Did you/Any familly who served?

[Curlew]

I was just currious how many people here have served the country, and how many who have family who are vetrans. My unkle is curently a naval captain running the intelegence dept on a aircraft carrier, My great unkle was a higgins boat driver slated to be on the first landing of japan (thank god we dropped the bomb), and my grandfather was the helmsman on the dds Herrman and was inlovled in the battle of San Bernidino Straights.

I know this thread is a little late seeing as how vetrans day was a few days ago, but that shouldnt stop us from honoring those who hav served.

SO FOR THOS WHO HAVE SERVED 

(Pics if you can too, ill get some up in a bit)

[glock89]

My great granddad was in the battle for Iwo Jima. 

[RedTop]

U.S.N. 1981-1985

[texasmom]

My brother was in the Navy, I was in the Army. My cousins, Army, too. My Uncle (husband of my Aunt), KIA in Vietnam, Marines. My father & his brothers, have been in the Air Force/Army.  Their Father was in the Air Corps.    to my family, and to all of y'all in this thread.

[Estes]

Navy.

[Maverick]

My Dad was an aircraft mechanic in WW2. My Brother was a career Navy man and retired quite some time ago. He then went back to work for a company that does technical writing for Navy weapons an equipment. I retired from the Army Reserves in 2000.

[CAP1]

grandpop was infantry from 1918 to 1939. great uncle john was a medic in europe in ww2. he was killed there. uncle len was in the army till 1963(i think). dad was stationed on the niki missle base in south new jersey for a few years.

 

[1pLUs44]

My Grandfather Rollie "Buddy" Snell fought since day 1 with the 45th Infantry Division. 2 of his friends in his company got the Medal of Honor, and he got 2 silver stars himself.

At the battle of Anzio, his company, and one other company got a Presidential citation. He was one of the few men who survived the battle. His company lost 75% of their guys, he was the 25% that was unharmed. He got wounded and got the purple heart in Germany, late in the war. (There is a video of him when he got shot IIRC)


My Uncle, Charles Felker, he fought in every battle the 27th Infantry Division fought in up to Saipan. At Saipan, he got wounded by a Japanese Machine gun, then a Japanese Grenade. The doctors thought he was gonna die, so they put him outside the tent with the dead after medicating him on Morphine. That night, Japanese raiders killed everyone inside the tent, but left the part full of the dead alone. IIRC, he is the only survivor from that tent.

[gpwurzel]

Royal Navy for me - 1982 (feb 4th to be precise) to 2000 (nov 10th to be even more precise) 


<S> to ALL veterans,


Wurzel

[avionix]

Father was a Seabee stationed on Okinawa in the late 70s.  Grandfather was a Marine, cousin just returned from Iraq, uncles in Army, Air Force.  Brother in law is currently stationed on the USCGC George Cobb.  Almost chief petty officer.

<S> to all who served.  Thanks for the job well done.

[Swoop]

My great uncle Arthur - Desert Rat, 8th Battalion, 8th Armoured Division.  Served against Rommel in North Africa and the Japanese in Burma.

My Uncle Dave - Royal Navy Fleet Chief (weapons), 1960 - 1980, HMS Leander.

My Uncle Gerry - Royal Marine Commando - served in Korea.

My Dad - RAF Medical Corps.  1958 - 1961.

Me - 1 Squadron, RAF Regiment.  1990 - 1994.

[DYNAMITE]

Grandfather - Army (42-46) (Stateside, logistics officer)
Grandfather - USAAF (43-46?) Bombardier, 13th AF, 5th Heavy Bomber Group, 394th Squadron (Pacific Theater)
Grandmother - Cadet Nurse (44-45)
Father-in-law - Army (70-72) Vietnam combat vet, Airborne

And a few assorted 2nd cousins serving in pretty much every branch (except the Coast Guard)

<<S>>

Thank you to my family... and to all those that serve our country 

[Paxil]

Army 8 years

Dad was in Navy
His Dad was also in Navy and died on LST 473 when it was struck by Japanese torpedo planes.

http://lst473.freeyellow.com/

[dkff49]

Grandfather (army) was a medic in Europe in WWII entered at d+30 Batogne. Past away this year in April about 2 weeks before my birthday.

Uncle who was fighter pilot in AAF though the best details I have been able to get about him was that he flew both single and 2 engine fighters. I still continue looking on the internet for details though. Try doing a google search for John Crawford one time and see how many sites you get. It seems that there was a general who died in Gettysburg during the Civil War and Gettysburg is where my uncle lived when he died, further complicating issues.

Father-in-law was marine served in Vietnam and wife's uncle served in vietnam as a marine also though he died several weeks after returning home in a car crash.

my blood father was a navy man though I never knew him

[Yenny]

My sister, my brother and I are serving atm. They went navy and I'm army. My dad was a PoW for 8 years ^_^