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[DaveyCrink]

I was looking around and couldnt seem to find a more fitting section of INGO to put this in. I am just curious, interested and nosy. I haven't seen another column about this on here but maybe my eyes arent open enough.

Share with us your military experience [ex. branch, place(s) served, your MOS, years, age (dont worry, i wont subtract. being young at heart seems the healthiest.) and maybe someone, or something you'll never forget. a DI, or the serial number to your rifle.]

Thank you for your service and all that you have done.

 

[Stschil]

OP, the Break Room is probably the place you're looking for. PM one of the MODs and ask them to move the thread. That said,

US Army, 95BV5

D Co, 11th MP BN OSUT Mar 83 - Jul 83

HHC , Arlington Hall Station, Arlington, Va Aug 83-Aug 84

3rd Plt, 194th MP Co, Heilbronn, FRG Sep 84 - Jul 86

HHC USMCA, Heilbronn, FRG Jul 86 - Jan 89

3rd Plt, 3rd MP Co, Kitzingen, FRG Aug 89 - Jun 91

HHC USMCA, Wurzburg, FRG, Jun 91 - Jul 94

3rd Plt, 545th MP Co, 1st Cav, Ft Hood, TX Sep 94 - Jul 96. (ETS)

 

[GlockFox]

Air Force, Firefighter 3e731 (I believe)

Al Udied, Egypt, and Patrick AFB

1. Al Udied- F-16 crashed and landed 40 yards from our fire station. Scarred the crap out of us, especially the guys who were out smoking. We extricated the pilot and he ended up having a broken femur. Pretty bad.

2. The people. You never forget the people.

Thanks for the interest.

 

[radonc73]

Army
45K tank Turret Repairman
Schewinfurt Germany 92-94 B Co 3rd Forward Support supported 1/15 Inf. Can Do and Audie Murphy.
Ft. Irwin CA 94-96 NTC Support Battalion 31St and 557Th Maint. Cos Rent a Tank in the Dustbowl issue and turn in.
Some time at Ft. Sill OK.
Loved the time I spent it really changed me from a guy really not going/ doing anything to a collage grad thanks to the G.I. Bill. I loved the people and could have retired last year like some of my friends, hated being single and living in the barracks at Irwin. Nothing to do but drink and well drink.

 

[phylodog]

OP, the Break Room is probably the place you're looking for. PM one of the MODs and ask them to move the thread. That said,

US Army, 95BV5

D Co, 11th MP BN OSUT Mar 83 - Jul 83

HHC , Arlington Hall Station, Arlington, Va Aug 83-Aug 84

3rd Plt, 194th MP Co, Heilbronn, FRG Sep 84 - Jul 86

HHC USMCA, Heilbronn, FRG Jul 86 - Jan 89

3rd Plt, 3rd MP Co, Kitzingen, FRG Aug 89 - Jun 91

HHC USMCA, Wurzburg, FRG, Jun 91 - Jul 94

3rd Plt, 545th MP Co, 1st Cav, Ft Hood, TX Sep 94 - Jul 96. (ETS)

You and I left Hood at the same time, I was down the road with 2nd Armored Divison when I ETS'd.

I left for basic the end of August 1990 at Ft Sill, OK. Remained there for AIT as a 31V (Unit Level Comms Specialist)

Went to HHC 2nd Brigade, 2nd ID in Korea from there for a year

Went to Ft Polk, LA in March 92

Went to Ft Hood, TX in Oct 93

Came home Jul 96.

I never did much of anything interesting while I was in although I did ask consistently. My main memory os serving was how bad it sucked with Clinton as the POUTS. I couldn't get anything I wanted as far as schools, duty assignment or anything else. I reinlisted once and it was a huge pain in the butt. My MOS was way over strength but they seemed unwilling to allow me to retrain into another MOS. The main emphasis was pushing guys out the door. I served 5yrs, 11mos, 1 day. Had I hit the 6 year mark I would have walked away with a check for around $6K but I walked away with nothing.

Hindsight being what it is I wish I'd have stayed in and kept pushing for a MOS change. I enjoyed the Army life and would have over 20 in now.

 

[24Carat]

Straight out of High School USAF 1974-1978

43151C-1, 1 & 2 Jet Engine Aircraft Crewchief

3 year assignment at Bentwaters RAF outside of Ipswitch, Suffolk, UK

Bentwaters and Woodbridge were twin bases about 6 miles apart.

F-4 B&C’s from Vietnam primarily and all NATO inventory.

Worked Flightline, Phase Inspection Docks, Transient Alert and the last year working 15 days a month on “The Tip of the Sword” in the Victor Alert Pad with Nukes uploaded on F-4’s. 2 minute response times 24 hours a day from klaxton to Pilots onboard and engines running. This assignment required a secondary AFSC in Security Police with an M-16 and 1911 assigned to each crewchief.

Rendlesham Forest between the bases was the location of one of the most legitimate UFO incidents ever recorded. It happened two years after I had left. Rendlesham Forest incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kagnew]

What are the odds that I'm the only one here to have been stationed on Shemya Island, Alaska (79th USASASOU), and at Asmara, Eritrea (then part of Ethiopia) (4th USASAFS)? 05K2O.

Fun, Travel and Adventure!

 

[spec4]

US Army Ordnance Group, Ryukuan Islands (Okinawa) 273rd Ord Det (GM/DS) Hawk. My job was to see that updates from Raytheon were installed in the Hawk missile system.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Us army national guard.
Ft. Benning GA
11B, CLS, designated marksman
38th Infantry division.
Kosovo
New Orleans
Iraq

and a thread about some of my experiences from a long time ago.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...n/53613-my_no_story_in_pics_some_graphic.html

 

[mike8170]

US Army 1987-1991 Infantry, of course. 2/504th PIR Pathfinder
Panama, Desert Shield/Storm
Indiana National Guard
38th ID
76th SIB
Iraq 2x, Afghanistan

My last M4 was ser# w007643, my M9 was 066193z
I can count all of my true friends on 1 hand and we all served together, on one tour or another.

Retired Oct 2010

Now a full time college student

 

[trapperDave]

Desert Storm Vet
USN Aviation Electrician

 

[wizardfitz]

US Army
5 Yrs 91D Ft. Leonard Wood and Honduras
6 Yrs 96B Ft. Bragg

 

[xanderphillips]

5 years in the USN as an electrician starting in 1989. Spent most of the time in Norfolk, VA. A couple of Med cruises on the USS America, then one on the USS Hoist. Got an early out to get back home to a fiance and college. Great times, not many of the guys I graduated high school with can say they have been inside the great pyramids of Egypt (and kidnapped on the back of a camel!), stood in the Coliseum in Rome, and earned a place in the Budweiser 5000 club while in the United Arab Emirates!

 

[semperfi211]

USMC 85-91
Avionics
VMA-211,VMA-214,VMA-142
MCAS El Toro Ca. with VMA-211 Wake Island Avengers
MCAS Yuma Az. with VMA-214 Blacksheep
NAS Cecil Field Fl. with VMA-142 Flying Gators
Westpac 87 with 211
Westpac 88 with 214
On the westpacs went to MCAS Iwakuni Japan, Okinawa, Wake Island, Philippines, Korea, Thailand

 

[OutaAmmo]

11th Armored Cav
Viet Nam '71

 

[BumpShadow]

Torpedoman, MM-W

Served on the USS Olympia SSN-717 while she was in drydock.

Worst time of my life. Never touched a torpedo. Only did my actual "job" twice. And that was during gun shots. Hated the people on the boat, and they hated me. Since we were in dry dock, the chiefs had nothing to do but be jerks (Not the word I wanted to use). I was abused by my chiefs all the time. My division chief was a self proclaimed noob hater. Chased the only guy below me out of the navy the 3 months, then turned to me. I lasted a whole year. Was destroyed physiologically as a result of my time in. Took years to heal. I can honestly say it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and that's saying something, because I came from being the last born of an abusive family.

Going into the military is a total crap shoot. There is not one part of it that is a "for sure" thing. Anything can happen. You could go in as officer and wind up cleaning toilets the whole time. People who liked being in will defend it to their dying breath, but mark my words, there is serious evil in the military. If you are not ready for it it will eat you alive. Laziness and corruption rule the military. Theft is commonplace. If it's not under lock and key, it will not be there when you get back. If your name is not on every inch of paperwork you did, or not handed in by you, someone else will get credit for the work. Beware of catchphrases like "adapt and overcome". That phrase translates to "Your going to be given (crap) on a stick, live with it till you can pass it on to the next guy."


P.S.-I will ignore any and all flame posts, P.M. or otherwise about this post.

 

[Stschil]

Torpedoman, MM-W

Served on the USS Olympia SSN-717 while she was in drydock.

Worst time of my life. Never touched a torpedo. Only did my actual "job" twice. And that was during gun shots. Hated the people on the boat, and they hated me. Since we were in dry dock, the chiefs had nothing to do but be jerks (Not the word I wanted to use). I was abused by my chiefs all the time. My division chief was a self proclaimed noob hater. Chased the only guy below me out of the navy the 3 months, then turned to me. I lasted a whole year. Was destroyed physiologically as a result of my time in. Took years to heal. I can honestly say it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and that's saying something, because I came from being the last born of an abusive family.

Going into the military is a total crap shoot. There is not one part of it that is a "for sure" thing. Anything can happen. You could go in as officer and wind up cleaning toilets the whole time. People who liked being in will defend it to their dying breath, but mark my words, there is serious evil in the military. If you are not ready for it it will eat you alive. Laziness and corruption rule the military. Theft is commonplace. If it's not under lock and key, it will not be there when you get back. If your name is not on every inch of paperwork you did, or not handed in by you, someone else will get credit for the work. Beware of catchphrases like "adapt and overcome". That phrase translates to "Your going to be given (crap) on a stick, live with it till you can pass it on to the next guy."


P.S.-I will ignore any and all flame posts, P.M. or otherwise about this post.

But The Village People made the Navy sound so cool!


Sorry you had a bad experience, Bump

 

[jeremy]

I was just a Dumb Mechanic...
Joined in 89...
Left Active Duty in 05...
In the Guard now...
Dix, Sherman, Hood, Redstone, Baumholder, Campbell, Idar-Oberstein,

11B, 63B, 92A, 27M, 16S, 13M, and 77F. I think that is all of them...

 

[Hanen42]

Been in the Army Reserve for 3 years. 92F. Fueler. It's a cake job. I love the Army. Done alot of fun stuff. PLT SGT moved me from SAW gunner to Crew Served, so I spend my range time behind a 50 cal. Never deployed, yet. Met lots of good people in the Army. Still talk to some of my close battle buddies from Basic and AIT. Definitely will re-enlist when the time comes, maybe active depending on what MOS are open at the time, but mainly looking at National Guard. Would be 1000x better if my drive to drill wasn't 2.5 hours like it is now haha. Thanks to all who have served before me and who are serving now!

 

[Birds Away]

US Navy '79-05"
Retired as a Master Chief Operations Specialist.
Served on:
USS Duluth (LPD-6)
USS Schenectady (LST-1185)
USS Estocin (FFG-15)
Carrier Group Six staff
Fleet Training Center Mayport, Fl
USS Dale (CG-19)
Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, DC.
USS Gonzalez (DDG-66)
Fleet Training Group, Norfolk, Va.
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
I made eight deployments of six months or more.
Wouldn't change a thing.
Miss it every day.