Thread: Military Service

Active Duty US Army.

Currently 1LT serving as the DOL plans and ops chiff in US Army Garrison Schweinfurt, Germany.

Served 3 years enlisted in the 1/20th Group as a silent professional.

Pay and fun have an inverse relationship in the military.

Awww come on brother... the pay is decent and the fun is definately there to be had... you just have to find it... and not get caught, especially in Germany. Haven't made it to Schweinfurt yet, but being by Graf... well the CZ border is to close for me to ignore. Plenty of fun to be had there. And at reasonable price.

USAF MSgt Retired in 2005 after 25+ years on active duty. Two weeks out of high school at the tender age of 17 I started basic training. Aircrew Life Support (maintained survival equipment, parachutes, survival kits, and taught SERE). Spent most of my time in the Pacific from Alaska (NOT Elmendorf) to Korea, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. Two and a half years in Iceland and Stateside assignments in Washington state, Idaho, and Texas. Deployments Kosovo, Operation Enduring Freedom, Northern Watch and Southern Watch and more deployments to Team Spirit in Korea than I can count, let alone remember. I managed to stay in fighter squadrons most of my career (F-111's, F-4's, A-10's, F-16's and F-15's) worked for a rescue squadron in Iceland (HH-60's) then went to tankers (KC-135s) at Fairchild AFB and wound up my career at Dyess AFB, TX assigned to a B-1 unit. All in all it was a great adventure and to be honest I doubt I'm truly suited to do anything else for a living but seem to have successfully faked it for the last 8 years or so. If they ever started scraping the bottom of the barrel and hiring fat old men, I'd no doubt start all over again tomorrow morning (if they'd let me keep the epic stash.) No fool like an old fool, right?

Originally Posted by Ketsco101

Awww come on brother... the pay is decent and the fun is definately there to be had... you just have to find it... and not get caught, especially in Germany. Haven't made it to Schweinfurt yet, but being by Graf... well the CZ border is to close for me to ignore. Plenty of fun to be had there. And at reasonable price.

I think the fun for me ended when I came to the conventional side. I DO like the pay and the normality, but this isn't as personally rewarding as counter-narco was.

Soviet Army 1988-1990.
12 Infantry Division, separate air assault battalion, CMSgt.
Located in Mongolia. Since 1989 in the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Israeli Army, reservist 1997-2010, a month every year.
Veteran of the Second Lebanon War.

Galils Manah?

Short Galils - Glilons.

Galil.


Glilon.

Originally Posted by manah

Soviet Army 1988-1990.
12 Infantry Division, separate air assault battalion, CMSgt.
Located in Mongolia. Since 1989 in the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Israeli Army, reservist 1997-2010, a month every year.
Veteran of the Second Lebanon War.

חזק וברוך! וגם חג סוכות שמח!!

!!!חג שמח

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).

'Nother 2nd FSSG Jarhead, here. 3043, SupAdmin from '87-'91. Stayed deployed most of the time. Med discharged as E-3 ( I still say it should have been E-6 since I was an E-3 twice).