How many current/ex-/retired military here?

[280PLUS]

for you navy guys/gals,,,

(ive posted this on thr beforebut want to try again)

my friend dick z (academy class of '65) has a sea story forum that he's trying to get more activity on.

it comes up as a uss buchanan snipe story forum but there are places for any kind of story you want to tell regardless of what ship(s) you served on, just don't scare the lifers too much.

or if you just want to read there is plenty there on all topics of navy life from both officers and enlisted men.

theres also a cool virtual tour of an adams class destroyer.

all of the stories were posted by dick, so it appears he is the only contributor.

when you open the story the real author is credited

register and tell a tale if youd like, i KNOW it would make him a happy camper, he worked really hard on it

the uss cochrane folks are kind enough to host it for him.

www.usscochrane.com/ddg14/forum/default.asp

i also have 2 free copies of a book he compiled of stories from the academy class of '65, the first class to graduate into the vietnam war.

if you are interested, i'd be glad to send one along to you. i'll even pick up the tab on postage

p/m or email me

 

[charleym3]

USArmyRes 1978-1978 it is a long story about a short hitch that could still get some people in trouble.

 

[Blackhawk 6]

U.S. Army 1994- present.

 

[Razor]

USAF '91-'95

 

[Marko Kloos]

German Army, 1989-1993.

Basic training at the International Long Range Reconaissance Patrol School in Weingarten, Germany (near Lake Constance).

After basic, I served in the 300th Long Range Reconaissance Patrol Co., in Fritzlar, Germany. For the last two years of my service, I served in the 36th Army Aviation Regiment (Anti-Tank), also in Fritzlar.

Too many schools, assignments, and exercises in those four years to list them all here. Lots of silly stuff about jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, and wearing the soles off several sets of boots.

 

[T.Stahl]

And another...

German Army, 1991-92.

Basic training as a motor mechanic in Bexbach, then assigned to a maintenance platoon in a "special weapons" supply battalion (=nukes).
Joined the reservists association in '97 and attended the reserve-sergeant course at the Army's NCO school in Weiden last year.

 

[Art Eatman]

1/54-5/58. Basic at Ft. Bliss. Occupation duty in ColdRear. Afterwards, lucked into two years in Paree, before DeGaulle.

, Art

 

[ETCss Phil McCrackin]

USN 1994 to Present.
ET1(SS)
Electronics Technican (Navigation)
A Quartermaster by any other name....
Emerald Shellback, USS Tennessee(SSBN 734)
Former EM3 (Got a good laugh outa that Naval Reactors thing a few posts ago)
"Submarines are called "Boats", everything else is a "Target"!"

 

[p3ordie]

1976 - 1980 US Navy, Flight Deck Ordnance, CV-63
1983 - 1987 US Army, Ft. Hood 3yrs, Camp Casey 1yr
1990 - current USNR, VP-66, P-3 Aircrew Ordnance

 

[Esky]

USAF, 1967 - 71

Biloxi, Miss for training in Radio Relay Equip. Repair, then-
Wiesbaden, Germany for three years beer & schnapps duty. Made it to Staff Sgt. Was pretty good, shoulda stayed in. Oh well, in my next life!

 

[bullfrog]

USN 76-90 USNR 91-97(ret) EN1
USS Paul F Foster 76-80 2 westpacs shellback 78
Uss Hoist 81-84 2 Meds did the ditch 82
Rodman Station Panama canal 84-85
Navsta Annapolis 85-88 (babysat middies)
USS Fidelity 88-89
USS Shreveport 89-90 1 Med
N&MCRC Grand Rapids Mi. retired 12-01-97

Made EN3 twice EN2 Three times EN1 twice CPO board first try.
I was what CDR called a rate grabber if I couldn't go up I would go down and start over :banghead:
Ian Sean I liked the story you posted
There are only 2 good ships in the Navy , the one you left and the one you're going to.
I spent close to half my life looking for the "real navy"

 

[Tempest]

US Army - Active Duty 1994-1998
US Army Reserve (part active and part inactive) 1998-2002

 

[Dave McCracken]

66-70, USAF, Discharged at Walter Reed.

 

[Model520Fan]

Enlisted USNR Jun 62, enlisted USN Jun 63. Made PHC 1977, made LDO (Photo) 1978. Four WesPac cruises, six Med cruises and plenty of shore duty, mostly in VA & FL. Retired 1988.

 

[Ex-Doc]

Just when you think a thread is dead....its back

 

[elkhunter]

Active duty USCG. Waiting to attend GM 'A' school.

 

[FPrice]

Air Force, 1967 - present.

Zoomie ('71)
Combat Controller
Aerial Port Officer/Commander (active duty/reserves - Gulf War I)
Logistics Plans Officer

360 days left, but who's counting?

 

[nero45acp]

USN 1982-1986

Hospital Corpsman HM3

Orlando, RTC

San Diego, Corpsman school

Yokosuka JPN, NRMC, MMART

Temp. duty; Okinawa, Korea, Philippines, USS Belleau Wood

Wish I stayed in and did 20.

nero45acp

 

[GLOCKT]

ARMY-1980-1984

63B,mechanic vehicles 5 tons and under.
80-82 in Stuttggart west Germany.
32nd Air Defense Artillery,based out of Kornwestheim.
Surface to air battery Nike-Hercules system.
82-84, 7th Infantry Division, Fort Ord.
Light fighters.(Planet Ord known to many)
"We stickem deep 1st Sargent"

 

[tailgunner]

USAF 72-96
Muzzle-F**ker, Buff Tailgunner, 1st Shirt

 

[JaviFL]

Another Ex-Doc here

USN 91-95, HM3.

MSSG 22, Camp Lejeune, NC.

 

[J. Parker]

USAF Air Traffic Controller '67-'74
Lackland AFB, Texas
Keesler AFB, Mississippi
Clark AB, PI
Grissom AFB, IN
Phan Rang AB, RVN
Edwards AFB, CA

 

[mormonsniper]

US Army, Retired

ASA 73-75, 05H, D, 7th RRFS
US Army Vessels Page & LT529 Ft Eustis, VA
Electronic Instrument Repair & Biomedical Engineering Tech, Walter Reed
Calibration Specialist, Giessen Germany
Calibration Instructor Lowry AFB, CO
Calibration QA/QC Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Hawaii
Calibration Operations NCO, PLT SGT, Redstone Arsenal, AL
Command Equal Opportunity Advisor, Redstone Arsenal, AL
US Army Primary Calibration Lab, Redstone Arsenal, AL

Retired and currently still working for Uncle at the VA, for veterans.

 

[armoredman]

Navy 86-89, helped blow up some Iranians, Operation Preying Mantis, Persion Gulf 88.

 

[NorthernExtreme]

U.S. Army 87-95

Lots of schools
Lots of good friends
a few lost along the way.
I'll miss them all.



And thanks to all of you for being there when you were, and for those of you who are there now.