View Full Version : How many of you have served in the Armed Service?
Red October1984
12-07-12, 05:17 PM
The Pearl Harbor thread got me wondering.
How many of you have served? If you have, list your country and branch.
:salute: :salute: :salute: :salute:
Madox58
12-07-12, 05:20 PM
United States
Army
82nd AirBorne Division.
:D
Royal Navy :arrgh!:
Cheers
Gary
Stealhead
12-07-12, 05:28 PM
US Air Force
Aerospace ground support equipment mechanic
Davis-Monthan AFB Tuscon AZ
Ramstein AB Germany
TDY Incirlik AB Turkey
TDY Bagram AB Afghanistan
Jimbuna
12-07-12, 05:47 PM
In the front line....without a weapon.
Madox58
12-07-12, 05:59 PM
In the front line....without a weapon.
And they call me crazy.
:salute:
Karle94
12-07-12, 06:02 PM
In one year
Norway
Royal Norwegian Navy
I have worked for the Royal Norwegian Airforce as an observer and in some cases, helping the grease monkeys fix up the F-16s.
USMC
2nd Marine Air Wing
Marine Air Support Squadron 1
1968-1972
US Army 1977-1984
1st Armored Division
7th Infantry Division
10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Armistead
12-07-12, 06:34 PM
USCG 82-86
Sailor Steve
12-07-12, 06:35 PM
US Navy, USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887), 1969-70. Four months of in Vietnam.
antikristuseke
12-07-12, 08:58 PM
Estonian Defense Forces
Kuperjanov Independant Infantry Division
Motorized Recon company
2008-2009
reignofdeath
12-07-12, 09:05 PM
USN :)
reignofdeath
12-07-12, 09:05 PM
US Navy, USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887), 1969-70. Four months of in Vietnam.
Stand Navy out to sea...
Platapus
12-07-12, 09:19 PM
USAF
20 Years No time off for good behaviour.
Belgian navy 1974 - 1980
MSI (minesweeper inshore) M477 Oudenaarde & M476 Merksem (sailor elec)
MSO (minesweeper ocean) M906 Breydel (petty officer electrician)
MHO (mine hunter ocean) M903 Dufour (petty officer electrician)
Frigate F911 Westdiep (petty officer electrician in section N.B.C.D.)(3 years)
Red October1984
12-07-12, 09:53 PM
Wow. You all probably have some great stories.
I salute you all. :rock:
Platapus
12-07-12, 09:58 PM
Wow. You all probably have some great stories.
"There I was, No ____, staring death in the face......" :D
"There I was, No ____, staring death in the face......" :D
"over enemy territory, out of ammo, out of gas and I had to piss...." :D
Stealhead
12-07-12, 11:48 PM
Wow. You all probably have some great stories.
I salute you all. :rock:
The best story I ever heard was from an ex Marine that I sometimes do jobs with.He was in the Marines for about 10 years between the Korean War and Vietnam.
Back when the US military controlled the Canal Zone there was a large reserve area used mainly for jungle survival training and he was going through some training course there.In this training at the end you got sent out on your own and had to find you way back to a location in limited amount of time in order to pass and you did not have any firearms.
As he was making his way through this section of jungle he heard this loud nose like a large animal or person moving through the brush and he called out thinking it was another Marine but got no answer so he knew what ever it was it was not a human and the noise was still approaching him so figured that it was a jaguar about to jump and grab him and he figured the best option was to charge right towards it and hopefully scare it away.So he starts running full speed towards the ever louder noise in bush and out comes a deadly..... armadillo :har:.Anyway after getting all worked up over an armadillo he sat there laughing for few minutes and kept on trekking his way through the jungle.
Red October1984
12-08-12, 12:08 AM
"over enemy territory, out of ammo, out of gas and I had to piss...." :D
Oh yea? I bet that
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"Happened"
I'm being serious here though. I got military members in my family and they tell some of the best stories. Did any of you fight in a war? Some of the above posts mentioned 'Nam... :arrgh!:
Stealhead
12-08-12, 12:10 AM
I bet it is true to some extent August most likely was in Grenada and the 10th special forces(airborne) that's Airborne Rangers they did an air drop it was a successful operation but a bit "cluster ducky" for example officers had to make long distance calls to the Pentagon to request air strikes.
I bet it is true to some extent August most likely was in Grenada it was a successful but a bit "cluster ducky" for example officers had to make long distance calls to the Pentagon to request air strikes.
Nope I wasn't there. That was an 82nd Airborne and USMC show and they did a great job. What you're describing is the normal course of events in any conflict man has ever fought. Fighting a war is an enormously complex and chaotic operation with many pitfalls and plain bad luck. The best army is the one that can adapt, improvise and overcome the many problems that always crop up and still get the mission accomplished, which apparently is exactly what those officers you mention did. Kudos to them.
:salute:
Randomizer
12-08-12, 12:55 AM
Canadian Army, Field Artillery.
1980-2008
CaptainMattJ.
12-08-12, 01:01 AM
:salute: Thank you for your service.
I have the misfortune of being a 4F in the eyes of the military, so i can't join, or i most certainly would go into the navy.
Madox58
12-08-12, 01:01 AM
the 10th special forces(airborne) that's Airborne Rangers
Huh?
:o
Rangers are Rangers.
Special Forces are Special Forces (or the Green Berets if you prefer).
AriesRCN
12-08-12, 01:06 AM
Royal Canadian Navy
HMCS Vancouver
HMCS Winnipeg
Soon to be Intel
Herr-Berbunch
12-08-12, 03:31 AM
UK
Royal Air Force, 1993 - 2005
Best days.
Sailor Steve
12-08-12, 04:03 AM
"There I was, No ____, staring death in the face......" :D
You know what they say about fairy tales and war stories...
Schroeder
12-08-12, 04:54 AM
German Army
Mechanized Infantry
2001-2002
(Just the ordinary 9 months service for draftees....and I was a pencil pusher which makes me the worst of the worst:D)
Stealhead
12-08-12, 10:24 PM
Nope I wasn't there. That was an 82nd Airborne and USMC show and they did a great job. What you're describing is the normal course of events in any conflict man has ever fought. Fighting a war is an enormously complex and chaotic operation with many pitfalls and plain bad luck. The best army is the one that can adapt, improvise and overcome the many problems that always crop up and still get the mission accomplished, which apparently is exactly what those officers you mention did. Kudos to them.
:salute:
Any armed force that does not have some good NCOs and good middle range officers is not going to perform very well in my opinion.Those are the people that have to adapt when things go wrong which they always will.It does even have to be in combat either just with general operations there always seems to be a monkey wrench at least in my experience that has to be over come.
ETR3(SS)
12-13-12, 10:35 AM
USN Submarine Force. Details below.
I wonder if there are many conscientious objectors here...:hmmm:
Platapus
12-13-12, 12:45 PM
I wonder if there are many conscientious objectors here...:hmmm:
Depends on how you define it?
Absent of a draft, one could assume that everyone who chooses not to volunteer for service can be a conscientious objector.
It is tough being a conchie when there is no draft.
Jimbuna
12-13-12, 07:47 PM
Right!
Wrong actually.. post your own thoughts and stop calling people out.
Interesting couple of PM's from folk who have been on IRC tonight.
Not wrong at all, I have previously stated I have served,not in this thread but in other threads and it should be known,so here you get the answer again, in the Swedish Navy in the years 1979-1984.And your service?
Jimbuna
12-13-12, 07:57 PM
No comment.
I could be a consci but then again I have two wound scars to prove otherwise and there are people on this forum here who have seen them.
You've got some nerve, I have not questioned your wounds,and did not know this.
Stealhead
12-13-12, 08:12 PM
Depends on how you define it?
Absent of a draft, one could assume that everyone who chooses not to volunteer for service can be a conscientious objector.
It is tough being a conchie when there is no draft.
Not really you can be a conscientious objector only thing is you make that choice way back at MEPS when you first enlist after that is very hard to change it from what I understand.
After that point you talk to your CO and a shrink. and go through some lengthy process this is to keep someone from not deploying because they "suddenly had a change of heart" which i agree with if you are truly a conscientious objector you have felt that way all of your life.
At least when I enlisted at some point on some paper work here or there they did ask that question.I never meet anyone in the Air Force that was a conscientious objector though.
Conscientious objectors have even be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Bennett_(conscientious_objector)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_G._LaPointe,_Jr.
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