Members with Military service

[Snake]

I was just wondering if any members had Military service. I am former Air Force.

[OldGuy]

US Navy 1963-1974
EM1(SS) SSBN-600 (Gold) Seven Patrols (EWS, EOOW, and Sonar Watch Supervisor), three yard periods and a tour at Idaho Falls Idaho S5G Prototype as Lead Electrical Instructor.

[GreezMunky]

Air Force - Active Duty - Jet Mech
Husband - AD as well - Army (shhhhh, don't tell anyone though )

We just picked up his lil Ninja last weekend, woo hoo!

[kkim]

Originally Posted by GreezMunky

We just picked up his lil Ninja last weekend, woo hoo!

congrats!! Even better is that I hope he's back here to ride it??? Did he ever get his leave straightened out?

[OldGuy]

Originally Posted by GreezMunky

Air Force - Active Duty - Jet Mech
Husband - AD as well - Army (shhhhh, don't tell anyone though )

We just picked up his lil Ninja last weekend, woo hoo!

Great news on picking up the new Ninja Tor. Hope you will both be able to get some rides in together before too long.

[Sound Wave]

Army Reserves- 100th Bn 442nd Inf - Infantry Medic 1988-1996

go for broke!!!

[komohana]

Air Force 1980 - 1984
Tactical Aircraft Maintenance Specialist (431)
2yrs. Spangdahlem AFB, Germany
480th AMB, F-4E Phantom II

Tow Target
Tow Reel Operations
1yr. 8mo. Edwards AFB Ca.

[Snake]

Air Force 1985 - 1989
Tactical Aircraft Maintenance Specialist
23rd TAC fighter Wing, England Air Force Base
Various TDY's around the Country

As you can see from my pic I was a Crew Chief on A-10 Warthogs -- The Tank Killer

[Custom Seat Creations]

Both my husband and I were previous Air Force
Husband: 1993 - 2008.
Me: 1996 - 2009.

[Sailariel]

Army: 1967-1970, 173Rd Airborne Brigade (Sep), 75Th Ranger Regiment, Medic.

[HKr1]

US Navy 97-01
Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class IC2(SW)
CVN-70
Rimpac 98
Westpac 99 < Operation Desert Fox
Westpac 01

US Army 02
FT Riley
Comm - DOIM

USAF 03 - Present
Comm - 16th CS & 1SOCS

[Snake]

Hey HKR1,
It took you a while but you finaly made it over to the Air Force.

Obviously I am partial to The Air Force but I love and have respect for all our branches of Military.

[sombo]

US Army 1999-2003

Electronic Warfare/Intercept Systems Maintainer (Military Intelligence MOS)
Fort Huachuca, AZ for AIT and stationed there till end of enlistment.

Currently working as a US Army civilian as an electronic mechanic (that's their title for us lol) at Tobyhanna Army Depot.

Just got my first bike, a modified 1994 ninja 250 last weekend.

[jameZ]

US Air Force 2004-2009

I just got out

[cwb48]

Army, 1969-71. HHC 30th Engineer Battalion (Cartographic), Fort Belvior, VA and HHC 31st Combat Engineer Battalion, Camp Gorvad (Phuoc Vinh), RVN.

I'm no war hero though, just an unwilling draftee who did his duty without complaint.....well, OK, maybe I did complain a little.

Chris

[ninjabrewer]

Army, 1988-2009
Ft Drum '89-'92,(10th Mountain Division); Fliegorhorst Kaserne, Hanau, Germany-'92-'95 (1st AD); Ft Rucker, AL '95-99 (1st Avn Brigade-Comanche Program ); Camp Humphreys, S.Korea '99-'00 (17th Avn Bde); Ft Campbell Ky (101st Airborne) '00-'02; Ft Eustis, Va (Instructor) '02-'06; Wheeler AAF, HI, '06-'09 (including 15mo in OIF, 25th ID).

Get my first retirement check in April.

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[Bill N]

I clicked on Coast Guard as I felt it might need some representation. But I was in the Army from 1966 to 1976. Retired USCG in 94. Currently work with military flight crews from around the world as a C-130 pilot instructor. The military was very very good to me.
Cheers, Bill

[Sailariel]

Originally Posted by Bill N

I clicked on Coast Guard as I felt it might need some representation. But I was in the Army from 1966 to 1976. Retired USCG in 94. Currently work with military flight crews from around the world as a C-130 pilot instructor. The military was very very good to me.
Cheers, Bill

Bill, The C-130 has to be the best plane I ever jumped out of. That aircraft is a workhorse. Do they still make the 130?

[GreezMunky]

Originally Posted by Sailariel

Bill, The C-130 has to be the best plane I ever jumped out of. That aircraft is a workhorse. Do they still make the 130?

Oh yeah, there is nothing they can build that will replace the C-130.. But all that they're still "producing" is the J model. Nifty aircraft. We should be receiving 2 of them later this year. Can't wait for that. Brand new hanger just for them and lots of other goodies.

[Bill N]

Sailariel,
Like Greezmunky reported the C-130 is up to the J series and still in production. The original A model was developed in the early to mid fifties to be the primary paratroop aircraft for the Army. It evolved from that to one of the most versitile aircraft of our time. Pilots and crew love it for its robustness and reliability. The "Herc" will be around for a long time.
Cheers, Bill

[OldGuy]

I remember when our submarine crew used to fly between Quonset Point, RI and Glasgow, Scotland in the C-130s. You only made one trip without ear plugs and I think I've still got the marks of those web seats in my butt.

[Bill N]

Originally Posted by OldGuy

I remember when our submarine crew used to fly between Quonset Point, RI and Glasgow, Scotland in the C-130s. You only made one trip without ear plugs and I think I've still got the marks of those web seats in my butt.

Ha...You bet this is no luxury liner. Riding in the back is noisey, and usually too cold or too hot. In Vietnam I as a passenger sat on the floor and they put a cargo strap across us for a seat belt. Definitly felt like being on a flying cattle truck. Years later when I flew the Herc as a pilot I learned about its amazing abilities.
Cheers, Bill

[Snake]

The C-130 is an impressive bird to see take-off when it uses JATO Rockets for a quick and steep climb.

[bob706]

Navy 95-99 Groton Connecticut. USS Albuquerque SSN 706 MM3/SS (A-Gang)
2 deployments to ??????

[Sailariel]

Originally Posted by rcuriel

The C-130 is an impressive bird to see take-off when it uses JATO Rockets for a quick and steep climb.

Sure am glad that they still make this incredibly fine aircraft. Wouldn`t mind jumping out of one again for old time`s sake.

[JScof]

I was active duty Air Force from 1994-2005 and now in the Air National Guard.

[jameZ]

I flew into Iraq on a C-130 in the middle of the night blacked out doing a combat landing. All of the crew had on NVG's, the rest of us couldn't see ****. It was crazy.

[ninjabrewer]

Originally Posted by jameZ

I flew into Iraq on a C-130 in the middle of the night blacked out doing a combat landing. All of the crew had on NVG's, the rest of us couldn't see ****. It was crazy.

Sounds familiar, 'cept when I initially went and finally left, flew in during the day, but out and in for R&R, was at night. It is freaky when you are just cruising along and then the pilot does a spiral descent to the runway, at night.

Gotta agree with you, it was crazy.

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[TonyKZ1]

US Navy, 1986-1996.
Desert Shield/Desert Storm back in the early 90s. Among numerous other maritime exercises.
USS Nassau LHA-4
USS Saipan LHA-2
NAS Cecil Field, FL.

[Snake]

Heres a salute to all active duty and former Military. Every one gives yoursel'ves a big pat on the back. You all are what makes America the strong and free nation it is today.

I think that every American when they turn 18 should serve two years either in the Military or a civilian organization such as the conservation core. It would help to make alot more responsible adults. I know it helped me grow up.

[Tigerpaw]

AD US Air Force
1997 - Present
Heavy Aircraft Mechanic (KC-135R, E-3A, E-4B)
Grand Forks AFB, ND
Geilenkirchen NATO AB, Germany
Offutt AFB, NE
Wright-Patterson AF, OH

((Pic is me at Korean War Memorial in D.C. two days ago))

[noche_caliente]

I salute all of you! I would have joined the air force when I was 18, but the knees kept me out

[OldGuy]

Originally Posted by rcuriel

Heres a salute to all active duty and former Military. Every one gives yoursel'ves a big pat on the back. You all are what makes America the strong and free nation it is today.

I think that every American when they turn 18 should serve two years either in the Military or a civilian organization such as the conservation core. It would help to make a lot more responsible adults. I know it helped me grow up.

I couldn't agree with you more but I'm afraid the the pendulum is in the wrong direction right now for that to even be a possibility let alone a probability.

When I was doing some research for a short presentation I have to give tonight I came across the following excerpts that are as true today as they were when written 212 years ago.

• Warning against the party system. "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

• On stable public credit. "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..."

Of the author of these words Henry Cabot Lodge wrote "...no man ever left a nobler political testament."

The man - our first President of the United States in his retirement speech on September 17, 1796.

In saying farewell to the new nation he helped create Washington pointed out that ".......the name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism..."

[jameZ]

I agree with the statement that every 18 yr old should serve 2 years in the military....I know it would have helped me tremendously, but I didn't join till I was 23 :/

[Sailariel]

Originally Posted by rcuriel

Heres a salute to all active duty and former Military. Every one gives yoursel'ves a big pat on the back. You all are what makes America the strong and free nation it is today.

I think that every American when they turn 18 should serve two years either in the Military or a civilian organization such as the conservation core. It would help to make alot more responsible adults. I know it helped me grow up.

Geez Rick, I tried to pat myself on the back but the rotator cuff said,,"Are you nuts?" I listened to my body. Rick, Thanks. People like you made it ALL have meaning. Airborne All The Way!

[Sailariel]

Originally Posted by OldGuy

I couldn't agree with you more but I'm afraid the the pendulum is in the wrong direction right now for that to even be a possibility let alone a probability.

When I was doing some research for a short presentation I have to give tonight I came across the following excerpts that are as true today as they were when written 212 years ago.

• Warning against the party system. "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

• On stable public credit. "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..."

Of the author of these words Henry Cabot Lodge wrote "...no man ever left a nobler political testament."

The man - our first President of the United States in his retirement speech on September 17, 1796.

In saying farewell to the new nation he helped create Washington pointed out that ".......the name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism..."

Don, I was Slovenian by birth, am American by choice, and was RA all the way. I tried to get back in the Army in right after 9-11. They said that I was too old. I told them that I was a damn good medic and showed them my DD-214 which had a list of my qualifications and awards. Wasn`t good enough. I later figuered that it was their loss. How come I can be an EMT with a volunteer fire dept. but can`t be an Army Medic. I think two tours in Nam as a medic is a pretty good resume as well.

[G250RSC]

I have 4 years Active in US Coast Guard and currently in the Air National Guard in SC with 16 years service. I was EOD for 14 years then moved to Combat Comm as a SWATS tech. After the unit was brached this past year I transfered to the Air Traffic Control Squadron as a Radar Technician.

[OldGuy]

Alex you are so right my friend. I have no doubt there would be a lot of "old timers" that would have gone back in for a tour or two if the could have but somebody somewhere has their rule blinders on.

Every time I see one of our solders in uniform I try to be in a position to say thanks or at least catch there eye and give them a nod. When was the last time you saw that United Air Line commercial on TV with the unit coming home walking through O'Hare and everyone was standing and applauding. That will get your juices flowing.

[Snake]

Are there any Marines out there? Haven't heard from them yet.

[ninjabrewer]

Originally Posted by OldGuy

When was the last time you saw that United Air Line commercial on TV with the unit coming home walking through O'Hare and everyone was standing and applauding. That will get your juices flowing.

They did that for us when we were going through Atlanta on our way back from R&R leave. My mother and sister met me there, I called them from Hawaii, to let them know that I had a 9 hour layover. Every group that came through got a standing ovation.

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