54 years for me
I see you retired with gold strips I spent 7 years and got kicked out for to long in hospital (100%) Feb 18, 1975. In 1975 if you went in for a hangnail they discharged you, 'Nam winding down. I went in in Dec 7, 1968 and ended up on an SSBN. Played in Med and North Atlantic, I was a Nuc MM1. At one time the sub fall 300' in state 7 seas, seen people that time I had not seen the whole patrol. Only 113 guys were on that patrol. After a reactor restart we went on our way but the captain was not happy with the dive control officer. The XO and Engineering Officer was playing games calling it training. They did a partial SCRAM putting us on the MG set and the diesel gen set. At snorkel depth, wave shut the snorkel tube flapper, the Ltjg hit the kill button on the diesel at which time the RO dropped all rods on the reactor per regs. The chief pulled the chicken switches which put us on the surface in some very bad waves. You don't get sea sick on a nucular sub but I seen several guys that did that day.
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Thank you for sharing.
Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
"I don't have hobbies - I'm developing a robust post-apocalyptic skill set"
I may be discharged and retired but I'm sure I did not renounce the oath that I solemnly swore!
I enlisted during Vietnam. There was nothing fancy like that for me. What I remember most was the physical and the guys faking things to get out of the draft. I had a difficult time understanding why they were doing that. I was seventeen and thought I was serving my country, like all Americans should. I have a standard picture from Boot Camp that I’ve always hated.
Congrats on your anniversay BrassMagnet and thanks to all who served. Will have been retired from USAF 27yrs in Dec, punched out at 18yrs, 8mo, C-E (comm electronics) Master tech and MSgt (E7).
Companion field to yours, NAVAIDS, and used to razz the Radar and Radio techs all the time. It was all friendly banter as we were in the same squadron division.
Always had a chuckle when I got a call telling me the glideslope was wrong, "no sir it is not, my antennas don't move, tell the RAPCON controller to recalibrate their scope". Enjoyed informing the air traffic guys how MY comm systems really worked and could quote AFM 55-8 chapter and verse from memory.
Hello BrassMagnet,
Well another year for you, and another for me. I didn't post it here, but after 38+ years, I finally retired back in January of 2021. I'm still hanging around with our rich uncle. I'm working as a contractor for a joint command. I have a little ways to go before I can retire-retire.
Take care.
- Have a good day and a better tomorrow...
Wow! Fortynine years and I am still enjoying it!
I plan on applying for social security next month.
"welcome home" thank-you for your service & have a nice 4th and yes times flies when your doing something you love to do, sure was a good feeling knowing you guys where floating around out there if we needed help on the ground again thanks for having our six.
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Looking for a Hensly &Gibbs #258 any thing from a two cavity to a 10cavityI found a new one from a member here
Are you that nice young lady in the polka dot short- dress thing? You sound different on the phone
I Am Descended From Men Who Would Not Be Ruled
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
There is enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world
Ronald Reagan.
Not me. All she could talk about was with five females on a carrier with a five thousand man crew, she would find a man to marry. Not I! I retired from USS Nimitz on a Friday and on the following Monday a Female was checking in to be my Departmental Master Chief. I escaped just in time!
No male ever transferred to a carrier to fill that position. Prior to that Monday, the Department Head selected his choice from all of the available E-7, E-8, and E-9 personnel in his department.
Now it has been 50 years.
Life has been good to me so far!
Bet the 50 years out went faster then the 20 in. Thanks for your service Ron. Happy 4th.
Steve,
Life Member NRA
Colorado Rifle Club member
Rocky Mtn Gun Owners member
NAGR member
My enlistment was not photographed even though there were several of us, all Army, as for most of us it was the result of a special invitation from our friends and neighbors. It was also not Independence Day, rather 6 Apr 1971. Later that year the Draft was suspended, then abolished in favor of the All-Volunteer Army.
I too served with some great folks. I finished my 20 with the 98 Division, Tng as a Combat Engineer Instructor. Looking back 53 years, it was a different world.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and the memories.
Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
"I don't have hobbies - I'm developing a robust post-apocalyptic skill set"
I may be discharged and retired but I'm sure I did not renounce the oath that I solemnly swore!
My avatar is a 1911 I built for my Son's retirement gift, 23 years a PJ/CRO he came along in 69, two years after I got out of the 2/319th 101st Abn Div in 1967. I was an 82c5P, a Chief Surveyor, LRP.
My father was US Navy, a WWII CPO - pilot, he flew Hudson Bombers, flying the North Atlantic anti Sub patrols. Was his bomber that sent the message Sighted Sub Sank Same.
Daughter was USAF S/Sgt Desert Storm, Scud hit the barracks building next to her's and she spent 3 days helping the injured.
Son was a Major USAF PJ/ CRO /Delta team commander, up for Lt Col when he was medically discharged/retired, due to multiple combat related injuries. That is what they call having 7 fractured vertebra, combat related. Odd thing is we all got shot at, no one got hit and we all survived multiple battles and wars.
A better picture is probably the result of the PJ/CRO's quiet work. This is "The Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell at the Porsche plant in Stuttgart Germany, where he went with his rescue team. Marcus bailed from the hospital, still weeping blood, to go with the rescue team on R&R. My son, the team leader, took this picture.
When they flew into Rammstein, they asked Marcus where he wanted to go, he said he always though going to the Porsche plant would be a fun thing to do, so away they went to the plant and test track.
The survivors are why you serve. I buried 11 friends while I was in the 101st as a member of the honor guard, so am very familiar with what happens to those that are not so fortunate as we.
Have a great 4th.
“There is a remedy for all things, save death.“
Cervantes
“Never give up, never quit.”
Robert Rogers
Roger’s Rangers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
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