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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:32:33 PM EDT
[#1]
1985 - ...
Hit 38 years at the end of next month. Beats milking cows. |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:41:18 PM EDT
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36 years ago:
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:42:41 PM EDT
[#3]
Yes, but only for the discount at Lowe's. I needed a new cordless drill.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:43:14 PM EDT
[#4]
No. Only the ANG.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:46:50 PM EDT
[#5]
‘79-‘82.
Army Tropic Lightning. |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:48:02 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryI joined around the same time, but very few pictures. I wish it was as easy to take pics back then as it is now. So many memories exist only in my head, and sadly, they fade. 
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:48:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1985 - ... Hit 38 years at the end of next month. Beats milking cows. Damn. God bless you, man. 
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:50:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1985 - ... Hit 38 years at the end of next month. Beats milking cows. This was me in 1985. In the Danish "Home Guard" ... which is kinda sorta like the National Guard, except you kept your gear, guns and ammo at your house. 
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:50:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. Only the ANG.  An honest man!
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:56:15 PM EDT
[#10]
Maybe
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Posted: 2/8/2023 9:58:03 PM EDT
[#11]
I tried joining but I was too tall.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:00:33 PM EDT
[#12]
 Kid on the right |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:00:36 PM EDT
[#13]
Yes, sir. Army 11B.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:24:40 PM EDT
[#14]
 There Was One?, Cruiser Car Club, Dork, Stripes scene - 1981 |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:34:28 PM EDT
[#15]
I was like the infantry of the air force... so no
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:39:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:41:32 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. God bless you, man. Yes, pray for the institutionalized. 
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:44:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This was me in 1985. In the Danish "Home Guard" ... which is kinda sorta like the National Guard, except you kept your gear, guns and ammo at your house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1715/Hjemmevaern-984252.jpg Interesting that you had a G3 in the Home Guard, and Garands in the Life Guard.
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:44:39 PM EDT
[#19]
20 years...13BM5 (8"nuke) 98G4LRU 98C 97E
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:45:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:53:51 PM EDT
[#21]
May 1967 - May 1973 US Army
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Posted: 2/8/2023 10:55:21 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Interesting that you had a G3 in the Home Guard, and Garands in the Life Guard. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This was me in 1985. In the Danish "Home Guard" ... which is kinda sorta like the National Guard, except you kept your gear, guns and ammo at your house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1715/Hjemmevaern-984252.jpg Interesting that you had a G3 in the Home Guard, and Garands in the Life Guard. The regiment was a weird place. |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 11:12:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/8/2023 11:19:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This was me in 1985. In the Danish "Home Guard" ... which is kinda sorta like the National Guard, except you kept your gear, guns and ammo at your house. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1715/Hjemmevaern-984252.jpg Is that the gun from "Heat"? |
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Posted: 2/8/2023 11:20:22 PM EDT
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25 yrs USN. Retired O-5 in 2017. Couldn’t get out fast enough. Obama years were tough
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:08:02 AM EDT
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Enlisted during Nixon's Watergate scandal.....Retired when Clintoon was getting some strange.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:11:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just celebrated my 6-year anniversary of joining. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/273720/4ca_jpg-2703977.JPG  It's my tenth year of being a civilian. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:00:46 PM EDT
[#28]
The sticker tells the cold, cold story.
Deer strike on the way back to base from Bismarck. Missed two of the deer, but the third one turned around and ran back in front of me.  |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:02:37 PM EDT
[#29]
Yes.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:06:26 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The sticker tells the cold, cold story. Deer strike on the way back to base from Bismarck. Missed two of the deer, but the third one turned around and ran back in front of me. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6492/NDdeerstrike-2704367.jpg How did you hit a deer? Its not like they were hiding in the woods beside the road. 
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:06:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryHoly Stifler Clone!!! |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:11:26 PM EDT
[#32]
Nope, until 15 I was stuck in Korea with my family. My school had 30 kids k-12. Camp Casey was a shit hole. From there moved to Barstow for high school.
Took the asvab and was waiting for my 18th to enlist and I crashed my dirtbike hard broke most the bones in my ankle and arthrosis of the subtalor joint left me unable to roll my ankle so I could no longer pass the medical...... First generation of Americans in my family to not serve....... |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:18:30 PM EDT
[#33]
Working on my 24 year. So ready to retire.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 12:31:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I joined around the same time, but very few pictures. I wish it was as easy to take pics back then as it is now. So many memories exist only in my head, and sadly, they fade. Quote HistoryQuoted: I joined around the same time, but very few pictures. I wish it was as easy to take pics back then as it is now. So many memories exist only in my head, and sadly, they fade. Yeah, the picture I posted from my time in the Home Guard is literally the ONLY picture I have from the two years I serve in that branch. And I only recent re-discovered that photo (a few years ago), going through some of my parent's stuff after we had to put mom in a home. Other than that, there are NO photos of me from that time.One thing that was pretty neat when I was active duty was that every once in a while, when there was a big field exercise, the regiment would hire a professional photographer who would just float around, and take a bunch of photos, and then when the exercise was over, the next week the photos would be displayed somewhere (I think the cafeteria?), and you could order the ones you wanted. So I have a couple of photos of myself (or my unit) out in the field. For example:   |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 1:18:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You’re not black after all! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Sure, here's me and my mate defending Swedish Army HQ from the Russian horde. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/135411/E7e3QEaXIAYTFVb_jpg-2701958.JPG You’re not black after all! I'm albino. 100% Zimbabwean. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 1:40:06 PM EDT
[#36]
Army 80 - 87
Initially 16C Hercules Fire Control Crewmember. It was a prerequisite for 24P school. Then 24P Defense Acquisition Radar Mechanic until 84. Then I reenlisted as a 26Y Satellite Communications Equipment Repair. 24P and 26Y were both dead end jobs. 24P because Nike was on it's way out. 26Y because they were planning to deploy a bunch of new systems shortly after I reenlisted so they flooded the MOS with new people. Then the program was canceled leaving more people in the MOS than job slots in the field. So I got out. My recruiter initially wanted me to go 93B Air Traffic Controller, but I was enlisting with a friend. He talked me into the Nike MOS. First week of basic a feather allergy from the pillow uncle Sugar gave him put my friend in the hospital. That put him a 6-week cycle behind me. 6-months later he failed out of 24P school, and they shipped him off to somewhere as a 16C. So much for a buddy. If I had gone 93B I would have graduated school a few months after Reagan fired the FCC air traffic controllers. After a year of OJT I would have been eligible for an early out and walked right into an FCC ATC job. I have always regretted the decision not to go 93B. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 2:46:44 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I tried joining but I was too tall. @winddummy82 That's ok, I like Rhodesia, too. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 3:38:00 PM EDT
[#38]
11B1V with 2/75, 4 trips to AFG and one to Iraq
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Posted: 2/9/2023 3:40:58 PM EDT
[#39]
If there was a medical reason for not joining, you should just tell people your MOS was 4 Foxtrot.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:12:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @winddummy82 That's ok, I like Rhodesia, too.  |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:14:28 PM EDT
[#41]
I didn’t want to be Drafted, so I enlisted.
It made sense at the time. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:17:08 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryI worked with a guy who said he was going to join the Marine Corps; but his Mother wouldn’t let him.  He was serious. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:17:50 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup. And will retire on the 28th of this month. 25 glory filled years. LIFER! |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:19:12 PM EDT
[#44]
Yes
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:35:25 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn’t want to be Drafted, so I enlisted. It made sense at the time. In my situation it made total sense. I wanted to be in particular regiment, and if you enlisted/volunteered, you could choose where you went. If you were drafted, they could send you anywhere they wanted/needed you. |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:50:08 PM EDT
[#46]
I voted.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:51:02 PM EDT
[#47]
Yes and retired.
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Posted: 2/9/2023 7:55:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I see your M16a1, ALICE Web gear, OD green field pants FTX photo, and raise you.........the same shit, lol. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/463878/P1000866_zps9b3424fb_jpg-2702404.JPG |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 9:03:00 PM EDT
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yup.
funny how all these tactical mall ninja's, fast food worker's, etc say they would "punch a drill sgt in the face" cause no one can tell them what to do. I'm sure your boss at McDonalds tells you what to do, toughguys. Dont underestimate drills...all my DI's were ripped. I mean come on, all they do is work out all day and smoke joe's (at least they used to, but it's a kinder, gentler army now). |
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Posted: 2/9/2023 9:12:45 PM EDT
[#50]
Girl Scouts count?
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