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Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) and Pat Harrington (Dwayne Schneider) were both MI officers during the Korean War.
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Probably fairly well known but James Arness was a WWII veteran.
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http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/04/12/actors-who-served-in-military/ http://valdezlink.com/pages/actorheros-more.htm Speaking of Hogan's Heroes, I could have sworn Richard Dawson was in the armed forces, but it was the Merchant Marines. On another interesting note, Robert Clary, aka Corporal LeBeau, was the youngest of 14 children. At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally. In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp, Ottmuth. He was later sent to Blechhammer, Gross Rosen, and finally Buchenwald where he was liberated on 11 April 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz. Clary was the only survivor. When he returned to Paris after the war, he was ecstatic when he found that some of his siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France. I consider Merchant Marines of the WWII era heroes. Helluva lot of those guys didn't come home. |
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Quoted: +1 THEY were what the U-boats hunted...Quoted: http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/04/12/actors-who-served-in-military/ http://valdezlink.com/pages/actorheros-more.htm Speaking of Hogan's Heroes, I could have sworn Richard Dawson was in the armed forces, but it was the Merchant Marines. On another interesting note, Robert Clary, aka Corporal LeBeau, was the youngest of 14 children. At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally. In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp, Ottmuth. He was later sent to Blechhammer, Gross Rosen, and finally Buchenwald where he was liberated on 11 April 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz. Clary was the only survivor. When he returned to Paris after the war, he was ecstatic when he found that some of his siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France. I consider Merchant Marines of the WWII era heroes. Helluva lot of those guys didn't come home. |
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David Robinson––––-NBA player was an officer on submarines
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David Robinson––––-NBA player was an officer on submarines Johnny Cash––––USAF Axl Rose was a tanker don't think robinson was on subs. he left the navy in two years, he wouldn't have finished schooling in time. he was aboard a sub once while a middie, I think. |
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I consider Merchant Marines of the WWII era heroes. Amen to that. |
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David Robinson––––-NBA player was an officer on submarines Johnny Cash––––USAF Axl Rose was a tanker don't think robinson was on subs. he left the navy in two years, he wouldn't have finished schooling in time. he was aboard a sub once while a middie, I think. So says wikipedia ––––––He was a civil engineering officer at Kings Bay Submarine Base. I was confused. |
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Peter Boyle was a Navy Ensign for a short time. Archie Campbell (of Hee Haw fame) served in the Navy during WWII. |
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There's an NBA player in the Army right now. He played for the Miami Heat.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/03/ap-army-miami-heat-to-honor-former-player-turned-soldier-tim-james-031811/ |
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Axl Rose was a tanker!!! Yes In Friedburg Germany. I was stationed their at the same time, Can't say I knew him, but he and his buddies Jammed out in the Barracks,, all the time,,, pretty good,, too!
The Mid 80's in Germany,,, Busy,, but good memories! |
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Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart were both pilots in WW II. Clark Gable, I believe, had to literally "run away" from his studio "handlers" to enlist. There were also a couple of actresses who died in the Pacific on USO tours. Plane crashes, I think. Frank Sinatra, on the other hand was "deferred" (exempted) because he "couldn't hear". One of the many reasons I've always thought he was a scumbag. What about Marion Morrison? |
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Axl Rose was a tanker!!! Yes In Friedburg Germany. I was stationed their at the same time, Can't say I knew him, but he and his buddies Jammed out in the Barracks,, all the time,,, pretty good,, too! The Mid 80's in Germany,,, Busy,, but good memories! I am pretty sure that Axl was never in the military, the tattoo was something he saw somewhere and liked. In the Mid eighties Axl Was in a band named Guns-N-Roses, prior to that he was in a band called LA Guns. He also had another band Hollywood Roses, and before those he was in a band called Rapidfire. I am pretty sure that he was in LA from 82-83 through 87, when his most famous band started touring for Appetite For Destruction. |
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Alan Alda. USAR ?-?. Korean War. He made a TV series about the Korean War, but I don't think he was old enough to have served during it. Born in 1936, he would have been 14 when it started. He did serve in the USAR, apparently later in the '50s. |
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David Robinson––––-NBA player was an officer on submarines Johnny Cash––––USAF Axl Rose was a tanker don't think robinson was on subs. he left the navy in two years, he wouldn't have finished schooling in time. he was aboard a sub once while a middie, I think. Wouldn't his height DQ him for subs? |
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Someone had a barracks Band at Ray Barracks, in the mid 80's that rocked!!!!!!!
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Riggle was a qualified pilot but left flight school because he wanted to serve his time on the ground because he decided to be a comedian. He's still in the USMC Reserves, and helped dig out rubble right after 9/11. Interesting guy. |
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Forgive me if this is a repeat because it's late and I don't have time to read the whole thread, but Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones served in the Royal Air Force.
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Axl Rose was a tanker!!! Yes In Friedburg Germany. I was stationed their at the same time, Can't say I knew him, but he and his buddies Jammed out in the Barracks,, all the time,,, pretty good,, too! The Mid 80's in Germany,,, Busy,, but good memories! I am pretty sure that Axl was never in the military, the tattoo was something he saw somewhere and liked. In the Mid eighties Axl Was in a band named Guns-N-Roses, prior to that he was in a band called LA Guns. He also had another band Hollywood Roses, and before those he was in a band called Rapidfire. I am pretty sure that he was in LA from 82-83 through 87, when his most famous band started touring for Appetite For Destruction. +1 |
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Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart were both pilots in WW II. Clark Gable, I believe, had to literally "run away" from his studio "handlers" to enlist. There were also a couple of actresses who died in the Pacific on USO tours. Plane crashes, I think. Frank Sinatra, on the other hand was "deferred" (exempted) because he "couldn't hear". One of the many reasons I've always thought he was a scumbag. What about Marion Morrison? Oh, don't even go there. That's just looking to get someone's dander up. |
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Keni Thomas, Country music singer, was a Ranger in Somalia. He puts on a good live show. 82nd_ABN says he's a good dude IRL. |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Mjk-usma.jpg This guy is the singer for some band... Maynard from Tool? |
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Alan Alda. USAR ?-?. Korean War. He made a TV series about the Korean War, but I don't think he was old enough to have served during it. Born in 1936, he would have been 14 when it started. He did serve in the USAR, apparently later in the '50s. Mike Ferrel was a Marine...yep...BJ Hunnicut was a real-life Marine. I think Jamie Farr was also in the Army. |
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Bob Newhart served stateside in the Army during Korea, he was drafted IIRC.
Dick Van Dyke served stateside in the Army during WW II. |
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Quoted: Drew Carey is a former US Marine. Explains the hair... and the drinking. |
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Ray Manzarek from The Doors enlisted in the Army in 1961 and served in Okinawa and Thailand.
Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead enlisted in the Army in 1960 but was eventually given a general discharge. Ice-T spent 4 years in the Army's 25th ID. John Fogerty was in the Army Reserves. |
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The King...Elvis Presley...could have spent his 2 year draft service stint touring with the USO, but refused saying he wanted to serve his 2 years as a regular soldier donating his pay to charity, buying TV sets for the whole base in Germany and buying extra fatigues for those in his platoon. I served in 3rd Armor Division in the 1980's. The 3rd AD Museum in Frankfurt, W. Germany had an entire room dedicated to Elvis. Funniest thing in the room was a sign stating "By day Elvis drove a Jeep. By night he drove a Mercedes" - yeah, so did just about everybody else. Even taxis in Germany were Mercedes, they were everyday cars over there. Polizei drove Fords...that made me laugh, too. I PCS'd to Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas. I was still being haunted by the Ghost of Elvis...the famous photo of Elvis getting his head shaved when he entered the Army was taken 3 buildings away from my barracks, it's now a "Barbershop Museum" with the actual chair he was sitting in. The chow hall had a GIANT mural of Elvis too......the base had been closed for over 30 years until my unit moved there...but the darn mural survived. |
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Mel Brooks––Combat Engineer corporal during the Battle of the Bulge. Julia Child––OSS in China and Ceylon Chuck Norris––USAF security forces in Osan. ETA: Yes, THE Chuck Norris chose the USAF over all the other services. Sinbad (comedian)––USAF for three weeks. Administrative discharge from boot camp for "inability to adapt to the military environment." As for the Marine label, ex-Marines are dishonored and disowned. Former/veteran Marines served with distinction. Bullshit......knew a guy that served with him |
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Most people know Ronald Reagan made propaganda movies in the Army during WWII, but few people know he actually started his Army career as a Cavalry officer in 1937. His Reserve unit was activated shortly after Pearl Harbor, but Reagan's eyesight was so poor he couldn't deploy. He was already involved in making films for the military so they decided to continue using him to make movies and to help maintain their relationship with Hollywood studios.
Reagan's decision to enter politics, namely in becoming President of the Screen Actors Guild, was driven by his belief communists were trying to take over Hollywood. He wanted them out and took it on as his personal responsibility to make it happen. |
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The King...Elvis Presley...could have spent his 2 year draft service stint touring with the USO, but refused saying he wanted to serve his 2 years as a regular soldier donating his pay to charity, buying TV sets for the whole base in Germany and buying extra fatigues for those in his platoon. I served in 3rd Armor Division in the 1980's. The 3rd AD Museum in Frankfurt, W. Germany had an entire room dedicated to Elvis. Funniest thing in the room was a sign stating "By day Elvis drove a Jeep. By night he drove a Mercedes" - yeah, so did just about everybody else. Even taxis in Germany were Mercedes, they were everyday cars over there. Polizei drove Fords...that made me laugh, too. I PCS'd to Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas. I was still being haunted by the Ghost of Elvis...the famous photo of Elvis getting his head shaved when he entered the Army was taken 3 buildings away from my barracks, it's now a "Barbershop Museum" with the actual chair he was sitting in. The chow hall had a GIANT mural of Elvis too......the base had been closed for over 30 years until my unit moved there...but the darn mural survived. I went to High School at H.H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden. This is the same high school that Priscilla Presley attended (prior to marrying Elvis). A buddy of mine lived in the same quarters that she lived in, it was about two blocks from my house, as of the late eighties, the phone number was still the same, and once or twice a year somebody would call and expect her parents to still be there. Priscilla wasn't the only alumnus to marry a musical icon. Mayte Garcia met her first husband while a student in Wiesbaden, She and I were in the same grade. Her Bio puts her in high school when they started dating, my math tells me middle school. Yes, she was smoking hot even back then. You may not know who Mayte is, but you sure as hell know her first husband, Prince Rogers Nelson, better known by his first name alone, for a while known as an unpronounceable symbol. |
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Mel Brooks––Combat Engineer corporal during the Battle of the Bulge. Julia Child––OSS in China and Ceylon Chuck Norris––USAF security forces in Osan. ETA: Yes, THE Chuck Norris chose the USAF over all the other services. Sinbad (comedian)––USAF for three weeks. Administrative discharge from boot camp for "inability to adapt to the military environment." As for the Marine label, ex-Marines are dishonored and disowned. Former/veteran Marines served with distinction. Bullshit......knew a guy that served with him You're right. Went off memory and should have looked it up. KC-135 boom operator. Dishonorable after going AWOL. |
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Let's not forget Oliver Stone.....libtard moron.
Bronze Star and Purple Heart in Vietnam. |
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Our Gang child actors
Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison played Sunshine Sammy Army WWII Allen Hoskins played Farina WWII Bobby Hutchins played Wheezer Army WWII Jackie Cooper WWII Donald Haines played Toughey Army WWII KIA Jerry Tucker played Percy Navy WWII Korea George McFarland played Spanky USAF Tommy Bond played Butch Navy WWII Billie Thomas played Buckwheat Army Darwood Kaye played Waldo Army Robert Blake played Mickey Army |
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Drew Carey is a former US Marine. You are never a "former" Marine. What the hell, we can't call them former Marines any longer? If you have ever been a professional soldier of one kind or another, you will understand what I mean when I say that you can take the uniform off and put it in the closet, and you can return to civilian life and work in the private sector, but the warrior ethic - who you once were - you can't "take that off", because it is a part of you forever. The Marines have a saying that sums that up: "Once a Marine, always a Marine." You can say someone "served as a Marine" or "was a Marine" to indicate past-tense, sure, but to me, saying "former Marine" kind of misses that whole concept I outlined above. YMMV. What raises my is when I meet people and they say: "I'm an ex-Marine." More often than not I find out they never served. People take that "once a Marine, always a Marine" saying too far, it actually gets pretty annoying in my opinion, I'm tired of being reminded about it, it's not like I've forgotten. |
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http://media.mnginteractive.com/media/paper36/OL03KERRYADS1.jpg http://cache.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/images/day2/06.jpg http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/27/john_kerry_wideweb__430x281.jpg US combat vet John Kerry in Vietnam http://jbdowse.com/tne/apix/kerry.jpg Hey.....that's the guy who attacked Cheney for his Vietnam war deferments, neglecting to mention he only joined the Navy after all his own deferments were denied. That's the guy who got turned down for a Purple Heart for a wound treated with Bacitracin and a Band-Aid....so waited for the medic and his commander to rotate out of the unit and reapplied for it. That's the guy who lied about his time-in-service to get an "early out" of the Navy. That's the guy who, as a commissioned officer in the US Navy, marched on Washington DC wearing the stereotypical hodge podge of military items barely recognizable as a uniform so common among Vietnam war veterans, and threw his medals to the ground. He was a commissioned officer until 1980.....not what I'd consider acceptable officer behavior. That's the guy who, as a commissioned officer in the US Navy, attended meetings of the VVAW where they discussed assassinating American Congressmen. Surely a commissioned officer would report such activity, wouldn't he? Apparently not. That's the guy who, as a commissioned officer in the US Navy, flew to France twice after he returned from Vietnam to meet with representatives of the communist North Vietnamese government. That's the guy who, as a commissioned officer in the US Navy and newly elected member of Congress, violated US Navy regulations and State Dept. Policy by flying to Honduras to meet with communist rebels without notifying anybody in the Navy, State Dept, or Congress. That's the guy who had his Congressional staff shred thousands of documents pertaining to American POW's in Vietnam while in the midst of trying to reopen US trade with Vietnam, prompting an extremely embarrassing "uprising" against a Congressman by his own staff when they refused to shred any more documents, hid documents to prevent their disposal, and went public with his efforts to cover up possible surviving POW's to influence public opinion and reopen trade. That's the guy who never realized the FBI has an extremely think file on him available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. Not really someone I'd brag about concerning their "service" to the country. |
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Chad Hennings, defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys was an A-10 pilot in 1990 an an Airforce Academy grad.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Berg
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Our Gang child actors Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison played Sunshine Sammy Army WWII Allen Hoskins played Farina WWII Bobby Hutchins played Wheezer Army WWII Jackie Cooper WWII Donald Haines played Toughey Army WWII KIA Jerry Tucker played Percy Navy WWII Korea George McFarland played Spanky USAF Tommy Bond played Butch Navy WWII Billie Thomas played Buckwheat Army Darwood Kaye played Waldo Army Robert Blake played Mickey Army Interesting: The circumstances and place of Toughey's death have never been released by the Army. He was a 1LT. Wheezer was killed in a mid-air collision a week before he was supposed to graduate flight school in the Army Air Corps in 1945. He'd already served 2 years in the Army before becoming a flight student. |
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Holy crap, that is pretty much a who's who of baseball from 1900 to 1970. I met Warren Spahn at Ft. Bragg when I was stationed there, he was at the PX signing autographs. He took the time to speak to each guy that he signed for, and thanked every one of us for his service. Of course I knew he had been a Pitcher, and a damned good one, but I had no clue he was a veteran, and he never mentioned it. He may have been the biggest jackass around, but on that occasion he was the definition of class and respect. It was hot that day, there was no shade anywhere, and he kept going, never got in a hurry, never shuffled anybody off. He shook a lot of hands, signed a lot of pictures, and kept a smile all the way through it. No, he didn't charge any of us a penny for the picture of signature. |
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Keni Thomas, Country music singer, was a Ranger in Somalia. He puts on a good live show. 82nd_ABN says he's a good dude IRL. Didn't know he was a country singer. I remember seeing him on the excellent Frontline documentary. Dude has an impressive military schooling background as well. |
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Holy crap, that is pretty much a who's who of baseball from 1900 to 1970. I met Warren Spahn at Ft. Bragg when I was stationed there, he was at the PX signing autographs. He took the time to speak to each guy that he signed for, and thanked every one of us for his service. Of course I knew he had been a Pitcher, and a damned good one, but I had no clue he was a veteran, and he never mentioned it. He may have been the biggest jackass around, but on that occasion he was the definition of class and respect. It was hot that day, there was no shade anywhere, and he kept going, never got in a hurry, never shuffled anybody off. He shook a lot of hands, signed a lot of pictures, and kept a smile all the way through it. No, he didn't charge any of us a penny for the picture of signature. Well, it is a list of players from the Hall of Fame. |
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You guys do realize that we had a draft system until something like 1974, right?
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He was drafted by the Spurs for a huge signing bonus the Navy agreed to release him to the reseves after 2 years active duty ( so much for the 6 year obligation after the USNA ). The Spurs flew him back and forth form GA to TX for workouts, I am sure someone up high in the Navy got taken care of
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David Robinson––––-NBA player was an officer on submarines Johnny Cash––––USAF Axl Rose was a tanker don't think robinson was on subs. he left the navy in two years, he wouldn't have finished schooling in time. he was aboard a sub once while a middie, I think. So says wikipedia ––––––He was a civil engineering officer at Kings Bay Submarine Base. I was confused. |
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Country music star George Strait. US Army 71-75.
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