volunteered us army 3 years 67-68-69. basic at ft bragg nc then to restone arsenal huntsville al for hawk missle radar school then to okinawa japan where i spent 22 months on "the rock".
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Unsafe At Any Speed Member
Posts: 2299 From: Cheyenne, WY Registered: Feb 2003
Since then, I commissioned in the Air Force in 2007 as a 13S (Space and Missiles). Spent a little over a year at Vandenberg, CA and have been stationed here at FE Warren since October. I'm a missileer (nuclear missile operator). I'm actually underground babysitting some nukes right now.
DRAFTED !! Left behind a 67 GTO in storage. 2 years Army. Basic in Ft. Bragg, NC. Advanced Individual Training at Ft Bliss in EL Paso Texas for 10 months. Giebelstadt, Germany, Near Wurzberg for 1 year.
Chaparral missile surface to air / Driver-Crewman
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IFLYR22 Member
Posts: 1775 From: Tucson, AZ. Registered: May 2007
Lackland AFB, TX - Basic Keesler AFB, MS - Tech School March AFB, CA - 10 months Korat RTAFB - 13 months Rhien Main AB, Germany - 8 years Patrick AFB, FL - all the rest
It was a rough life
Frank
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fiamma Member
Posts: 258 From: san diego, ca Registered: Jun 2006
USN 1975 - 1979, Basic in Great Lakes including A and B school for Electrician's Mate. I was stationed on the USS Julius A. Furer, guided missal fast frigate. I have an 88 coupe daily driver, 84 SE, and a soon a mixed bag 88GT, long story but fun.
Qwikgta = Rob Jensen. 21 years US Navy. Retired as an ISCS (SW/AW)
NRC San Deigo, CA IS A School, Denver Co VP-45, NAS Jacksonville, FL Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific, Pearl Harbor HI USS Kitty Hawk, San Diego, CA USSTRATCOM, Omaha, Ne 5th Fleet, Baharain NSWDG, virginia beach USS Harry S. Truman, Virginia Beach
Now I work for the US Coast Guard, in Virginia Beach.
Rob
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Lilchief Member
Posts: 1733 From: Vevay,Indiana Registered: Feb 2004
U.S.Army 71-74 Ft Campbell ,KY Ft Gordon, GA Co.C 440th Sig BN, Darmstadt Germany 2 1/2 years. Nice place to visit. Seen alot of concerts and got to travel some. Went down the Rhien River in a raft from Switzerland, France along Germany. Holland was the nicest country to visit. Had a Fiat Otis (Lombardi) that I use to smoke Porsche 914, not bad for a 850 cc motor. Use to cruise the autobaun at 112mph all day long, that's all she would do and those Carreras would pass me like I was sitting still.
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Posts: 16460 From: Schaumburg, IL Registered: Jan 2000
U.S. Navy 1981-1987 (4 years active 2 years reserve) AT2 I-level VA-37 NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL Was on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson for it's world cruise in 1983 (It's maiden operational cruise) Stationed in Iwakuni Japan for 6 months in 1985. (Took the place of a Marine squadron while they transistioned from the A-7 to the F/A-18)
Places I've been to: (outside U.S.)
St. Thomas/St. Johns, Virgin Islands Nice, France Monaco, France Paris, France Cannes, France Casablanca, Morocco Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory coast of Africa) Perth, Austrailia Diego Garcia Hong Kong, China Pusan, South Korea Subic Bay, Phillippines Angeles City, Phillippines Sasabo, Japan Nagasaki, Japan Iwakuni, Japan Hiroshima, Japan Okinawa, Japan Tokyo, Japan
U.S. Cities: (on the military base near/in that city) Millington, Tennessee Jacksonville, Florida (all 3 bases) Key West, Florida Fallon, Nevada Norfolk, Virginia Lemoore, California Pearl Harbor, Hawaii San Francisco, California Bremerton, Washington
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USAF 2003 - present I'm a TACP which is a forward observer for airstrikes for the army. I've been stationed at: Hurlburt Field, FL Fort Riley, KS Osan AB, ROK
I have three tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan with another year to Afghanistan coming up quick.
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Posts: 3537 From: Lawrenceville, GA USA Registered: Feb 2009
US Navy, Jan 1968 to Dec 1973. USS Ranger (CVA-61), 3 Vietnam cruises. I worked on air search radar equipment. I still have a unique souvenir of those days -- a pair of magnetron magnets out of a radar. Man, those are some STRONG magnets.
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JohnWPB Member
Posts: 5182 From: West Palm Beach, Florida Registered: May 2009
13C Fire Direction Control with top level secret clearance. (Kept track of live nuclear status and military movement of other countries)
Basic Training: Ft. McClellan Alabama AIT: Ft. Sill Oklahoma Stationed: Kirchgoens, West Germany. (The Rock) Attached to the 3Rd Armor Division.
Best Moment: Actually being there to see the Berlin Wall come down. I still have a chunk of the cement on my mantle that I busted off with a hammer with my own two hands
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stumpkin Member
Posts: 248 From: Central Minnesota, MN Registered: Aug 2007
USN 1975 – 1998: It took me 22.5 years in the U.S. Navy to get me ready to teach Middle School.
75 – 83: Ten years as a Hospital Corpsman:
Transplantation Research, National Navel Medical Research Institute, Bethesda MD Hemo-dialysis technician, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda MD Field Medic with 3/1 USMC, Camp Pendleton CA Naval reserve Surgical Team 116, Mpls, MN (In reserves while going to college for engineering as newly wed RN wife talks me out of nursing due to poor pay and crap schedules)
84 – 98: Twelve years as an Engineers Aide/Underwater Construction Diver: (I was compelled to go back on active duty before finishing engineering degree due to Beirut Marine barracks bombing in October of 83). Underwater Construction Team One, Little Creek, VA (all twelve years) In June of 85, one third of my unit was hijacking on TWA Flight 847. My friend Bob Stethem a diver that helped me into the construction diving program was murdered on this flight by the Hezbollah. I traveled extensively through out the world during this time; Must unique experience was living in a tent for six weeks on a moving ice flow 80 miles north of Greenland & diving under the ice.
I have an American flag in my classroom that was given to me when I retired from the Navy that flew over the USS Robert Stethem DDG-62 a ship named after my fallen shipmate. Don’t ask me how I feel about terrorism I think you can figure it out!
Side note: As a new teacher in 98 my wife worked part time as an RN and made over twice as much as I did as a new teacher (she still has a crap schedule). Sad if I wasn’t retired from the Navy I couldn’t afford to teach!
20 years army, 4 in the field artillery, 16 as a flight engineer on Chinooks and crash-hawks. 2 tours Germany, 2 tours central america, 1st Desert War. Spent all time stateside assigned at Ft. Bragg NC.
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Philero Member
Posts: 390 From: Medford, OR, USA Registered: Oct 2007
Been to... well... every continent except for Antartica.
------------------ Phil Always trying to create something new! '88 SE '84 SE '87 GT Extreme body mod and 2.8L Turbo Propane powered (in the garage and getting closer to being completed)
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stumpkin Member
Posts: 248 From: Central Minnesota, MN Registered: Aug 2007
Please tell me you aren't teaching math. (Please take this as a joke, no offense intended here)
Well yes I do use a lot of math. Remember we are talking about the military here and it all depends on how you count active and or reserve time. The military adds up time served in an odd way. Side Note: My typo didn't help!
No Offense taken - If you can't laugh at yourself your too serious to be teaching middle school!
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Mike Marden Member
Posts: 432 From: Fernandina Beach, FL Registered: Aug 2006
7 years Air Force (1965-1972) Basic - Lackland Fort Lewis WA - Army airfields had Air Force weather dets Southeast Asia (18 months, mostly Laos and Cambodia, volunteered for this) Cheyenne WY Back to Southeast Asia (12 months, didn't volunteer this time !) Abeline TX
19 Years Navy (1973-1992) USS John F Kennedy Lakehurst, NJ (Forecasters School) Guam USS Fanning Pearl Harbor, HI USS Mount Whitney Suitland, MD (Naval Polar Oceanography Center) Naples, IT Kings Bay, GA Retired 1992
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Posts: 341 From: The Great Lakes! Registered: Aug 2008
USS Sperry AS 12 USS Proteus AS 19 Service Craft Command (Long Beach) SAR (Guam) Company Commander (Great Lakes) USS John Young DD 973 Supervisor Ship Builder Command (Long Beach)
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Fieroking Member
Posts: 2144 From: Coeur D Alene Idaho USA Registered: Jun 2002
USAF from Oct 1967 to Nov 1971 as an aircraft electrican. Worked on ... C-47, C-124, C-130, C-151, B-66, B-52, Huey and the Sh_t Hook, that three tailed old TWA airliner (a spy thingy) F-102, F-104, F-4, and my favorite the F-105 Thunder Chief or "the lead sled" that gatling gun could throw a lot of lead and if the engine quits it glides like a lead brick. I think there where some other models in there maybe ... oh yea, a 2 seater set up like a Fiero, side be side, it had 2 engines and a bubble canopy. I want to say it was an AT-6 or something like that. Started at Lackland in TX., to Rantol IL., McConnell KS., Korat Thailand, Norton CA. The only things I learned the whole time was electricity really hurts and how to drink.
US ARMY 98-02 ALSO 04-06. INLCLUDING fort knox, fort drum, camp stanely, camp gary owen, fort gordon, fort dix, fort benning, multiple camps and bases in kuwait, tallil air force base, camp echo in BFE iraq. dual mos 35E and 63W. proudly have a bronze star for valor, 1 of 55 soldiers to be awarded a polish medal of excellence by the ambassador of poland to the US while in iraq, and multiple other medals.
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Posts: 3402 From: Leonard, Tx. USA Registered: Feb 2001
April 15, 1969 - An unarmed Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft based at NAS Atsugi Japan was shot down by North Korea, fighters. 30 sailors and 1 marine lost their lives. "Due to national security issues and secrecy surrounding the mission, little was released to the media and the incident has quickly faded from the headlines".
As need required, aerial reconnaissance was conducted in other areas of the world, including support to American forces in the Vietnam War. Some of these flights also resulted in downed aircraft and loss of life, e.g., the shootdown of the Navy EC-121 in the Sea of Japan on April 15, 1969, and loss of Army aircraft in Indochina.
The existence of the program was kept classified for decades. Although it became obvious that the Soviets knew about some aspects of the program, many key features remained secret from them. The decision to keep the program secret, though necessary, had unfortunate implications: it prevented public recognition for the veterans of the program as well as public honors for those who lost their lives while conducting aerial reconnaissance.
THE LOSSES
Aerial reconnaissance was dangerous. Of the 152 cryptologists who lost their lives during the Cold War, 64 were engaged in aerial reconnaissance.
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the reverend Member
Posts: 298 From: Foster, KY, USA Registered: Apr 2007
May 1986 to January 1992 US Army, IAR January 1992 to June 1994
Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, Basic Ft. Gordon, Georga, AIT, 31M Multi Channel Communications Operator Rose Barracks, Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 8th Infantry, 8th Sig Bn. Ft. Ben Harrison, Indiana, MOS Change 75B Personnel Administration Specialist Ft. Lewis, Washington, HHB, 3rd Bat, 11th FA
Notable things I did. Put out Fires at Burns and Sheep Mountian Oregon Desert Shield/Storm Turned down White House Communications 3 times Quit when it stopped being fun, plus my Brother-in-law had Lukenia at the time, we wanted to spend the time with him, glad we did.
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blackrams Member
Posts: 31843 From: Hattiesburg, MS, USA Registered: Feb 2003
hey guys. im still servin lol! i have til 2014 to decide if its a career or not. Most likely it will be. I am in the US Army btw (active duty) 6/6/06 (hehe) enlisted active duty. went to Fort Jackson, SC, for Boot camp 8/23/06 Fort Gordon, GA for AIT 5/1/07 Fort Hood, TX 11/9/08 Camp Buerhling, Kuwait 12/08 Fob Sykes, Iraq (tall' afar) right now.....................
i have 3 years of service. I re-upd' awhile back for 6 more years. I will either go airborne/ranger when i get home, or go special forces. If anybody is or has been in the SOCOM community i would like to hear from ya! I am leaning towards serving in SF for a career. I would like to become an officer and become a physician assistant as well. I want to be a drill sergeant too! I have lots of goals.
My mos is a 25N. I operate redcom pbx, promina, callmanager, cisco routers, juniper switches, and comsec stuff. * Install, initialize, operate and perform field level maintenance on electronic nodal assemblages, combat net radios, and ancillary communications equipment * Use computers and software tools to perform system/network operations * Interpret system and equipment error codes to correct system faults * Install, operate, maintain, perform maintenance and unit level maintenance on all internal communications systems and COMSEC devices * Execute the installation, operation, PMCS and field level maintenance on numerous network management systems
It is good stuff, but it does get boring. My civilian job dealt with cisco callmanager networks and it was more exciting than my current job in the Army. Good job experience I guess. I want something more though.
IF anybody is a physician assistant and or SF soldier pm me plz! i have simple questions to ask. thanks
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