Veteran Roll Call
Apr 1, 2024 16:20:37 #
USNR -Seabees - CN Driver striker
U.S. Coast Guard E5 - 1956-1963
U.S. Coast Guard E5 - 1956-1963
Apr 1, 2024 16:31:06 #
JP45
Loc: Massachusetts
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
USN, USS SAVAGE DER 386, 1965 - 1969, rank at discharge Petty Officer STG4
Apr 1, 2024 16:33:09 #
dustie wrote:
I was born in the military.
After seventeen years of continuously re-living the first day of boot camp, I left to see if civilian life is any different.
After seventeen years of continuously re-living the first day of boot camp, I left to see if civilian life is any different.
And is it?
Apr 1, 2024 16:33:50 #
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)
Apr 1, 2024 16:34:15 #
bobgl205
Loc: Frederick Maryland
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
USS Cadmus AR-15 - Newport RI - Calibration and Crypto
Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Training Center - Charleston SC - Instructor
Apr 1, 2024 16:47:11 #
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
Apr 1, 2024 17:06:40 #
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
David, Saint Maries, Idaho
Apr 1, 2024 17:16:32 #
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.
Apr 1, 2024 17:27:15 #
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.
Apr 1, 2024 18:00:05 #
USN, Communications Technician, Technical Branch, E-4
Never stepped foot on a ship.
Bremerhaven, Germany
Augsburg, Germany
Edzell, Scotland
Never stepped foot on a ship.
Bremerhaven, Germany
Augsburg, Germany
Edzell, Scotland
Apr 1, 2024 18:06:14 #
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
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.
Apr 1, 2024 18:10:30 #
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.
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