I did until I advanced to the point it pays well. Now it sucks. I think I can hold on another year until retirement. I will retire before I’m 50, so that’s cool.
Army Light Infantry 83 - 08 Then retired from that.
Small arms range operator on FTCKY 9mm to .50 Offshore oil worker GOM and Black Sea.
18 to 52. Retired for good,now 57 turning 58 in june.
Rock star life back then. Was a very well known NCO in the 101st 2/ 327th 90 to 95 3/ 187th 96 to 98 1/ 502nd 01 to 04 You can even throw in 1/ 506th 95 to 96 in korea my 2nd time. Still run into people all the time who remember me. I feel bad cause I gotta narrow down a unit and time frame with some to remember them. Sometimes it is hard to remember average soldiers or NCO,s and officers you served with
Others I run into I will never forget. Spend lot of time talking to em.
Friends , peers, equals. ALPHA,s.....
I can proudly say I have been in every Infantry Rgt in The 101st in modern times since 1990. Units that are still active. 502nd / 2nd Bde got MY RPK in their trophy case. LOL!!! Not many can say they been in those units let alone all of em.
You come in my house. Aint no walls of "I love me" schit everywhere. All that schit is boxed up for kids and grandkids to go thru. I got a simple picture of a 101 eagle my last combat platoon got me after OIF 1 before I went to korea my 3rd and final time in june 04.
Loved it all thru the schitiest times to the best of times. Did my job and my part. Passed down knowledge, experience, and leadership to soldiers I brought up . Just like my leaders did to me. I miss being around 39 highly armed young goons, most with alpha personality traits. Best this nation has, no matter what their hometown background is or what people remember about them back their.
Soldiers are only as good as their leaders Their is alot in that statement.... If your soldiers know you know your schit and want them to know their schit 100% And prove to them you can do anything you tell them to do. Your soldiers will excell. When you overhear your joes talking schit to other platoons and companies in your Battalion about their leaders to others and saying schit like " hey when you dicks ever gonna be the assualt element" "Hey when you guys platoon ever gonna get tasked running the Bde mg ranges". When your joes talk schit boldly like that and can back it all up with deeds You know you are raising young wolves and future leadership.
Hometown was chapter 1 of life. When ya leave it starts chapter 2....
Mr Stoner in high school dont work no more. Mr Stoner in high school been places and done things others can only imagine.
Haha friggin dairy men, insane they are. I eat plenty of dairy to keep those guys in business because I'd hate for them to be crazy and bankrupt and me not trying to help.
I remember a coworker that was married with 3 kids and how he howled about how hard work was... I told him it's not so bad, it's just what a man is willing to do to feed his family. A softer job would have him whining about low wages so pick your poison I suppose.
I do feel satisfied with the work I do.
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
