The older that I get, the more significant the freedom that we enjoy in this country becomes to me. Just wanted to thank all of you who have served and are actively serving our country in the armed service. It would be intersesting to hear where and when you served... John
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USMC 89-93 ( Marine Barracks Annapolis, MD)(Camp Lejune N.C).
Sorry about the large pic, but they are two seperate pics..... John
Let me be next to say
THANKS TO ALL OUR VETERANS AND MEN & WOMEN IN ACTIVE SERVICE!!! :clapper:
USMC (80-86) Far east (good duty),Beruit (sucked)
Thanks, Don Ward, 82nd Airborne Parachute Supply and Maintenance at Fort Bragg, Nc. Also 11th Quartermaster Parachute Supply and Maintenance in Mainz Germany. 1962-1965
U.S. Navy 1978-1998 Iran Hostage, Kuait oil tanker reflagging, Desert shield. Desert Storm. It was a blast. My Son's a Marine with 2 early/hot tours to Irac. Anything for the U.S.A. and her Friends.........Mark
US ARMY 1973-1980. Korea, Ft.Belvoir,VA.,Wright Patterson AFB,OH., Ft. Carson, CO., Ft Ben, IN.
US Navy 71-74 Concord, Calif, Viet Nam
USAF '95-present. Nine tours in the desert and currently an MTI (AF Drill Sergeant)
Sorry!! Ft Dix, NJ--Minot, ND--Ft Leonardwood, MO--Camp Guernsey, WY--Camp Bullis, TX--Presently @ Lackland AFB, TX.
USAF 1980 - 1984 Really didn't go any where Barksdale AFB La. 95 miles from home.
Thanks for that, and thanks from me to all you other vets.....US Army 89-94 (Desert Shield/Desert Storm).
-Rob
USMC Camp Pendleton, CA, Camp Lejuenne NC. Just missed the first Iraq war. Thanks to all have served!
U.S. Army, 4th Infantry. Served in Iraq in 2003
You're welcome, Possumtrot. US Army, 71-74, RVN & Ft. Hood.
1990-1994 Army Reserve at FT Detrick MD 94-97 FT Bliss TX, 97-01 FT Richardson AK, 01-04 FT Riley, 04-05 Korea, 05-06 Iraq, 06-07 FT Huachuca, and Back to Riley. In a nut shell.
Thanks to all!! USARMY 76-79 Fort Knox-Fort Riley Big Red 1
Denny
Navy, 93-97.
Thanks all! US Navy 81-85. USS Wainwright CG-28. Charleston S.C. 2 Med Cruises. One loooonnnnggg stint at GITMO.
Nonose we spent days off the coast of Beirut patroling, standing by in case you boys needed support.
Thanks to all vets and especially thanks to their families who have to sit and wait, worry and wonder and PRAY for their safety.
USMC 67 - 69, Viet Nam
Jon Stewart
Semper Fi
Thanks to all vet past and present US Army '62-'67 1st Cav.Korea, Viet Nam, White Sands Missile Range, and many TDY tours. Roger
I put your fireworks pic together as one
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and I used to be in as well - I'm the tall one
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U.S. Army Infantry 80'-90'
Thanks to all our servicemen & women i salute all of you and especially my oldest son who just completed his basic training in the USCG...
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USN 73-77.And another 6 years USGG-R.
Thanks to all my fellow Vets. :thumbsup:
Army,Jan-67,Dec-69, Ft Jackson, Ft Gordon, Ft Rucker, Ft Knox, Coleman Barracks-Mannheim Germany. I was a helicopter crew chief in the states, worked in helicopter field maintenance in Germany.
Strange thing, as I picked up my orders and 201 file in 68 headed to Germany I could see my orders to RVN in the "in" box on the desk of the personnel officer. The orders didn't follow me to Germany for some reason.
USMC 1966-1971 Viet Nam, Bucharest, Romania, Munich, Germany and various short stays here and there Stateside.
US Air Force 1976-1982. Keesler AFB, MS. Homestead AFB, Fla. Three years on Okinawa, Japan, Kadena AB, working Avionics on F-15's.
U.S. Army 1972-1976. Ft. Knox, Ft Sam Houston, 30th Field Hospital Augsburg Germany.
Thank you all!
Dennis
U.S. Army Airborne Ranger 1991-1996 Ft. Knox, Fort Benning, Fort Lewis
Thank you to all that have served and those serving, come home safe.
Us Army 71-73
USMC 75-78
USN, 64-68, USS Kennebec AO36, 24 months in the South China Sea and Viet Nam.
To all the troops in harms way in Iraq and Afghanastan, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families who wait for your safe return.
Thanks to all. USAF 1998-2002.
USMC 2nd RECON Battalion,2nd Mar.Div. 1978-1984
Semper Fi
U.S ARMY INFANTRY 1993-Present.
Ft. Benning, Ft. Bragg, Baumholder Germany, England, Poland, Kuwait 2x's, Kaiserslaughtern Germany, Bulgaria, Iraq....that's all I think.
USMC 95-99 (Marine Barracks, Camp David, 29 Palms, Okinawa) Semper Fi!
United States Air Force 1992-1994
Law Enforcement, K-9 Handler.
-Brian
www.bowyersjournal.com (http://www.bowyersjournal.com)
Thank You to all my brothers. I see a few of us ate the same dirt.
Thomas C. Mosher
USMC 1965-1968
Viet Nam 1966-1967, India 3/3/3, CAP Hotel 8
My call sign tells what I did for 20 mounths in the Nam.
Semper Fi
USAF 1967-1990 Two tours Viet-Nam, Rest of the time with SAC and the Magnificent B-52.
USMC 1965-1968. Viet Nam 67-68. HMM-363, UH-34 Dogs, Crewchief/Gunner. Like M60gunner, I learned to play a tune or two on the M60. From Phu Bai north. Semper Fi.
USAF 1982-90. F.E Warren AFB,WY. Kadena AB, Okinawa.
US Army, 41st Infantry 1969-1971
'70-72 U.S. Army infantry-Nam
'73-'79 USN Reserves-minesweeper
To all those who have and are serving, thanks!
My dad served in the Black Watch and was a sharpshooter.My uncle Frank did his time with my dad in the Watch and was a demo expert.CAN YOU SAY BOOM.
They were just good Canadain men doing what was asked of them.
I come from Canada,If you have not figured that out yet and I have no time for those weak spined people who enjoy freedom yet do not support our troops in there everyday battle to keep
us free
I'm 40 years old and kids half my age are losing there lifes everyday to give me the right to speak my mind.
Get on board or get out of the country
A PROUD SON OF CANADA :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
US Army 1988-1992
U.S. NAVY '76 - '83
U.S.S. Roanoke AOR-7
U.S.S. Milwaulkee AOR-2
2 Years in the Brigg :eek: (as a Guard ;) :D )
Thanks to all who have served.... Past and present.
YB
US Army 1992-1998 Ft.Jackson, Fort Gordon, Ft Detrick, Aberdean (reserves 98-00)
Thanks all that have served.
USMC 86-92
Camp Lejune
Okinawa
Mt Fuji
Korea
Last 4 1/2 years with 1st Bn 11th Marines at Camp Pendleton, 29 Palms, and Desert Shied/Storm.
QuoteOriginally posted by DSARGE.308:
Sorry!! Ft Dix, NJ--Minot, ND--Ft Leonardwood, MO--Camp Guernsey, WY--Camp Bullis, TX--Presently @ Lackland AFB, TX.
You sound like a fellow AF Cop.
I've been a USAF Security Policeman/Security Forces from 1984 to present. Currently stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina till I retire at 24 years of service this time next year.
My son leaves for USAF basic in October. Another generation carrying on the tradition. Maybe DSARGE.308 will be his TI?
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USMC '66 to '69. 2 tours in NAM. I-Corps Quang Tri Provence. (1 click from the "Z"). As one of the other member stated, some of us did eat the same dirt and did allot of :pray: .
SEMPER FI
Ray......aka, hawgslayer
Thanks to all!!!
US Army 86-90
Ft Bragg, NC 82nd Abn Div
Camp Stanton Korea 2nd Inf Div
Ft Drum, NY 10th MTN Div
USMC 90-96
MCAS BEaufort, SC 2nd MAW
AM EMB Bonn. Germany
AM EMB Monrovia, Liberia
AM EMB Bamako, Mali
Where would we be and what would we do, if it weren`t for the sacrifice made by our service men and women.
My children are sleeping, right now , safe and sound.
They have little to no idea how awful much of the world is.
I know there is only one reason that this is so.
It is the sacrifice, that our service men and women have made.
All I can say is, THANK YOU. I do not take my freedom for granted.
US Army, 77 - 81; Ft. Benning and Aschaffenburg, Germany with the 3ID/1-4th Inf.
USS Nimitz: USS Eisenhower (Plank Owner); Naval Air Station - Norfolk; USS Emory S. Land; Panama City, Flordia; Huntsville, Alabama; Indian Head, Maryland; USS L.Y. Spear; WpnSta Yorktown, VA.; USS Eishenhower.
Retired '94
David
WTCS (SW/DV)
US Army 1988-1994, Seaira Army depot Nothern CA, Augsburg Germeny, Ft Hood TX. GITMO Cuba.
Should of stayed.
Sgt Drumm Donald H.
It's a pleasure to see how much the attitude toward our service members has changed since I enlisted in the Army in 1970. I am very proud of our young men and women who are serving in our military. Keep up the good work.
US Army 1970-73
Ft. Dix, NJ
Ft. Devans, MA
RVN - Quang Tri to DMZ (71-72)
Ft. Hood, TX
RVN - because I hated Ft. Hood (72-Ceasefire in 73)
Thailand
hawgslayer - I'm willing to bet you and I ate the same dirt on A-4 only we were a couple of years apart.
QuoteOriginally posted by dudley152:
It's a pleasure to see how much the attitude toward our service members has changed since I enlisted in the Army in 1970. I am very proud of our young men and women who are serving in our military. Keep up the good work.
Because,
Poor is the nation that has no heros.
Shameful is the nation that having them forgets.
God Bless and Thank you all!!
I was one of the waiters, and watchers out to sea. San Diego, Hawaii, Kamakura, Carlisle Barracks, Pentagon, Palos Verdes, San Diego, Norfolk, Pentagon, and then Dad retired to his second career. How glad were the days when the ship hove fuzzily, grayly into view, and we were all dressed up and waiting, all those times. My mother's face, I still see her, anxious, and joyful at the pier.
I cannot see a uniform without remembering, feeling the pride, and honoring the American wearing it for their selfless deeds. I know how their families feel, how it is for the one parent to raise the children while waiting for the homecoming. I can only guess, from what I have heard and seen, what the person deployed goes through. It can't be for the money!
God bless you, I am proud of you, and deeply grateful. Doing what you do every day lets me do what I do every day. The APO-addressed letters and parcels that pass through my hands get a mental prayer attached to each, silent postage gladly paid!
Kathy~the mailma'am. :notworthy:
My Dad: USMC 1956-1960 USN 1960-1975 Retired ATCS
My Brother: USN Seabee 1979-1999 Retired CM1
Me: USN Seabee 1981-2003 Retired EAC
Not bragging, just felt like sharing since I was in such good company with you folks. Some of the happiest times of life and some of the saddest were spent serving. Not a day goes by that I don't think of the folks in conflict.
Brian
US Army 84-87 did all my traning in Ft. Knox and went to west Germany 3ID. Self propelled Field Artillery System Mechanic.
Dang Killdeer,
Ya made my glasses fog up after I read what ya wrote... :thumbsup:
Still waiting for this thread to be closed - because I can't see what it would have to do with TRAD ARCHERY ...?!?
Falk
German Special Forces Recon. Unit
"FSK 100", Occulus Exercitus!
... parachuting and ass ******* ... 1988-89 ...
WORST time of my life!
Falk,
No disrespect intended, but there are some things about what we hold dear in the USA that we don't expect others to understand. Consequently, the moderators are giving a little leeway here, I suspect.
If it weren't for our men and women in uniform protecting our freedoms, we wouldn't be able to hunt with our bows, either.
Thanks to all who have served and who continue to protect our liberties.
USArmy 99-07 Operation Iraqi Freedom 04-05 Started off as water purification then moved on to mounted infantry for the last 7 months on tour. That was fun. Miss my time with my buddies, everything else, not so much