Military Veterans?

[echambers]

Apologies if this had been done and done again. I did search and didn't find anything though.
So, how many of you are military veterans? I served three years in Charlie Co, 2/325 82nd Airborne from 86 to 89. Who else served? Where? When?

 

[beezer]

U.S. Marine Corps, 1996-2004.
Camp Pendleton, CA

Okinawa, Japan

Iwakuni, Japan

 

[jaytex1969]

US Army, 1986-93, Desert Storm 8/90-3/91
2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry, "Cock Inhalers", er, Cottonbalers, by God!

 

[tbradsim1]

US NAVY , S Asia 1960-64.

 

[mso489]

U.S. Navy, 1968-1972 (enlisted)

San Diego

USS Gallant MSO 489 (I use the hull number for my user name on Forums) an MSO is "minesweeper ocean-going"

MIdway Island Naval Station

Milwaukee Navy Recruiting
I served as a Radioman (now a defunct rating) aboard ship, and after a rare change of rating through the Chief of Naval Operations (this was solicited, not initiated by me) I served as a Journalist as a newspaper editor and occasional TV news reader on Midway Island
After graduate school on GI Billl, I served for three-plus years with the then Veterans Administration as a veterans counselor helping Vietnam vets with their educational, medical, home loan and other benefits.
I was aboard USS Gallant for operations and patrols off the coast of South Vietnam, at the mouth of the Cue Viet River, in and out of ports at Saigon, Da Nang, and Cameron Bay. For long patrols, we were resupplied from an oiler by underway replenishment, for which my station was on the in-haul line with about twenty other guys, pulling supplies across on pulleys. A power winch was to likely to take off someone's arm or leg. We made rest and recreation ports at Taiwan and Hong Kong, and had a long repair stay at Subic Bay, P.I. and Guam.

 

[pipestud]

U.S. Army 1972-1974

Frankfurt, West Germany

Radio Sports Broadcaster - Armed Forces Network, Europe

 

[mso489]

...tried to edit this into my post but it wouldn't accept the edit ... just to say, I was aboard USS Gallant for operations and patrols off the coast of South Vietnam, at the mouth of the Cue Viet River, in and out of ports at Saigon, Da Nang, and Cameron Bay. For long patrols, we were resupplied from an oiler by underway replenishment, for which my station was on the in-haul line with about twenty other guys, pulling supplies across on pulleys. A power winch was to likely to take off someone's arm or leg. We made rest and recreation ports at Taiwan and Hong Kong, and had a long repair stay at Subic Bay, P.I. and Guam.

 

[nevadablue]

MOS 15B, (Sergeant Missile Crewman) ARMY, 1970-1972. Ended up in Korea instead of Viet Nam.
Playing with nukes is fun.

 

[wyfbane]

US Army/ National Guard (AGR) : 1993-2016.
Afghanistan 2006-7.
97e (became 35m) interrogator

98c (became 35n) SIGINT analyst

 

[kanaia]

USN 73-77

San Diego

Meridian MS

NAVSTA Midway Island

Lemoore, CA VA-94 The Mighty Shrikes

USS Coral Sea WestPac 77

 

[tschiraldi]

3rd US Infantry ( The Old Guard). Presidential Escort, Airborne, Air Assault, JOTC, NTC, 2 combat deployments. 1988 - 1992. 1/148 Infantry, Ohio Army National Guard, Operation Noble Eagle, 1998- 2002.

 

[warren]

Loadmaster USAF and ANG Alaska

 

[ray47]

U.S. Air Force 1966-1970
Eglin AFB Florida (66-68)

Tuy Hoa AFB Vietnam (68-69)

Maxwell AFB Alabama (69-70)

 

[instymp]

Thank you all for your service.

 

[scrumpyjack]

Warren, that makes two of us.
C-130 Loadmaster USAF 1994-2002.

 

[wyfbane]

Re-up, November 2006. One of the coolest re-enlistment pictures ever. lol

My son in the uniform I'd wear on mission sometimes. We were the last to get ACU's of anyone I know.

 

[bonanzadriver]

Uncle Ronnie's Canoe Club.
U.S.N. 1981 - 1987
Great times, Great Commander in Chief!

 

[georged]

USMC '73 to '77
Ooooo RAH! ::

 

[tuold]

USAF 1976 - 1982

90570 - Pharmacy Technician

Andrews AFB

Yokota AB, Japan

Twice TDY to Korea
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

 

[keith929]

U.S. Army 1975-1979

334th Aviation Co

D Co 503rd CAB

Hanau Germany