Thread: Military Service

Active duty US Navy LT here. I've been a P-3C pilot for the past 4 years or so after spending two years getting my wings. A few deployments under my belt in that time. To some sandy places and others. Currently on shore duty flying the P-8A

8/71-6/76 USArmy Infantry SSG/E6 11C3HE 81mm/4.2" mortars, airmobile/mechanized

1/72-1/74 Fort Richardson, AK -- Co. E, 1st Bn, 60th Inf, 172nd Arctic Light-Infantry Brigade [Mortar Platoon, Gun Squad Leader]

2/74-12/75 USAIS, Fort Benning, GA -- Weapons Dept., Mortar Committee, FO Team [Instructor]

12/75-6/76 Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, W. Germany -- CSC, 2nd Bn, 13th Inf, 8th Infantry Division [Chief of Smoke]

84-89 Israeli Defense Forces Artillery PVT 155 towed howitzer

Here and there (active duty + reserves)

Originally Posted by Ricecold

Active duty US Navy LT here. I've been a P-3C pilot for the past 4 years or so after spending two years getting my wings. A few deployments under my belt in that time. To some sandy places and others. Currently on shore duty flying the P-8A

Aahh the P-3, the surface fleets best friend at times, seen many of them while I was on adak

Thanks for your service you guys !

I was lucky!
US Navy -1959- 1964. Got out 8 days before they decided Vietnam was a war. I graduated from Electronic Technician School and ended service as E-4 as ETR-3 (Radar specialty.) The school was on Treasure Island off the Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Another year would have given me the rate E-5.

I had the great joy for about 2 years of a couple weeks at a time in Pearl Harbor or Midway to refit and the rest of the time bounced around the North Pacific on a Barrier Pacific Radar Picket ship. Up to 90 days at sea. USS SAVAGE DER386 a converted destroyer escort. Ask me if I know about Adak and Kiska. They sometimes showed up on our radar but were never in sight. Occasional P2V, P3Cs but usually WV3s flew over, we also served duty as plane guard for transpacific flights from the US to Asia.. Found a retired WV pilot here in town.
uss savage de der386
Got lucky, more schooling and posted shore duty to Submarine ComSubPac at Yokosuka Japan. At least this time the ships were designed to be under water, the Little picket DER wasn't but still spent time there. Think "Most Dangerous Catch, type weather!"

Service was a good thing for me, I received good schooling and there was extra time which allowed me to settle down and be older when meeting the real world and the "normal" people in it.

Do it again..at that age..YES
Thanks also to the rest of you guys especially to those that had the hard and really dangerous jobs.
Sincerely
~Richard Penney

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).

U.S. Air Force
Security Police
1987-1994

90-92 US Army 8/8 Field Artillery Unit 2nd ID. Camp Stanely Korea.