Are you a veteran?

[mugsie]

Army

Army Special Forces - Ba Xoai A421 68' - 69' (God I'm getting old!)

 

[don12]

U.S. Army 1967-1968 SP5. Where is Camboidia? ya right!!!!

 

[REPOMAN]

A very big THANKS

I'm not a veteran, but I would like to thank GOD for those of you who are!!!!!!!

 

[Deflexor]

Gunners Mate USN 1974-1978
GMM3 USS Decatur DDG31

 

[1911 guy]

Uncle Sams' Yacht Club.

U.S. Navy, SeaBees. NMCB-23 and NMBC-7

 

[Ed Wagner]

U S Navy, 6 years FireControl Tech. 1st Class, also M60 gunner on landing force. If you saw beer cans floating in the Tonkin Gulf, they were my " bread crumbs " to find my way home.

 

[OH25shooter]

Hud,

I was stationed at Castle AFB myself, from July '68 - May '69 (FMS).

 

[marcodelat]

U.s.m.c. 1970 - 1973

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

USN 73-77

Not a "bubblehead" but I was a Navy Diver and spent time under the subs at Polaris Point on the sunny island of Guam...after that it was a sub rescue ship at Pearl then out. Then back in to the USCG-R as an MK-3 on search and rescue boats on the Great lakes.

 

[Grandpa Shooter]

US Navy River Boats (Brown Water Nvy) Monitor 3, the Delta from Dong Tam to the ocean. Medically retired from injuries received 1/21/70. Alive and kicking.

 

[Alakar]

USAR 82 - 85
US Army 85 - 95

MOS's
45B - Small Arms/Towed Artillery Repair
45K - Tank Turret Repair

 

[OEF_VET]

U.S. Army

SEP 89 - NOV 91 11B with both 5/8 and 3/8 INF, 8th ID (M), Lee Barracks, Mainz, Germany

NOV 96 - OCT 02 13F (artillery forward observer) with 3/320 FA, in support of 187 INF RGT, 3rd BDE, 101st ABN DIV (AASLT), Ft. Campbell, KY, with all-expense paid vacations to Macedonia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan (If your travel agent ever recommends any of those three places, shoot them in the face.)

 

[Legionnaire]

Me: No, but it runs in the family.
Father: Navy
Uncle: Air Force
Uncle: Air Force
Brother: Marine
Cousin: Marine
Cousin: Army
Son: Marine

Thanks to you all.

 

[OEF_VET]

Should that not count in your poll? I am proud of my service.

For what it's worth, I would have been the first to join the military (hell, I'd join now at 40!) if our boys were defending our border, just like the constitution demands. I do not however, support our military intervention in the affairs of other nations and certainly not to ensure the free flow of natural resources from within the borders of other sovereign countries.

eflatminor,

You, Sir, are about as politically astute as a door knob. You obviously have zero grasp of the current world situation. Mexicans crossing the border illegally are not the only threat to our country and our way of life. Nineteen guys on four planes proved that 6 years, 2 months, and 1 day ago. Or maybe that was too long ago for you to remember.

Oh, and in what part of America was your Peace Corps service? I'm going to guess that it was in another country. So, you were overseas, interfering with the lives of foreigners, telling them how to do things like grow crops, brush their teeth, and clean up their hovels, right? But, it's wrong for us to go into other countries and do things like provide them with electricity, food, the right of self-determination, and freedom from rape, murder, and torture? I've done all of that in foreign countries.

And you say you'd have been the first to join the military, if our boys were defending our borders, right? Well, where the heck were you 22 years ago, when you were 18? We sure weren't in Iraq, ensuring the free flow of oil. In fact, in 1985, we were very much a defensive Army. We hadn't conducted major combat operations since 1973, except for the liberation of Grenada. Yes, we had servicemembers stationed in Germany, England, Turkey, Korea, Japan, and other countries around the world. But, those people were deployed as parts of treaty agreements, signed by the nations involved. We weren't "occupying" any of those countries, at the time. Sure, we vanquished Germany and Japan 40 years prior, but we had given them back their rights of self-determination a long time prior. Granted, many of the treaties that kept us in those two countries were forced upon them after their earlier defeats. But, that doesn't negate the argument that the military of 1985 was primarily a defensive military, primarily intended to defend against aggression on the part of the former Soviet Union.

In other words, you wouldn't have joined the military, and you know it. You're just coming into a military based thread so you can bash on servicemembers, implying that they deploy to the Middle East as exploiters, reminiscent of the colonial British Empire. Your arguments are weak, and made both poorly and in the wrong place.

Thank you for teaching the less privileged people of the Third World how to plant corn and brush their teeth. Now, if you truly mean what you say about being the first to join the military, if they were being used to secure the borders, might I suggest you contact your nearest National Guard or Reserve recruiter. Maybe you can find a billet in a unit deploying to the southern border, or to Afghanistan, thereby doing exactly as you said you would do, and protect our borders. I'd love to be able to sleep comfortably at night, knowing that our nation is safe in the hands of zealous Patriots, who are whole-heartedly concerned with her defense.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

USAF - 1967 -1988
46270 Weapons Machanic - Special Operations
04925 - Computer Officer
10 yrs. Enlisted - obtained rank of E-6 (TSgt)
11 yrs. Commissioned - obtained rank of 0-3 (Capt)

 

[Officers'Wife]

No, I'm not a veteran. However, I've helped my Dad fit his artificial leg on. He lost his real one somewhere in Vietnam. I've waved goodbye to my brother when he went to Afganistan and kissed my husband goodbye when he went to Iraq.

If (when) my husband is sent back to the middle east I'll patiently wait for him to come home again all the while lighting candles and offering prayers for all our men in uniform, both past and present.

Selena

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Officers'Wife you and the rest of the wives are as much vets as the ones of us who wore the uniform. Without you all waiting for us back home some of us wouldn't have made it. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!

 

[Oldnamvet]

E-5 Army 1968-1972 (98G2LVSK3) -- advisor for Biet Doi Hai, Ky Thuat Dac Biet (Detachment 2, Special Discipline (intelligence) Unit). Tam Ky area of RVN in 1970.

 

[Hanzerik]

Hanzerik:

How are things up at good ol' F.E. Burn 'Em? I'm still planning on moving back the the Cheyenne area in a few years...

Going good, only been up here for a little over a year but am loving Wyoming (Don't much care for Nebraska where I spend my working hours.)

USAF, 1990-current. Aircraft MX, spent a lot of time in AFSOC. Been to a lot of interesting places.

Any chance you were over at RAF Alconbury or Mildenhall from 95-98. I left AFSOC back in 98 and was glad to get off MH-53J's and the flightline. Have not touched an Aircraft with a tool in hand since then...even though I still held a MX AFSC for the 8.5 years I was in the TALCE world.

 

[JohnMcD348]

need more than one...

I started off in the Army. Got out, went into the Navy after about 6 months out and ended up as a medic(Corpsman) with the Marines. The only branch of the regular 4 that I didn't step foot into was the AirForce.

 

[GaryP]

SEMPER FI

 

[SergeantC]

4th Armored Div,
2nd Med. tank Bat.
67th armor

50 yrs ago.

I'm a 27D, paralegal NCO. In Iraq, I was attached to the 3/67 AR, 4th BCT, 4th ID, to provide them with legal support.

This was from Nov 05 until Sep 06.

 

[jjduller1946]

Fellow Vets and Shooters,

Interesting mix of Vets in THR. I am a Viet Nam era vet. Infantry and Special Fiorces assigments for 24 years. Served in 10th, 7th, 5th SF Groups and JCRC, Army Spec Ops Cmd, USSOCOM, 25 Inf Div.

A special note of thanks to the amazing men and women who have been carrying the load in Iraq and Afganistan since 2002. In spite of back-to back-to back deployments to a true hell-hole, complemented with some pretty dumb strategy and tactics until the last year, you have kept the faith in your military and your country.

On behalf of me and my family, thanks for your service!

LTC, USA SF (Ret)

 

[JShirley]

US Army 11C (mortarman)
2001-2003: Fort Lewis, WA
2006-2007: OEF

Here's a picture of me on a mountain, when I was attached to go-fast guys, but here's the real deal: nothing there you want...

John

 

[wideym]

11H Tow gunner 89-99 Ft. Richardson,AK Ft. Campbell, KY Camp Greaves,Korea (Told the ladies I was an"in-flight missle tech)

AF Electronic Warfare Tech on ALQ-187 radar jamming pod 99-01 Arkansas ANG Ft. Smith,AR

11B Infantryman 04-Present 39thBCT Ark ANG Mena,AR Ft. Apache, Iraq
Now in the 45thBCT Ok ANG awaiting Med Board since being 100% VA disabled