Hell yes! starting to get that cold now
MCRD San Diego 3rd Btn Lima Co. Platoon 3084 (Hollywood Marine)
6076-Bubble-chaser on ground support equipment (GSE) for F-4 Phantom jets.
Beaufort South Carollina 1978-81
Deployments included, but not limited to,
"Rosie-Roads" Puerto-Rico
Yuma Arizona testing-grounds
Keflavick (spl?) Icedland
read my sig-line and remember,
It's best to let sleeping Devil-Dogs lie.
So, not to completely jack this thread... It is kinda fun to think about "most" of the places we went.
I went to Camp atterbury for a 3 week field op and then went back to 29 just to go on leave and come back to indiana 3 days later!
I took a class today that took 3 hours when i just took it three weeks ago for "annual training" in the same fiscal yearUGH!! Here's one... Went to Pisgah national forest in NC for "cold weather" training prior to a det in Norway. Never under 70 degrees in the forest. ... 10 degrees in Norway! !!! Two weeks after the return from Norway, Rosie Roads PR, 90 degrees and humid as hell with their "national bird" swarming the whole time...Mosquitos, for the uninitiated.
I've posted a couple of times now and gotten responses from veterans my question to you INGO is who here is a vet what branch your served in, duty stations, deployments, and MOS? I'll start Im a Active Duty Marine 0352 with the 7th MAR REG Gunners Cadre currently ive served with 1st Tank BTL AT TOW plt, and the 7th REG PSD ive spent all my time at 29 palms Ca and have an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
I took a class today that took 3 hours when i just took it three weeks ago for "annual training" in the same fiscal year
Ripper, Thanks for serving.
I was in the Navy for a few years.
I rode around on a boat, went places, and drank beer.
83-89'
Didnt know the Army had divers thought Navy and us had that department completely. Sounds fun!
USS Comte Degrasse DD-974 87-91 Radioman E5. Did a lot of time doing drug enforcement operations in the Caribbean.