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 Enlisted 1978-1986, MOS 72G30, Ft Dix, Ft Devens, Ft Gordon, Ft Detrick, Ft Clayton Panama, USAE AFCENT Brunssum Netherlands
US Army Warrant Officer 1986-1998, MOS 250AL, Ft Gordon, Ft Bragg, Ft Clayton Panama, Ft Bragg, Camp Casey Korea, Ft Bragg
US Army Retired, Ft Home
Operations Urgent Fury, Just Cause, Enduring Freedom II
DoD Civilian in Combat Support Agency, 2001-Present
Best deployment was following Hurricane Andrew to Homestead FL. Helped Verizon to get comms back up for the emergency services.
 
KMAX yes you are a true vet, a vet is a vet if they served in combat or not.
Thank you for your service, it is greatly appreciated.
Thank you to all our vets for their service, you guys are what keeps our country the best.
 
No, and one of the very few things in life for which I remain ashamed. (For pretty much everything else I've been able to make amends.)

The Viet Nam war ended just a few months before I would have been drafted and all I could think of was 'Whew, I don't have to go.' I never looked back until I had matured a bit more and had some understanding of civic duty. (At least now it angers me when I hear someone laughing about dodging jury duty and I can kindly remind them of 'duty'.) I tried to enlist in the Reserves, but by then I was too old. Later I found that the age limit had been increased and I could have enlisted, but by the time I found out it had been reduced again. I watch now and if the age limit is ever relaxed again then I'll do what it takes to get in. I'm blessed that I have a wife that understands and supports this decision. We both try to serve our country in other ways, but neither of us is under the delusion that it is the same as military service.

Please let me offer a very sincere thank you to all of you that have served.

Sincerely,
Andrew

NRA Life Member
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"There are some ideas so preposterous that only an intellectual will believe them." - Malcolm Muggeridge
 
A little known fact !

I served in the Marine Corps , 3212 air freight MOS with the 1st MAW in squadron of C-130s , VMGR-152 at Futenma Okinawa , Japan and in RVN at Chu Lai and Danang .

I served from April of '69 until March of '71 , was drafted ! :eek:

Marine 2568387
 
NEANG, 1985-87
US ARMY 1987-1995

Spent 6 1/2 years in Germany, Federal Republic of..... about 24 Months (total) in Ft. Sill, OK, 6 months in SW Asia Wargames of '90-'91.
 
Army Reserve MP 09 to present. Like Andrew I regretted not serving when I was young. I went through basic at 36. It was tough but I was actually in better shape than some of the young guys.

I am thankful for my wife, family and boss who have supported me through basic, a year in Afghanistan and maybe one more deployment before my contract is up.

For those talking about benefits. Those of us who serve less than 20 years only have health coverage for service related injuries and no pension. But that's not why we serve is it?

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USN '74-'84...Aviation Electrician. 5 years helicopter combat support squadron, 4 years shore duty at AIMD avionics maintenance, and 1 year on the USS Constellation in drydock.
 
3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, USAF, Bien Hoa, V.N. 1966-1967

My choice of service branch was based on a childhood experience in the early '50's. My mother's elderly maiden aunt gathered me and my 2 older brothers together and made some predictions about future wars and who would serve, given that the Korean war was winding down at the time. After walking us through various scenarios of what each of us would be doing in the coming years, (all of which came about) she left me with the "short straw" as the one that will go off to fight in the next war.
I was too young and impressionable to consider the possibility that maybe she was making this stuff up and as I got a little older, this insight gave me lots of food for thought as to what branch of service would keep me out of the draft and give me the best chance of coming home in one piece. When I enlisted in '63, nobody had even heard of Viet Nam.
 
US Army, '66-'90; in country with 101st '70-'71 at Camp Eagle near Phu Bai. Surprised at how many old timers like myself are on this forum. I've been retired from active service for almost as long as I served, which is a sobering thought.
 
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