Calling All Vets,
First, I thank you for your service.
To all the fallen you will never be forgotten.
God Bless America!
Branch of Service: US Army
MOS: 95B Military Police
Years of Service: 6yrs
Last Duty Station: FOB BIAP, Iraq 03-04
US Navy
000/8404/8432 General Corpsman/Field Medical Technician/Preventive Medicine Technician
14 years July 7th
In between duty stations, last was NOSC Phoenix, next is Submarine IDC School in Groton, CT
US Army 82nd ABN DIV
13B
4yrs
Ft Bragg NC 1987
National Guard
communications Specialist
6 Years
From South Carolina to Tuscon Arizona
Thank you all for your service to this country
[thumbsup]
Not a vet myself but I appreciate what you've done!!! [thumbsup] Lub ya guys!
My vet charged me $2200 to put my cat back together. Why are you guys so expensive?
USAF
427X3, Survival Equipment Specialist
4 years, 1982 - 1986
Loring AFB Maine, Spangdahlem AB Germany
Quote from: WannaDucBad on June 21, 2008, 05:24:46 PM
Not a vet myself but I appreciate what you've done!!! [thumbsup] Lub ya guys!
+11ty billion! [clap]
Branch of Service: United States Air Force
AFSC: 2W0X1 Munitions Systems Technology (AMMO)
Years of Service: 4yrs
Last Duty Station: RAF Fairford/Welford 2004-2008
South African National Defense Force
2 Nd Signal Formation
230 Battalion, Seconded to NIS
Angolan Bush War 88 - 90
Thanx to my fallen Friends
[thumbsup]
US Navy
HT1-4955/4956 nuclear components welder
8+ years
USS Fulton (AS-11), NSSF Groton, CT
US Navy
9 years 94-03
Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AW)
5 1/2 years aboard the USS George Washington
Bosnia Conflict, Operation Southern Watch, Operation Freedom and a few others that I probably don't even know about.
By the way I LOVED IT!!! :D
USAF
6 yrs
Com/Nav Specialist (last time I think it changed to 452XX)
9th SOS HC-130-P/N Helo tankers, and 4th SOS AC-130-U Gunships
Eglin AFB, Hurlburt Field, and San Vito Air Station (closed base, really Brindisi, Italy Air Field)
Loved it, miss it.
US Navy 2002-2005
3 years (I got run over by a car and am now a disabled vet...)
Aviation Avionics Technician Third Class (AT3)
NAS Whidbey Island
Did some Vet sort of stuff 91-98
AD2
Quote from: silentbob on June 21, 2008, 07:45:59 PM
Why are you guys so expensive?
Like divorce, we're expensive because we're worth it.
US Navy
Just passed my 2 year mark last week.
Avionics Tech Third Class (AT3). 6609 IFF, I-level.
AIMD Brunswick
Si habla "Tron."
US Army (US Army Ordnance Center and School Aberdeen, MD (Edgewood Arsenal))1994-1996
Iowa Army National Guard (3657 HEM and 113th Cavalry Camp Dodge, IA) 1996-2000
63W, 63Y, 63B, 63S, 63H (Active Duty and Guard)
19D and 19K (Guard)
Nothing special really. I just fixed things, taught people how to fix things and then shot at things with a really big gun with these track thingies on it.
Quote from: Obsessed? on June 27, 2008, 12:05:27 PM
Like divorce, we're expensive because we're worth it.
US Navy
Just passed my 2 year mark last week.
Avionics Tech Third Class (AT3). 6609 IFF, I-level.
AIMD Brunswick
Si habla "Tron."
Sittin around in the air conditioning with a esd strap around your wrist eh?..
That is when they don't have you cleaning something [laugh]
Quote from: MendoDave on June 27, 2008, 12:14:49 PM
Sittin around in the air conditioning with a esd strap around your wrist eh?..
That is when they don't have you cleaning something [laugh]
I represent your tax dollars at leisure, my friend. [thumbsup]
Seriously, have you ever been to Brunswick? P-3's are the biggest scam in the Navy. The only reason we have a backlog in the shop is because the Marines at Newburgh blew up their IFF test bench.
Yea i've been in there before. One of the VR squadrons are there. VR 48 or something. I was at 54 & 55. That P3 stuff seems boring to me.
US Air Force
9 years in as of 23 Jun 08
Imagery Analyst; 1N1X1
RAF Molesworth, UK; Ramstein AB, Germany; Pearl Harbor, People's Republik of Hawaii as well as plenty of interesting deployments
Navy
4.5 yrs
AD3
Jax FL
VS-31
British Army REME
British Merchant Marine
Google Kharg Island and see one of the most exotic places I went to to load oil 1980-1984.....
USMC
6 years ,1985-91
0331/8151
Camp Pendleton; MSG Det Moscow USSR and Bonn FRG; Desert Storm
Quote from: DRKWNG on June 27, 2008, 01:05:12 PM
US Air Force
9 years in as of 23 Jun 08
Imagery Analyst; 1N1X1
RAF Molesworth, UK; Ramstein AB, Germany; Pearl Harbor, People's Republik of Hawaii as well as plenty of interesting deployments
Molesworth, huh? When?
Quote from: Pip on June 29, 2008, 08:08:56 AM
Molesworth, huh? When?
Got there in March of 2000 and left March 2003. I assume you spent some time around there too?
Quote from: BlackHills on June 29, 2008, 07:05:40 AM
MSG Det Moscow USSR and Bonn FRG
Moscow must have been a great place to work MSG!! Please tell me you were single then. ;)
Quote from: DRKWNG on June 29, 2008, 11:04:22 AM
Moscow must have been a great place to work MSG!! Please tell me you were single then. ;)
I loved Moscow. It was still the USSR so we were not allowed to have any social contact with the Soviets. However, there wasn't a shortage of single women that loved a guy in Dress Blues. ;D Most of the Embassy employees had nannies (typically US college students taking a year off) and then there were the Brits, the Aussies, the Kiwis, etc. [thumbsup]
I was single. One of the requirements of MSG is that Sgts. (E-5) and below must be unmarried. Most Dets only have one SNCO (there are a few with 2) so that means about 99% of MSGs are single.
Good life that is. I hung out with quite a few MSG guys when I was deployed with SOCEUR down in many African countries. Usually had the best stocked bar in the country. ;)
Italian Army 1992 to 1995
Paratrooper 92' to 93'
Airborne Sapper 93' to 95'
Operation Restore Hope Mogadishu Somalia April 93' to September 93'
US Army
2004-Present
98G/ 35P KP Linguist
USAG Humphreys, South Korea
Quote from: Adamm3406 on July 21, 2008, 07:05:44 PM
US Army
2004-Present
98G/ 35P KP Linguist
USAG Humphreys, South Korea
USFK eh? I work for PACOM/JIOC, KR-Div.
Navy
am1
12 years
nas whidbey
nas virginia beach
United States Army 1991-96,
19E, 19K, 11B
HHC 6/68 AR 157 SIB(M), Ft. Drum, NY
HHC 2BDE 1CAV, Ft. Hood, TX
Aco. 2/12 1CAV, Ft. Hood, TX
2005-2007 Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan
Bco. 1/162 INF, 41 BCT
Blown up January 31, 2007, 1:30am Kandahar City, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Quote from: duckwrench13 on July 21, 2008, 08:58:07 PM
Blown up January 31, 2007, 1:30am Kandahar City, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
A toast to you! Glad you are still with us brother. [beer]
US Army
8 years
11B50E
Operation Noble Eagle
Marine 5 years Army 6 years
153 DD Black Hawk Medivac pilot
Fort Hood (just moved)
and new to the forum
Army
12 years
Helicopter pilot
Ft Bragg
Quote from: docjake on July 23, 2008, 07:48:48 PM
Marine 5 years Army 6 years
153 DD Black Hawk Medivac pilot
Fort Hood (just moved)
and new to the forum
You're not alone.
USMC 96-00, 6073
ARNG 05-08, 97E, OIF March 06-July 07 [bacon]
Don't take this the wrong way guys, but why would you go to the Army after the Marine Corps? ARMY= Aint Ready for the Marines Yet ;D
Quote from: NAKID on July 26, 2008, 10:01:06 PM
Don't take this the wrong way guys, but why would you go to the Army after the Marine Corps? ARMY= Aint Ready for the Marines Yet ;D
In docjake's case, probably to go into the flight warrant field. Where else do you get paid pretty good money, and all the bennies, just to fly?
Not sure what MOS the 97E is, so can't remark to that...
Quote from: NAKID on July 26, 2008, 10:01:06 PM
Don't take this the wrong way guys, but why would you go to the Army after the Marine Corps? ARMY= Aint Ready for the Marines Yet ;D
Trust me, I know that first hand now ;D There are some very good to outstanding soldiers out there but as a whole... eh... [bacon]
My story is a little long, but basically I wanted the MOS I got as a reservist, the Army had it, the Marines didn't. 97E = Human Intelligence Collector
Quote from: Sgt_H on July 26, 2008, 10:11:37 PM
97E = Human Intelligence Collector
Ah dude, that rocks!! I am the AF equivalent to a 35G. I would love to get into your line of work, but we don't have that MOS either, unless you go in as an AFOSI agent.
Quote from: DRKWNG on July 26, 2008, 10:25:22 PM
Ah dude, that rocks!! I am the AF equivalent to a 35G. I would love to get into your line of work, but we don't have that MOS either, unless you go in as an AFOSI agent.
I got to work with OSI a few times. They're good to go. I WISH we had the resources and freedom of movement those guys did/do. We could have accomplished so much more. I loved my job and we got some good results, but when I think about what could have been I get PTSD. [bang]
Yea, I did some work with them as well when I was attached to a hybrid joint unit in Kosovo. It was a good time, both work and play, and I wouldn't mind crossing over to do that job, but the AF won't release me from my current MOS unless I separate, and then they won't look at me for OSI if I were to try and come back in.
I am the Navy equivalent of 68S, 68W and am in school for something the Army doesn't have an equivalent for the training I'm in now. Independent Duty Corpsman (Medical)...
The Army doesn't have that? Kind of surprising that they don't; I know that the AF does. I know a guy that works down here at JPAC that is an IDM. But if you were going to go that route, why not take all the way and go PJ?
Quote from: DRKWNG on July 26, 2008, 10:48:22 PM
The Army doesn't have that? Kind of surprising that they don't; I know that the AF does. I know a guy that works down here at JPAC that is an IDM. But if you were going to go that route, why not take all the way and go PJ?
Ours is a little more intense than the AF. I think the AF IDM is about 6 months. Our regular IDC is 12 months, but I am a Submarine IDC student. My training is over 15 months. Then I go truly independent on my own submarine...
USN
GMG (Gunners Mate Gun)
4 Years (1973 to 1977)
USS Detroit AOE-4
Good experience, glad I did it...but I hated it. Honorable discharge so my hate didn't interfere with doing my duty.