Attn: Veterans

[Gunny]

BRANCH: USN

DATES: 1966-1970

RANK: PO2 RM E-5

UNIT: US 7th fleet

STATIONS: USS Forrestal, USS Newport News, USS Vesuvius.

member of tonkin gulf yacht club.

Welcome aboard.

 

[namvet]

Welcome aboard.

thanks pal..............

 

[wayne]

Branch:USAF

Date/s: 11-08-72 to 30-09-92

Rank: MSgt

Unit: AFEWC

Other info: MOS...AFSC 303x2 / 328x2

Thanks,

 

[007]

Branch: United States Air Force - Service Connected Disabled Veteran

Dates: Oct. 1979 - Aug. 1987

Rank: E-7, Msgt

AFSC: 32697C, Integrated Avionics Instrumentation/Flight Controls Systems Specialist, F-4 Phantom, F-16 Falcon.

Stations: 474th Tactical Fighter Wing, Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV - 62nd Tactical Fighter Training Wing, MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL.

I'd do it over again in a heart beat. Long live the FORCE!

 

[editec]

Branch : USN

Dates 19 Jan 1970; 18 Jan 1974

Rank HM3

Units: USN; USMC 3/1

Stations: USNH #59 NYC; CAMPEN, CA

It was a good experience all in all. I was very happy to leave it behind me, though.

 

[Gunny]

Branch : USN

Dates 19 Jan 1970; 18 Jan 1974

Rank HM3

Units: USN; USMC 3/1

Stations: USNH #59 NYC; CAMPEN, CA

It was a good experience all in all. I was very happy to leave it behind me, though.

Hospital Corpsman, or green?

 

[Swamp Fox]

Branch: US Army

Dates: June 1985 to Feb 1995

Rank: Sgt

Units: 2nd Ranger Bn, 9th Infantry Div, 1st Cavalry Div

Stations: Ft Lewis, WA; Germany; Iraq; Aberdeen Proving Gds, MD

Had fun at the start but had to get out when Clinton took over. No money for training and no promotions.

 

[007]

Not many vets here... considering how many members the board has...

We're a dying breed.

 

[editec]

USN HM3, Gunny,

Assigned to the First Marine Division Fleet Marine forces 2 Oct 1972. Detached from same Jan. 18 1974.

I was sleeping with an LCDR's daughter when stationed at a Naval Hospital, when unexpectedly I found myself with orders to FMSS and then on to SE ASIA.

What a coincidence, eh?

Happily (perhaps) for me, NiXXon yanked 50,000 Marines out of SE ASIA (remember that? then he reassigned the same number of US Army guys there?) so instead of serving in a helicopter assault unit, I ended up in CAMPEN.

Except for when I was actually out in the field with my unit (which was fun, to be honest) being assigned as a company corpsman was boring as hell.

Eventually I ended up running the battalion aide station which was at least interesting work.

4 years three hours and 17 minutes on active duty.

Not that I was counting or anything, mind you.

 

[wayne]

In 1975 I became concerned that the Communist would win the Cold War. Large crowds of American where flying the Vietcong flag and burning the American flag. When the enemy can turn your people against their country; you’re in trouble. I could foresee the novel 1984 becoming a reality. I had a wife, a baby daughter and good paying job, but decided I had to do something. My original plan was to join the army; I have always been interested in tanks and driving one appealed me. However, my mother begged me join the Air force and my wife threatened to divorce me if I did not, so I compromised and joined the Air Force instead of the army. My family was so certain I would die if I went to Vietnam as a member of the army. In a tanks in Vietnam did turn out to be dangerous place to be due to advances soviet tank killing technology, but a ground radar site was not all that safe either. We had a secret one in on a mountaintop in Laos that was over run; the survivors that were captured where thrown of the top of the mountain by those murdering communist bastards.

I ended up in AWACS. Any other AWACS people here.

 

[Gunny]

In 1975 I became concerned that the Communist would win the Cold War. Large crowds of American where flying the Vietcong flag and burning the American flag. When the enemy can turn your people against their country; you’re in trouble. I could foresee the novel 1984 becoming a reality. I had a wife, a baby daughter and good paying job, but decided I had to do something. My original plan was to join the army; I have always been interested in tanks and driving one appealed me. However, my mother begged me join the Air force and my wife threatened to divorce me if I did not, so I compromised and joined the Air Force instead of the army. My family was so certain I would die if I went to Vietnam as a member of the army. In a tanks in Vietnam did turn out to be dangerous place to be due to advances soviet tank killing technology, but a ground radar site was not all that safe either. We had a secret one in on a mountaintop in Laos that was over run; the survivors that were captured where thrown of the top of the mountain by those murdering communist bastards.

I ended up in AWACS. Any other AWACS people here.

Paulitics and Pale Rider are USAF vets. Have no idea what they did.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Paulitics and Pale Rider are USAF vets. Have no idea what they did.

We did not have American troops in Viet Nam in 1975, the last combat troops left in 71. South Viet Nam did fall in 1975 though.

 

[Gunny]

We did not have American troops in Viet Nam in 1975, the last combat troops left in 71. South Viet Nam did fall in 1975 though.

US troop withdrawal from Vietnam was completed in Nov 72. There were still 69,000 advisors and assorted personnel in Vietnam, but no operational combat units

. There were around 7000 Americans evacuated in Apr 75 when North Vietnam invaded.

 

[wayne]

We did not have American troops in Viet Nam in 1975, the last combat troops left in 71. South Viet Nam did fall in 1975 though.

Correction: 1972 I don’t why I said 1975. That is not the first time I have done something like that, editec can vouch for that. I will never be professional writer, but I will never give up..

 

[editec]

Yes, I can vouche that Wayne is human and therefore prone to err.

Not being devine, myself, I can't forgive him for it, though.

Bad wayne, baaad!

No veterans' benefits for you!

 

[DiamondDave]

Branch: US Army

Date/s: 1991-1996

Rank: E-4

Unit: 111th Sig BN

 

[CSM]

Branch: US Army

Date/s: 1991-1996

Rank: E-4

Unit: 111th Sig BN

welcome

 

[Gunny]

Correction: 1972 I don’t why I said 1975. That is not the first time I have done something like that, editec can vouch for that. I will never be professional writer, but I will never give up..

Hey, 1975 was a good year.

 

[Tech_Esq]

Branch: US Army

Dates: July 1982 to July 1987

Rank: Sgt

Units: 1/32 Inf. (Bearcats), 7th Infantry Division Light Infantry Fire Team Leader; 2/30 Inf. (Wild Boar!), 3rd Infantry Division, Bradley Fighting Vehicle Gunner/Commander

Stations: Ft. Ord, Ledward Panzer Kaserne, Schweinfurt Germany

 

[bornright]

Branch: USMC

dates: 1969-1971

Rank: L/cpl

MOS: Fire direction control

Stationed: Camp Pendleton, 29 Palms, Vietnam