Posted on 11/10/2011 7:16:05 PM PST by RightOnline
Blessings on you both....and you’d best keep sharp around her, FRiend, or she’ll have you pushing soil and counting pushups.......with love, of course.
Happy Vet’s Day, smooth.
USAF Security Service 1960-1963. Ditty-bopped in the Philippines and Italy. Spent 33 more years as a civilian doing pretty much the same job.
Signing in.
Bet your dad and I were peers, time-wise....recce pilots had a very, very tough mission in those days and were largely unappreciated.
Not by me; not by many.
Give him my thanks and shake his hand for me.
Retired (2006) Air Force Master Sergeant (E-7).
Served 20 years as a Medic in AFLC (you old timers will remember the “Logistics” command) and AFMC. Did my time at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. What a great (and fast) 20 years!
2ndDivisionVet: I’ll be praying for God’s grace and healing for both you and your wife’s health. <(((><
So do you two ‘fight’ during the Army-Navy game? :) God bless both of you.
I appreciate it.
Back atcha, Brother!
USMC 69-73...atten hut’! At ease gentlemen...I’ll be in the area all day.
Semper Fi do or die! One more for the Corps!
I'll do that when I see him for Christmas next month.
Did you ever work/live in Oak Harbor, WA, by any chance?
Thank you for your service to our great nation!
Yes, that Mississippi redneck dropout holds the record for the youngest MSgt. in AF history. My Dad, God rest his soul. An amazing man.
Checking in, USMC, Vietnam vet and watching the history channel and their presentation “Vietnam In HD”
Nope...never lived in WA, although the AF (and then the computer industry) moved me all over the country.
Military Police, 55th MP Co., HQ I Corps (Gp), Camp Red Cloud, S. Korea 1966-1968.
checking in USAF - vietnam era, I was in Europe almost as long as in US - but most of the duty was semi-isolated bases. Me and Bill Cosby - “MEDIC, I don’t make house calls.”
To you and your sons-Thank You for your service!
1968 - 2003 US Army Medical Corps. Stationed stateside, & in a lifetime, I’ve gotten to meet lots of great warriors, from Spanish-American vets to current active. Just returned from 2-week drive through Normandy, started at Ste. Mere-Eglise, finished at Bastogne and Luxemburg Cemetery and Ramstein. A pause and a prayer at 1111 hrs., 11-11-11. God bless ‘em all.
Checking in...
Desert Storm, O-3 MI with 3rd ACR.
OIF 3, E-6 MI/FA troop in FOB Ramadi. Spent a year getting mortared and missiled by the worst shots in the world.
Now an E-7 in the ING.
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Free meals for vets.
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