How many players have done military service?

[RolandRahn_MatrixForum]

Originally posted by Frank W.


hi roland,

i found the reservist exercise i made quite interesting, if only the weather and the organization had been better....

it was in daaden trp-üb.platz. we covered a hawk flarak battery and get some invitation in this quite old weapon system...

some night shooting including. we felt like "new year"

Hi Frank,

I have *very* negative experiences with the Bundeswehr. It would be extremely off-topic to deepen this, but let's say that I finally became a conscienous objector against the service in the Bundeswehr and that I do not regard the part of the Bundeswehr I had to serve with as a military organisation.

I regard the military as something very serious and nothing you can entrust to the, err, *persons* I experienced there.

Roland

[Frank W.]

i think this depends much on the unit in which u serve and of course the people..... i was in the "luftwaffe" besides that, i think it´s somewhat better than army, only a pity that i could not drive in a tank or something like that.

[Matt]

You all can probably guess what I do by my profile. Over nine years. Kudos to anyone who knows what IYACYAS means.

Regards,

Matt

[Belisarius]

Originally posted by Matt
You all can probably guess what I do by my profile. Over nine years. Kudos to anyone who knows what IYACYAS means.

Regards,

Matt

Don't know where I got this from;

"If You Ain't Cavalry, You Ain't Sh*t" :p

Ehm.. is that correct?

[Matt]

You're all over it.

[Proteus]

11 years active (1990-2001)
1+ years reserve (2001-present)

USS PROTEUS (AS 19) (1990-92)
Submarine Base Pearl Harbor (1992-95)
USS MCKEE (AS 41) (1995-96)
Naval Hospital San Diego (1996-2001)
Norfolk Naval Shipyard (2001-present)

While on AS19 (homeport Guam), my ship lead the USN in the 50 year commemoration of the battle of the coral sea down under. While in route back to Guam from Brisbane we stopped at Guadalcanel and achored off shore for a night. The following day we departed up "the slot". Greatest moment in my naval career!

AS19 was flagship to COMSUBPAC at achor in Tokyo Bay 1Sep45.

Hiked Guam, Tinian, Ulithi, Truk, etc.

While in Hawaii I had the opportunity to hoist colors one morning on BB39.

[banditjim]

Regular Army
1979-1983
Tank Driver/ PLL Clerk (no guard duty and no thrown tracks)
Was AVLB driver for a combat engineer company, but CO found out I had an accounting degree so offered me the PLL Clerk's job. Yea, I know, I wimped out LOL.... but hey, no guard duty.
Reache rank of E5 (I was a very good scrounger.)
Stationed two years in Germany and two in Kentucky.

[Belisarius]

Originally posted by Don Doom
78-85 US Navy 4.5 years DDG-11 USS Sellers

Here's some contemporary shipmates of Don from DDG11. They're gunner's mates, not "Survivor" rejects, I promise

[ktw]

USMC, 1983-1986

Sgt, Infantry, squad leader and 81mm Mortar FO

1st Light Armored Vehicle Bn, 27th Marines.

MCAGCC, 29 Palms, CA

Claim to Fame: opportunity came up to go out with 3rd Tank Bn as a crew member on a live fire excercise once. Successfully threw a track on an M60A1 while in the driver's seat.

[mlomax]

I'm currently on active duty in the U.S. Army. The greatest army in the world. I have spent 10 years in and am looking forward to anther ten years. I'm Tank Commander on one of the best tanks in the world, the M1A2 Abrams.

[dlazov]

U.S. Army
4 years, 1 month and 19 days.
Served with:
C Troop, 3rd Squadron/3rd ACR (87-88)
C Company 4th Battalion/34th Armored Brigade/8th Infantry Div

as a M1A1 Tank Driver

Fought in Desert Storm (our brigade was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division)

Our tank knocked out 19 emeny vehicles in one firefight (I can't remeber if it was 7 T-62 or 9 and the rest was a bunch of BMP's).

Most remebered:
Sgt "Something" said after a firefight

"There was a Sabo in the main gun and a bunch of Iraqi's in a truck. I fired the Sabo into the engine of the truck and blew the engine out the other side killed the crew. A bunch of Iraqi grunts jumped out and I flipped the switch to MG and shot them to pieces a few ran into this bunker, that that point the loader had a HEAT round in the tube. On the Way! Boom. Dusted them bastards. Ha Ha Ha"

This may sound sick to those who never been in a war, but its either you or them.

I pray to God that my kids don't have to see what I saw, and it was only a 4 day war. I could not even imagine the Hell that those heroric boys of the 2nd Marine Div went through on the 20th of Nov 1943 at Tarawa or the boys that landed at Normandy.

For you Cav Scouts, Scouts out! When your burning and smoking that when us tankers know where the enemy is.

Cav may know this:

LLMF

To the boys out there now. Good Luck and God's speed.

[usmcbob]

Served 20 years in the USMC Retired as a Master Sgt. I served with Hmm-165 CH-46's originally then was transfered to the Harrier Vstol program. I was a jet engine Mech on the Rolls Royce engine/Plane Captain for the AV8A, C, and AV8B. Served with VMA-542 out of Cherry Point North Carolina. Spent more time on overseas deployment then in NC. Also had more ship time then alot of sailors in the Navy. Last years of my career i was the Senior Instructor for the Navy and Marine Corps Jet Engine School Millington Tenn. Now sitting behind a desk as the Director of purchasing for a heavy commercial aluminum window company. **** i miss the smell of JP5 in the morning. I have played Board games for years as a way to pass the long days away from home. New to this forum but have played Steel Panther series for years.
Semperfi

[Bernie]

Originally posted by usmcbob
Served 20 years in the USMC Retired as a Master Sgt. I served with Hmm-165 CH-46's originally then was transfered to the Harrier Vstol program. I was a jet engine Mech on the Rolls Royce engine/Plane Captain for the AV8A, C, and AV8B. Served with VMA-542 out of Cherry Point North Carolina. Spent more time on overseas deployment then in NC. Also had more ship time then alot of sailors in the Navy. Last years of my career i was the Senior Instructor for the Navy and Marine Corps Jet Engine School Millington Tenn. Now sitting behind a desk as the Director of purchasing for a heavy commercial aluminum window company. **** i miss the smell of JP5 in the morning. I have played Board games for years as a way to pass the long days away from home. New to this forum but have played Steel Panther series for years.
Semperfi

Welcome aboard, Bob!

Hope you like our little place here. It's got all the comforts of home, and the neighbors are friendly.

[CPT Shoe]

Been Active duty since 1984:

1/C/2/505th Parachute Infantry Regiment: M60 Machine gunner

Got my Gold bar from West Point class 1989

1/87th INF, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) 1990-1994

1/4th INF, 7th ATC, Hohenfels, Germany (OPFOR) 1994-1997

8th BN, 4th Psychological Operations Group, 1998-2002

3rd BN, 1st Special Warfare Training Group at the present time.


SPWAW chews up any free time the Army lets me have, but I do love it so.

[VikingNo2]

OOHRAA Shoe............... oops I meen WHOOA:D

[acrosome]

I served four years enlisted active-duty as an electronic warfare technician with the 511th MI Co / 11th ACR in Fulda, Germany, with a small detour to the Persian Gulf at the end of the war. Blackhorse! Then reserves in college doing the same job for the 99th ARCOM, after which I went to USUHS (if you know what that is, I'll buy the beer...), and now I'm active duty again as a surgery resident.

[CPT Shoe]

Above People's Drug Store in downtown Bethesda, Maryland


Make it a Guiness!!!!

[Supervisor]

I can't believe I overlooked this one. EW huh, going on 18.5 years strong now.

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

[sandman20]

Originally posted by gmenfan
I can't believe I overlooked this one. EW huh, going on 18.5 years strong now.

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Better late than never! :rolleyes:

[mandreads]

I did my tour of duty in shortest available time, 8 months. I was trained to be in a FO team.

Gotta love spotting for those 120mm with live ammo!