Have you served your country?

Are you active military or a veteran?

  • Yes

    Votes: 517 71.3%

  • No

    Votes: 208 28.7%
  • Total voters
    725
US Army 1984-1988 UH-60 Crew Chief
USAF Reserves 1989-1997 C-130 Crew Chief
USAF Reserves 2004-2006 Logistics
Utah Air National Guard 2006-Current Logistics.

Also A Full Time USPS employee.
 
Radio

USAF 1968 - 1972

Radio Relay Equipment
UK, Germany, Greece

Uneventful tour. Chalk it up to dumb luck.

Acknowledgements to others who served in combat:

My best friend from high school was USMC.

After 30 years of believing him dead, I finally found him in San Francisco a couple of years ago, in good health and living well.

First kid I ever picked a fight with (5th grade), and who soundly trounced me, and who is, outside my family, the person I've known longest, went with the Rangers. Multiple purple hearts and other salad. Retired as Lt Col.

My own dad, "communications" (radar) officer in England, manning a German bomb target.

All saw more action and did more than I.

And for this they all have my complete respect.
 
Army

U.S.Army -
2/1969 - 1/1972
One year stateside - training me (aircraft maint. & gunner school), then training WOC's (17 & too young for RVN), at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
One year RVN - CH47C & Super C's, Doorgunner/Crewchief (what else?). 1st Aviation Brigade, 213th ASHC (Black Cats), III Corps/Phu Loi.
One year Germany - 421st Medivac Company, 7th Medical Brigade. Waaay too much fun over there.
Welcome home all.
 
Nope, couldn't swallow my pride long enough to swear to obey orders from a CinC like W. Came very close, but he got elected about the same time I turned 18, and I backed out.

~~~Mat
 
Nope, couldn't swallow my pride long enough to swear to obey orders from a CinC like W. Came very close, but he got elected about the same time I turned 18, and I backed out.
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That's kind of weak. You serve your country, not a man.


Army infantry 1983-85 and 1989-1993
 
US Navy 1976 - 1996, submarines, USS Haddo, USS Plunger, USS Parche, USS Greenling, USS Puffer, one tender USS Hunley (Holyloch Scotland), Shore duty: FLEASWTRACENPAC (sonar school San Diego), NAVSTA Subic Bay RP.
 
I was in the Air Force, but it was more of a "job" than a service. I did my job and I got paid fairly. My wife has never been in the military but is a doctor at the VA. She has also worked at a lot of clinics during her training where she was not paid fairly. She "served" our country more so than I.

After being in the AF I worked as an engineer helping design jets and accessories. In some ways I "served" my country more then than during active duty.

I read somewhere that men who have not been in the military feel like they have missed an important right of passage. Could be we need to expand our definition of "service" to help these poor souls with their inferiority complex?
 
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