Veterans Day

[Symon]

Kicking it off: 319th AFAR: II Corps, and 319th Spec.

[wegman58]

USS BUTTE (AE-27); USS GRAY (FF-1054); NAVMARCORRES CEN Albany (NY); NAVRESCEN Burlington (VT); REDCOM SIXTEEN; NAVMARCORESCEN Harrisburg (PA); REDCOM NORTH CENTRAL

USN (Ret)

Broken service - BUTTE as USN; when I decided to go back in the USN wasn't hiring, the reserves were. One year as SELRES, 18 plus as a TAR

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: wegman58

USS BUTTE (AE-27); USS GRAY (FF-1054); NAVMARCORRES CEN Albany (NY); NAVRESCEN Burlington (VT); REDCOM SIXTEEN; NAVMARCORESCEN Harrisburg (PA); REDCOM NORTH CENTRAL

USN (Ret)

Out of curiosity , were you USNR (TAR)? [&:]

[einsteinprotoge]

Navy then Army Guard:
USS Moosbrugger (DD-980), USS Mitscher (DDG-57)

182nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Field Artillery

[rustysi]

332nd Co. ASA, 8th Army, Korea. HQ Co. USASATC&S, MA. HQ Co. USATEC, AZ.

[pws1225]

USN, VW-4, 1969-73

[spence]

USCGC Duane (72-74), USCGC Bibb (77-79)

[joey]

USS Nathanael Green SSBN 636 and USS Boston SSN703.

[pnzrgnral]

B/1-115th Inf MDARNG
A/2-34th Inf 24th ID (M)
H/1-3 Inf TOG
A/3d Ranger Bn 75th Ranger Rgt
HHC/4th Bn 22d Inf 25th ID (L)
G3 25th ID (L)
O/C JRTC
G3 25th ID (L)
G3 82d Abn Div
J3 JTF-160, later JTF-GTMO

[Mike Solli]

C/237 FSB (88-02) - Damn, 14 yrs in one company!
HHC/237 FSB (02-04)
HHC/37 Arm Bde (04-05)
HHC/237 FSB (05-07)
HHC/371 Sus Bde (07-14)

[Michael Vail]

USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883), USS McKee (AS-41), USS Sides (FFG-14), USS Conolly (DD-979), SIMA Norfolk, USS Puget Sound (AD-39)TAD for Desert Shield/Storm, USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55, and USS Moosbruger (DD-980). I like Tin Cans.

[Michael Vail]

ORIGINAL: einsteinprotoge

Navy then Army Guard:
USS Moosbrugger (DD-980), USS Mitscher (DDG-57)

182nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Field Artillery

When were you on the Moose? I retired on it in '99.

[DanSez]

USAF 78-84
San Antonio, TX - basic training
Biloxi MS tech training 383-Electronic Warfare
Eglin AFB - test squadrons (modified ALQ-131 ECM pods)
Mildenhall, UK (RC-135s and U2Rs)

good times...

[IdahoNYer]

US Army 1984 - 2005
Location highlights: Ft Knox, Ft Lewis, Ft Carson, Ft Leavenworth, Ft Irwin, Ft Meade, W.Germany, Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Korea
Some of the great units I served with: 3-32 AR (3rd Arm Div and 1st Cav Div), 1-12 CAV (1st Cav Div) 2-67 AR (3rd Arm Div), 1-68 AR (9th In Div), 3-68 AR (4th In Div), National Training Center "Cobra Team"

[Big B]

USARNG 1980-86
160th Inf, 3Bn
11B

[guytipton41]

USAF/USAFR/TxANG 1974-2010
RAF Bentwaters (75-77), Dicky-Goober AFB (78-83) - Crypto Maint
272 Engineering Installation Squadron (84-2010) Laport Tx. - TTY Maint and later Engineering
OEF, OIF - 5 deployments - Al Udeid (A67 Deployed), BIAP, Talil, Ali, Balad, others

So...

Around 1988 the USAF decided to retire the last of the Teletype machines and replace them with these new fangled computers. So I had to cross train. First I wanted Inside Plant - Tech School was a 1/2 year and I couldn't take that much time off work. So how about Cable Dog - still a 17 week course. Maybe Admin?? - 12 weeks for that. Well personnel folks is there any Tech School less than 12 weeks? No. Nothing?? Well, we can make you an officer in six weeks!

Cheers and Happy Vets Day!
Guy

[rustysi]

Around 1988 the USAF decided to retire the last of the Teletype machines and replace them with these new fangled computers. So I had to cross train. First I wanted Inside Plant - Tech School was a 1/2 year and I couldn't take that much time off work. So how about Cable Dog - still a 17 week course. Maybe Admin?? - 12 weeks for that. Well personnel folks is there any Tech School less than 12 weeks? No. Nothing?? Well, we can make you an officer in six weeks!

[:D][:D][:D] This explains a lot. [:D][:D][:D]

[reg113]

USN 1970-1976
VAW-113 (Deployed on USS Enterprise 3 cruises)
NAS Miramar

[Mac Linehan]

USN September 1971 - Sept 1981

USS Midway CVA 41 December 71 - October 1973; USS Kittyhawk CV 63 October 73 - 1975; Great Lakes Gunnery School (5/54 Mk 42 Mods 9/10) then USS Capodanno FF1093 1977 - 1979; USS Bowen FF1079 1980 - Sept 1981.

Four months out, processing for the USMC.

USMC 1982 - 1992

Camp Pendleton 1981 - 1983; Instructor / Inspector duty (I&I) Denver Colorado 1984 - 1986; Camp Lejeune 1987 - 1989 2nd LAV BN; MCAGCC 29 Palms California 3rd LAV BN 1989 - 1992 with two visits to Okinawa Japan and a deployment to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War. Retired in October 1992 due to the Clinton cutbacks.

Note: Just before the first Gulf War, a new mechanic joined me at LAV AT Platoon. His name was SGT Bussy - a very hard working and capable mechanic. SGT Bussy was originally a Marine cook. One day, I asked him how he liked being a mechanic, compared to working as a cook. He explained to me that as a cook, he worked from 0430 until 2100 six days a week; that his new MOS was a piece of cake compared to what he used to do. This was very illuminating to me; beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We unfortunately lost one LAV – AT too friendly fire during a very confused, close quarter’s night engagement against Iraqi armor. The LAV – AT’s fell back to secondary positions; one of the crews lagged behind and was out of place, forward of the new line. A fellow AT gunner misidentified the vehicle as the enemy and targeted that vehicle. One of my mechanics – PFC Scott Schroeder, was onboard and perished with the crew. Interestingly, Sgt. Bussy was originally assigned to the destroyed LAV but was unavailable (I have forgotten why) and Scott was his temporary replacement for that night. May God always care for you and your family, Scott.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms 31:15 and 16

Gents, it was all a good; the Navy and Marine Corps were outstanding Finishing Schools. We have all lost friends and experienced hardships. My respect to you all.

Semper Fi –

Mac

[Trugrit]

I served on three ships and in the Seabees.
Overall, I liked my time in the service

On Veteran’s Day I always think about my father and my uncles;
For me they were the real veterans.
Also, the one uncle I never knew:

Pfc Marvin D. Morrow, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division.
He was killed in action on November 17, 1944 near Hamich, Germany
As the “Big Red One” was pushing toward the Hurtgen forest.
He was 22 years old.

That happened 70 years ago today.

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy”
F. Scott Fiitzgerald