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Offline skorpx1

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Vets/Current Military?
« on: February 19, 2017, 10:52:48 PM »
As the title suggests, who here is a vet/currently in the military? Would love to speak with some of you fellas. I know you're out there.  :noid
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2017, 01:43:43 AM »
I was a Lt. In the AF in what seems to be an another life.  :)
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2017, 05:45:42 AM »
US Army, from the Steel Pot and Flak Jacket generation.
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Offline TequilaChaser

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2017, 06:54:53 AM »
skorpx1 what's on your mind?

Navy veteran here, and like Frenchy posted, seems like a long ago different life...

I was an AD ( Aviation Machinist rating )/ Jet Mechanic and worked mainly night ops as a Trouble Shooter...

Back then we had 5 to 7 different types of aircraft on the carriers.... it is totally different these days where they might get up to 4 different types (not counting Helos)

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Offline Nypsy

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2017, 08:20:20 AM »


Thats me with my UH-1N at Cam Ranh Bay in 1971. I was a crew chief on the bird I am standing next to, tail number 628.
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2017, 09:58:12 AM »
Guiding in a dustoff under fire April 1968 in Tay Ninh province at Cambodian border.
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Offline Maverick

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 11:19:12 AM »
Army  armor 75 to 2000. In other words a dino tanker.
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DEFINITION OF A VETERAN
A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
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Offline skorpx1

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2017, 12:47:03 PM »
Quote from: TequilaChaser on February 20, 2017, 06:54:53 AM
skorpx1 what's on your mind?

Navy veteran here, and like Frenchy posted, seems like a long ago different life...

I was an AD ( Aviation Machinist rating )/ Jet Mechanic and worked mainly night ops as a Trouble Shooter...

Back then we had 5 to 7 different types of aircraft on the carriers.... it is totally different these days where they might get up to 4 different types (not counting Helos)

TC

Just wanting to talk to some of the vets here on their experiences and how the military was back then.

I'm currently in the Army right now as infantry.



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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2017, 01:15:02 PM »
USAF. Entered as an airman basic, retired as a Major.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2017, 07:20:22 PM »
USAF here to. Four year hitch, my kid is current active.
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2017, 07:46:58 PM »
10 years army sigs. reg and reserve force. 2 special service force tours. Both UN sanctioned. UNIIMOG and Desert Shield/Storm.

Got out 20 years ago this July. Miss it every day.  :salute
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2017, 09:05:44 PM »
USMC 80 - 84

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Cool thing about TAC is that I was working directly with an officer, and they do not travel in trucks. We took UH-1 just about every where we went.

This was our escort



It was not glamorous or comfortable for that matter, but where in life to you get to watch 1000Lbs. bombs blow stuff up? I was 17 years old and the US government trusted me with an automatic rifle and telling pilots to drop bombs on stuff.



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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2017, 11:06:50 PM »
MSgt, USAF Retired
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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2017, 11:21:41 PM »
10th Mountain Division 1-32INF  from 02-06.

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Offline scott66

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Re: Vets/Current Military?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2017, 03:41:51 AM »
USAF 84-88 security police... Not the fun stuff like law enforcement more of the walking the flight line counting rivets in b52s and f-16s and later went to the missile field guarding missile silos and hanging with the key turners
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