Fall In, Fellow Vets!

[MrScorpio]

[TEB]

1. Hoorah

Brother vet

[underpants]

2. 🇺🇸

Cav Scout

[dware]

3. U.S. Marines,

Combat Engineer. reporting for duty sir.
Semper Fi.

[Siwsan]

4. Right about the time I graduated from "A" School at the 42nd Street Naval Base - San Diego

Along with Senior Chief Thomas. One of the most INTERESTING characters I met, while in the Navy. He had the most amazing green eyes and was gruff as can be, on the outside, but you knew he cared deeply for the students, program and Navy. (I just realized that the poor Polaroid photo has 'suffered' over the years!)

[Tbear]

5. Aye-aye

Squid, brown shoe type. Corsair II’s and carriers.

[Chainfire]

6. Machinist Mate checking in.

[Submariner]

7. Smokeboater IC Forward ready to turn to

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[3catwoman3]

8. Air Force nurse corps pediatric..

...nurse practitioner checking in.

[HAB911]

9. Sgt HAB911 reporting from the DMZ, 1970

[MineralMan]

10. USAF Russian Linguist/Analyst 65-69

I interrupted my college education and enlisted when my draft notice came. The USAF treated me to a year at Syracuse University in a total immersion Russian Language program. Cool beans.

[EndlessWire]

25. Defense Language Institute West Coast

And an add-on in Texas. ASA. I would answer.

[MineralMan]

27. Both provided an excellent education and operated

very similarly. One advantage of the Syracuse school is that the university credits transferred seamlessly when i returned to college after my time of enlistment. Full credit without any questions. Not that I continued to use the language, of course. i didn't, but those credits let me finish up much more quickly, since they served as a full-scale minor in Russian language studies.

I did, though, enroll at a University of California campus as a Russian Major, but opted to go another direction soon after, for various reasons.

[EndlessWire]

28. I don't regret my training.

I would have to brush up, as well. It would come back. You and I are on a list somewhere!

[MineralMan]

32. Nope. I was never in a sub.

[mopinko]

11. i didnt serve, but

my brother, air force in nam, 2 of my nephews, my uncle joe, army, all served.
and my ggrampa served back in ireland. but if you think we shit on our vets- he served in the british military. started in the infantry, did 20 yrs. came out a sgt in the dublin rifles.
somehow, 20 yrs later, he came to america in steerage as a famine refugee.
i will never wrap my head around that.

[hwmnbn]

12. U.S. Army...

'66 - '68

11B light weapons grunt

[Wounded Bear]

13. Semper Fi! Airborne Fire Control Tech, F4-B

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[Peacetrain]

14. K&R!!!!!!

For my Dad ...WW2 Omaha Beach..(they saved the world) thanks for this..

[UTUSN]

15. Is it Reveille already?!1

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[Demonaut]

16. Haze Grey and Underway

[pwb]

17. Here.

[Yeehah]

18. Fine day to be a veteran

[bluecollar2]

19. U.S. Navy

AMS 2

VP40

WestPac 79-83

[sarisataka]

20. USMC 89-09

Motor T, MP, Security Forces and of course 03.

Current rank P.F.C.

[cwydro]

21. USAF.

Post Vietnam.

[IBEWVET]

22. Army 68-71

[denbot]

23. Aye. U.S. Navy!

Persian Gulf, Iranian Hostage Crisis.

[Codifer]

24. Navy Airedale

USS Hornet, Gulf of Tonkin, Yankee Station 1967

[Brother Buzz]

26. Just a dumb draftee that added no value, no advantage, to the armed services

At least, that's what that asshole, Rumsfeld, told us dumb draftees

Rumsfeld said draftees "were sucked into the intake, trained for a period of months and then went out, adding no value, no advantage really, to the United States Armed Services over any sustained period of time, because (of) the churning that took place -- it took an enormous amount of effort in terms of training and then they were gone."

We veterans of the Army of the United States (AUS) were sure steamed when that ass said those words and fortunately my drinking buddy, Agent Mike, talked me out of acting on what I was thinking at the time.

[judeling]

29. Army 81-84

Computers, Pentagon went to work in a green suit. But, oh the toys.

[LiberalLoner]

31. Here. 89-94, US Army QM officer. Got out as CPT.