Myself: Retired USAF. Was in Middle East from start to finish of Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Thank you to all who served before me, with me, and serve today.
Thank you to all who served before me, with me, and serve today.
Lets call it out Vets (name your branch of service)
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U.S. Army. January '74-'78. Turkey and The Old Guard, Arlington. Made me grow up and helped me become the person I turned out to be.
Thanks to all my fellow veterans and those serving currently.
Thanks to all my fellow veterans and those serving currently.
US Army
V Corps
US Army Europe and 7th Army
Bosnia - Operation Joint Forge
2000-2005
HOOAH.
Shout out to my Devil Dog father - USMC retired (21 years).
Thanks all for your service. It is truly a unique brotherhood.
V Corps
US Army Europe and 7th Army
Bosnia - Operation Joint Forge
2000-2005
HOOAH.
Shout out to my Devil Dog father - USMC retired (21 years).
Thanks all for your service. It is truly a unique brotherhood.
USAF
2002-2008 612 ACOMS Davis-Monthan AFB
2008-2012 338th and 335 Training Squadrons Keelser AFB
2007 Doha Quatar
Separated as an E5 (SSGt).
2002-2008 612 ACOMS Davis-Monthan AFB
2008-2012 338th and 335 Training Squadrons Keelser AFB
2007 Doha Quatar
Separated as an E5 (SSGt).
1991-1994 US Army, Airborne Infantry
Operation Tropic Refugee (500 Chinese refugees 45 days on Pacific island sent back
Operation Tropic Refugee (500 Chinese refugees 45 days on Pacific island sent back
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MSGt, SMSGt, or CMSGt?
US Army Reserves 1970-1976 (Edgemont, Pa, and Pedricktown, Nj)
Active duty - Fort Dix and Camp Drum
I avoided the draft during Viet Nam
Active duty - Fort Dix and Camp Drum
I avoided the draft during Viet Nam
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Thank you to all of you for your service and helping to provide the freedoms we all share!!
US Navy80-84. Stayed in reserves while at PSU for another 4 1/2 years
US Navy '76-'82
Pearl Harbor '78-'82: USS Rathburne FF 1057
Three WESTPAC deployments.
Pearl Harbor '78-'82: USS Rathburne FF 1057
Three WESTPAC deployments.
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Navy, destroyers, 72-75 separated as a QM2 (E-5)
82 to 86 with reserve duty after, Topside Petty Officer in Charge of Combat recovery operations on CVN69, The Eisenhower, the second of the Nimitz Class Carriers. . Spent many many long days and nights pitching and catching off the coasts of Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Libya.
The Ike is back on station patrolling the dangerous waters of the Eastern Med and Red Sea as everything simmers over there.
Thank you all for your service.
The Ike is back on station patrolling the dangerous waters of the Eastern Med and Red Sea as everything simmers over there.
Thank you all for your service.
I also avoided the draft during Vietnam. I enlisted in Sep '71 and was discharged in May '75, the day before the Vietnam War was declared over. I had nothing to do with that. Army MP at Ft. Meade and in Germany.
Navy. USS ST LOUIS(LKA-116) homeported in Long Beach, CA. One deployment to WESTPAC 1972. Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Siam, Hong Kong, PI, Okinawa. 26 years in the Reserve in Convoy units and Naval War College. The Med, North Atlantic, Portugal, Korea. Called back to Active Duty to work on Pacific Fleet staff.
Air Force active duty--'93-'97, '00-'04
Air Force Reserves--'04-'11
PA Air Nat'l Guard--'11-present
Thanks to all who took the oath to serve.
Air Force Reserves--'04-'11
PA Air Nat'l Guard--'11-present
Thanks to all who took the oath to serve.
My B-I-L (Marine Recon), was on ship offshore when Marine Barracks were blown up in Lebanon.
Combat Medic, 1st Infantry Div ARMY
34th Engineer Battalion
82-85
34th Engineer Battalion
82-85
US Navy Spook (Cryptologic Technician Maintenance), 1981-87, was never on a ship.
Training at Great Lakes, IL; Pensacola, FL; and Ft Meade for 2 years
NSGA Edzell (Scotland) 3 years
NSGA Skaggs Isl, CA 1 year
Training at Great Lakes, IL; Pensacola, FL; and Ft Meade for 2 years
NSGA Edzell (Scotland) 3 years
NSGA Skaggs Isl, CA 1 year
199th Light Infantry Brigade. Air mobile. CIB awarded Aug 1969 RVN.
Redcatchers....Iron Triangle I believe??? WOW...you saw some $#!!
Far and away my favorite of the SNCOs. MSgt is concerned with their Airmen. SMSgt is kind of an admin position unless they’re a diamond.
Chiefs can be amazing of trash. It’s a crap shoot.
Let me say it is humbling to read about the service to our country each of my fellow vets have rendered. One thing we all learned while serving, every job in the military has a part in mission accomplishment. I salute all of you.
When I hear somebody talking about "working 24/7" I'm always tempted to ask what branch they were in.
Graduated and commissioned @ PSU Sept 11, 1969. Served in destroyers, cruisers both Atlantic and Pacific. Retried Oct 1 1989. Always be a sailor.
army 20 years...vietnam 1969-70
Army Reserve for 12 years.
Tour in Iraq 2003-04
Tour in Iraq 2003-04
US Army Reserves 1967 - 73.
Basic Training and AIT were at Fort Ord in Monterey, California. Fortunately I was never called up for active duty during the Vietnam War which makes me think of myself as not quite a real "veteran", even though I do qualify as one.
My heartfelt thanks and appreciation goes out to all veterans, especially those who served in harms way.
Basic Training and AIT were at Fort Ord in Monterey, California. Fortunately I was never called up for active duty during the Vietnam War which makes me think of myself as not quite a real "veteran", even though I do qualify as one.
My heartfelt thanks and appreciation goes out to all veterans, especially those who served in harms way.
My dad’s unit left the day before. He slept in the barracks and would have been a goner had he stayed another night.
United States Army Field Artillery, 1984-1991.
Navy 1984 - 1990 USS Glenard P Lipscomb SSN 685 (submarine). Nuke ET (Reactor Operator).