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Regular Army 82-90 Ft jackson SC-basic Ft Lee AIT 94B 83-86 1stBN 41st (M) infantry FT Hood, TX 86-89 1stBN 41st (M) infantry Garlstadt Germany 89-90 a POS engineer unit FT Sill OK
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Paul Regular Army 64 to 67 Fort Ord basic Fort Belvoir, Hvy Equipt Repair school 864th Engr Bn (Const) Ft Wolters and Cam Ranh Post Engrs, Petroleum, White Beach Okinawa 13th Ord. Guided Missile Group, Fort Bliss
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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US Army Special Forces -(1969-1998) 10th SFG (ABN)Ft Devens, MA 7th SF Gp (ABN) MACVSOG/5th SF Gp (ABN) Vietnam-I Corps/ Khe Sanh 7th SFGp 1st Special Opns Command-FT Bragg, NC Pentagon-DAMO-ODSO SF Underwater Opns /Combat Diver-Key West, FL
SF Assn-LIFE SOA-LIFE
Conservative-Because we have a great deal to conserve...If they will go after LTG Flynn for nothing, they can come after YOU. NRA -LIFE Rest easy: Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver, MG Eldon Bargewell, "The Frenchman", SGM Jon Caviani, LTC Roy Bahr
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena-not the critic"-T. Roosevelt There are no atheists in fox holes or in the open doors of a para's aircraft.....
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USMC - active duty 06/2013-06/2017 7051 ARFF/EFR/ base funeral detail USMC inactive reserves 06/2017 - 05/2018
USAR 06/2018 - present 37F PSYOP/ ABN
Haven’t deployed but been to camp Lejeune, camp Geiger, MCAS Beaufort, PI, fort Hunter Liggett, camp parks, fort benning, and fort Campbell.
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Went to goodfellow AFB as well for fire room mates were intel guys.
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US Army 31 years, 2 months and 18 days active duty (1986-2017). Retired as a Command Sergeant Major. Half my career was spent in the airborne, 3-325 ABCT, 82d, and the 173 ABN Brigade. Desert Storm, 2 x Iraqi and 2 x Afhanistan Did the Drill Sergeant thing. Jumpmaster and Ranger school A whole bunch of other units and other stuff but I'll keep it simple
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US Navy Seabee. A school in Gulfport Mississippi I was a Steelworker at ACB-1 Coronado Island. 1990-1994 Deployed 8 months to Mogadishu Somalia Currently working for the department of Veterans Affairs in Boise Idaho. If any veteran needs help with disability advice or getting on at the VA hit me up.
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BCT Ft. Jackson SC 1980 AIT Ft. Gordon GA 1980, Radio Operator FRG 1981-1982, Wiley Barracks, Pershing 1A nuclear missile C Battery 1983 Ft. Benning GA 197th Separate Brigade HHC 1983-1994 ARNG Company C 125th Infantry, finished up as an 11B30 1994-2015 ANG Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, electronic warfare section leader Now retired and serving as the Alpena County Regional Airport manager
Pershing 1A. No city too big, no populated area too small. We even get the roaches.
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Navy 1989-2018, 28 years 5 months 14 days. Retired CDR Flew EA-6Bs for the first 12 years. 2200 hrs and 320 Carrier Landings Schools and Staff for the last 16 years Carriers served in some capacity in: Washington, Eisenhower, Nimitz, Lincoln, Vinson, Truman
Pensacola, FL Whidbey Island, WA Fallon, NV Maxwell AFB Montgomery, AL NS Norfolk. VA Everett, WA Doha, Qatar Bremerton, WA NSA, Bahrain Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV Bahrain (again) Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc, CA
Retired to the sticks in Alabama
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1972 USAF Basic, Lackland; Tech school Acft Electrician Chanute Ill; then to McCoy afb, Plattsburgh afb, Eglin afb, Osan Korea, Mt. Home Idaho, Homestead afb, Fla. 10 years Active, 8 yr break-in service, 10 years USAFR Homestead, Incerlk Turkey, Sao Paulo Brazil, retired- It was PIA but now that it’s in the rear view- happy I did it, full Bene’s
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That was the first time I chronoed that, seems like a lot of Air Force Bases (with several TDY’s thrown in) but I was young and everyplace was a somewhat new “adventure “
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US Coast Guard (Retired)Petty Officer First Class (E-6) Rating/MOS: Yeoman 1979 - 1996 (17 years *) Cape May, NJ Petaluma, CA New York, NY (aka Governors Island) Cleveland, OH Buffalo, NY Boston, MA Topeka, KS (now, now... I know.. The freakin' Coast Guard in the middle of Kansas? WTF?) But it was all 100% Admin/HR/Payroll/I.T. as the whole entire USCG gets paid out of Topeka. Retirement *Back in 1996, remember when Bill Clinton and Congress were trying to downsize the military? Way way way too many "high brass" enlisted members were staying in. Promotion boards were at a standstill. You had to wait for someone to freakin' die before you could add another stripe! Remember those years? Anyway, they came out with a new bill approved by Congress, called "TERA" -- Temporary Early Retirement Authorization. In a nutshell: They took the normal 20yr retirement and lowered it to 15 years. Anybody, anywhere, E-5 and above with 15 years of service... Sign here... Bye! Full VA benefits, health care, a total everyday retirement... the only thing different was (obviously) they subtracted out your base pay @ 20 years versus 17. As a Yeoman (very hard rating to get promoted in), I saw the writing on the wall. I went up for promotion to Chief E-7 over and over and over, and never made it. I said, "screw it" and retired under that TERA policy with 17 years.
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Navy, 1967-71. Aviation Fire Control Technician. I made E4. Three 8 month WESTPAC cruises to Vietnam on USS Ranger. I worked on F4 Phantoms on the flight deck and hangar deck. I stayed out of the way during flight ops most of the time but sometimes had to climb up on an airplane on the catapult and flip a switch to the right position to make the radar work right, or some other simple repair. Otherwise it was stay out of the way until the airplanes are all aboard and chained down and then try to fix any broke airplanes quickly so they could launch them next time. It could be dangerous up there, especially at night, but at least I wasn't getting shot at. What an adventure for a dumb-ass farm kid! I loved the airplanes and all the amazing stuff going on up there, but I wasn't cut out for the military. 4 years of it was all I could take. But I'm a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club and the training I got in the Navy started my career as an electronics tech and engineer off very well.
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Army reserve / Desert shield, storm, Kurdish freedom (on paper). SeaBee reserve . Navy reserve. Personel clerk. Army enlisted nurse. US navy corpsman. E5 (Was offered my E6 to stay in, PTSD said otherwise. Basic at Leanardwood. Mobilized out of Indiantown Gap Detached from my unit (364th general hospital), attached to the 300th field hospital. On the ground at the start of the ground war. Scud central, Kobar towers. Earned the army achievement medal there. I was told if I had been an E6, it would have been a bronze star, not sure how true that is. Lots of pretty ribbons. Army loves it's ribbons. Got one just for showing up long enough.
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I am the NorthEast WoodsBeast!
"System version 1.3, divorced"
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USN, MM1/SS Great Lakes, Orlando, Idaho Falls, Pearl Harbor (not real exciting selection ) Scenery from the inside is all the same but being at the North Pole was a one-off.
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First post, long time voyeur
1972 USAF Basic, Lackland; Tech school Acft Electrician Chanute Ill; then to McCoy afb, Plattsburgh afb, Eglin afb, Osan Korea, Mt. Home Idaho, Homestead afb, Fla. 10 years Active, 8 yr break-in service, 10 years USAFR Homestead, Incerlk Turkey, Sao Paulo Brazil, retired- It was PIA but now that it’s in the rear view- happy I did it, full Bene’s I did an 8 year break in service as well. Then 20 more in the National Guard. 24 years total. kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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A lot of good people here. It is encouraging.
I am the NorthEast WoodsBeast!
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Army reserve / Desert shield, storm, Kurdish freedom (on paper). SeaBee reserve . Navy reserve. Personel clerk. Army enlisted nurse. US navy corpsman. E5 (Was offered my E6 to stay in, PTSD said otherwise. Basic at Leanardwood. Mobilized out of Indiantown Gap Detached from my unit (364th general hospital), attached to the 300th field hospital. On the ground at the start of the ground war. Scud central, Kobar towers. Earned the army achievement medal there. I was told if I had been an E6, it would have been a bronze star, not sure how true that is. Lots of pretty ribbons. Army loves it's ribbons. Got one just for showing up long enough. Nessmuk, shout out to fellow Corpsman and also a Virginia Boy. 91 Bravo, 91Charlie, 91Sierra, 54 Echo... service, 75 to 82... wrapped up my time with 5501 General Hospital, Ft Snelling MN. thanks for your service!
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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US Army Reserve 1994-2001 62J- general construction equipment operator (boring!)
September 2001 - August 31, 2021 68W - combat medic (not a dull moment!)
I saw action in Iraq 2003-2004, 2009-2010, Afghanistan also in 2009 and 2012-2013.
I retired almost 2 years ago. I have two pensions coming in each month and I work Wed, Thu, Fri from 2-5pm. 😎
It's a rough way to make a living but if a person can hangout for 20+ years it pays off in the end.
Medics bury their mistakes..
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