Military Veterans?

[anantaandroscoggin]

U.S. Coast Guard, 1972-1982
-WLV 604 Columbia River Lightship

-Captain of the Port, Albany NY

-WHEC 718 USCGC Chase

-MSO/Group Portland Oregon

-WHEC 715 USCGC Hamilton

 

[dochudson]

LZ English '68-70

 

[lifesizehobbit]

USAR 82-85 MOS 75F

82-83 Ft. Polk, LA (5th Infantry Mechanized)

83-85 Wildflecken, GE (5th Corps)

Both units, now inactive.

 

[kcghost]

US Army 1966-1969

Budingen, Germany

Intel Officer

2nd Battalion 83rd Artillery

 

[uperepik]

Thank all of you for your service

 

[warren]

Scrumpyjack: I started with C-123Js then, moved into the 130s of various configurations, and reveled in a pressurized aircraft. Oh, a bunk! Those damned things had a bunk.

 

[tarheel1]

Us army 1996-2006

1996-1998 1/505 PIR 82nd Airborne

1998-1999 HHC 313 MI LRSD

1999 SFAS, q course 2000

2000-2005 7th SFG(A) Mos 18b30w9

2005-2006 490th civil affairs battalion Abilene Texas.

 

[scrumpyjack]

Ha Ha Warren. It's the little things right? I flew on E and H models. The E models I flew on were 63s. Such a great bird. Loved it.

 

[mcitinner1]

USAF 72-76 Mostly at Minot AFB in ND. Radar Weapons Tech on the F-106.

 

[echambers]

Very cool to see all of this -- thanks for sharing.

 

[warren]

Why not Minot? How's you like the calm, balmy winter?

 

[cranseiron]

Chair Force '83-'87, Chair Guard '88-'90. Provided tactical radar control to fighter planes.

 

[jvnshr]

@tuold, where was that photo taken?

 

[pappymac]

U.S. Coast Guard Jan. 1972 - Sept. 1993.

USCGC Staten Island - an icebreaker. Two trips inside the Arctic Circle off Alaska, One trip to Antarctica.

LORSTA Pt. Grenville, Wa. - Long Range Aids to Navigation Station (what ships used to navigate by before GPS Satellites)

District Office Seattle

District Office New Orleans

Base Gloucester City, NJ/Captain of the Port, Philadelphia

District Office Miami

Atlantic Area/3rd Coast Guard District Governors Island, NY (The safest place to live in New York City)

District Office New Orleans
One reason I retired was my next duty station was going to be at Headquarters, Washington D.C. I hate politicians.

 

[mcitinner1]

@ Warren Ha Ha... One "balmy" morning going to work, I plopped down into the vinyl seat of my Plymouth Duster, and the seat shattered into hundreds of little pieces. I was there for three winters, but I was young and bullet proof. 8O

 

[warren]

Flew into Minot a time or two. Always in the winter. I'm born and raised Alaskan and, Minot weather was something I'd never seen before. The wind, it never quit. Should be a ribbon for the chest if one spent a winter in ND.

 

[elpfeife]

U.S. Army 1971-1973
54th M.P. Company

Fort Ord, California

Presidio of Monterey
Somebody had to do it!

 

[wyfbane]

Dude, you had it good, elpfeife. I was assigned to the Presidio the week before Ord closed. It was an amazing time in my life. There really isn't any other place like Monterey/Carmel.

 

[archerdarkpint]

20+ Years in the US Air Force, retired in 2008. Stationed, deployed, or on International/Military Assistance missions in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia.

 

[mso489]

I seem to have been some sort of shadow of doom for all my duty stations. The San Diego Naval Training Center boot camp closed. My ship USS Gallant, MSO 489, was decommissioned and sold to the Taiwan navy and the ship's name was changed. The homeport at Long Beach has been largely subsumed into a civilian commercial port for Asian, mostly Chinese, freighter traffic. Midway Island Naval Station was closed and dismantled and give into custody of the Department of Interior. Only the Milwaukee Navy Recruiting office remains, I believe at the same fine old office building address; maybe the landlord is an old Navy person. Nothing is permanent but change.