I'm a U.S. Air Force veteran, served from 12/76 to 5/81. Would do it again, I had a great experience.
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Currently Active Duty Navy. Joined in January 2001.
Infantry back in the black boot army days of the 80's.
I was enlisted as a Navy radioman and then, remarkably, as a Navy journalist. Radio duty was on the USS Gallant, MSO 489, in the South China Sea waters off Vietnam, and on a trans-Pacific return to homeport in Long Beach. As a journalist, I was on Midway Island and in Milwaukee recruiting, all this between 1968 and 1972, between getting an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree on GI Bill.
I went to school on the G.I. Bill as well.
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Active duty Navy from February 1981 until February 2001.
Active duty Navy from February 1981 until February 2001.
I served from 1975 to 1978 in the US Army as a helicopter electrician/avionics repairman.
Spent my tour of duty in Germany.
Spent my tour of duty in Germany.
Navy active duty and reservist from 1996 - (I get sick of it/kicked out/bored).
Hasn't happened yet. But there are days...
Hasn't happened yet. But there are days...
Served in the US Army ‘86 to ‘93, medical discharge during the fracas in Mogadishu.
Former Army Drill Sergeant, Fort Leonard Wood. Former 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper, MOS 13E, 31M, 42A among others I obtained to instruct. Served 1982 thru 2007. Retired Sergeant First Class, E-7.
Come from a Naval Family tradition. Leave it to me to break that chain. Last family member who was Army was my Great Grandfather, Doughboy, WW I. He stared smokin at age 7. Lol
Come from a Naval Family tradition. Leave it to me to break that chain. Last family member who was Army was my Great Grandfather, Doughboy, WW I. He stared smokin at age 7. Lol
I was stationed at McNair Kasserne, in a small suburb of Frankfurt. Four marks to the Dollar! The Germans said, “The problem with American Soldiers is they’re overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here!”
I had a dear friend, Sam, who passed away this year at the tender age of 98. Sam was a Radioman at Pearl! He was on the PBY Tender Tangier and kept over the horizon during the attack. When he entered Pearl, he was assigned to the Admirals ship to replace a radioman who was KIA. Living history. Btw, my Dad was a Flight Deck Corpsman on the Saratoga and the Essex. My Grandfather Fred saw Pacific and Atlantic action on the Destroyer Niblack and my maternal Grandfather a Marine on Iwo Jima. I have his Japanese Flag full of Marine’s signatures and hometowns in the white field.
Veteran (Lt) of a best forgotten conflict as a conscript in the South African Defence Force in Ovamboland in the 80s.
Navy, in S Asia before Americans knew about it. Kiddie Cruiser, in at 17 out at 21.
Not a scientific analysis and a small survey sample, but thus far, the inference drawn from these known facts is... Navy guys like to smoke pipes.
Interservice rivalry. All in good fun, Squids.
Interservice rivalry. All in good fun, Squids.
Grangerous, when we’re you a Drill Sergeant at Ft. Leonard Wood?
We have a very similar saying in the Army about the guys in the Navy, although it may be ever so slightly different.
U.S. Army, 2008-2012.
I was Army (MDARNG) from 2000-2009. I was in an MP unit until 2002 then went to OCS and was in an Infantry unit. Was assigned to the Pentagon with the MP unit on 9/11.
USAF F-16 crew chief 82-93, US Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems Specialist 08-15
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