Veterans, where did you serve?

[carlz]

USCG 1977-1978 Yorktown VA MKSN
USN 1982 - 1988 Civil Engineer Corps, Antarctica (NSFA), Portmouth NH, SFBAY
USNR 1988 - 1990

God's people wear green.  (if offended, apologize for religious reference due to forum rules)

[steviefate]

USMC 1960 to 1970, Vietnam 1965 and 1969-1970. SSGT

[ZiaBeam]

It would be interesting to know where and when you served.
I was in the Army, A Co., 27th Eng Bn (cbt), 45th Group, 18th Engineer Brigade.  Dec 2. 1969 - Feb 2, 1971. Republic of South Vietnam.

Thanks to all for your service.
Terry

Basic Plt 1050 MCRD San Diego 1983
Barracks Duty Subic Bay '83-'84
0331 Machine gunner Wpns Plt 3rd Bn 9th Marines 1st Mar Div Shadow Warriors. Motto, "Death in the Dark"
Korea Team Spirit Joint Training Exercises Camp Mujuk, Seoul and too close to the DMZ !!  1985
Camp Hansen Okinawa Infantry Deployment
Tokyo Japan Libbo !!
Camp Legeune Marine Corps Championships 6 years running
Communications Technician 5954 29 Palms Ca
8531/8532 Primary Marksmanship Instructor (Global)
2111 Small Arms Repair Technician Quantico and 29 Palms MTU
USMC Rifle Team 1998/2000/2001/2002/2003 MCCDC Quantico
USMC Pistol Team 1999 MCCDC Quantico
MATC 5954 Comm Tech Instructor Pensacola
Retired 2005

[Mr.Bojangles]

Regular army, '04-'06. 2/87 Infantry, 10th Mountain Div, Fort drum NY. No combat service.

Thanks to all of you.

[avator]

It would be interesting to know where and when you served.
I was in the Army, A Co., 27th Eng Bn (cbt), 45th Group, 18th Engineer Brigade.  Dec 2. 1969 - Feb 2, 1971. Republic of South Vietnam.

Thanks to all for your service.
Terry

Basic Plt 1050 MCRD San Diego 1983
Barracks Duty Subic Bay '83-'84
0331 Machine gunner Wpns Plt 3rd Bn 9th Marines 1st Mar Div Shadow Warriors. Motto, "Death in the Dark"
Korea Team Spirit Joint Training Exercises Camp Mujuk, Seoul and too close to the DMZ !!  1985
Camp Hansen Okinawa Infantry Deployment
Tokyo Japan Libbo !!
Camp Legeune Marine Corps Championships 6 years running
Communications Technician 5954 29 Palms Ca
8531/8532 Primary Marksmanship Instructor (Global)
2111 Small Arms Repair Technician Quantico and 29 Palms MTU
USMC Rifle Team 1998/2000/2001/2002/2003 MCCDC Quantico
USMC Pistol Team 1999 MCCDC Quantico
MATC 5954 Comm Tech Instructor Pensacola
Retired 2005

WOW !! your list of airguns is almost as impressive as your list of service.
Thank for both.

[Scrambler82]

US Army MP. 1968 - 71
Basic - Ft Dix NJ
AIT - Ft Lee VA
2 years on the ground Viet Nam, 2nd MP Detachment, DaNang, Northern Provinces, Jan 1969 - Jan 1971
Ft Sill, OK, 546 MP Detachment, missed the six month early release, spent some time in the CID Unit.

Thanks to all the guys serving now, may God Bless and keep you safe.

[ZiaBeam]

WOW !! your list of airguns is almost as impressive as your list of service.
Thank for both.

Thank You Avator   

[cryptoad]

U.S. Navy 1974-1996  Bootcamp - San Diego, CA; Tours included Rota, Spain; Homestead, Fl; Galeta Island, Panama;  Recruiting Station Marion, Il;  USS Spruance (DD-963); RAF Edzell, Scotland; Temorarily Assigned Duty aboard 5 aircraft carriers, 3 cruisers and 3 destroyers.  !st Gulf War vet.

[Djbriez]

USMC 84-87 1st Battalion 9th Marines 1st Mar Div Pendleton.... Outer camp Horno
2531 mos ( battery operated grunt) field radio HQSVCCO
Hollywood Marine ( boot camp MCRD San Diego)
WestPac courtesy of the USN on LPD 7 USS Cleveland ( bobbin and weavin on the USS Cleveland)
Shellback (yea)
Panama ( still not supposed to say, but contains the words "jungle and warfare")

We used to get a lot of flack because Comm platoon was a part of Headquarters....( so was RECON)
Comms motto?
" You can talk sh*t about us, but you can't say sh*t with out us!"

DJ

[clgraham82]

USAF - Ret 2004, RAF Chicksands, UK - Fort Meade, MD (2x) - SAFAQ, Pentagon - Osan AB, Korea

[ZiaBeam]

US Army 1965-72

I spent two tours in Viet Nam flying helicopters

The first was with the 3rd Squadron of the Fifth Calvary.


Among other missions we supported the 9th Infantry Long Range Recon Patrol.  (Black Beret S.F.)
 

LRRP pick-up somewhere just inside the Viet Nam border.




Some days were better than others

Like most young helicopter pilots, I saw myself an invincible.
One of the LRRP team leaders went so far as to seek me out in 2006 to thank me for saving his team on one of the more exciting missions.
He wrote me a poem about the mission.


Craig (Raker 24… AKA "Bird Legs") died of lung cancer in 2009... Agent Orange finally got him.

One day, I may tell that story.

My second tour Was flying Huey Cobras for the 334th Aerial Weapons Company


My Wingman Playboy 4





Some days were better than others here too.

But I still had the invincible mindset.

My ground crew gave me a Zippo lighter that reflected my attitude.






So, I survived two years of extreme violence.

It made me what I am today…. 100% disabled

Steve

Hope you're doing well Steve

[Scrambler82]

Thank you Sir for being there.
A lot of us got home because of you and others like you who took the chance to get us out of tight situations.

God Bless and keep you well.

Ltr

US Army 1965-72

I spent two tours in Viet Nam flying helicopters

The first was with the 3rd Squadron of the Fifth Calvary.


Among other missions we supported the 9th Infantry Long Range Recon Patrol.  (Black Beret S.F.)
 

Steve

Hope you're doing well Steve

[bigredhunter00]

OIF 2001-2006 3/18th FA 3rd Corps Artillery Ft. Sill Oklahoma

[mobilemechanic]

USAF 1971-1975 (SAC) Tech school in Biloxi Miss.First assignment Fort Drum,ground directed bomb run training.In the 70s heavy bombers (B 52 and FB 111) were directed from ground stations.Next Guam,keeping aircrews trained.Then Ashland Maine, low level bomb run training,a B 52 or FB 111 at a few hundred feet over the Allagash wilderness very impressive!Back to Fort Drum then done.Also got married between Fort Drum and Guam,been 41 great years!

[dwalk]

US Army 1960-1963

philippines, okinawa

attached to 25th inf trans batt, UTTHELCO, (armed HU-1A's hueys) in korat thailand for opening of the war in VN

2ad div arty, ft hood tx

i might also like to add i, too, am an army brat...dad started in the US Army in the cavalry at ft sill OK in 1932 and retired from ft sill in 1956 after serving in WWII and Korea. i grew up at ft sill OK, ft hood tx, ft riley ks, kaiserslautern Ger, camp mccoy wis, ft jackson SC, camp callan CA and others i can't recall at the moment. a lifetime of wonderful memories.

[darren]

Hey all

with the 4th coming up I want to thank all my brothers and sisters in uniform.

God bless you all for sacrifices past, present and future

[MiloJR]

Army 84-89
Coast Guard 89-09

FT Rucker, 101st Abn, FL, OR, HI, AK, CENTCOM

Flew: UH-1, H-60, H-3, C-130

Retired CDR

[Bigdog1090]

My first hitch right out of high school - US Airforce - 1976 - 1980.  Boot at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, then training in Chanute AFB, Illinois.  Rest of the time at Tyndall AFB, Florida - 100 miles from home!  I was an avionics tech on Lockheed T-33A T-bird trainers, McDonnel F-101B/F Voodoos and Convair F-106A/B interceptors.  Also worked various transient birds that came through.
Was out for eight months, couldn't get a decent job, reupped.
US Navy - 1980-1986.  Electronic Tech on UHF radios and Crypto gear, most time on the USS Ainsworth (FF-1090) antisubmarine frigate home ported in NorVa.  Got paid for three years of Carribean cruises.  One deployment to the Indian Ocean, saw obama's  hometown of Mombasa, Kenya.
Final year did crypto work at NAVCAMSLANT, NorVa.  Same old gear as on the ship.  I got GOOD at tube work.   
The ET experience helped in my eventual 24 year career in IT.  Sort of......   
Never saw combat, as I was 'between wars'.  But doing Naval Gunfire Support off the coast of Beirut, we could hear the arty in the hills.  The ship that replaced us later got to shoot a bit at the tangoes.....   

[Ole Coyote]

I missed Vietnam by 1 week. I enlisted in 73 knowing I would have to go. At our BCT graduation, The CG at Ft. Jackson informed us we were the first cycle not to roll over to 11B and head for Vietnam in 8 years. I served totally CONUS. First at Ft. Monmouth, NJ with the Army Signal Center & School as a photo lab instructor, then Ft. Bragg with 8th PSYOPS Bn (crest to your left) in the printing plant, and finally in Washington, DC with Recruiting Cmd, producing recruiting displays, traveling presentations, scheduling the Golden Knights parachute team, etc. All in all, a pretty boring 5-1/2 years, but I am proud of it and wouldn't have missed it for the world.

[dv8eod]

U.S. Army '88-'92
Naval Reserves '94-'95
U.S. Army '95-'03 (didn't learn my lesson the first time )
Desert Storm/Shield- Combat Engineer
Kosovo- Explosive Ordnance Disposal