Roll Call - DU Vets time to muster! Post em if you got em

[MrScorpio]

USAF/1983-2003
TSgt(Ret)
Texas/Korea/Pentagon/Germany/Virginia

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. That's cool MrS. Didn't know that.

what did you fly ?

[MrScorpio]

3. I flew a desk

Very few of us in the Air Force got to fly planes.

[Catch22Dem]

6. If you see stripes, there's no flying.

Take it from someone with a few stripes.

Now, that only means enlisted people can't be behind the controls, but enlisted people CAN have many different flying jobs. For example, the person who flies the big refueling boom into the recepticle on another aircraft hooking up to a tanker plane, is an enlisted person. You also have loadmasters who get the pallets of equipment onto transport planes, and fly with them.

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. Ok I understand. Thanks

:hi:

[Catch22Dem]

12. No problem at all...

A lot of people I run into don't realize that only officer fly. I always said, if I was single when I was in the Air Force, I would have wanted to be a loadmaster.

Think about it: You get to go all over the world. I mean, your ass is flying something like 250+ days out of the year. Talk about seeing some incredible sights. Combat? No sir, the closest you'd get to combat is flying in and droping off some cargo or troops (or picking them up) and then you're outta there. Man, that would have been cool.

I didn't have to worry about combat when I was in. Clinton was president and we were pretty much at peace with the entire planet...for the most part. Man, those were different times, eh?

Oh well, I was married back then though, so I just fixed F-15 avionics parts. That was a damn cool job too. :)

I got to ride in an F-15 once. One of the most incredible experiences of my life.

[matcom]

2. no pic handy but US Army 1987-1991 19kilo

M1A1 tanker

[GalleryGod]

7. We trusted you with that hardware!

:yourock: I would've never in my life..........:applause:

You know what I mean:blush:

[Catch22Dem]

11. Matcom, everytime I see that, the irony cracks me up

You've had the peace sign avatar for quite a while, and every time I see the peace sign next to "M1A1 Tanker" I get a chuckle. :rofl: It's beautiful irony.

[landdaddy]

4. US Army

RA Sgt. E-5.
Fort Leonard Wood, MO. '68
Viet Nam '68/69
Fort Bragg, NC. '69
Viet Nam '70

2nd from the left.

[BikeWriter]

5. Air Force duty stations:

Lackland, AFB TX. 1965
Sheppard AFB TX. 1965-66
Ent AFB Colorado 1966-67
Pleiku AFB, Republic of VietNam 1967-68
Sparrevohn, AFS, Alaska 1968-69

[two gun sid]

8. USNavy 1981-87

threw my pictures away.

[Catch22Dem]

10. USAF 1992 - 2000

You know what, I don't have a single picture scanned (and we didn't have a digital camera back then.)

F-15 Avionics Test Station Component Repair Specialist
451X4A then 2A0X1A
1993 - Lackland AFB, TX
1993 - Lowry AFB, CO
1993-1996 - Langley AFB, VA
1996-2000 - Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan

Those were truly the best years of my life. Not to say anything about my life now, because it's great, but those years are very, very special to me.

[Tsiyu]

13. Cool Thread

Thank you to all of you ( and you are all very attractive in your BDUs and dress uniforms).

:salute:

Edited to add: I'm not a Vet, but I did birth one.

He's out but was a Ranger with the 3/75th.

Don't wanna say much more'n that about his biz....

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. OK

Trying to look like Billy Badass.




Me out doing X-Treme! stuff before X-Treme! was cool.

[rppper]

15. U.S. Navy, submarines, "88 thru "97........

4 boats and a tender.....

USS James K. Polk SSBN 645 "jimmy k"
USS Billfish SSN 676 "billy-boat"
USS Woodrow Wilson SSN 624 "Wood-fish"
USS Hunley AS 31 "The Funley"
PCU/USS Tucson SSN 770 "The Tuck-sun"

i am the orange dot on the far right...taken during the ships alpha sea trials....flank bell on the surface...YEEEEE HAWWWW!!!



I miss the friends, the traveling.....the navy had a very profound effect on my outlook on life. the submarine force is the best ride in the navy, bar none.....absolutely the most professional and well trained service in the navy.

[qnr]

16. USCG

1977-1992
Montauk, NY - Petaluma, CA - Shetland Isles, Scotland - Sellia Marina, Italy - Sylt, Germany - Estartit, Spain - Kargabarun, Turkey - Lampedusa, Italy - - USCGC Polar Star (2x), USCGC Evergreen, USCGC Glacier, Juneau, AK and others

Note that some of those were part of my regular inspection/training tours while I was stationed in Italy.

All of my photographs were stolen....

[lpbk2713]

17. US Navy 1965 - 69.

Sort of like the Air Force guys above, I was in the Navy for four years and never was on a ship. I was in the aviation part of the Navy. The squadron I was in flew C-118 and C-130 aircraft around the Mediterranean and they were too big to go on aircraft carriers, so I was on dry land the whole time. Spent most of my enlistment, around three years, in Rota, Spain. I'd like to go back there some time. Left there as an E-5 (AK-2).

[oneighty]

18. U.S. Navy

1951-1955 and 1956-1960

Korea Mine Sweeper/Mine Disposal Team. Spring/summer 1952

Yokosuka Japan 52-55

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit Two Charleston, S.C. 57-60

Mineman E-5. Explosive/Nuclear Ordnance Disposal. Deep Sea Diver Underwater Swimmer.

Fun fun

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[bertha katzenengel]

19. You folks all rock.

I didn't serve. Chances are I couldn't have due to health things, but I never even realized it was an option for me. I often wish I had known, had signed up and been able to serve.

[MrScorpio]

20. Kicking for the night time

:kick:

[qnr]

21. Funny, I was thinking of doing that not 120 seconds ago n/t

[Mr. McD]

22. US Army 1968 -1971

RVN Aug 1969 - Apr 1971

[jmowreader]

23. US Army 1982-1994

Training bases: Fort Dix, NJ; Fort Devens, MA; Goodfellow AFB, TX; Bad Toelz, GE
Stateside assignments: Fort Campbell, KY; Fort Hood, TX; Fort Drum, NY
Overseas assignments: Seoul, Korea; Berlin, Germany

Signal Security Specialist (1982-1985)
Signals Intelligence Analyst (1985-1994)

[YankeyMCC]

24. USAF/ 1992-1997

Capt
IRR (Individual Ready Reserve)
TX/MI/IL/VA

[MrScorpio]

25. Kick for Sunday

:kick: