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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Back Room => : VINNY June 01, 2008, 04:10:14 PM
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are or were in the military.Just curious, who was in and what branch? Not trying to be rude or nosey, I just think its pretty darn cool.... :emoticon:
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Oh yeah! Me- US ARMY just about 6 years.
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I was in the Army (Engineer) 6 years active, 3 reserve. I was in the Air Force reserve for 6 years.
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GOOD MORNING & GOD BLESS BOTH VINNY & STEPHANIE ALONG WITH ALL OF YOU BRAVE VETERANS WHO SERVED OUR GREAT NATION & PAVED THE WAY FOR THOSE LIKE MYSELF WHO HAVE REAPED THE BENIFITS FROM YOUR COURAGEOUS ACTS......I TRULLY APPRECIATE YOU BEAUTIFULL AMERICANS.........I HAD FAMILY,GRANDFATHERS,FATHER,UNCLES & COUSINS WHO HAVE FOUGHT & DEFENDED OUR WAY OF LIFE,IN EVERY WAR FROM WWI - VIET NAM..........I can't remember before WWI...I was to young..hehehe!
THANK YOU FOR DEFENDING MY RIGHT TO BUY AIRGUNS!............THIS IS FACT,THAT MOST DO NOT REALIZE!
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Marine Corps & Navy Vet here.
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Army 10 years 6 months AD
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Navy StrikeFighterSquadron 113 NAS Lemoore, CA 4 years. :-) I would go back today if I could. :-(
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Served a term in the Marines as a grunt. I didn't scale mountains with my bare hands like the commercials and I wasn't a drill expert but it was one of the best experiences of my life and I got to meet a lot of great life-long friends, all of whom are willing to die for country and/or each other.
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Never personally but have had many family members who served. My last smoking hot girlfriend was an Air force MP for 10 years.I salute all those who served our country's armed services. May God Bless you all for your contributions.
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ARMY....1 Bn 75th Ranger Rgt...HoooAhh!..wish now i would have made a career out of it.
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Air Force - 4 years....
Good years and good memories :emoticon:
Jeff
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A very long, long time ago I served in the US Army. How long you say? Well, to give you an idea, in basic training I was issued the venerable M1 Garand, that massive (damn that thing was heavy) but a true battle rifle. It would be an honor to own one today.
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Never served. Richard M. Nixon stopped the draft in 1972 about a month or two before my draft lotto number (112) would have come up. I was on the bubble, so to speak. About a third of the guys I graduated high school with and started college with were not so lucky. And I mean no disrespect here, perhaps "lucky" is the wrong word if it implies that military service is a bad thing. But it was pure chance -- no deferments in those years. I have often wondered how my life would have turned out differently had I spent 4 years in the service of the military.
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2ND/505TH ABN INF
82ND ABN DIV
-mid to late 80's
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USMC 67-71
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USMC 67-71
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Air Force SP 83-92 and stationed in Germany for 6 yrs. Enjoyed every minute and wish I was still there.
odie072 :emoticon:
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U.S.Navy, 90-94
Aviation Mechanic (Structures)
NAS North Island SeaOpDet
USS Independance CV-62
USS Midway CV-41
USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
Funny how much I miss those boats and being at sea. Tried to get the wife to take a cruise with me (luxury cruise liner), but she just doesn't get it:(
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Polaris Missile subs, 1969 - 1973. I was third on the list to go for the next draft (this per the young lady at the selective service office when I checked in to notify them I had enlisted.) A short time later, before that draft was to have taken place, they switched to the fish bowl system. My number would have been amongst the last to go. Guess I was one of the "lucky" ones, ha ha. Don't regret it, though. Was one of the most worthwhile things I've ever done.
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Hey RedFeather... Coner or Nuke?
I was a Coner myself. An "A" Ganger on Fast Attacks. USS Providence SSN 719 and plank owner of the USS Tucson SSN 770. Also did a short stint on the Santa Fe SSN 763. Those new I boats with the Bow Planes and VLS n what not are nice! I still like Fairwater Planes though. AKA Diving Boards! haha :D
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USMC 67-70
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SDale, I was a Torpedoman's Mate working on the Polaris A3 launchers. Don't rightly know what a "Coner" is/was since we didn't use that term on our boat. Unlike your sleek and $exy fast attacks, we had the bowling alley aka "Sherwood Forest" (16 tubes) and, of course, fairwaters and stern planes. Also flew our boat with a stick actuated solenoid system that looked like it came out of the Enola Gay. The diving stations these days look more like our old sonar shack. Anyway, I still maintain that our Lafayette class sub had the world's largest airgun. The Polaris A3's were launched with compressed air. Yes, it was a PCP, or Pre-Compressed Polaris. Long range accuracy? Well, you know what they say about horse shoes and hand grenades.
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1-64 armor 4 years
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Navy, little over ten years 81 - 91
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I can say that I would not trade my experiences and friendships made for anything! Most of use that have served, can appreciate the great sacrifices that our solders, sailors, marines, and airforce personel have made and continue to make in service to protect our freedom. I am very proud to have served with some of the finest people that shared a common desire to be or do something to give back to the place we call home. I sometimes feel like I have a resonsibilty to do more now than just sit on the sidelines while the next generations defends our borders, for your sacrifice, I salute each of you for your service!
US Army 1983 - 1989
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Well, a long time ago I was right out of high school and there wasn't much going on. My buddy talked me into going to see the Army recruiter with him. And the rest as they say is history. That was 23 years ago in Feb and I've never left. I did 8 years on AD and the rest in the Colorado Army National Guard.
I could not imagine my life without my Service.
Military Review, July 80:
“It is not enough for the world to know that I am a Soldier.â€
General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
Plato
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U.S.Coast Guard '72-'90
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US Army, M60A1 armored crewman, 3 years Frankfurt-am-Main (77-80). Ended up at division headquarters, 3AD, as operations specialist.
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WOW!!! So many of us! Well, my hat is off to you all.Thank you for serving, and sounding off!!!
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20 years in the active duty U.S. Air Force as an aircraft mechanic. Retired in 1992.
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U.S. Navy, USN Reserve, and CO Air Nat'l Guard 5 active, 11 Reserve. '88-'04
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Army Air Artillary, 24 Papa, Nike-Hercules radar tech.
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Medical Officer Royal Navy: served shipboard, subs and Royal Marines. Mid 80's to 2002.
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Howie1a USMC
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Was in the USAF, 355th AGS, 358th AMU, Davis-Monthan, AZ
Kent (SRA) E-4
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Late 80's. US Army.
SPC4 - 3 yrs active, 5 yrs. inactive.
Anti-Aircraft Artilliary, 16D10 HAWK Missile Crewman/16S10 Stinger Crew/Section Chief.
Alpha Battery 3rd of the 60th ADA, Grafenwhoer Germany.
"If it flies, it dies. HUAH!"
8) LJ
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342 / ND A.S.A. Sgt mid 60's - early 70's
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342 / ND A.S.A. Sgt Army mid 60's - early 70's
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4 yrs active in the Navy '76-'80 mostly on the USS Joseph Strauss outta Pearl. My friend and I were the best shots on the ship. Aint nuthin like ridin out a hurricane in the Sea of Japan *let me tell you*.
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SGT (E-5) US Army Mar '96 - Nov '02 - HHC 2/327 INF (101st Airborne - Ft. Campbell, KY)
- HHC 44th Engineers (2nd Infantry - Camp Howze, Korea)
- B Co 10th FSB (10th Mountain - Ft. Drum, NY)
- 588th Maint. Co. (3rd Corps Artillery - Ft. Sill, OK)
Just bein' all I could be!
(Edited for spelling)
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1966 to 1970. Started out in the Air Force but after tech school and one short tirp to Thailand and National China (Taiwan) I spent the restof my time sneaking around Laos, Cambodia and Northern VN. Getting to know a bunch of brave soldiers from all services. We covered each othes tails on a daily basis. Lost a bunch of great freinds and gained allot of good friends as well.
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Good to know Gene. I made some friends too, and after about thirty years I found some of them again and can email them for conversation. The initial feeling I had when I first found these guys was very emotional...it was like finding a long lost brother. Fantastic!!!(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif)
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I know how you feel Dave. This is one subject that I generally do not discuss. I still have on buddy still living and the rest have past or disapeared.
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US Army 4/325 abct 83-86
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I was Air Force.
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My father was on the Officers staff for General Clark in the Fifth Army in WWII. He was issued a Harley Davison's model 45 motorcycle, and would deliver orders to field commands. He was with the Italian Partisans for six months before that. My father's great Uncle Stephen was the commander of the Kings Guards to Frans Joesph, and was a second cousin to Nicholas Romanov. After 1905 most of my fathers faamily came to the US from Russia. On my mom's side my uncle Tommy had 7 ships sunk under him in the NAVY in WWII. My Grandfather Tom O'Brian was an ordnance sargent in WWI, and was gassed by the germans, he supplied the machine guns with ammo. My Mom's great great uncle O'Brian was the second engineer on the CSS Alabama during the Civil War. I was in Air Force ROTC Missle Command in collage. I worked for the Dept of the ARMY as a light weapons instructor for ARMY ROTC at UVA, and as a NAVY ROTC rifle instructor, also at UVA. At McCormick Obseervatory, UVA, I worked on a Dept of Defence Nuclear Missle targeting project (Astrometry) and did the targeting calculations for ICBM's 1982-86. Two of my best friends today are formar Army Snipers both were in viet Viet Nam, and Laos, and they were MAC SOG. Both shoot today, but one is disabled from a UH-1 crash in Nam. (Pat Saunders ARMY ret.) I have a lot of respect for the US fighting men. History should be remembered. The country must remain strong. The world is not a very nice place. Thank God for: The US Marines, The US Army, The US Navy, the USAF (I teach today at McConnel AFB) and the US Coast Guard...God Bless The U.S.A.!!!
Douglas George
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Retired USN 1985-2007, sharpshooter<
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howie1a USMC 1956
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United States Navy
1983-1989
USS Thorn (DD-988)
My official job description was "Cryptologic Technician Maintenance". I worked on the equipment used to transmit secret data around the navy, and on equipment that was classified secret. Wouldn't trade that time of my life for anything!
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Hey Henry...I'll be darned....I used to work side by side with the "Cryptos". I was an ET (Electronics Tech)in the Radar Room and the Radio Room. We used to crack up when the Crypto Tech would bring out his rubber mallet. He'd be over there tappin on stuff with his mallet, and we'd be over in the Recievers with the book cracked, drawer popped open, and the oscope playin. Went on a few hard rides in the Sea of Japan...I aint never goin back...there aint no amount of money. I thought for sure that we were all gonna die.
Its not just a job...its an adventure(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif) US Navy!!!
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Dave,
I didn't have a rubber mallet, but I know all about getting that book out and 'shooting those R-390s!!
I worked on the Outboard equipment. Part of that system was the TactinTel system, which was almost identical to the satcomm system in the Radio Shack. Spent many long nights in there side-by-side with the ETs! Worked with the EWs quite a bit also.
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6 Years active in the Army National gaurd 11H.
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I don’t think my service would be taken into account here.
Radio - Radar Operator (by training) in the Soviet Army. In reality just cannon meat (1983-85 Afghanistan).
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does livin 18 years with a gunny count,if so I'm in :emoticon:
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USAF Security Police 8+ years
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US Army E-5 Commo Chief 94-02
Alpha Co 50th Signal Bn, 35 Signal Brigade Ft Bragg 5yrs
Charlie Co 329th Signal, 11th Signal Brigade Camp Carroll Korea 1yr
HSB 3rd 319th AFAR 82nd Airborne Div Ft Bragg 1yr
Texas National Guard El Paso TX 1yr
46 parachute exits
Loved every minute of it and would do it all again in a second, but I don't think my wife will let me!
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Army Guard and then USAF Security Police for 4 years, pulled tour in The Gulf War.