As Memorial Day approaches, Veterans/Active/Reserve let us know your specs...

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Let's start a list of FReepers who serve/have served in the military and deserve our respect and appreciation...

[Diver Dave]

Thanks for the thread, and thanks for serving this great country.


US Navy 1963-1967
SFP2 (DV) - Shipfitter/Pipefitter E-5
Second Class Diver - SCUBA - MK V (hardhat)
Boot Camp - USNTC San Diego ('63)
Shipfitter "A" School - USNTC San Diego ('64)
USS PIEDMONT (AD-17) (Destroyer Tender) Pipe Shop (64-66) Homeport San Diego
TAD - Second Class Diving School - Subic Bay, PI (66)
USS PIEDMONT (AD-17) Diving Locker (66-67)
Honorable Discharge - 29 Sept 67

Three WESTPAC tours - 64, 65-66, & 67

[Non-Sequitur]

Captain (newly pinned on thank you)

You're going to have to change your screen name.

[mdittmar]

Good post,great people.

Thank you all for your service.

[Professional Engineer]

Aim High bump

[SF Republican]

Millington, TN
Was that place a dump, or what!?
You got that right, my memories are of the obstacle course which was neat, the Mississippi River, and there was that Navy girl that could do some pretty fun stuff with ice cubes.

[VeniVidiVici]

Me:
05D/98CRU
US Army 1979 - 1992
USAR 1992 - 1994

Field Station Augsburg
311th MI Bn / 101st ABN
Presidio of Monterey
105th MI Bn / 5th ID
Field Station Berlin
138th Avn Bn

Son:
2000 -
USAF - Just got back from Korea. Enroute to Eglin AFB

Wife:
05H/97E/98GQB

US Army 1977 - 1992
USAR 1992 -
Field Station Misawa
3d ACR
Field Station Augsburg
5th ID
Field Station Berlin
138th Avn
377 MI Bn

A prayer for the brave souls of the 101st ABN who died in the Gander crash in Dec 1985 coming back home from duty in the Sinai.

[Jackson57]

I've also got a family history of military service.

Father's side:
Father - Navy
Uncle William - Navy (ret)
Uncle Joe - Army (Battle of the Bulge)
Cousin - Army

Mother's side:
Uncle - Navy
Uncle - Air Force (ret)
Cousin - Air Force
Cousin - Army (ret)
Cousin - Navy
Cousin, Jeremy McHalffey, Ark National Guard, KIA, Iraq, Jan 4, 2005.

Sister - Navy
Brother-in-Law - Navy (ret)

Cousin, Jeremy McHalffey, Ark National Guard, KIA, Iraq, Jan 4, 2005.

[North Coast Conservative]

USMC Sept66 - Jun69
MOS 3303 RTO
WESTPAC GROUND FORCES
Sub unit 1, 1st ANGLICO Oct67 - Nov68

Flags at Half Staff, Hand Salute:

In Memorium:
CMSGT Thos. M Garcia
WWII - USAAF
107th TFW, 136 FIS NYANG
Korean Conflict
Tuy Hua, RVN F-100 Huns
I miss you terribly Dad

S3C Earl E Decker USN
USS Daniel - North Atlantic Convoy Duty
I miss you Earl, and regardless of what you said, you were still a Swabby.

Sis, I will let you talk about your hubby, my brother in law.

In God We Trust…..Semper Fi!

[68skylark]

Currently a Sergeant (E-5) in the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion, USAR.

[Michael Goldsberry]

stuff with ice cubes.

Umm... I'd have to say that Pattaya Beach, Thailand was the zenith of my experience in the Navy.

(I, ah.. I helped Nuns hand out candy and fluffy toy bunnies to poor orphans there... Yeah, that's the ticket.)

[SZonian]

I never ate at Nellis AFB chowhalls (oops, sorry, dining facilities), but had heard rumours. We had a contractor on site who killed a bunch when they washed out a tanker truck that had some chemical in it, the horses drank the runoff and a bunch died. They got fined a princely sum for that.

Come to think of it, we did have steak that night. Hmmmm...., A1 will make anything taste good I guess.

Cheers!

[North Coast Conservative]

How could I forget mis abuelo

Mariano G Barragan, USN
WWII, torpedoed in the Southern Pacific
I will alway remember you GrandDad

[eaglesiniowa]

28 years active and reserve Army; special forces, airborne, pathfinder and secondary MOS of armor.

[rangerX]

US Army Artillery retired 0-5 (1978-98)

82nd Airborne Division (78-80)
1st Bn (Ranger) 75th Infantry (80-82)
24th Infantry Division (82-84)
Wildflecken Training Area (84-86)
3/11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (86-88)
JFK Special Warfare Center (88-90)
XVIII Airborne Corps Arty (90-91)
18th FA Brigade (Airborne) (91-92)
Inactive Reserve (93-98)

[Conservative Vet]

USAF 1991-1997

65th SG/FMF (Accounting and Finance) Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal

4409th OG/FMF Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (6 month deployment)

750th SG/FM Onizuka Air Station, Sunnyvale California

[dennisw]

I did not serve but am proud of my father who served in railway transport during WW2. He and other diesel mechanics helped keep our supply trains running as we beat back the Germans in France and Europe. My father's unit had the honor of being attached to General George Patton's Third Army for a good part of it's existence.

[Keyga8tor]

I had one of those during initial flight training! Yes, ouch. Was able to stand straight for the flight surgeon 6 months after the repair. Still in after 24 years. USN/NFO

[cibco]

"Vietnam 1968-1969 1st Air Cavalry (Airmobile) Grunt (11B40) Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry (1st\7th Cav) An Khe, Tet, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Camp Evans, China beaches, Khe Sanh, A Shau Valley, Tay Ninh, Black Virgin Mountain, Cambodian border and endless places between. Garry Owen."

Vietnam 1968-1969 1st Air Cavalry (Airmobile) Grunt (11C20) Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry (1st\7th Cav) An Khe, Tet, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Camp Evans, China beaches, Khe Sanh, A Shau Valley, Tay Ninh, Black Virgin Mountain, Cambodian border and endless places between.

Garry Owen.

1/157th FA(8"SP)

SGT COARNG 1984-1988

HQ STARC CO

SSG 1990-1994

How ya doin' BRO?

[JakeSladder]

US ARMY 1972-1974 Spec4
CommCenter Specialist
56th FA Brigade Headquarters Bn
Germany
Pershing 1

[Vineyard]

Reporting ...

myself ... 5 years USN (submarines), then 25 years of US Navy Reserve (retiring on June 1, 2005).

I also have a daughter in the Army Reserve (trained as a combat medic, and hopes to complete Nurse training in 2 1/2 years, and get a commission as an Army Officer/Nurse Corp.

I have a son who just became a 3rd class midshipman at the United States Naval Academy.

Our family believes in SERVICE TO COUNTRY!

Mike