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I’m similar, but they kicked me out of cub scouts for eating too many Brownies.

Army Specialist 4th Class.,,,,E-4

Thank you everyone who served. I signed up a couple times but couldn’t pass the physical - hearing. Coming from a storied Naval family and being a Navy brat, it’s always been a regret of mine.

No ranking, but drew my draft number and waited for my trip.

Thank God the Viet Nam stuff was over when I graduated in 1974.

Thanks to all that served.

USMC 1979-2004, Master Gunnery Sergeant (E9).

MOS 0861 Fire Support Man (Enlisted Forward Observer, Artillery and Naval Gunfire)
Secondary MOS 0341, Mortarman
Secondary MOS 8151, Marine Security Guard (Embassy Guard/Detachment Commander)


I was planning on staying for 30 years, but a serious back injury changed that plan.

Col (P).

Became too old for the final promotion.

1976 - 1986 E6 SSGT Electronic warfare specialist
1986 - 2018 up to Colonel, USAF, USAFR, ANG ending as a Colonel with a certificate of eligibility to Brig Gen as a Civil Engineer.

Mine was 4-F. I was drafted in 1968, but they didn't like what they saw on X-Rays.

When drafted I showed up ready to go, but I'm not sorry I wasn't Johnson's cannon fodder. I lost 1/2 of my friends to that malingering war and to the military-industrial complex's greed.

I salute all who served and admire you.

The two most important people to me in the world are an E7 and an O4.

Hopefully the E7 retires as an E8.

I was kind of in the Army I drove by a recruitment station about 16yrs back. I was no sir you guys aren’t sending me to Iraq and die! But if I would’ve joined I would been a command petty tech sergeant!

Someday you might become a buck private.

Sgt. E5 US Army, 11B, Jan. 1972 to Jan. 1975

After Basic and AIT my entire enlistment was spent in West Berlin watching Russians watch us. Had a good time overall, Berlin is or at least was a hell of a neat place.


Have posted this pic before but this is the changing of the guard at Spandau Prison sometime in 1973. Our platoon is taking over from the Soviets guarding Rudolph Hess.

To they guys who served in the last 40 years those uniforms and helmets must look about as archaic as a doughboy's uniform and rimmed helmet would have looked to us.

WI ANG 79 to 83 spec4....... joined real Army 11b E1 then out as E5 1989..... alot of you Vietnam vets wouldn't recognize me this one did but they dug him up due to DNA ...

MT3-SS (E-4)

What is the "Paul Harvey" rest of the story?

a Brigadier Corporal....

that was right after I got court martialed before that I was a General Nuisance...

Lieutenant, USNR.

Petty Officer First Class.

CDR USNR - 1986-2007 - Did 9 years active then 11 years flying the EA-6B (2400 hours, 502 carrier landings) in the Reserves with recalls to active duty for Kosovo and three Iraq deployments. When the NOE to retire showed up my wife handed me the pen and said you've done your part, sign it.

E-1 to O-5 over 24 years.
My wife is currently O-6 and has received recommendation for O-7. She just has to decide if she wants another 5 years of the crap when she planned to be done at the end of this year.

E-1 to CWO3