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Hello all vets, and thank you for your service.
4 years USN and Viet Nam Vet. 20 years USCG search and rescue, aids to navigation, ice breaking ops and Officer in Charge of two cutters. Mostly stationed in Alaska. Retired BMC (E-7)
 

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1984 - 1993 US ARMY MP. Seven Years in Germany. Deployed during operation Desert Shield/Storm with the 1st Armor Division, 501st MP company. Would not go back for any reason, and would not change a thing. Had a great time and loved shooting all the guns.
 

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Where are all the jarheads? I guess I am the first. 4 years USMC 77-81. Parris Island, Camp Lejeune, Futenma Airbase Okinawa, El Toro Airbase Calif. Look back fondly on those days.
I was at El Toro as well, last squadron to leave for Miramar. Semper Fi.
 
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6 years MEARNG as a 51B, (CBT)(HVY), 2 years active duty as a RATT operator in a Patriot Missle unit, then 14 more years in the same NG unit until I retired 6 months before the unit was activated to go to the 2nd Iraq war. Didn't do anything too crazy, deployed to Panama and Guatemala for AT, a couple trips to Camp Edwards on the cape and Gagetown Canada. A few civic projects during the years. building ball fields and press boxes. Quite a bit of time spent putting in minefields, barbed wire entanglements, building bridges and blowing up obstacles, and sometimes, the bridges we just built. Its all good training.

I enjoy telling my coworkers that their tax dollars were spent training me to be a potential terrorist. The FBI has my fingerprints. The training is there, the inclination, not so much.

In a year and half, I can start collecting my pension.

A little back story:

My father was in the Air Force, served in Thailand during the Vietnam war. The Air Force sent him to Madigan General hospital with a cough. Suspected he had TB, but the tests all came back negative. The Air Force lost his pay records during that time, he wasn't being paid so he went home and got a job to support his family and waited for his discharge to be filed. My brother and I went to the county fair and we used to visit the recruiting trailers to get posters and bumper stickers and the like. We would talk to the recruiters and gave them my father's info. My father really hated the Air Force, for some reason, and ended up joining the Army National Guard. He eventually got a technician job with the MeARNG, and then went AGR as a recruiter and retired at 55. His cough he caught in Thailand finally killed him at 73. Pulmonary Fibrosis it was called.

My father was my recruiter. He recruited me, my younger brother, his friend, and my sister. My younger brother got out after 10 years during the first gulf war. He just got married, his wife didn't want him going away. His enlistment was up, he was done. My sister married someone she worked with in the Guards. She had two kids and when her enlistment was up, she got out. Her husband did a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He went AGR and he/they are now retired, playing with their grandchildren. My youngest brother joined after my father retired. He was a typical idiot kid, went in for two years, got out on a general discharge and after a period of time, went back in. He's now doing very well, a couple years from retirement himself.

My younger brother's friend? He was kind of a dub, my father thought he was dumb as a rock, but according the ASVAB test, he was very bright. But, he was short, could barely walk straight, kinda shuffled along. My father was afraid he wouldn't pass the physical, but he did. My father thought he wouldn't make it through basic training, but he did, although he did call up crying and threatening to kill my father for making him go through this (He begged my father to let him join the Guards). We laughed. We'd already been though it. He made it through basic and AIT and went Active Guard and Reserve, was a training NCO, did a tour in Iraq after I had retired. He put my name in as someone who might want to come out of retirement to fill out unit rolls, without asking me, by the way. But the request was denied, thank you. Three people from our unit were killed during that year. There were images on the news with Eric carrying bodies out of the mess tent in Mosul that was blown up by terrorists. When he came back from Iraq, he wasn't quite the same person. He finally retired, something he talked about for almost 30 years, getting the free government money. He died at 55 of a massive heart attack, just about a year ago after being retired for 18 months. I still miss him.

I guess being a veteran is kind of ingrained in my family. Besides my father, I had another uncle in the Air Force and an Uncle in the Marines.
 
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Where are all the jarheads? I guess I am the first. 4 years USMC 77-81. Parris Island, Camp Lejeune, Futenma Airbase Okinawa, El Toro Airbase Calif. Look back fondly on those days.
Thanks for serving Marine. Okinawa must have been a blast.
 
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67-70 in the US ARMY, nuclear missile repair tech . I guess that makes me a Ranger expert because the ranger is a rocket . Vets all got each others back .
Haha, yep the Ranger is a rocket, especially with a tune. Thanks for serving!
 

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Thanks for serving Marine. Okinawa must have been a blast.
Okinawa was a blast. When I say I look back fondly on those days, I'm mostly talking about my 18 months on Okinawa. Followed closely by El Toro, which was a great place to be stationed.

What's your story? I see you live in Honolulu. You military/former/LEO? Just thankful to them?
 
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Okinawa was a blast. When I say I look back fondly on those days, I'm mostly talking about my 18 months on Okinawa. Followed closely by El Toro, which was a great place to be stationed.

What's your story? I see you live in Honolulu. You military/former/LEO? Just thankful to them?
Army Veteran, two tours OIF back to back. Got out after my eight year MSO to focus on family. Actually, just moved to Minnesota from Hawai’i this summer. Need to update my profile.
 
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6 years USN FT2 (FireControl Technician - Missile)
Yea, a 'bubblehead' :crazy:

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Thanks for serving! One of my best friends was a bubblehead, haha. He was a nuke, engineer. He and another good friend constantly go back and forth with the bubblehead and target jokes.
 

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Another Marine here, (E-5 Sgt) 2001-05 / 2007-08 (Recalled), MOS: 7051 Aircraft Rescue Firefighting
San Diego for Boot camp and then Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 29 Palms, Yuma AZ, Camp Korean Village Iraq (OEF)
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