Fifty Plus (50+) - Veterans, Raise Your Hand

May, 1962 - August, 1965 - US Air Force, Lackland AFB, San Antonio (OTS), then Lowry AFB, Denver, CO 3428th Training Squadron

May 1976 to May 1979 - U.S. Army, Ft. Dix, NJ., Ft. Devens, MA., Ft. Knox, KY., most of it at Ft. Hood, TX.
Cavalry Scout

Army Ft. Riley 1976-1979.

January 1966 to June 1972

Great Lakes Wisconson
Key West Fl
Norfolk VA
Guantamo Bay Cuba
Charlston SC
Baltamore MD
New London CT

and unknown places in between.

:thumb: Just wanted to say Hi to a fellow soldier.. 1973: Ft Ord; 1974: Korea; 1975; Ft Ord...then out. Back in 1978; Ft Gordon; 1978 Ft Hood; 1979: Ft Benning; 1980: Germany; 1983: Oceanside, CA (recruiting)...then out again in 1985. Back for the second time in 1987; Fort Sill; 1989; Greeley, CO (recruiting again); 1991: Chadron, NE (more recruiting); 1993 Sacramento, CA (still more recruiting; 1994 Korea; 1995 to Fort Hood...with a trip thrown in to Kuwait in 1996....retired as as SFC in 1997.

Getting back into riding now (can't run since an injury to my left quad a couple years ago

US Naval Security Group 1968-1972
Pensacola, FL
Cheltenham, MD
Medina, TX
Hakata, Japan

Jan 1965 to 1970 Royal Marines- Saw action on the Boxing team and Burma.

That boxing team was the excuse why I Got posted to The Arctic- Gibraltar- Some parts of Europe that I am not supposed to talk about as I was incorporated into the Navy boxing team for that. And why eventually Burma that led to an injury that cut short my service.

Not even close to being a vet, but it's odd to see this post when only an hour ago I ran across my draft card (1972) while cleaning out some stuff.

U.S. Navy 1974-1994.
Bunch of duty stations listed in another thread.
Retired as an O-5 (Commander) back to my hometown.
Really liked the first 18 years - not so much the last 2.
If I had a wish come true this day, it would be that no additional people would ever be killed in any military conflict.
Alas, that will not happen.
Makes me sad that it is so.

USAF & Tex ANG 1972 - 1980

3 years, 10 months, 11 days, 19 hours. Ft. Ord, CA, Ft. Devens, MA, Det. 23 somewhere in Near East, Vint Hill Station VA. Army Security Agency. 1965-1969

1975-1982 US Marine Corps.

The Corps, 81-85. Spain, Israel, The Arctic, Beirut in '84. Lots of other places in between.

USAF 68-72
Amarallio Tx AFB basic
Lowry AFB Oct 68-May 69
RVN jun69-apr 70
Nellis AFB Las vegas Nv till aug 1972

US Army 1962-1965. Basic at Ft. Ord, Instructor at Ft. Monmouth, NJ Signal Corps School. Got out 2 months before Vietnam blew up.

Eric

USAF 1971-1975 Basic at Lackland AFB Tx, ATC Training Keesler AFB Miss, Air Traffic Controller VFR Tower at Wiesbaden AFB Germany, RAPCON at Webb AFB Tx.

U.S. Navy, Aug 18, 1969 to Aug 3, 1973
NAS Ellyson Field, Pensacola
NAS Keflavik Iceland, Brrrrrrr

Army 864th Engineers, Ft. Lewis, WA. 1975 to 1978

US Army 72-82

Fort Ord, CA
Fort Lewis, WA
Korea
Fort Sill, OK
Germany
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Not a vet, but thank you all for your service!

Marines 1957 to 1959 LCpl
Parris Island, SC
Camp Lejuene, NC
Quantico, VA

Not a vet, but thank you all for your service!

+1 on that I was in the last group of the lottery that got drawn for 19 year olds in 1971 my number was 91 a friend of mine that was born in 1952 and had that number the year before got drafted. They ended the draft and I never got called. Flirted with the Air force but to make a long story short never joined. In retrospect I wish I had then I wouldn't have married my first wife :( not that I'm bitter :) I would have been gone from my hometown.

1969-71 US Navy (Hospital Corpsman)
USN&MCRTC, Camden, NJ
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
Philadelphia Naval Base
Philadelphia Naval Hospital

USN & USNR
Reserves 1969 - 1973
Shipboard active duty 1973 -1977 (6th Fleet, 7th Fleet)
Reserves 1977 - 1979

US Army, 1978-1987.

GBA, and God bless our Commander-in-Chief.

Semper Fi

Thank you all for your service. We should say it more than once a year. I came very close to joining the army, even took the physical, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.

Not a vet, but thank you all for your service!

+1000000! :thumb:

1958 to 1962, 101st Airborne. 29 jumps. I got out 1 month before they jumped into Viet Nam. That's another story, a bad one.

Uncle Sam's Mouse Club
1976 - 1986

USN Retired
Nuclear Submarine Officer
Navy-Marine Corp. Parachutist

US Army / Vermont Army National Guard 1967 - Present
Fort Polk, LA
Pleiku, Vietnam 1969-1970
Vermont Army National Guard - Traditional Guardsman 1976-1996
Vermont Army National Guard - Active Guard 1996- Present
Bagram, Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom - Aug 2007-Mar 2008

My respect for you all.

May I answer this roll call on behalf of my daughter's father, now passed on.

82nd Airborne: Ft. Ord & Ft. Bragg (I think) 1968-1972
Vietnam, 1968-69

He loved his bike.

72 to 93 USN

Been all over the world and would like to see some of the places again.

Boot camp San Diego
Lakehurst NJ school
Guam
USS Hancock CVA 19
Moffett Field VP 46
Civilian
Rejoined went to
Adak Alaska
Rota Spain
USS Ranger out of Bremerton then San Diego
Instructor in Lakehurst NJ
USS Kitty Hawk started in Phildelphia and took her to San Diego around the Horn and
Retired.

Steven

US Army
Reserves
Active Duty 74 - 79
Ft Rucker
Ft Polk
Ft Sam Houston
Ft Wainwright
Ft Lewis - 76-79; 54th Medical Detachment
Reserves Dallas Naval Air Station
First Gulf War - 1 Day (go figure)

USAF, 1974-1980
Lackland AFB, Lowry AFB, Cannon AFB, Lakenheath AB UK, Sculthorpe AB UK, Many TDY's

NYANG 1982-2000 Retired First Sergeant

Desert Storm Activation Dec 1990-June 1991, Many European Deployments

462x0/2w1X0/8F000

1970- 1973 US Army
Fort Polk, LA
AFEES, Pittsburgh, PA

Disabled vet, [ but can still ride.] U.S. Army, 1st Infantry Div. [ Big Red One ] , Vietnam

1971 - 1976 USNR
Alameda Ca. - VA 304

72 to 93 USN

Been all over the world and would like to see some of the places again.


Rota Spain


Steven

Used to be one of the best duty stations in the world. Most stuff moved back to the States now. Also the population surrounding the base has grown enormously. Lots of traffic etc. Not the place it used to be (for better or worse). Stationed there 81-83; went back in 2005 - hardly recognized the place at first.

USAF & Illinois ANG 1992 - 2008.
I saw lots of Europe, Central America and South America thanks to the US Air Force.

US Army 77-79
1/41st FAB
Ft. Sill, OK
Schwabisch Gmund, Germany

US Army -

Enlisted: 1970-1973

Fort Dix, New Jersey
Fort Polk, Louisiana
Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Commissioned (Chaplain): 1976-2006

Fort Hamilton, New York
Fort Riley, Kansas
Hanau, Germany
Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Fort Meade, Maryland
Baumholer, Germany
Fort Stewart, Georgia

I can't raise my hand since I never served in the military. But I will raise my hand for my father and his three brothers who served in WWII, my two uncles who served in the Korean War, my brother-in-law who served in Vietnam and my nephew and two son-in-laws who served in Desert Storm.

Several other family members (women included) have served in our military during peace times and a few who are in the military now.

74 - 94 US Army retired.

Still serving as the only Dept of Army Civilian assigned to an active duty Army Signal company in California.

USMC 1972-1975...Semper Fi

'73-'77 I.D.F. 7th Armor Brigade

U.S. Navy
1973-1979
1980-1996
USS Hancock
USS Wabash
USS Kansas City
USS Pyro

USN 1963 to 1967.
Charleston, SC
Rota, Spain
NWS, Goose Creek, SC

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USMC
1st Marine Div
2nd Marine Div.
1970-1973
disabled.
SEMPER FI