[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who here served? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 5/12/2006 6:48:31 PM EDT
| What branch and why? What were some things that happened while you where in? |
| Army, because I hated school and couldnt stomache the thought of college(funny how I'm doing that now and I was right all along), went to bosnia, made up for being related to the phrench by participating in the invasion of Iraq, killed a few camel spiders, left some bootprints in the asphalt in Fallujah. |
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USMC. Picked them because I was too good to even consider being a squid, zoomie, or a army of one. Some things that happened Had a complete achilles tendon rupture, never could run good again afterwards, so I was medically discharged. Also got screwed over on my corporal promotion because of the injury, took a request mast to fix that little problem. Got to do a lot of cool working parties and volunteer stuff when I was in tech school (concert security, holding name signs for PGA ad LPGA, nascar security, won luggage on price is right, got to be a physical education teacher at 29 palms elementary school). Duty station was MCB, Camp Butler, Okinawa Japan. Got to participate in Cobra Gold 2003 (thailand). Other than that I never got deployed. |
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Joined the Navy, did boot camp at Great Lakes, went to Dam Neck for OS A-School, was headed for the Kittyhawk, wife OD'd and slit her wrists, had to get out and take care of my daughter.  Got divorced, and got custody, but I'd always dreamed of being on a carrier and intended to stay in until retirement. I never even got on a ship. I saw some one weekend, and I saw some jets at NAS Oceana, but it still bothers me that I couldn't/didn't stay in. I just couldn't leave my two year old daughter with that suicidal psycho.
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Well, I'm USN active duty right now. Interesting things? Participating in/Participated in the follwing: Pakistan Earthquake releif. Katrina Releif. Tsunami Releif. Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Noble Eagle. A plethora of military exercises between the US and allied nations. And anything that comes up I guess. |
US Marine Corps Enlisted 1990-1994 : Marine Barracks Subic Bay Naval Station Weapons Company 1/5 Officer 2000-Present 3rd Battalion 7th Marines Operation Iraqi Freedom 2nd Deployment in the Reserves I did it because I'm a warrior. It was what I was born to do. Ok, so for all your blunt questions why do you ask? Why do you want to know? |
| Served in the marines, 2bn 6th mar weapons co 2000-2004,I was a 0331 I just got promoted to SGT. in the IRR. I didn't know that could happen until, I got the promotion warrant. this happen to anyone else? I joined to fight terrorism, got a little payback for 911. ooorah! |
the girl scouts still issued 1911s in my day.
Watched my unit leave for Iraq and they wouldn't cut me orders.
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11B in Korea The most memorable experience I had was seeing what units the Army assembled out of a bunch of reluctant soldiers, substandard equipment, and vehicles in a state of disrepair in order to |
next best thing to Boy scouts
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US Army 11C 1989-1996 Feb 89-Dec 90- B C0, 4/502d Inf- Berlin Brigade First field problem, saw some poor East German get shot trying to cross "The Wall" just outside our training area. Enjoyed seeing former East German soldiers wearing Bundeswehr dress uniforms. carry AK74s marching in our deactivation parade. Jan 91-Oct 92- Ft Polk. LA Oct 92-June 94- C Co, 6/502d Inf- Berlin Brigade June 93-Jan 94- First US Combat Troops deployed to Yugoslavia- Operation Able Sentry Established US Base in Skopje Macedonia. Played "Tag" with Serbian assholes. Monitored the border for arms smugglers, armed incursions, ordered to not fire on Serbs unless fired upon. Stayed overnight at Tito's hunting lodge, in the area where the three Army soldiers were caught over the boarder by the Serbs a year later. July 94-July 96-HHC 1/12 Inf Ft Carson. Pinon Canyon, NTC, Pinon Canyon, NTC |
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US Army 54B10. 1986-1992. Why did I get in? President Ronald Wilson Reagen. Why did I get out? President William Jefferson Clinton. Or the thought of serving under him. Yes, I met my Commanders in Chief, save Clinton. Would I do it again? Depends on who is the Chief Executive. Things that happened? Little terrorist bullshit but seeing how RWR did a smack-down in Libya and how we mopped the floor with Central American communists, things were great until Hussein decided to stake a claim to Kuwaiti oil. |
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Served 6 years in the Army, (Military Police Investigator) 3 tours in Korea with the 2nd MP Company, 2nd Infantry Division. "Second To None." I wanted to study Korean and TKD overseas. Part of the MP Station was blown up when a grunt threw a hand grenade in the front door. Several defections on both sides. One US Soldier who defected was found dead floating in a river. Ambushes, fire fights all along the DMZ. North Korean Special Forces tried to take the South Korean Presidential building in Seoul, all killed. Racial shooting on the M16 Range, four white soldiers killed. And the list goes on and on... |
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I always wanted to be a paratooper. I grew up playing war and we used to watch old war movies every Saturday morning then act them out the rest of the day. I even made a rig to simulate a tree landing. I would hang in there like a dead trooper and then when the "bad guys came", I sprang to life and killed all of them with my M1 that looked suspiciously like a baseball bat pointed backwards. One day I decided to enlist and it was the best job I ever had. |