U.S. Coast Guard ~ 1980-88. Honorable Discharge.
Gunners Mate 3rd Class P.O.
Serving aboard:
USCGC Hamilton #714
USCGC Chase #718
1st District Boston - Small Boats - Harbor Safety/L.E.
Temp. Assigned SRT (Special Reaction Team)

The Best Days of my life was while serving in the Guard. Should have been a lifer............

 

Thanks to all that served for us!

Wife of a Navy Vietnam Vet!

 

Oh... Wow... You mean, the MINI isn't a girlie car?

 

Whatchitbubbo - you tryin' to start sumpin????

 

Retired Army Sergeant Major 1984-2005, Germany, Bragg, Hawaii, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Korea, Haiti, and other un-mentionable places. You gotta love it because you can't hate it; remember if you can't hang, drink Tang.

 

Retired 06 USN (1980-2005 active and reserve).

 

Since I guess we're adding relatives:

Brother - USAF, retired after 25 years starting in 1966. TAC and SAC. TAC tour at Taegu, there when the Pueblo was pirated, SAC tour at Utapao during Vietnam.
Dad - USN. 1938 through WWII. Was at Pearl Harbor during the attack. USCG Res, after WWII till retirement.
Uncle - USN Aviator, VC-19 USS Bogue and USS Guadalcanal. KIA flying TBF's.
Various uncles in the Army, Army Air Corps, Navy during WWII.

 

SGT 3 1/2 yrs Delta Troop 1st Squadron, 1st Cav, 1st Armd Div. Ansback, Germany

 

Hey, have you guys seen the website "Together We Served?" There's one for each service, and it's a great way to connect to old military friends/co-workers - kinda like the military FaceBook if you will. Here's the main site, and the services site (sorry, looks like the Coast Guard's site is still under construction):

http://www.togetherweserved.com/
http://army.togetherweserved.com/army/index.jsp
http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/index.jsp
http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/index.jsp
http://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/index.jsp

 

MSgt USAFR - Ret, now civilian historian, RAF Alconbury, UK

AD Air Force - Intel - 75-79
CA ANG - Intel - 80-84
USAFR - C-5 Loadmaster - 84-96
(U-Call, We Haul - Anything, Anytime, Anywhere - For Per Diem)
Pentagon weenie - 96-98
Historian - 98-03
USAF Civilian Historian 2000 - Present
McGuire AFB 00-01
Air Force Weather Agency 02-05
Air Force Reserve Command 05-06
RAF Mildenhall/Alconbury 06-09 (Deployed to Balad AB, Iraq, Sep 07-Jan 08)

MINI Cooper Clubman owner as of 10 Jan 09

 

I was shore-based ASW so I never did learn how to back splice the plimsoll line. I did spend some time in the brown-shoe navy - I would be happy to teach you the proper way to fetch a bucket of prop wash.



Best fun I had in the Navy was defending a baby chief . . .

 

I truly envy you guys that got to serve overseas. I guess it was because I was so eager to express my interest in serving outside CONUS that they kept me locked-up at Beale AFB, CA for two years. I was bored to death since I was put in a job that had nothing to do with my AFSC (air cargo on a base that got no air cargo).

USAF 1976-1978 Beale AFB

Then took advantage of Palace Chase option to transfer into Air National Guard in Willow Grove, PA from 1978-1983.

 

So you were a 605?

 

Since we threw in relatives how about an obsessed almost Mini owner too?

United States Navy 90 - 2001
Groton CT 90-91
Meridian Miss 91 till July 91
Sigonella 91-95
Roosevelt Roads PR 95-97
NAS Corpus Christi 97-00
NAS Souda Bay 00-01

USAF
DYESS AFB 02-05
Kunsan AFB 05 -06
CAFB 06- till present




If I do not earn the right to post here we will let admin delete me haha

 

Hey, stop by and see my in Hawaii anytime!

Well, any time I'm actually in HI. Odds are betting of finding me in Iraq first, though.

Did you take part in the patching ceremony, putting a combat patch on your right sleeve?

 

And in return we black-shoes could let you stand the mail buoy watch for a while, or maybe tell you where on the ship to go to fetch a couple of yards of water line...

 

Geeze, yes. But the kicker for that was: the command insisted on doing that after being deployed only TWO MONTHS, and while we sat in Kuwait as the first real THeater Reserve. Kick in the pants - teaching young and inexperienced soldiers to think that sitting in Kuwait training was REAL combat. They were slightly more surprised when we were actually moved north, and DID get involved with "real" combat. (P.s. I use the term "combat" losely - not based on any particular approved definitions, by the way.)

 

My father was in WWII and Korea, and retired as a US Army Major in 1964 after 20+ years of service.

I was born in Fort Benning, GA, and graduated from West Point in 1969.
I served in Vietnam and eventually retired as a Full Bird from the Maine Army National Guard where I served as a Chaplain.

_

 

What, you don't consider nukes to be air cargo?
I brother was at Beale from about 1972-76 after he left U'Tapao.

 

Benning Georgia
Ft Sam San Antonio
Wurzburg Germany
Heidelberg Germany
1 yr left on my contract Hooah.
Army Medics save the day

Gotta love the $2100 discount on our MINIs here in Europe!!!

 

11 years Active Army 89-2000. Presently Army civilian. Been all over Germany since 91.

 

But does "Waiting for Donkey" time make it seem longer?

 

I was lucky enough to hitch a ride on one of the last diesel subs in service - the USS Gudgeon. They did put me on watch for the mail buoy when we were cruising on the surface. I guess they are hard to spot - I never did see it during my 4 hour watch . . .

 

It's like forever!

 

Wow!!!!

You had me for a minute there. Didn't know what you were talking about. Yes, I was a 605 - 60530 Air Passenger Specialist. I ended-up at Beale as a 60531 Air Cargo Specialist. In either case there were no pax and no cargo to speak of. We spent most of our duty days playing rod hockey, pong on a little 13 inch TV or cards. We had one flight a week if we were lucky. My most embarassing moment was getting caught doing an early version of Karaoke with the terminal PA system when we assumed the place was deserted (again) by a full bird colonel. He reamed me out but I could see him holding back laughter as he did.

The Air Guard was almost as dull, but at least there we had the opportunity to run into Philly to kill time.