Where do you see yourself in the armed forces?

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I was 12B before.
I joined as that because I wanted to be near the fight, and I wanted to blow stuff up. :D
Unfortunately, the noise of HE, tracked vehicles, an artillery simulator that I was a little too close to, and a slight genetic hearing loss means that I never get to play in that game again.
If I could, I would probably just go Coast Guard, in a job where my hearing loss wouldn't be a liability to anyone.
But I have talked to recruiters on three separate occasions since 9/11. I was pretty much told flat out that I will never get back in.
That is ironic. When I got out, I swore that I would never put that uniform on again. Now, I kinda wish I could.
Things have changed.
But barring the apocalypse, there is no way I will ever get back in.
 
Former ping jockey...well, thats what they made me wear on my sleeve, but I didn't do that.

If I could go back....Coast Guard. Then I could, maybe, be on a boat out in the ocean.


c):{
 
280PLUS were you a Flangehead? East or West coast? I was a BT. No such thing no more. I'll make the steam you spin the engines (turbines).

Go back on a nice little DDG tincan having the 5" 54's going off tripping the boilers off line and going dead in the water, OOPS.

Sea duty............GO NAVY!
 
Option # 1. Coast Guard Officer, preferably pilot, helo or fixed-wing. I'm going to put out A LOT of effort in order to get into the Coast Guard Academy. Option # 1.2 Direct Commision Aviator Program.

Option # 2. Naval Officer, preferably pilot, helo or fixed wing. Hopefully I'll get myself a F/A-18 Super Hornet or a JSF(They'll probably have them in service by the time I get there).

Option # 3. Air Force Officer. Pilot of course.

Option # 4. Air Force Pararescue Jumper/ FAC(Forward Air Controler - point-laser-at-target-target-go-BOOM)

Op # 4 is absolutly THE LAST RESORT. I'll be an Officer, thank you very much!:)
 
In command, preferably of tanks, in the Marines. But no higher than Lt. Colonel. When you make "full bird" you don't spend a lot of time up front, which is where a commander is needed. And you go from tactics to strategy. Which hurts my head... ;)

If I can't get a command position I'd take Cavalry, again, in the Marines. I love to drive large, heavily armed and armoured vehicles. Or fire the cannons on them. Whichever. :D
 
Research Engineer or just Engineer in weapons development. Probably work on human detection systems to give the men and women in the front an advantage in urban warfare and counter measures for enemy missle systems.
 
monkey's mate 3rd class...

west coast, 2 wespacs.

AND...

it turns out the XO i speak of went on to achieve four stars and retired as COMNAVSURFPAC or for you non-military acronym types

Commander, Navy Surface Fleet, Pacific.

or in other words president of the west coast canoe club.

the big kahuna...

when they were about to sink my ship in a target exercise a couple of years ago, i emailed him and requested that he use the biggest bomb they had on it, just for me.

while hammering it with all kinds of stuff, missles, torpedoes, etc
they dropped a GBU - 2000 on it at one point and completely wiped the superstructure off of it right down to the main deck. i refer to it as "my bomb"

the thing continued to float on the 13th of april and was demo'ed by udt the next day and slipped below the waves on the 14th which was quite appropriate as her hull number was 14

i then emailed him again asking how come the whole navy couldn't sink that one little destroyer...

:D

here's a link

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

this is a snipes forum for ddg-14/uss buchanan

uss cochrane people are kind enough to host it for us,

it could use some more input if any of you ex sailors want to tell a sea story or two and its got plenty of good ones there already.

you'd help boost the morale of one dick zimmerman, ex academy guy who worked really hard on it

if you go to the buchanan home page link and look around for "sinkex" you can see a few pix of the old girl taking her shots...

;)

oh, it looks like zimmerman did all the posts. he actually had a collection of stories he had gathered over the years and posted them himself. so there are stories by people other than just him.

see if you can spot mine

:evil:<--- a clue
 
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Having spent almost 21 years in the Army I would only go back if they would let me be a tug boat captain or a neurosurgeon for field grade officers only. :D (I was an NCO for 17 of those 20 years)
 
280PLUS,

Why do I hear all kinds of horror stories from you west coast squids? On the east coast Petty Officers use the head, they don't scrub them. :D

Unless you are assembling on the quarter deck for "extra duty", that is.

GO NAVY!!
 
I was already in the Army. And pretty soon, even my Inactive Reserve obligation will expire... at which point, they'll need to start drafting over-30 folks to get me back in!

:evil:
 
I'm working on my 11'th year as a Sonar Technician (E-6 now). We don't always do the job, in the gulf we get to do boardings.
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Interesting. If you don't mind I have a question.

Now that the cold war is over do you still get to chase subs around like the old days? I was an OS on an FFG in the 80's and that is all we did (TMA on the DRT). Sometimes I would wish that we would loose contact so we could break off and visit a port.

BTW, I see this is your first post. Welcome to TheHighRoad!

ehenz
 
18 years so far in two services. Bombs and bullets the first four and slinging quality chow for the last 14. Two more and it'll be bullets and motorcycles until the wife notices my paycheck shrunk considerably.
 
Back in the Infantry. Hooah!

Recon, 3/187th Infantry, 3rd Bde, 101st Airborne Div (Air Assault)
A 2/503rd Inf, 2nd ID, Korea
B 2/327th Inf, 1st Bde 101st Abn AASLT
A 3/417th Inf, 76th Div (Tng)

You wanna go Army? Don't do drugs. Pay attention in school. Don't get arrested.

Good Luck!

Willard
 
hehe.. im in school right now.. so maybe I should pay more attention...


As for drugs, that stuff isn't for me. Never really appealed to me.

Army would come after college though. I don't think I would have the perspective enough to make that decision right after high skool.
 
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