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welcome home brother. Lets hope you shot a moon to Pleiku on the way out!
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I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life.
I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition.

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Originally Posted by GotAmmo
I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life.
I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition.


tell him to stay warm over there! That place has the nicname of "Little Korea."
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Question for you folks that are in the club known as "Combat Vets":

How many of you belong to the VFW, DAV, and other veterans organizations? Many of us here also Belong to the American Legion, but the VFW is unique to a certain segment of veterans.
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Originally Posted by GotAmmo
I started this back on May 5th and now I can post my youngest son here too. He leaves for basic at Ft Leonardwood on Sunday , off to meps then away he goes to start his life.
I couldnt be prouder of him and his brother, carrying on the family tradition.


Thank you to your son for his decision to serve. Is he going to become an MP?


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Charlie my oldest son is an MP , hes on his way to Afgan.
Zack just left today he'll be a missile tech

Thanks you too for your service

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Originally Posted by GotAmmo
Charlie my oldest son is an MP , hes on his way to Afgan.
Zack just left today he'll be a missile tech

Thanks you too for your service


my grandson just got back from Afghanistan. He was eleven bush
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this is not political or anything like that, but kinda gets under my skin a little bit.

** Seems that our friends at Walmart and Sams Club have followed suit with Target and Lowes by refusing to allow Veterans to conduct their Poppy Drives on their property. But they do allow just about everybody else to do their own will. I used to spend a lot of money at Lowes and Walmart, but they now will have to get by without the money they get from me.
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My VFW Post (7032) will be having our annual Buddy Poppy drive at several stores in town this coming weekend, to include Wal-Mart and K-Mart, the USPS main branch, several grocery stores, etc. We could have it at Lowe's as well, but we don't have enough members in the post and auxiliary. I don't know about national policy for Lowe's and/or WalMart, but the local store's in eastern NC sure support the VFW as well as other veterans organizations (I see the VVA at my local Lowe's every six months). Lowe's has made huge donations to several ARNG units and their families during OIF/OEF deployments too.


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US Army Active Duty 1976 to 1978
WA National Guard 1978 to 1979
MN National Guard 1979 to 1981, 47 AVN Brigade
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91 B Basic Combat Medic, Ft Sam Houston TX
91 C Clinical Specialist, Madigan AMC, Ft Lewis WA
91 S Occupational Health Specialist, Ft Lewis WA
54 E NBC Warfare, MN NG.

and Military Dependent, 1952 to 1974 grin


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Thanks everyone, for all you have done ! Happy Vets day

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went to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball last night by a personal invite (I'm Army). Boy what a party!! Some showed up in their dress blues, and really looked strack! Had a huge birthday cake, and a young Marine in his blues had the honor of cutting the cake. He made a three or four minute speach that was often interrupted with cheers. Told how the dress blues were never pressed and why. Then cut the cake with (your gonna love this) with a captured WWII Japanese sword!
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to all my friends with us and those departed but never forgotten.

Welcome home brothers!
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My name is really.....David Walter!
Went delayed enlistment in Nov 1976
Active duty 1977
Keesler AFB, MS
RAF Alconbury, UK
Grand Forks ND
Nellis AFB, NV
University of Akron, OH
Enlisted Electronic Warfare Technician until 1987
Commissioned 2LT in April 1987
Pope AFB, NC
Eielson AFB, AK
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Capt - Youngstown Air Reserve base
Major - McChord AFB, WA
Commanded USAF Reserve Civil Engineers Sqdn at McChord 2007-2011
Commanded 506 expeditionary Civil Eng Squadron at Kirkuk, Iraq
Lt Col - present Air Guard at Camp Murray, WA

Seen and met a ton of fantastic people. Loved every minute of it, even the frozen north, and the oven heat in Iraq. Learned a lot about me, and the quality of young men and women we're raising and I'm comfortable the Republic will endure in good hands.

Thanks to all the vets, and to all the folks who've trusted us with your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and moms and dads.

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Originally Posted by David_Walter
My name is really.....David Walter!
Went delayed enlistment in Nov 1976
Active duty 1977
Keesler AFB, MS
RAF Alconbury, UK
Grand Forks ND
Nellis AFB, NV
University of Akron, OH
Enlisted Electronic Warfare Technician until 1987
Commissioned 2LT in April 1987
Pope AFB, NC
Eielson AFB, AK
got out as a Capt in 1992
Entered Reserves 2001
Capt - Youngstown Air Reserve base
Major - McChord AFB, WA
Commanded USAF Reserve Civil Engineers Sqdn at McChord 2007-2011
Commanded 506 expeditionary Civil Eng Squadron at Kirkuk, Iraq
Lt Col - present Air Guard at Camp Murray, WA

Seen and met a ton of fantastic people. Loved every minute of it, even the frozen north, and the oven heat in Iraq. Learned a lot about me, and the quality of young men and women we're raising and I'm comfortable the Republic will endure in good hands.

Thanks to all the vets, and to all the folks who've trusted us with your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and moms and dads.


welcome home
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It was great times miss it some days don't on other days


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What type of engineer?



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It was great times miss it some days don't on other days


welcome home
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USAF 1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983
USAF 919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994


1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983
919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994

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USAF 1st Special Operations Wing 1975-1983
USAF 919th Special Operations Wing 1983-1985 1993-1994


were you with the guys flying the C130's and C121's that were painted flat black with enough bumps and blisters to make you think the plane needed a penecillen shot? Those guys were the ones that flew "Bright Light" and a couple others a few years prior.

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