Veteran Roll Call
Apr 1, 2024 11:34:13 #
Dennis Beach, USMC 6-73 to 12-84, MOS's 1164 Air conditioning and Refrigeration, 0241 Photo interpreter (reserves), 6046 Main. Admin clerk, aircraft maintenance records, Sgt E-5 when I got out in 1984.
Also did three different Air National guard tours at the following Tulsa Ok 1985, Harrisburg PA 1987-1988, and Moffett Field Ca. 1988-1990 resigning at Moffett field in January 1990 as staff sergeant E-5. This was Airforce Rank designation. At all three I worked QC and Aircraft recovery. There you have my military history in all its glory.
Also did three different Air National guard tours at the following Tulsa Ok 1985, Harrisburg PA 1987-1988, and Moffett Field Ca. 1988-1990 resigning at Moffett field in January 1990 as staff sergeant E-5. This was Airforce Rank designation. At all three I worked QC and Aircraft recovery. There you have my military history in all its glory.
Apr 1, 2024 11:40:55 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
USNR 1967 - 1973, Aviation Maintenance Control mostly at U.S. Naval and Marine air bases with one training cruise on the USS Kennedy.
Apr 1, 2024 11:47:03 #
Apr 1, 2024 11:50:33 #
annadonmac
Loc: East Tennessee
1966-1968 Fire Distribution Specialist 2nd Battalion 71st Artillery Camp Red Cloud, Korea. Rank at discharge
Specialist 5 E5
Specialist 5 E5
Apr 1, 2024 11:51:16 #
I was drafted into the army a year and a half after graduating from college. Because I had a biology degree and had worked for the US Public Health Service as an Epidemiologist in sexually transmitted disease control, they assigned me to Preventive Medicine. I chose not to attend OCS to become an officer because that meant four years versus two if I stayed as enlisted. I was stationed at Fort Gordon, GA, in 1968 and then in Vietnam in 1969. My exiting rank was Specialist E-5.
Apr 1, 2024 11:52:42 #
Apr 1, 2024 11:59:39 #
markngolf wrote:
US Army Dec. 58 - Dec. 60. Stationed at White Sands Missile Range, NM. E5.
Mark
Mark
Our outfit went to White Sands in 1955 to fire our missile for our final test before going on site. My first taste of the desert, interesting.
Apr 1, 2024 12:02:21 #
Warhorse wrote:
I'm just curious as to how many veterans we have here, so I will start the ball rolling.
USMC, MOS-1391, 1975-1979, rank at discharge Sergeant E-5
USMC, MOS-1391, 1975-1979, rank at discharge Sergeant E-5
USMC - 1960-1964 --
Made Lance Corporal Twice!!
MOS 2639 -- Repaired Telephones & Teletypes & Radio Relay
Apr 1, 2024 12:02:48 #
ken_stern wrote:
USMC - 1960-1964 --
Made Lance Corporal Twice!!
MOS 2639 -- Repaired Telephones & Teletypes & Radio Relay
Made Lance Corporal Twice!!
MOS 2639 -- Repaired Telephones & Teletypes & Radio Relay
Apr 1, 2024 12:06:09 #
Apr 1, 2024 12:09:57 #
USN-R. Aviation Electronics Tech. E-5, Second Class Petty Officer. Active duty assignment, HS-4, flight deck/flight line troubleshooter, one Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club deployment ‘68, USS Yorktown CVS 10 (the old “One Nothin”). She’s now at Patriots Point in Charleston, SC.
Apr 1, 2024 12:19:44 #
USAF. Served as a missile maintenance tech while enlisted ('75-80), then commissioned and retired as R&D engineer in '95 (retired as an O-4).
Apr 1, 2024 12:21:13 #
US Army '69-'71. I was drafted and no way did I want to carry a rifle with a sticky thing on the end, so I enlisted to fly. Ended up flying scouts for B Troop 7/1 Cav. in VN.
The war was winding down enough by the end of my tour that the orders came down; I could get out if I wanted! So as soon as I was off the freedom bird at Travis AFB
I was runnin' hard! CW2.
The war was winding down enough by the end of my tour that the orders came down; I could get out if I wanted! So as soon as I was off the freedom bird at Travis AFB
I was runnin' hard! CW2.
Apr 1, 2024 12:24:44 #
Warhorse wrote:
I'm just curious as to how many veterans we have here, so I will start the ball rolling.
USMC, MOS-1391, 1975-1979, rank at discharge Sergeant E-5
USMC, MOS-1391, 1975-1979, rank at discharge Sergeant E-5
USAF, 36251 Telephone (Central Office Equipment Specialist) 1 May 1958 -13 June 1962 Airman 1st Class (Or now called Senior Airman).
Apr 1, 2024 12:27:43 #
Army 66-69. Joined 6 days out of high school so I could make it to the next available class at Intelligence School in Baltimore. Glad I did, as there was a sudden urgent need for 10 guys to work in the Pentagon, and I got one of the slots. I was just 18.
Had hoped to see more of the world, but under the circumstances, being tucked into the A Ring, 5th Floor of the Pentagon handling communications was OK. DC at the time was a thrill, but working shifts at the 24/7 shop severely limited my social life. Probably just as well. Lived in a barracks on the (now gone) SOUTH post of Ft. Myer, VA. That area was torn down to make more room for Arlington graves.
Because I worked for the Chief of Staff [locked up Westmoreland's office & checked trash for accidental classified trash!] I got invited to the big Army Birthday bash. I was very "short" as in weeks to ETS, so hell yes, I went! Probably the only enlisted guy there!
Had hoped to see more of the world, but under the circumstances, being tucked into the A Ring, 5th Floor of the Pentagon handling communications was OK. DC at the time was a thrill, but working shifts at the 24/7 shop severely limited my social life. Probably just as well. Lived in a barracks on the (now gone) SOUTH post of Ft. Myer, VA. That area was torn down to make more room for Arlington graves.
Because I worked for the Chief of Staff [locked up Westmoreland's office & checked trash for accidental classified trash!] I got invited to the big Army Birthday bash. I was very "short" as in weeks to ETS, so hell yes, I went! Probably the only enlisted guy there!
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