Thread: MILITARY

20+ years behind and i still do not know what i'm going to be when i grow up.

I was about 10 years in the army , first at Coastal Jaegers, then at Guards Jaegers and finally i got a transfer into my home town regiment. Through the years i've been in command in Lebanon, former Yugoslavia and Tschad.

Then my regiment got redeployed away from my home town so i asked and got a transfer in the navy with my ranks. Started at Naval Infantry (ATU), then spent few years at the Naval Academy and studied to be a ship engine technician. Now i serve at the ship at engine team.
Our rank system is a bit different than in U.S but i am sergeant master class.

Still 9 years to go before retirement and freedom

U.S. Air Force 1980-2005, Aircrew Life Support Specialist (about the same job as the original poster but different branch. Assignments included:

Mountain Home, ID
Clark AB, Philippines
Eielson AFB, Alaska
NAS Keflavik Iceland
Fairchild AFB, Washington
Dyess AFB, Texas

Loved every damn second of it. Everything I ever thought about civilians and their attitudes about work, etc. turns out to be not far off the mark. Nearly five years into retirement, I think I'm adjusting but I still miss the environment of the military, the comradery and the ability to trust that if someone says it will be done or they will be there, that it's so.

Thanks guys Great reading

KEEP EM' COMMING

I spent 26 years total between the United States Marine Corps, The Army National Guard. and The Army Reserve. My USMC and USANG I was in Avation Fixed and Rotory Winged Air Craft from Hueys to Black Hawks and EA-6B, AV-8A,C,B models and in The USAR I became a Truck Mech. because they had no Avation Units in My area anyway I loved every second of it and would have never left it but it's for younger Men and Women how I did my time it's there turn now my oldest son just Enlisted in The United States Marine Corps that was one of the proudest days of my life he's taken the torch and running with it

I spent two years active duty in the navy during the Vietnam war on board a Guided Missile Destroyer Escort. I was an E-4 radarman.

Army 1970-1973. Medic.

Lynn

14 years US Army Reserve. Active duty Desert Shield/Storm. Light wheeled vehicle mechanic in a Field Hospital supporting both coalition forces and an EPW camp.

Navy Submarine Service 1988 - 1997. MM1(SS)-ELT nuclear. Served on the USS M.G. Vallejo SSBN 658 and then later an instructor at the nuclear prototype in upstate NY.

I was honourably released as a Corporal, Medical Assistant in '95 from 28 Med Coy.

Militi Succurrimus.

I was in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1969. Like the old song says, "I joined the Navy to see the world," and in those four years I saw plenty of it as an E-5 photo-journalist. During those years I visited nearly every South American country during Operation UNITAS; did a tour of the antarctic with Operation Deep Freeze, and finished with a Mediterranean cruise aboard the USS Forrestal. I use the Deep Freeze logo as my avatar.

Regards - Walt