USNR -Seabees - CN Driver striker
U.S. Coast Guard E5 - 1956-1963
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
USN, USS SAVAGE DER 386, 1965 - 1969, rank at discharge Petty Officer STG4
US Army, enlisted in Regular Army (not drafted) Mar 66-Jan 69 active duty, Dec 66 - Jan 69 in Vietnam, rank at separation Sp5 (Specialist 5, same pay grade as Sgt E-5)
USN - Sep64 to Mar75 - separated as ET1 (E-6)
USS Cadmus AR-15 - Newport RI - Calibration and Crypto
Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Training Center - Charleston SC - Instructor
Bridges wrote:
Amazing how many of us were E-4 at the time we left active service!
I made E-5 in 20 months, thanks to a bust. I worked in company headquarters as a morning report clerk.
Mark
U.S. Navy '66 to '72. CTI3 -- Boot at GLNTC, stationed on two Army bases, one Air Force Base, and four Navy bases, including T.I. for discharg, and San Diego for P.O. Leadership training.
David, Saint Maries, Idaho
GeneV
Loc: Lampasas, Texas
USAF, Feb 7, 1951 - Dec 24/1954, 2 yrs aircraft engine build up (R3350, C119 aircraft), 2+ years squadron HQ as chief clerk. A/1C) Discharged on Christmas Eve (There is a Santa Claus) to return to Vanderbilt U to complete work on mechanical engineer degree. Worked the last 17 years(Civil Service) at Fort Hood (Now Fort Covasas) as an engineer in Master Planning. Hi-light of my career was at Convair/General Dynamics flying as a flight test engineer, first on the B-58, mach 2, then on the F-111, mach 2+. Evan got to do a couple of "slow rolls" in the F-111 after a test flight was completed. Retired life sure is calm.
dustie
Loc: Nose to the grindstone
TriX wrote:
And is it?
Plusses and minuses......
.....but I have never once wished to return to being barked at, yelled at, belittled, berated, put down, called all manner of disdainful names for breathing without being directly ordered when, how and where to do so, then winning days' worth of additional contempt for daring to breathe when I did so without direct command nor permission.
USN, Communications Technician, Technical Branch, E-4
Never stepped foot on a ship.
Bremerhaven, Germany
Augsburg, Germany
Edzell, Scotland
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
USN, 8/1/68 to 7/31/72. GLNTC for boot finished as SN (E-3) as I had two years of college and then NavHospCorSch graduated as HN (E-3); Camp Montford Point, Camp LeJeune for FMSS; USNavHosp, Camp Lejeune was promoted to HM3 (E-4); BAS and Co C, 1-8-2 Camp Lejeune, promoted to HM2 (E-5); USS Fort Snelling, Little Creek VA. until release. Most memorable experience: I was called to the ship's bridge by the Captain one morning to photograph two Russian ships highlining supplies between them. Never saw the photos as the film was taken for intelligence reasons.
Bridges wrote:
Amazing how many of us were E-4 at the time we left active service!
Vietnam draftee (US not RA) 68-70, 69th Signal Battalion, Qui Nhon and Chu Lai. The last two months of my tour were TDY in Thailand splicing buried cable. I made SPC4 twice. I bought a PX Minolta SRT101 and haven't looked back.
Thank you all for your service.
Stan Fayer USMC 0311 61-65 Gitmo MEB
JTC
Loc: Franklin, TN
USAF 1962-1967, Photo Recon, E-5.
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