How many of us have had military service?

Beesme · June 01, 2016, 11:21:29 AM

81-84 USN ..uss los alamos . Holyloch Scotland .. Ports naval shipyard . philly and norfolk !!!

Ed Hackenbruch · June 01, 2016, 01:17:40 PM

No Mark, turns out that Island Time would have taken more money than we had.

But we went with option #2 which was to go back up to Strawberry Az., where we lived before we bought the bus, and buy a place here. Moved in on May 12th and still getting settled in.

Sealark · June 01, 2016, 09:50:43 PM

USAF '70-'74, 2 yrs stateside as an ER Tech and 2 tours in SEA as a Medic and an ER Tech. I salute all those we saved and pray for the families of all those we couldn't. Freedom is NOT Free.

ABart · June 03, 2016, 12:36:19 PM

USAR 2007 - present

Boomer · June 03, 2016, 04:54:54 PM

Good choice Ed, maybe we will see you down south this winter. Will be at McDowell Park and in the Santa Cruz valley.

Dave5Cs · June 03, 2016, 08:02:32 PM

@ Beesme, USS los alamos . Holyloch Scotland was cut into 4 sections and shipped back to Mare Island in Vallejo, California in 1944 where my Dad was an engineer for the war effort working on drafting Sub parts and systems for them. He told me that it was put back together and sent back to Holyloch Scotland . 4 times it was decommissioned and then reconstructed and system brought up to date over the years and brought back into service. I believe it was 1929 to 1989.

Side note while working there they were short truck drivers to build piers and dump gravel into the water for dikes to hold water back. also at Mare Island. They would back up the semi trailers over the water on long narrow runways and then hit the bottom dump and pull it forward and out then fill up and do it again. Well some of the guys weren't really truck drivers and he said they would miss their marks or the air brakes would fail and into the drink they would go truck and all. 2 of them actually landed on one of the subs that were sitting under the truck temporary bridges.

Dave5Cs

pabusnut · June 05, 2016, 07:12:34 PM

USAF Active 1985-1992, USAF Inactive Reserve 1993-2004, PA Air National Guard 2004-Present
201st RED HORSE SQ

Lead, Follow, Or Get The Hell Out Of The Way!!!

DoubleEagle · June 10, 2016, 05:00:13 PM

Of the 24 Veterans that responded, 12 were Army Veterans, 7 Navy, 3 Air Force, and 1 each for the Marine Corps and Coast Guard. This seems to reflect the size of the different services in troop numbers. I was thinking for a while that there might be more Navy and Air Force Veterans with buses because they miss being in a metal tube. On the other hand, you could make the case that Army Veterans long for solid metal buses because they did not feel secure in tents and wooden shacks. In any event, the number of Veterans within this bulletin board is a relatively small (and special) percentage.

carneybus · June 11, 2016, 07:48:23 AM

Marine Corps 2006-2014. Did two Tours Iraq one Afghan. survived 3 IED's, and been shot at multiple times. I'm still here. somedays are good and somedays are bad. I would go back and do it all over again.

carneybus · June 11, 2016, 07:55:49 AM

Quote from: usbusin on May 29, 2016, 06:37:43 PM
USMC 1960-1964 Motor Transport Officer - 8th Motor Transport, Force Troops, Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina
USS De Soto County LST-1141 - Cuban Missile Crisis

Little do these guys know we travel in pairs. I was a recovery chief in 29 palms, Camp Le Jeune, and New river. the trucks have changed a little bit. but it's the same ole Motor pool. I also became a PMI. let me know how the conversion goes.

edvanland · June 11, 2016, 05:16:22 PM

USMC 1958 to 1964 have a grandson in Air Force currently deployed.

DoubleEagle · June 11, 2016, 08:12:20 PM

Quote from: carneybus on June 11, 2016, 07:48:23 AM
Marine Corps 2006-2014. Did two Tours Iraq one Afghan. survived 3 IED's, and been shot at multiple times. I'm still here. somedays are good and somedays are bad. I would go back and do it all over again.

I was in the Army, but I have always admired the Marines. In Vietnam, they seemed to have the oldest equipment and served in the hot spots. I hope it was better in Iraq and Afghanistan. Things get better over time; the sharp memories of bad situations get softer.

ldammeyer · June 13, 2016, 03:42:16 PM

USAF/OHANG - Retired - 24 years 1JUN1988 - 18AUG2012 - 4 years as Cryptographic Maintenance Technician, Depot Level & 20 years as F16 Crew Chief.

Singing Land Cruiser · June 15, 2016, 10:55:19 AM

I was a Corpsman for 8.9 years. Loved Guam and serving with 8&I in DC.
God Bless all that served, God Bless everyone.
HM2 (DOC) Hargis

Oonrahnjay · June 15, 2016, 12:36:09 PM

Quote from: carneybus on June 11, 2016, 07:55:49 AMLittle do these guys know we travel in pairs. I was a recovery chief in 29 palms, Camp Le Jeune, and New river. the trucks have changed a little bit. but it's the same ole Motor pool. I also became a PMI. let me know how the conversion goes.

Hey, James, hope you enjoyed my part of the country. My dad was born just a couple of hundred meters away from the north-eastern corner of Camp Lejeune (little village of Hubert, NC). My greatgrandfather was disabled (an infection locked his knee) and so he and my greatgrandmother picked part of her parents' farm that had a running creek so that he could build a mill since he wasn't physically up to farming any more. Many of my father's cousins and aunts and uncles lost their farm land on the western side of Hwy 172 when C. Lejeune was established.

BTW, I was USMCR 1967-1971.