Who Has Been In The Military

[Parche]

US AirForce Minot AFB North Dakota 1982-1985



:hi:

[texas1928]

1. My Uncle was stationed there.

Can't remember when. It might have been during that time period. Actually I think it was a bit earlier, I know he was there in 80.

[IndianaJones]

2. Virginia Militia. nt.

[Ron Green]

3. Lots of us on DU have been in the military, unlike those at the Site That Will Not

Be Named.


US Army Airborne, 1966-1969.

:patriot:

[Parche]

6. DU Militarites

Agreed


CURAHEE !!!!!!!!

:hi:

[sarge43]

4. Oooo, Buff. Did you work on those bad boys, Parche?

USAF: Offutt AFB NB, 63-66; March AFB CA, 66-68; South Ruislip AS UK, 68-70; Wiesbaden AB WG, 70-74; Lackland AFB TX, 74-79; MacDill AFB FL, 79-83.

:hi: backatcha

[Parche]

7. Minot

No unfortunately I was in Missiles........and it sucked :hi:

[sarge43]

11. ".... and it sucked."

So I heard.

[Ptah]

16. 93 AMS / SAC

Avionics Tech. Bomb/Nav

1971-1974 (E-4 ret.)

[eyepaddle]

5. You didn't know a medic named Ferid, di you?

I won't mention any last names, but I think the time frame is about right.

Oh yes, for the record, no this isn't me, he's a friend of mine. My eyesight is too poor and I was turned down back in 1987. I sometimes wonder what direction my life would've taken had I made it in. I am certainly happy with how it has turned out--but boy, that surely would've been significant!

[Ptah]

8. Castle AFB 1971 - 1974

[DS1]

9. drove these off ships like in video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0YAhh5NL_8&mode=related&search=

thankfully no IRAQ!

[ThomCat]

10. I was born on a base.

But I'm the only guy in my family who was never in the military. I've always been the family's odd duck. I was the first to go to college instead.

[av8rdave]

12. USAFA, 76 - 80, Williams AFB 80 - 85 and Wurtsmith AFB 85 - 87

Flew T-37s, T-38s and Tankers, instructed in T-37s.

[Parche]

13. Tanker

I got a 'hop' down to FT Worth in '83 in a KC-135, one of the highlights in my life
was in back when we were refueling fighters over Montana, boom operater awesome,
and in cockpit, for landing at Malmstrom in Great Falls.

:bounce: :hi:

[av8rdave]

14. It's an interesting operation, isn't it? I flew the old "A" model...

Some of those airframes were a couple of years older than I was.

[trof]

27. Been there, done that...on the receiving end.

ALANG, '63-'71, RF-84/Fs.

[Crazy Dave]

15. Air Force brat and US Army '81 - '84

:patriot:

[Skittles]

22. am curious, Dave

I was a USAF brat and I know my dad would have been disappointed if I had joined the Army - got a story there?

[Crazy Dave]

42. Actually....

My high school had Army ROTC and my dad's chief's daughter (a fox) broke ranks first and became an Army recruiter and talked me into it.

[driver8]

17. US Navy 1985 - 1991. Also a Navy brat...

I was stationed on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1988-1991.

As a Navy brat, lived in Maine, Scotland, Panama, Virginia, Guam and Adak, Alaska.

[deucemagnet]

18. USAF 1986-1991.

:patriot:

[RushIsRot]

19. U.S. Army -- 1963-1966

Yesterday, August 23, was the 41st anniversary of my separation from the service.

[Submariner]

20. Is the Parche your old boat?

The boat sail is being dedicated today.



Saturday the 25th, will mark the dedication of the Parche sail now located at the Puget Sound Navy Museum.

I was a pig boater myself:

[Skittles]

21. USAF 75-79

Minot had the reputation of being F'N COLD!!!!!!!!!!!

[blockhead]

24. I live in Minot.

around here they say "forty below keeps the riff-raff away".

[Skittles]

30. LOL I HAVE A CAT NAMED RIFF RAFF!!!!

I love cold weather (must be the Scandanavian in me) but 40 below - well, I remember having to visit the outhouse at my grandma's farm in Minnesota in the middle of a January night and that's just a wee bit TOO COLD!!! :o

[sarge43]

34. "forty below keeps the riff-raff away".

And SAC trained freedom fighters aren't riff-raff? Things have changed in forty years.

[ruiner4u]

23. ive been in a marine and two army guys... That count?

[matcom]

25. M1A1 Tanker

'87 - '90

Germany

[Orsino]

26. US Army Signal Corps, 1991-97 n/t

[THUNDER HANDS]

28. i dated a girl who was in the national guard

does that count?

[Joey Liberal]

29. Army 1980-86

Enjoyed my time as a green suiter.

[SoxFan]

31. Army Reserve and Army National Guard

1991-2001

[cloudbase]

32. A girl behind every tree up there!

Naval Reserve, 30 years Merchant Marine.

[MrScorpio]

33. Why not Minot?

Because it's too fucking cold.

The Strategic Air Circus: Peace is our profession... War is our Hobby






SSgt Scorpio Does the Pentagon, Circa 1990

[lovelaureng]

35. 29S10 Field COMSEC Equipment Repairer

US Army 89' - 93'
Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm

[skygazer]

36. This thread is useless without pictures

I loves me a man in uniform. :loveya:

[TOhioLiberal]

37. Hell yeah!

where's the pictures?

[jonnyblitz]

38. here's my navy boot camp graduation picture

[skygazer]

39. That's the spirit!

Thanks! Fine looking young man there. :hi:

[jonnyblitz]

40. yeah, that was from the 80's, I look like I am about 12.

thanks, though. :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. I don't recognize you at all.

:rofl: :hi:

[GenDem]

41. Mr Gen was in the Marines -- I tagged along

Hq Battery 5th Battalion 10th Marines
2nd Marine Division FMFLant

Four years at Camp LeJeune from 1978-1982

He did look mighty fine in those dress blues, but I'm too lazy to look for a picture.

[DrDan]

43. USAF - Sembach Germany while active

Richards Gebaur and Whiteman while in reserves

[cwydro]

44. Griffiss AFB, Rome NY 1975

SAC base also. Lots of those behomeths flew out of there.

The ground used to shake. I remember the barracks vibrating.

[sarge43]

45. Yup

That's a defining moment when your bunk shimmies across the floor.:wow:

[cwydro]

46. Funny thing

I used to sleep like a baby in those days. We could see the runway from our room and I just loved watching them. I think the fighters in those days were F-106s. And they didn't even bother me.

Sheesh, I wake up when a cat walks in the room now.

[sarge43]

48. I still go outside to watch the NH Air Guard do wheelies

with their A-10's - gets in the blood.

[evlbstrd]

47. USN 1974-1979

Guantanamo Bay, USS Austin and Fleet Intelligence Training Center, Norfolk.

edit: I went back in time for a while there.

[Crabby Appleton]

49. E-5 US Army 68-69 , Long Binh, Vietnam