Who is or was in the military and what branch?

[SEALTEAMTHREE]

Want to know the best part? I have been in the Navy almost 11 years, and NEVER been on a ship. He he he he he.

You lucky bastard! I was on a LSD for the better part of two years! You have no idea-its bad enough to be away from solid ground for more than a year, but when the ship's full of a bunch of marines.....it hurts just thinking about it! BTW whats your rate? Good to see we've got some more Navy here than just me....hooyah!

[jnas]

Navy 1988 - 1992

[Warthog]

SEAL - just curious, what's your age? I figured most of the SEAL guys were on the young side.

Navy is actually one of the services that I would never join....only because of the ship aspect. Just not something I would like to do...my grandfather was a Marine during WWII in the Pacific. His brother was also.......who was killed when the Japs torpedoed his troop ship. My dad and then me was named after him. I plan on continuing it with a son I (hopefully) will have.

Warthog

[kenyg]

Cool things -

I participated in a national level search for Vietnam era MIA's - we did that for several years - never found anything concrete, but I felt proud to be a part of it.

On a temp. assignment to the NSA, some of the things I saw and participated in literally knocked my socks off.

Breifing Gen. Vessey (chairman of the joint cheifs at the time).

Getting rid of a captured store of Cuban munitions on the island of Grenada ... we just had to shoot them all up (it was a blast)

Working as opfor, breaking into a US Mech inf. Co's comm net, and convincing the CO to dump his fuel cause it was contaminated, and that the POL trucks were on the way to restock (there were no POL trucks) -that was hilarious.

not-so-cool things,

Genius commander picks a nice spot for our FTX, happens to be a dry lake bed. Then it starts to rain, it rained for 10 days. One day, we were under 2 feet of water, the trucks were in mud up to their axles - what a cluster f--- that was.

Chute detail at Ft. Bragg - 'you'll just pick up the chutes from a heavy drop'. OK, they dropped 24 2000lb pallots. The pallots were loaded with ammo boxes full of sand. Their were 5 of us. We were not allowed to empty the boxes of sand onto the ground (God forbid you add more sand to the sandy dropzone). So we had to load, by hand, the boxes filled with sand onto a flatbed tractor-trailor - so it could take them to the landfill. It took us nearly 18hrs.

- the roadmarch in 102 degree heat (18miles) is not one of my favorite memories either.

Ken

[daveleau]

Chute detail at Ft. Bragg - 'you'll just pick up the chutes from a heavy drop'. OK, they dropped 24 2000lb pallots. The pallots were loaded with ammo boxes full of sand. Their were 5 of us. We were not allowed to empty the boxes of sand onto the ground (God forbid you add more sand to the sandy dropzone). So we had to load, by hand, the boxes filled with sand onto a flatbed tractor-trailor - so it could take them to the landfill. It took us nearly 18hrs.

Stories like this are the reason I went from Army ROTC in college to the Air Force...
Dave

[Mike]

His brother was also.......who was killed when the Japs torpedoed his troop ship.

Hey Wart, come on now...Wanna back off?

[SEALTEAMTHREE]

I'm 22. To get into the SEAL program, you can't be any older than 26, however, there have been exceptions made for people who have washed out of the program in the past, or have BUD/S on their contract from when they initally signed and were never permitted to enter into the program. There are SEALs who are older than 35 who have been in the Teams for several years, and even some middle-aged officers who primarily do administrative and desk jobs (although they can keep up with us "young" guys).

<edit> mis-spelled "do"

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by Mike

Hey Wart, come on now...Wanna back off?

What are you talking about?

[ribbitski]

Wow, my post just bumped the Army ahead of the Air Force by one!!!

I have been in the Army since 1997. Basic training at Fort Jackson followed by AIT at Fort Eustis.

First permanent duty station was in Germany (3 years) followed by my current station at Fort Bragg.

Ribb

[Warthog]

Mike is 1/2 Japanese, that's what he's talking about

I don't hold any animosity, except for them @ that point in time (it was war, afterall). Same with the Germans....I own a German car and highly respect the Germans, even for their genious during WWII

Warthog