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Us Army 4/10/74. 9/28/77 wheeled and tracked vehicle mechanic
I like to do my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger!
There is only one kind of dead, but there are many different kinds of wounded.
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US Army 1Apr85 to 18Mar97. 91Q Pharmacy. Hired as a civilian 28Apr97 to 31Mar17. Retired with total of 32+yrs. last fall.
An armed member in a country is a citizen, an unarmed member is a subject.
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I lost the lottery in '69, so I joined the USNR for a four year tour. At boot camp I qualified for Electronics Technician "A" school, then they discovered I had a degree so they offered OCS. Navy spent several months training me to be a junior officer on a ship. Upon commissioning, BUPERS decided that my psychology degree was better suited to the Naval Drug Rehabilitation Center at NAS Jax. So there I was, spending 3 years dealing with Sailors and Marines who brought back some bad habits from 'Nam. Three years of that was enough to convince me to use my GI bill to go to grad school in something other than Psychology.
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Started off as Airborne Infantry in the 82nd in 1985 and retired as an AH64D Standardization Instructor Pilot in 2005. Would happily do it all again.
John
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Tried to enlist right out of high school in '74. Got rejected due to hay fever. A sincere THANK YOU to all who have served, and are serving.
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Campfire Oracle
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Just shy of 29 years, USCG
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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US Army
4 years as an Air Traffic Controller
16 years flying fling-wings.
There is no way to coexist no matter how many bumper stickers there are on Subaru bumpers!
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USN Air Squadron, ASW Airborne Operator.
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively...
Having said that, MAGA.
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Father and 2 uncles in WWII in Army-- so in Feb. 1970 months out of college I joined US Army --- Draft breathing down my neck-
Basic Fort Dix--- AIT Fort Lost in Woods Missouri----- Shake & Bake --- Same same Missouri ---- Spec 5 Nov 1970 ---- 815th Engineers
QL 20 Central highlands RSVN . 1 month road construction work-- 11 months NCOIC Guntruck WildThing. Convoys in and out of Central Highlands
Day and night security ----- Home Nov. 1971. Jan 1972. at Fort Lewis WA. I swapped 1 year active duty for 1 year of active Army National Guard Duty
back in New York State. One weekend a month and two weeks at Camp Drum ( Fort Drum) in a year was at time like watching reruns of The Gong Show.
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USN CTI
Spent all my time on Army and Air Force bases. Didn't do chit, nothing interesting.
Attending my son's Army basic training graduation this week.
Grandfather in Army
Grandfather in Navy, wounded in Korea as Seabee
Uncle in Army
Cousin still serving in Navy
Great great grandfather in Belgian calvary
Me
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Present and accounted for.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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Enlisted US Army Feb. 1966, served through Feb. 1969. Spent 27 months in RVN as a platoon medic and recon co. ATL and Team leader. Been chasing the rush ever since.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier
Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
Craig Douglas ECQC
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US Army 1975-78. I spent 2.5 years in West Germany in the 2nd ACR, 3rd Squadron guarding the Czechoslovakian border and hanging out at Hohenfels and Graf training.
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Drafted 69
Basid/AIT 11F Fort Ord CA
Shake and Bake 11F40 at Benning
When we thought we had it rough we listened to the Rangers next door and realize we lived on Easy Street
Short training gig for the OPNS/INTEL POsition at Fort Carson
RVN 70-71 Recon Team Leader early rtn/DEROS due to standdown
TNANG
UH1 B,D,M,H sitting in the back and cleaning the windsheild.
OH6 Scout/Observer
Time spent in the Engineers office
THEN Second best duty
Range Control
Retired and out of TNANG on my 60th birthday.
Thank all who have served for your time effort and losses.
Some spelling errors can be corrected by a vowel movement.
~ MOLON LABE ~
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Lost the lottery in '72 - number (64) came up in June or July.
As it was apparent the politicos didn't want to win - I enlisted in the NMNG.
Trained at Leonard Wood, both basic and AIT.
62F20 - crane operator.
By the time I got out, I had 5 MOS's - 4 from OJT
Wheeled vehicle mechanic
Tracked vehicle mechanic
Heavy equipment operator (tracked)
Heavy truck driver
Out as a buck sgt E-5 in '78
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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US Army Medical Corps...Sept 1975 to Dec 31, 1982.
Basic Ft Sill Oklahoma
AIT 91B, Ft Sam Houston TX
Advanced AIT, 91C, Madigan Army Medical Center, Ft Lewis WA
300 F1 Med Course Ft Lewis WA
54 E MOS, Camp Ripley MN.
RIF canceled signing for Ranger School, and Jump School
Rotated off Active Duty to Washington NG, served in Medical Platoon in Seattle
started PA School at Univ of Washington, rotated out to get married.
Moved to MN, MN NG, 47th Aviation HHQ...Flight Medic and Gave Flight Physicals to Flight Crews
5501 MASH, then 5501 General Hospital...
Didn't re enlist Dec 31, 1982.
Military Service Was after Graduating College, turned down a Commission after got off Active Duty,
so got out after 7 years as a lowly E5....hence why I didn't Re Up in Dec 82.
Grew Up as Military Dependent, My Dad.. 10 years USMC, 16 years USAF....Pilot.
Got accepted to AF Academy after High School, eye sight kept me from following in his foot steps to be a pilot, so I turned down the opportunity.. only to be disowned by my granddad for about 5 years...Folks were pretty pissed also...
Analysis of my military Time..... the Story of Could Have Been, but Wasn't.
Military training, was a Registered EMT, Paramedic,LPN & RN, after rotating to Reserve Duty, and being in the Civilian World.
"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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Army ROTC, commissioned USAR in 1980, delayed entry to active duty for graduate school. Joined a reserve unit near school as a non-deployable over strength since I hadn't been to basic yet.
Re-commissioned 1LT Regular Army in 1982, off to FT Sam Houston for basic.
20 yr REMF. Assignments in Colorado, Alaska, Maryland (twice), Alabama, Virginia. Retired in 2002.
Went right back to work as a contractor/consultant for the Army, the National Guard, and a little bit for NASA. Retired again in 2014, little earlier than I originally was thinking, but turned out to be right time.
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