Veterans - Who was your Commander-in-Chief?

[Ron Green]

Mine were LBJ and Nixon.

[county worker]

1. LBJ

[elifino]

2. Late 50"s

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon was VP.

[Rex]

3. Bill Clinton

[Crabby Appleton]

4. Same here, active duty '68-'69

LBJ & Nixon

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Mine wasn't a C-i-C but he played one on TV.

Yeah, it was St. Ronnie.

[Ron Green]

7. LOL - And he's the "real" one, according to the keyboard rangers.

[damonm]

13. I had Ronnie & Bush I...

Where were you serving? I was USAF at Ft. Meade 83-86, and Onizuka AFB 87-91.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. USN FF-1084

[atreides1]

6. These three

Mine were Carter, Reagan, and George I.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Nixon

1970-72

[sarge43]

9. JFK to Reagan, just went down hill. n/t

[tularetom]

10. Eisenhower and Kennedy.

[Vickers]

11. Ronnie Raygun and Poppy. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

31. Same

[Andy823]

12. Nixon

[AlinPA]

15. Eisenhower and Kennedy.

[Speck Tater]

16. JFK then LBJ. nt

[trof]

54. Me too. '63 - '71.

[Arctic Dave]

17. Last part of Ronny and then bush.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. JFK and then "Hey, Hey, LBJ....".

[Toots]

48. Hey Hey LBJ, How many have you killed today?

I was under LBJ as well..

[Brother Buzz]

19. Nixon

But Gerald Ford signed my discharge papers after being assigned to that mystery reserve thingy for a couple of years.

[CLANG]

20. Herr Nixon

[Ptah]

21. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."

USAF 1970-1974

[TexasObserver]

22. LBJ and Nixon

[kentuck]

38. me, too.

Fortunately, only a few months under Nixon. I never got to be part of his "secret plan" to stop the war.

[Bigmack]

23. Gunnery Sergeant Dean....

He was the Supreme Commander of the Fucking Universe...

He made this guy look like Mother Theresa..



LBJ, actually.

[IndianaGreen]

24. LBJ

General Harold Johnson was Army Chief of Staff. He banned cussing!

[Still Sensible]

25. Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter n/t

[NavyDem]

26. USN 1990 - 2010

Bush Sr
Clinton
Bush Jr
Obama - Signed my retirement letter.

[MrScorpio]

37. You lucky bastard.

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Lyndon and Dick

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. Sadly, a right-wing military dictator.

Brazil. Early 80s.

(To be fair, he was the tamest of the junta bunch.)

[Aristus]

29. Reagan, then Bush, Sr.

Blechh! :puke:

At least Poppy wasn't a Hollywood warrior like Reagan.

[Ron Green]

30. The last C-in-C to have done real active duty.

[Elwood P Dowd]

32. He ditched his plane & survived. Guess what happened to the rest of the crew?

:banghead:

[sarge43]

44. Or put another way, the last of the WWII generation - 12 million men in uniform.

It'd been difficult to find a candidate who hadn't served.

[cliffordu]

33. Fucking Nixon.

:puke:

[lonestarnot]

34. ackety.

[Historic NY]

35. Washington...but then I do a history thing.

[MrScorpio]

36. Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Junior.

[denbot]

39. Carter & Reagan

The big difference is Carter actually served. When the operation in the Iranian desert went snafu Carter was on the tube that morning taking responsibility. It took Reagan weeks to make a half-hearted admission to responsibility for the Beirut bombing.

[ThomWV]

40. LBJ and then Nixon

[Obamanaut]

41. Eisenhower thru Reagan. I feel old typing this. nt

[sarge43]

52. Did you have this moment?

The realization that when you first enlisted, some of the kids in your unit hadn't been born yet. That's feeling old.

[Obamanaut]

60. Not just that, but this also. I was leaving the gym the other day

and struck up a conversation with a guy in an Army T shirt. Told him I was in the Navy for 28 years, retired in 1988. He said he graduated HS in '89, and retires next year.

So, I've been retired for someone else's whole career.

[sarge43]

61. Same here. "Morning Report?, whats zat?" n/t

[sce56]

42. Started under Ford my certficate of appreciation signed by Bill Clinton

Ford
Carter
RayGun
Poppy Bush
Clinton

But I have to admit my best mission was under Poppy
Disastour 1992
The citation my Battalion received, The Army Superior Unit Ribbon, read in part "Responding to three natural disasters simultaneously across ten time zones" That was Andrew Florida, Omar Guam and Iniki Hawaii.

[hobbit709]

43. Unfortunately it was Nixon.

[Dogtown]

45. LBJ and Nixon, also

1st Air Cav

[WeDidIt]

46. Reagan n/t

[unhappycamper]

47. JFK, LBJ and Tricky Dick. n/t

[Homer Wells]

49. Nixon.

Ugh!!

[ShortnFiery]

50. Ronald Reagan. eom

[Ganja Ninja]

51. Nixon/Ford

[madokie]

53. yep me too

sept '67 through october '70. 15 months in country Vietnam

[Love Bug]

55. Nixon, Ford and Carter

[NightHawk63]

56. Raygun for me (nt)

[Toasterlad]

57. Good Old Ronnie Reagan, the Jingoistic Cowboy.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

58. LBJ

LBJ's simulated signature was on my draft notice. I don't know where that piece of paper is.

:hi:

[NeedleCast]

59. Mostly Clinton with some Bush 2.0 at the end (unfortunately)