That's my wife. Navy EO.

I'm with the Comm guys at heart. First MOS was 2513.

Yes, but we were all such dashing young stud aviators in our day...........................and bulletproof!

I emptied trash cans and swept motor pools.

Who wants to be my friend and be CBA????

I'am ....Twice!

1986-1996 Fort Garry Horse,  Armoured Recce (Canada)
2011-Present 15Y MO Nat Gaurd.  FYI-going through BCT at Ft.Benning at 41yrs old...SUCKS!!!

What do they look like?

dude claims to be in the SCV, I'd like to know what SCV Camp he is in myself.



 

ppfffftt.



Phantom Shitter status is where it's at, you drop a deuce on the quarter deck and live to tell about it you've done something.



 

Yep

A little easier to pull off on a submarine, fewer watchstanders. And I've heard of the AOW/AEF coming back from a round to find the ENTIRE ships control party asleep.

ETA: Probably a little harder to do today with VMS. But back in the day, catch the QMOW between log entries.....

Yup.

<=== part of the USN a/v club for four years!

HMM TXJoe,  you are in Texas. I wonder if I served with those two guys???  Were they by chance with the 36 CAB OIF 06-08?  Our BDE did some interesting and some might say historic flights while we were there???

I had a great uncle who was one of 13 boys and 1 girl. Grandparents said in passing one time he was 'in the service' when I was a little kid. 20 years later I was talking to him at my grandma's funeral and happened to ask what branch of the military he was in.

He was a Marine at Iwo Jima. A machinegunner no less.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77099124

Serving was prolific :P 13 boys served in our armed forces.
Link

No posing there. A lot of WWII vets are dying, but I wonder if there were as many posers there.

I was a fuel specialist. Deployed 3 times to iraq. Spent two of those tours attached with the grunts, LAR and occasionally some high speed guys who would pass through. Never saw a large FOB except when I would have to fly back to get parts for our equipment and whatnot. Slept in the same shitholes they did, went on patrols with the guys when someone else was too tired or didn't feel well, basically did everything they did at one point or another but also took care of my equipment and my three Marines and made sure the battalion could complete the mission by keeping everyone fueled up. Never understood why people get so ashamed to talk about their real job. I had a blast overseas, have a few cool stories which I won't be posting on a public forum, and am generally proud of my service. Wish others would do the same.

IYAOYAS...what we do with the dumb ones who can't pass the tests for Bosun's Mate.

Spent my career (20 years) as a super secret squirrel Airframer...did a lot of seriously close hold stuff, but it mostly involves hookers and booze, and I had to sign an NDA when I retired, so I can't talk about it.

But there was this one time, off the shores of Iran...there I was, manning my grease rifle, when all hell broke loose...

When I worked at the VA, everyone was a sniper in Vietnam at one point or another.

Yeah, but you SWO's are used to abuse and ridicule...

What subs were you on as an EM?  You might have crossed paths with my Pop.

Thanks for you service, please ignore the fucking clown shoes who thinks that (maybe) paying taxes is more righteous than your time supporting gwot.

Family business, eh?  Kinda like us...Grandpop (Navy- GM during WWII) Dad (Navy- Nuc submariner during Cold War) Big Brother (The black sheep, he was Army Intel GW1&2, Kosovo, etc) Me (Navy GW1&2, etc)  Have a great uncle (Dad's unk) entombed on USS Arizona, numerous other buried around the world.  We've been fighting our countries battles since before it was a country.

I know a chap who served in Vietnam as a mechanic.

Son, you know the greatest soldier on ARFCOM is a Reservist 88M from AZ. Of course, he's saddled with being in the worst unit in the Army, complete with shitty NCO's who don't know how to take care of soldiers. But, even that didn't stop him from single-handedly winning the war in Iraq.

With my current place of duty I feel like a military poser. God I miss the infantry.

Had a clown tell me he was in  "1st Marines at Camp Lejeune"; but the REAL punch line was when asked about the wings on his BDUs, told us it was  "HALO; High Altitude Low OPERATION"  Was later charged, reduced, booted out.

I know a guy that was a butcher in the Army in Vietnam.  Like a meat cutting kind of butcher.

Did he ever snuff a rooster?



 

I didn't say machine gun man.

This is very true. That is the reason why I chose the Navy over all the other services, was the technical training I would receive.
I wouldn't be inthe engineering position I am today if it wasn't for the Navy and their training

I was a tank mechanic at Ft Hood, never went overseas. Played spades whenever the tanks were out running around or shooting gunnery.

I do also. Said that he fixed slot machines on the main army base in Vietnam. Sounded a little fishy to me.

I guess Mr. Crazy left and never came back

I was in the Air Force.

I'm pretty sure that means I'm a military poser.

Back in high school, there was this kid who would tell anyone dumb enough to listen that he was part of a super hsld Marine Corps sniper team and he was one of their best shooters. He would be leaving to join them full time as soon as he finished high school. When my friend who was an Army reservist questioned him about it, he toned down the bullshit a little bit, but he was still full of it. This was my senior year of high school, and he was a year younger.

I think you guys forgot cadets.

I had a girl tell me that she was a Cadet major (college ROTC) and I was a lowly specialist. I told her that I wasn't in the make believe army. She never talked to me again.

I have lost track of the number and types of posers out there.
"Retired CSMs" that have E6 retiree ID cards,
CA guys that were "operators,"
and worse crazy whacked out lies.
And that's from people that were actually in and nowhere near the depth of the lies I have heard from some others.  

If someone was a
PFC 11B in some hard fighting in Iraq, hats off to him.  
Hell, there are low speed leg truck drivers that got into some serious shit and did brave things on  convoys..
I don't know why it always has to be  a high ranking, special MOS, doing secret stuff story to be respectable.

I would respect anyone's contribution if they were honest about it.


The bull shitting I get from some people irks me.  It makes me very critical of them.
And I get black and white about it.

If someone told me-" I joined for the college money, got commo/electronics training, did a tour, never left the FOB, I was always laying cable and fixing shit, and IDF never got any where close to me, and am now working on my bachelors in engineering"

or

"I'm a crew chief on a fixed wing dropping off pallets everywhere"
I would be totally cool with it.

Once someone starts BSing me,
it aggravates me.

Once in a while it can really piss me off.  Plenty of people have died actually doing/being they guys they are lying about being.
I went off on a guy BSing me one time and laid it out.

Either you had your measure as a man taken and succeeded (Force Recon pipeline, CCT/PJ indoc pipeline, SFAS/Q-Course, RIP/RGR BN/RGR School, BUDS, etc.) or you never tried or you failed.  It's that simple.
Either you've been on target and sometimes got in some shit or you did not. Period.  
Either you have put yourself at risk when SHTF or you have not.
People  that have done one or more of those things know when they are talking to someone that has done one or more of those things for real or not..  
End of story.

He turned into white faced, watery eyed boy and went elsewhere.  Probably back to his barracks at the WTB so he can go to all his appointments for GERD at the hospital that he got sent home from his deployment for.  Maybe there all the chicks that got sent home for migraines, low back pain, or being pregnant would dig his stories.  The guys with real injuries and illnesses at the WTBs should probably get PTSD and depression benefits from putting up with all those ass clowns.

Wore a multi cam ball cap with subdued flag patch.  Am I a poser or being patriotic for the weekend?  You tell me.

Just be proud of what you did...


I did IT work....and I was proud of it and I AM PROUD of it.

I watched slingers and pounders come in from their setups and gist back to the FOB.

I was busy all day and night fixing shit left and right to even cleaning pubic hairs from the keyboard..

It wasn't glamorous nor do I get a combat medal but I don't care.

I made sure stuff worked and people can do their jobs.

Fucking pogues.

My first few years I was a buffer operator.

That's right! Operator.

Scrubbed shitters and showers too. Earning that drain baby badge was not easy.

This is the issue. Shut them down if you know better.

You should be the wrong person. Way to be an enabler.

Yep.  I've heard of helmsmen trying that one.  Even saw it once.  Any conning officer or OOD who doesn't want to get red assed by the CO and every other officer and Chief on the ship would catch it pretty fast though.

I did know a female Coastie LT (CO of a 110 ft Cutter) that had that happen to her.... she was well known in the Norfolk area to say the least.

I was filling my tank at Circle-K when a guy told me all about how he was a Lt Col in the SEALs in Vietnam.

With  big ol' National Guard recruiting logo splashed all over them

Which seems like all the fucking time! How long is your shops fucking smoke break?!

Actually JBLM instead of smoke breaks we had HALO breaks for HALO and COD

My Uncle joined the Navy to avoid the draft for Vietnam.  They were looking for band members when he went through boot camp, so he was assigned to a band.  He spend the war as a litter bearer carrying the dead and wounded.  He is still fucked up

THAT MEANS YOU ARE HALO QUALIFIED! WOOT!

HOLD THAT THOUGHT... I NEED MY INHALER!!!

100% your right as an American to wear it.

But yes, in general, when you wear something associated with a certain background or accomplishments you don't have equals tool/poser status.

I wear one all the time, I ordered it while I was in Afghanistan and like it too much to quit wearing it (Viper Headwear). Who cares what people think? Multicam (and most other camo styles) are so ubiquitous now that most people aren't going to look at a hat and automatically think military. Unless, of course, they're the ones eager to call you out as a military poser (I'm a contractor, not military). If they have an issue, they're free to ask me about it.

Now if I was wearing one that had an Army or Marine Corps patch, sure, that would be pushing it. But I've never understood the guys that get pissed off about civilians wearing camo.