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11-11-2015, 12:55 AM | #1 |
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Will all Veterans please arise.
I'd like to know who you are and where/how you served so that we can all say thanks. Pictures from your service would also be very nice. I'm not a veteran (was 4F in the Vietnam War draft). So, please, identify yourselves. And thank you for putting on the uniform and for your service.
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11-11-2015, 01:48 AM | #2 |
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Re: Will all Veterans please arise.
US ARMY Artillery, Corporal 1968 to 1970 Proud to be of service, Gary T.
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11-11-2015, 01:54 AM | #3 |
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Re: Will all Veterans please arise.
Craig,
I am a veteran of two wars. I spent a year in Vietnam (1969 – 1970) with USMC Recon. I was a Corporal (E-4) in Vietnam, but was promoted to Sergeant (E-5) before I was honorably discharged stateside in early 1973. I served for four years. I also spent four tours (years) in Iraq between 2005 - 2010. I did investigations for Army Intelligence. I was required to wear the Army uniform and had a GS-15 rating. I was embedded with the Army and lived where they lived. I went on missions based on information I developed on terrorist units. It was much like being a police officer again. I kicked doors and took people to jail. I was treated as a Lt Colonel which was much different than how I was treated in Vietnam. The most surprising thing to me during my time in Iraq was in 2008 while on a mission one of the soldiers asked me if I had ever been in the service and I told him I had been in the Marine Corps. He asked me what I did and I told him I was in Recon. He asked me if I was in Vietnam and I told him I spent a year in Vietnam with Recon. He said, “No shit, you were in Recon”? I told him I was. From that point on I was really treated with respect. I didn't think my time in Recon 38 years earlier would mean anything to them, but they all made a big deal out of it. That same day when I returned to the S-2 shop (Intelligence Office) the Captain met me and said, “No shit, Marine Corps Recon?” I smiled and said, “No shit”. The information had beat me back to the TOC. It still amuses me that it meant so much to them. I had not even mentioned it on my first tour in Iraq and wouldn’t have mentioned it on that tour either, but the gunner in the Humvee asked me.
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11-11-2015, 02:45 AM | #4 |
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U.S. Navy SeaBees. 1959 - 1963:
NAS Miramar, San Diego MCB 11, Port Hueneme, Guam, Midway ACB 1, Coronado. Proud to serve, thanks for asking.
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11-11-2015, 03:21 AM | #5 |
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USAF SSGT ( E-5) Crew Chief B-52-G 1970-1974 Texas, Ill., Calif., Guam and many others TDY
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11-11-2015, 03:22 AM | #6 |
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11-11-2015, 03:45 AM | #7 |
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Thanks to all who served and are serving! God Bless!
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11-11-2015, 05:35 AM | #8 |
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US ARMY, Field Radio Repair, Spec 5, 1965 to 1968. For some reason, I was blessed to be sent to Germany while almost all AIT graduates were sent to Vietnam.
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11-11-2015, 06:19 AM | #9 |
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US ARMY SP4. Served Sep 1967 to Sep1969. Spent 18 months in Germany with the 8th. Infantry Division Military Police, Mannheim Germany.
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11-11-2015, 06:29 AM | #10 |
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Thank you for your Service
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11-11-2015, 06:54 AM | #11 |
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USAF 1966 to 1970. Vietnam 1967, Thailand 1968, Vietnam 1969. Munitions Specialist.
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11-11-2015, 06:58 AM | #12 |
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38coop - Looks like you and I were in Mannheim at the same time period. April 66 - Dec 68. I was at the Spinelli(?) barracks. Bob
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11-11-2015, 07:03 AM | #13 |
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USMC 1995 to 2001 all state side moter T attached to artillery
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11-11-2015, 07:08 AM | #14 |
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US ARMY July 15 1970- Feb 1972 7th army, Germany Medic- Mechanic
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11-11-2015, 07:10 AM | #15 |
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USN, 1964 to 1968, worked on all kinds of airplanes.
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11-11-2015, 07:10 AM | #16 |
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US Army, 1965-1969, Vietnam 1967. Attended a reunion of my MACV advisory team last weekend.
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11-11-2015, 07:18 AM | #17 |
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bbrust: I was at Coleman barracks. Don
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11-11-2015, 07:22 AM | #18 |
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USAF 1958-1962 spent most of the time protecting the Canadian border at Plattsburgh NY.Phil
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11-11-2015, 07:46 AM | #19 |
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U. S. Army, Okinawa, E-5, Hawk missile systems. Vietnam era, 1966 to 1970.
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11-11-2015, 07:55 AM | #20 |
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USMC, 2nd Marine Air Wing, MWHS2, Cherry Point N.C. 1971-74
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