curious about the number of vets on this board

[flying rabbit]

SGT flying Rabbit, ARMY last duty station 64th FSB ft Carson, CO 2001
Roll call people
Edited to add that I was a wrench

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sp4 Jackpine

2/5 Cav, 1st Cav Division, Vietnam 1967-8. Grunt.

[stompk]

12. CPL Stompk. US Army Reserve

Currently Peterson AFB (Space). till Sep, then Iraq.

Prior US Navy. 1980's.

[MidwestTransplant]

23. Welcome to DU. Nice first post. Good luck in Iraq.

Hopefully you will be able to post from there.

[newyawker99]

25. Hi stompk!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Kajsa]

41. Welcome to DU, stompk.

:hi:

[Dinger]

46. Welcome To DU CPLStompk!

Good luck in Iraq. I'll be thinking about you.

[babylonsister]

48. Welcome, stompk! We'd really like to help you to stay home,

ya know? Stay safe and keep us posted. :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

62. Keep your head down

and welcome to DU

Don't be a hero

[July]

92. Welcome. I wish you a safe return. nt

[TahitiNut]

2. SP5, USARV HQ at Long Binh, 74F20, Jan-Nov 1969

:patriot:

March-June 1968 at Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, MO and June-December 1968 at Fort Sam Houston, TX.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TahitiNut/372

[AllegroRondo]

3. SSG AllegroRondo, US Army

US Army, last duty station Ft Hood Texas, 1st Cavalry Division.

[atreides1]

4. US Army 1978-1991

SGT
Last Duty Assignment:HMSC 725th Maintenance Bn, 25th Inf Div(Light), Schofield Barracks, HI 1987-1991
Attached to HQ 426th S&S Bn, 101st Abn Div(Air Assault), Operation Desert Storm 1991

[Skittles]

5. SGT Skittles reporting; USAF '75-'79

yes INDEED :hi:

[Kurovski]

6. K&R!

Thanks to all for their service.

Welcome to DU, flying rabbit!

[Buck Laser]

7. PFmfC Groves, Army, 1953-56

Failed soldier.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. L/Cpl Marine Crotch - H&MS-15, MCAS El Toro '61-'65.

4 years of unmitigated boredom and stupidity provided by "The Few The Proud" who "Build Men" and indulge in other equally ridiculous mythology.

But, I did spend a very pleasant 10 1/2 months in Japan (when I was off-duty) and not so pleasant 6 1/2 weeks in Taiwan.

Went in an somewhat liberal adolescent and emerged a budding anti-military socialist with Anarchistic tendencies - now fulfilled.

If I had it to do over again..I wouldn't.

[flying rabbit]

9. At least you are honest n/t

[Uncle Joe]

13. My experience was the opposite, the best food was in Taiwan

they had some killer Mongolian Barbecue!

Of Japan the only part I saw was cold weather training on Mt. Fuji, I made some beautiful pictures but that was the most miserable conditions, I've ever experienced, all snow, then mud, then volcanic dust.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. We had to play at being grunts. Living in tents well decorated with mosquitoes and flies.

We Air-Wing pogues were not accustomed to living in the dirt and eating garbage. And, for the first couple of weeks we had to buy (or, trade for anything we could steal) something called Plum Brandy made by the locals. It was analyzed by the medics after the rash of severe cases of the shits and the inability to speak the next day. One of the more interesting ingredients was kerosene. They did a search through the tents one day and found over 200 bottles of the stuff in the first 8 tents and gave up. They put armed guards on the C-Rations which were popular bartering items for the booze and women the locals brought to us in the rice paddies. Finally they just gave us free beer. But, our squadron, was proud to have achieved the number one status of "Most cases of clap in the 1st Marine Air Wing" and, "Most discipline levied". Our born-again CO was not pleased.

I used to make money off Cold Weather Training. As a training NCO I got to assign pilots to Bridgeport, CA, for their stint of misery. Some of them were generous in their contributions to avoid being selected. Not to mention their creative, and heart-rending, reasons to escape the snow.

[Uncle Joe]

26. On Mt. Fuji,

we didn't have to worry about the clap, because other than two very old Japanese Women working a little hamburger joint, there weren't any, although about a third of the guys did come down with the crabs.

I have to leave now, have a good weekend.

[Shipwack]

10. ET1(SS) Shipwrack

1986 - 2006
A couple of subs (boomers aka missile subs), couple of shore stations, 6 pleasant months in Bahrain doing support for the 5th Fleet.

[onethatcares]

11. spec 4, USARAL 1972-1975 RA

I guess they needed me there

[KOBUK]

14. United States Navy 1961 - 1965

USS Buck DD-761 E-5
Viet-Nam ribbon

[madokie]

15. USNAF Cam Rahn Bay VN june '69 - oct '70, Postal Clerk

[TexasProgresive]

16. Served in BabyBitch's Champaign unit

The 147th at Ellington AFB in the Texas Air National Guard. If you want to know how it was for people that were not PoppyBitch's son then PM me. BTW I served at the same time that ToyBoy was supposed to serve.

[Sapere aude]

17. SP4 US Army Saigon, Long Bihn and places unknown Vietnam 1967 & 1968

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. SP5 Bozo here, Sir! VII Corps REMF

Drafted by Prez LBJ.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. USN through all of the 90s and some of the 80s.

[Tikki]

20. SP4...Fort Polk Louisiana..1968-1970...Finance Specialist...payroll.

Mr. Tikki

[Toots]

70. I was at "Little Vietnam" Jan and Feb of '68 so maybe you gave me money

:thumbsup:

[Sapere aude]

21. That question comes up every year, usually around Veterans Day

There are quite a number here

[flying rabbit]

34. Yes, I am seeing that

Every day is Veteran's day

[RushIsRot]

22. US Army -- 1963-1966

SP-5

[Ezlivin]

27. IC2(SS) - USS Skate

Stationed at Pearl Harbor and loved it! (Way better than Groton, CT during the winter.)

My wife is a veteran, too. Do I get extra points? If so, my Dad, my mother and two of my uncles and a bunch of my cousins are veterans.

http://www.ssn578.com/

[InternalDialogue]

28. Kick!

Thank you all, for your service.

:kick:

[dapper]

29. Semper Fi

[Cirque du So-What]

30. US Navy & USNR (SelRes & IRR) 1973-1993

Retired as Sonar Technician 1st Class (E-6).

Me (circled) at age 19 with some shipmates in Olongapo City, The Philippines, ca. 1974, living life with a big 'L' (and afterward suffering pain with a big 'P').

[flying rabbit]

33. lol n/t

[B Calm]

39. That dude kissing the prostitute reminds me of some of our liberty

calls in the med, cracks me up!

[Cirque du So-What]

43. Prostitute?

She told me she was with Welcome Wagon!

[B Calm]

45. Oh no.. don't tell me you kissed her too!! ha ha

[Cirque du So-What]

47. I consider myself fortunate

I never contracted any dread disease during my visit to the P.I. Scuttlebutt has it on good authority, however, that at least a couple of my shipmates contracted a seriously resistant strain of gonorrhea, referred to informally as the bubonic clap.

[Stinky The Clown]

31. SK2 when Moby Dick was a minnow

USS Pandemus, ARL 15
USS Adroit, MSO 509



Wooden ships and iron men (koff ... wheeze)

[Sparkly]

36. Picture of Stinky in the Navy

Edit-- Picture of me when Stinky was in the Navy:

[babylonsister]

49. And THAT'S what wives are for!

:rofl: And you were a cute lil tot yourself!

[B Calm]

42. MSO = Mine Sweeper??

Looks small enough.. I bet you loved rough seas!

[Stinky The Clown]

51. Yup .... MSO = Minesweeper Ocean

Not to be confused with MSC = Minesweeper Coastal

[B Calm]

55. I always wondered what it would be like making a cruise

on a small mine sweeper. They use to cross the Atlantic with us on Med cruises. We would be riding smooth on the Cruiser and those little mine sweepers would be bouncing around like a bobber with a huge catfish tied under it..

[jonnyblitz]

91. I was an SK1. I was on USS Coral Sea, Uss Missouri and USS

LaSalle for ships. I had two shore duties also.

[kestrel91316]

32. kestrel91316. DVM, Colorado State University, 1982

Oh, wait.......

Nevermind.

(hey, does THIS count? i was an AF brat.)

[flying rabbit]

35. You

are fighting the war on pet food. The Corp-dont-care-about-the-animal-kind.
Thanks
edited because I can

[lovelaureng]

37. SPC4, Regular Army, 183rd Maint. Co., a combat support company.

I was a 29S - Controlled Cryptographic Item Repairer.

[B Calm]

38. US Navy 69-75 USS Albany CG 10 - USS Yosemite AD 19

Served with David Eisenhower on the Albany during the time his father in law Richard Nixon was president. The song "Fortunate Son" was in honor of David Eisenhower before he enlisted.

[kiranon]

40. 1Lt. Army Transportation Corps 1972-74

[lpbk2713]

44. USN 65 - 69

Airdale.

[leeroysphitz]

50. Spc4 Sphits 319th Military Intelligence Battalion (Airborne) Ft. Bragg N.C.

1989-92

[PhilipShore]

52. My cousin was a professor at West Point

I never met him, but; last time I heard he left West Point, and recently got a law degree.

[sanskritwarrior]

53. Me

SFC sanskrit warrior Current duty station 5th SBCT (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 25th Infantry Division Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Deploying to Iraq in late 2007. Current MOS 11B, previous MOS 96B Intel analyst, currently working in Brigade S-2 shop.

[pscot]

54. Pvt(E-2) ret. pscot

Guarding the Fulda gap so you wouldn't have to. (1962-65).

[Tinksrival]

56. Do Army wives count?

Signal Corp.

[Skittles]

78. DAMN STRAIGHT YOU COUNT

please check my post #77

[tandot]

57. Thank you so much for your service and sacrifice.

:hi:

[TexasLinda]

58. USAF 1971-1992

Both enlisted and officer. Last career field was Space Operations. Spent a lot of time in Colorado Springs.

[Jackeen]

59. Armour, here.

10 years in uniform, one tour in Iraq. Still in.

[nadinbrzezinski]

64. Welcome to DU

with the brits I take it from the spelling

and keep your head down

:-)

[magellan]

60. Seaman Magellan, USN 80-83

Ops Specialist. We do it in the dark.

[nadinbrzezinski]

61. Navy wife

hubby retired as a USN Chief, submariner

(and I served under a different flag for ten years)

[Skittles]

77. you count, my sweet

it's always been a pet peeve of mine that military spouses and children get overlooked when the thank yous get passed around - it is incredible what they sacrifice - I know because my mum moved a slew of kids mutliple times over 20 years, including overseas. When those wives and kids say, I didn't serve but my husband/dad/mom did - well, you DID serve. Yes INDEED! :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

79. As I said I did as well

under somebody else's flag

That led to some interesting things during background for my hubby...

But I know exactly what you mean... moving was always a pain... and leaving friends and family behind was always a pain (even if we only did it as a married couple twice)

[puerco-bellies]

63. USN 1977-81

[alfredo]

65. Sp 5 alfredo Army, USASA last duty station

4th USASAFS Asmara Eritrea (was Ethiopia)

Read about us in "I Didn't Do it For You." Michela Wrong.

[unhappycamper]

66. SSGT unhappycamper

, Chu Lai, class of 67 ~ 68

, Cu Chi, class of 70 ~ 71

[TahitiNut]

81. Chu Lai? Eye-Corps? Life's a beach, huh?

(Then you die.) Welcome home, bro. :patriot:

Surfin' on the South China Sea. Hoo-rah.

[unhappycamper]

82. Oh yea.

In the time honored tradition of Murphy's law, a 17 truck S&P convoy loaded with 500 lb Mk-82s arrived late and was parked together in the airbase ammo dump. Charlie dropped a 122 into the middle of those puppies on the opening night of Tet.

The next day the beach was covered with burnt gunpowder as far as you could see.

[dkofos]

67. SGT Dkofos, USAF 1972-1976

Last duty station, Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Tx (Spy school)

Spent a year surrounded by water on Johnston Atoll (73-74)

[UTUSN]

68. Is it reveille again??!1 n/t

[Toots]

69. 227th Assault Helecopter 1st Cav --- Vietnam 3/68--12/69

:shrug:

[133724]

71. SP4 133724 WSARNG 1972-1978

[hack89]

72. US Navy 1982 - 2002 nt

[buddinganarchist]

73. Hannity would call you all a bunch of appeasers.

He's such a twink..lol

[Skittles]

76. Hannity is a warmongering chickenhawk bush whore

let's say it like it is, buddinganarchist!!! :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

80. Well lets get hannity a nice entry to Bootcamp

and then ship him off to Iraq...I'm sure that would change his perspective, damn chicken hawk!

[kwolf68]

74. My thoughts with all of you ...

You guys are the best and should never be taken for granted or LIED to.

(My pops did two tours in Vietnam flying choppers in the Army and was awarded a Silver Star and several other medals)

I never served, almost enlisted, but my dad WOULD NOT sign the papers (I was not yet 18) and he told me that it was my decision and that if I still wanted it when I was 18 I could go do it. For a career military man not being excited about me doing the same shows he cared more about me than me following in his legacy. Long of the story I wanted to play baseball and I couldn't do that in the military.

[BlueCollar]

75. Navy

1979-1983

[Ron Green]

83. SP5 Green, USA, 02May1966 - 01May1969

Disabled Army Vet

:patriot:

[SoCalifer]

84. U.S. Army 1984 - 1987

PFC: 11B Infantry: Last duty station - 2nd Battalion 2nd Infantry 9th Infantry Division Fort Lewis, WA

[Jonathan50]

85. USMC 69-71

LCPL
PVT
PFC

In that order.

I was excellent at my job, 2818

I was a shitbird garrison Marine and I have a strong antiauthoritarian streak.

[Thothmes]

86. US Navy, Apr 1965-June 1995

[Elwood P Dowd]

87. US Army draftee 1970-72

Went in as an E-1 and left as an E-5. Was lucky in that my entire two years was spent in the States. Some of us had to stay here in case the Viet Cong followed our troops back home. ;-)

[TwilightGardener]

88. Air Force wife here.

[maxrandb]

89. Navy Mustang Here!

23 years and counting. Just dodged an Individual Augmentation that would have sent me to Iraq for a year.

Started as an "E-nothing". Earned a commission thru the Limited Duty Officer Program.

We either need some new civilian leadership, or it's time for this "old salt" to request permission to go ashore for the last time.

Oh! Served on USS IOWA, USS CARTER HALL, USS ROSS, USS KEARSARGE, VFA-146, USS CARL VINSON and some shore duty, but that doesn't count.

[rexcat]

90. USAF - 1971-1975