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
OJ,
I have to agree with that. While I was in, I made great friends & had some great times. Yet I bitched & moaned and wanted out. Once out, I looked back, and realized I was having a great time/experience. I would not trade it for anything.

Tuckerdog1
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Tuckerdog1,
Thanks for the backup. I'm with you about there being no shortage of times when things were less than desirable in all ways but, I learned things about life and how to (and sometimes how not to) handle difficult and even threatening situations. I found myself in situations such as being Deputy Commander of a 35 bed hospital as an O-2 (Lt JG - 1st Lt) with head nurses being O-4 (Lt Cmdr -Major) level, attending group commanders meetings weekly with the next lowest ranking member besides me being at the O-5 (Cmdr - Lt Col) level and holding my own with that group, and, worst of all, not only not getting the backing of my Command Level Surgeon but, being back stabbed by that office for nothing but personal bias - to hell with the safety of my troops.

At any rate, it was an education in how to handle life that couldn't have been obtained in the best education institutions in the world and, by far, the great majority of my personal contacts were some of the greatest people I have ever known in my life - really inspiring - from lowest to highest ranks. It was truly an honor to have that service experience for which I've been grateful all my life.

:D :D
 
Marine Corps, long time ago, another time another war. Daughter presently in Navy, Son in Law presently in Marines, Son leaving for US Army day after
tomorrow. This country is worth fighting for !!!!!!
 
I don't often do this but, I think this is the time and place for it -


War is an ugly thing, But not the ugliest of things;
The decayed and degrading state of moral and patriotic
feeling;
Which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight;
Nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety
Is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free,
Unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men
than himself.

John Stuart Mill


We live by this!!

:D
 
Tin can sailor (gunner's mate, what else? ;) :D ), 1969-'72. USS Manley, DD-940. Primary duty, ASW Ops, North Atlantic.

I salute all who have honorably served, who are, and who will in the years to come :cool: .
 
Many times + still serving

Army 76 - 82
Army Guard 83 - 85
Air Force 87 - 92
Air Force Reserve 2001 - present

I'll retire some day.:D
 
sasquatch:

Sorry I'm late on the reply, been busy.

Definetly the 6922 Electronic Security Squadron (Double Deuce) or Cobra's the logo on the squadron patch.

The number you ref'd may have been the Radio Squadron, or flight group from years past.
 
Veteran but not US.
Australian Army !952-1959,(Japan-Korea 1953-54) then 7 years with the Defence Dept as an Armourer/Engineering Foreman (including a few years in the Reserve).
 
I was never in the military but I have served my country for the past 27 plus years in the Civil Service. Kind If wish I had joined the military after Vietnam. It was pretty much over by the time Igot out of high school, and once the war was over there did not seem to be much point to joing the military then (that was to a then very young me). Still though, I think in the past 27 plus years, I have done my part to serve her with honor, sometimes even at the cost of my well being.

All the best,
Glenn B
 
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