Thread: Military Service

Army 85-92 E-6/SSG 1st Cav stop loss two years for the sandbox storm.... FTA I'm never going back.......
oops, Army 07=present O-3e/Cpt Prob getting out soon. Obamanomics is driving me and all real soldiers crazy.
Now they are begging me to stay....

Thanks guys. I am in good company!

79 -83,,USMC, Sergeant upon release, 2nd FSSG, ELMACO
Electronic Technician in Cryptographic equipment repair.
Micro miniature electronic repair, certified down to 7 levels.

I do believe I still hold the record in my company for the most number of months in confinement, issued to a Marine for punitive discipline
&
the highest amount of fines paid to the Marine Corps, by one Marine, for their time spent on rehabilitating me (getting my mind right).

navy corpsman,nam 66/67 ran a morge on a hospital ship,most came in a 20 gal. bucket,bits and pces, some teeth,dawg tags were always helpfull.
IDed um,froze the bits,shipped them back home I dream about that shit every night,I hate war.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

79 -83,,USMC, Sergeant upon release, 2nd FSSG, ELMACO
Electronic Technician in Cryptographic equipment repair.
Micro miniature electronic repair, certified down to 7 levels.
I do believe I still hold the record in my company for the most number of months in confinement, issued to a Marine for punitive discipline&the highest amount of fines paid to the Marine Corps, by one Marine, for their time spent on rehabilitating me (getting my mind right).

Thanks for the memories.
Wonderful! You would have fit right in with many of us! Crypto was my final bag. I remember one of the Marines we had in basic electronics school that just had to plug in any cord he saw loose. Well, a big oil filled bathtub capacitor makes a really smokey big bang. ( we had set it in a loosely covered big MK 10 shitcan so the shrapnel wouldn't hit any thing of value)..almost ended with us in the brig but the ossifer in charge had a sense of humor..

In Japan, a couple of us spent a lot of our spare time at the base armory helping the Armory NCO use up all his allotted ammo in every weapon they had that could be fired indoors and then occasionally out to the Rifle range for the others. He got me a marksman badge as a joke and then said it was not a joke! Had been squirrel and upland game hunting most of my misspent youth

Was always fun in Yokosuka going out on a repair call to any group needing Crypto service at any time day or night. Often there was only the two of us walking from our duty vehicle with our sealed and locked Zero case of parts between us and our .45's loaded and locked, one up the spout, and the flap in the holster behind the grip. That really angered the young Marines on Base Security detail who tried to harass us. Long story, The base commander settled it and we went onward to fix the equipment.

A good friend was a Marine and he, when in Yokosuka on rotation, and another Navy buddy and I made the rounds in town. We had fun because we would all back up to the bar when a fight started and protect the mirrors and glass ware. Blacky was once on Canadian sticks from a training accident and used the sticks quite effectively, to keep idiots at bay and the bar clear.

Not all was fun but I am fortunate to remember the funny stuff. That makes it easy to forget the rest.
My heart goes out to those that had no funny stuff.
~Richard

Greece has a compulsory service of 8-12 months for all male citizens. It used to be 18 months or even more.
I have served for 18 months (1999-2000) as a private in Army Signals, specialized in NATO standards multi channel transmission systems operation.

Ist infantry division, 1989 thu 91, specialist, worked on apache and cobras during desert storm.

My biggest regret in all of my life, and still ahead of smoking cigarettes, and not going to Georgetown when I had the chance. I should have served. I damn myself every time I think of it. I'm far from a crumpled mess for not doing it. But I know that the day when I stand before the Lord I'll weep with regret for it. God bless everyone of you.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

79 -83,,USMC, Sergeant upon release, 2nd FSSG, ELMACO
Electronic Technician in Cryptographic equipment repair.
Micro miniature electronic repair, certified down to 7 levels.

I do believe I still hold the record in my company for the most number of months in confinement, issued to a Marine for punitive discipline
&
the highest amount of fines paid to the Marine Corps, by one Marine, for their time spent on rehabilitating me (getting my mind right).

Well...they just didn't have that avatar to look at, otherwise they would've probably just said "It's okay son,whatever's troublin ya we'll just forget the whole thing okay ".

Originally Posted by HirIau

79 -83,,USMC, Sergeanand pon release, 2nd FSSG, ELMACO
Electronic Technician in Cryptographic equipment repair.
Micro miniature electronic repair, certified down to 7 levels.

I do believe I still hold the record in my company for the most number of months in confinement, issued to a Marine for punitive discipline
&
the highest amount of fines paid to the Marine Corps, by one Marine, for their time spent on rehabilitating me (getting my mind right).

Hey john, have you thought about designing razor scales for novices that have sensors that measure the amount of pressure being applied to the blade, they could have recorded messages like "oh your gonna hurt later" or "your face is gonna be sexy" or "go directly to hospital for a skin graft". The electronics in those would need to be fairly mini, and I think you could make money.