizeure duty in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Came home, 2 months later did a Great Lakes cruise then got the hell out!
 
U.S.A.F. 63 to 67

I was thinking of making it a career until they sent me to Greenland.:eek:

Better then 'Nam though.
 
This also belongs in Community Center -- now the software allows us to move threads. :)
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Burchtree said:
Just wondering who is currently, or has served in the military.



So, what were you in, and what have you done? (I know I'm going to get some "weekend warrior" flak for this.)
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Anyone sworn in is subject to be placed in harms way. I have no problem as to how you served .



I enlisted at Fort Bragg & my last duty station was Camp Crawford ,Hokkaido Japan. 28 January '51 ---27 December ,'53.

Absolutely no data about 3 years of where & what service time .

No Korean service, no Good Conduct medals.

Qualified for " National Defense " ribbon & probably the new "Cold War " ribbon.




I served as a platoon sergeant & Commo chief in a heavy weapons company but the army didn't know this.

I had a terrible spine injury but my hospital records were not available.



So, I was the man that spent 3 years at doing nothing ?

Easy to understand why it took 19 & 1/2 years to get a claim established ?

Even though I eventually paid the price of 100 % disability & now have Aid & Attendance to cope with my latter days, I'm proud to have served my country.


Uncle Alan
 
US Army, 1960-63

1961-62, 1st Cavalry HQ, South Korea, cryptographer
1962-63, Ft. Bragg, NC, MI analyst

Rank, E-5
 
USN 1976-1982
MM1(SS)
USS George Washington SSBN 598/SSN 598 (they took our missles away :( )
 
Army
Jan 2002-Sept 2005
19D Cavalry Scout
Ft. Hood (Iraq)
Roadside Bomb eneded my service.
Best damned thing I ever did!

Goatee only, no beard.
 
USMC 2 years active, 4 years reserve, plus inactive ready reserve 1989-1997
0300 infantry 3051 materials handling warehouse man(box kicker) :)

Semper Fi,

H20 buffalo
 
U.S. Marine Corps 1980-1984
10th Marines (Artillery)
Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Two six month Med Cruises:
USS Spartanburg County 1981
USS Saginaw 1982 (ended up in Beirut)
A couple short cruises later aboard the USS Nassau. One to Vieques, near Puerto Rico and the second to Honduras.
Also a short trip (flight) to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base just before I got out.
Trained at Parris Island, South Carolina (boot camp), Twenty Nine Palms, California (CAX), Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Pickett, Virginia.

Mississippi Air National Guard 1991-1997
186th Medical Squadron
Meridian ANGB, Mississippi
Trained at Sheppard AFB, Texas (tech school), Lackland AFB, Texas (clinical at Wilford Hall Medical Center), the Air Guard base at Alpena, Michigan (annual training), Keesler AFB, Mississippi (annual training) and Fort Hood, Texas (ORI).
Also visited Honduras to give immunizations and provide some medical care to rural Hondurans in 1996.
 
Air Force 1971 - 1995.

SEA and CONUS with side-trips to The Philippines, Guam, Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada. Flew ARFCOS missions out of Korat RTAFB prior to Saigon falling.

Most memorable "duty" was flying back-seat in a WWII SBD-5 "Dauntless" dive-bomber during FAA recert of the the last remaining Northrup N-9M flying wing at the AF Flight Test Center.


J
 
I'm a vet. US Air Force. My wife is a retired veteran from the dental corp after 22 years of active duty service, (O6). We met in the AF.

My son is a vet also and served in Iraq for 14 months. We come from a long line of veterans. My father was retired Army.

STR
 
Active Duty U. S. Army - 1970-1973
Vietnam (Quang Tri and Da Nang) - 1971
Pennsylvania Army National Guard - 1989-present - 1st BN (M) 109th INF
Ramadi, Iraq - June, 2005-June, 2006 - 172nd AR BN
 
Titghtwad, I thank God I wasn't old enough to see the things you went though! I pray the bad memories stay down in the hollows of your mind and you only think of the good things!!
I signed up with the USAF the last day of the Vietnam Era, 7 May 75 and got out 11 Apr 78. Been living off of Uncle Sam ever since.
 
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