|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Viera FL
Posts: 5,642
|
Veterans
I see and read a lot of bantering by both the pelican left and the pelican right about the war etc.
All very nice and entertaining really. So, all of you OT denizens - in particular, the ones who are very active in the political\war threads... Who here is a veteran? If you are, sound off Branch of service Length of Service Rank Specity\MOS Combat Deployments. I'll start... Branch: USAF Length: 12 years, 6 months - stop-loss retained 6 months. Rank: Technical Sergeant (E-6) Specialty\MOS: 20170\99606 (old system) 1N071\8D000 (new system): Intelligence operations\Interrogator\Linguistics\Debriefer Combat Deployments: Desert Shield\Storm, 6 x rotational tours, Middle East, Moguadishu Somalia, Zagreb Croatia, South Korea, Afghanistan. AFJ
__________________
Es geht nicht darum wie schnell man faehrt, sondern wie gut man schnell fahren kann. Ihr Brunnen der nutzlosen Porsche Information |
||
08-25-2005, 06:34 PM
|
|
|
Detached Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: southern California
Posts: 26,964
|
USMC
2 years, 1970-72 E-4 Corporal MOS 0844-Forward Observer for 8 inch Howitzers and 175mm guns Viet Nam, Cambodia & Loas (yes we were there, I don't care what Nixon said, I was paid to know where I was)
__________________
Hugh |
||
|
08-25-2005, 06:41 PM
|
|
|
I'm a Country Member
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 13,413
|
Re: Veterans
Quote:
Stuart
__________________
Stuart To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. |
||
|
08-25-2005, 06:46 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Viera FL
Posts: 5,642
|
Not looking for thanks (neither I'm sure is any other veteran) However, I do see a lot of armchair quarterbacking, questioning why we are there, etc. I've even seen a few posts that suggested that individuals having a different opinion than the poster should join up and go fight.
So, I'm just curious, out of all of these people bantering back and forth, who has actually been in the military to even know what things are really like. AFJ
__________________
Es geht nicht darum wie schnell man faehrt, sondern wie gut man schnell fahren kann. Ihr Brunnen der nutzlosen Porsche Information |
||
|
08-25-2005, 06:56 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 7,950
|
USAF
4 yrs 2 mos - 1982 through 1986 E4 32853 - Electronic Warfare Systems Specialist (F4, F16, A10) - basically a radar jammer Non-combat deployment all but was stationed not too far from the North Korean border |
||
|
08-25-2005, 07:37 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 83
|
O-3, US Army. Germany 68-69 eye balling Ivan, Company Commander The Nam 69-70, Germany, Ivan again, 71-73.
__________________
Richard '87 Targa |
||
|
08-25-2005, 08:02 PM
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: On a boat in the Great NW
Posts: 6,145
|
Never served. I was of age during the Clinton Administration and there was no way I was going to fight for that scumbag.
|
||
|
08-25-2005, 08:22 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Figures.
You could enlist now. Quote:
__________________
1989 3.2 Carrera coupe; 1988 Westy Vanagon, Zetec; 1986 E28 M30; 1994 W124; 2004 S211 What? Uh . . . “he” and “him”? |
||
|
08-25-2005, 09:06 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 31,419
|
Ok...
Navy O-6, still active duty. 22 years and counting. H-60 pilot but have flown over 40 type/model series of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft due to tours in flight test. Currently flying a desk as the Program Manager for Navy Unmanned Air Systems (UAS)...a very interesting and rewarding experience. Flew oil tanker escorts in Operation Earnest Will/Operation Praying Mantis. Flew SOF support as well as Combat Search and Rescue in Desert Shield/Storm. Recently I have been to the Middle East for brief periods as a REMF helping with UAS issues. I never thought I'd stay in past the first flying tours, but I found I love the camaraderie of service as much as I love the flying. Lastly, I could care less whether or not someone has served...some of my best friends haven't! 
__________________
1996 FJ80. |
||
|
08-26-2005, 03:35 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 31,419
|
Quote:
That, Sir, is priceless.
__________________
1996 FJ80. |
||
|
08-26-2005, 03:39 AM
|
|
|
Parrothead member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Monmouth county, NJ USA
Posts: 13,828
|
Army Natl Guard SPC4 UH-1 Crewmember non combat
__________________
Vinny Red '86 944, 05 Ford Super Duty Dually '02 Ram 3500 Diesel 4x4 Dually, '07Jeep Wrangler '62 Mercury Meteor '90 Harley 1200 XL "Live your Life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral." Last edited by VINMAN; 08-26-2005 at 05:00 AM.. |
||
|
08-26-2005, 03:53 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Montana
Posts: 715
|
Army Sergeant Major, 19 years and still going strong. MOS 13B field artillery cannon crewman, spent all my time on 105 mm howitzers. Spent most time in the airborne; if the weather is good I'll have jump # 100 tomorrow. Desert Storm vet. Deploy ( for 1 year) in 2 weeks for the big litter box (Iraq). Plan on serving around 26 years or so.
__________________
1982 930, K-27, BL adj. WUR, Rarlyl8 Headers and Hooligan muffler, PK CDI, 22 and 30mm torsion bars, poly bronze bushings 30mm raised spindles and custom valved Bilstein shocks (by Elephant Racing), monoballs front and rear (by Rennline), Alton 17" Fuchs, Fred Cook fuse panel |
||
|
08-26-2005, 04:16 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
|
Never served. Read the book "Battle Cry" by Leon Uris when I was a kid and always wanted to be a Marine, as a result. Lots of respect for those guys.
I did get radar lock and shoot down a Cessna 172 from the turret of an Avenger a couple of weeks ago here at our facilities. Dang...no Stingers installed... Mike
__________________
Mike 1976 Euro 911 3.2 w/10.3 compression & SSIs 22/29 torsions, 22/22 adjustable sways, Carrera brakes |
||
|
08-26-2005, 04:20 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Marine Corps ('75-'78)
Lance Corporal 0351 - Weapons Platoon Lima 3/1 - 1st Marine Division No combat deployments (see the dates I served and you'll know why)
__________________
77 911 2.7 Turbo Look 98 4-Runner 03 F-250 Power Stroke 93 Toyota P/U |
||
|
08-26-2005, 04:23 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 68
|
New York Army National Guard
26 years O5 11AOO
__________________
Rob (living la vida loco, 6 miles north of tikrit) 84n/a(in storage) 89s(in storage) 87slantnose(purchase pending) harley(in storage) life(on hold) |
||
|
08-26-2005, 04:57 AM
|
|
|
Parrothead member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Monmouth county, NJ USA
Posts: 13,828
|
Rob. what NY Guard unit? Former 342 AVN
__________________
Vinny Red '86 944, 05 Ford Super Duty Dually '02 Ram 3500 Diesel 4x4 Dually, '07Jeep Wrangler '62 Mercury Meteor '90 Harley 1200 XL "Live your Life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral." |
||
|
08-26-2005, 05:01 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 68
|
42ID(M) HQ...our AVN Bde is here with us...join the guard, see the world...342 isn't here, but the DASB and BDE HQ are
You gotta love the picture of the LMTV with the MRE box sign that reads' "One weekend a month MY A$$"...that's been circulating for a while.
__________________
Rob (living la vida loco, 6 miles north of tikrit) 84n/a(in storage) 89s(in storage) 87slantnose(purchase pending) harley(in storage) life(on hold) |
||
|
08-26-2005, 06:05 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 11,257
|
US Army
E-6 Flight Medic, 15 years "Dustoff" part of the secret, where are we going to tour ? / woke up one morning and we self-deployed 5X UH-60's from Germany all the way to Dahran..well ,we did stop for gas in some interesting places.Been in lot's of places, none where better than "Stuttgart" ,it was BN HQ, Rika |
||
|
08-26-2005, 06:56 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Woodstock Ga (suburb of Atlanta)
Posts: 46
|
Army Security Agency
Field Station Augsburg Augsburg FRG 31J 77 thru 79 Land of beer and BMWs
__________________
Steve Phillips 87 Carrera "Thanks Kay!" |
||
|
08-26-2005, 07:07 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
I was born at Kadena air base in Okinawa in 1970. Have any of you vets been to Okinawa? What was it like? My Dad wont talk about the war (my uncle did a little but he died recently). Sorry about postjack, you can email me at monish(at)ix.netcom.com.
Dying to go back and check it out. My mom said us Americans weren't the most popular folks on the Island. joe |
||
|
08-26-2005, 07:17 AM
|
|
1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2
1976 Porsche 911
1968 Porsche 911L Targa Sportomatic 2.0 Liter
