Any Military Veterans Here?

[Special Investigator]

Military veterans, stand forth and be recognized.

Branch and year(s) of service please.

[HotelSecurity]

I tired to join the Armed Forces once. They did not need people at the time. I was rejected because I had an ingrown toe nail!!!

[Arff312]

USAF 2003- current.

[GCMC Security]

USMC Active Duty 95-01
Reserves 01-05

[Rooney]

U.S. Navy f-14 weapons systems 1984-1989
USS Kitty Hawk cv-63
USS Nimitz cvn-68

[Bill Warnock]

Active AF, 2 Apr 56 - 10 Mar 66.
ANG Technician Dec 1968 - Jan 71
AF Reserve Technician Jan 71 - Jan 73
Enjoy the day,
Bill

[Special Investigator]

US Army 1973 - 1975

Door gunner aboard OH-6's & UH-1's

Spent most of my time in Thailand & Panama.



Thailand - circa 1974

[Rooney]

[QUOTE=Special Investigator]US Army 1973 - 1975

Door gunner aboard OH-6's & UH-1's

Spent most of my time in Thailand & Panama.
QUOTE]

Thailand....... That brings back memories.

[Special Investigator]

Thailand....... That brings back memories.

Good ones I hope....

We flew operations out of Nakhon Phanom air base located in northeast Thailand, about 9-10 miles from Nakhon Phanom City. AKA, Naked Fanny, NKP or T-55 on the navigation charts. Aprox 230 miles from Hanoi.

There were no tactical fighters or strategic bombers at NKP. Only old propeller driven aircraft and some helo's. We often inserted and extracted Special Operation Commando's in/out of Laos and Cambodia. Some of the aircraft had civilian markings, some had no markings. This was because the mission of Nakhon Phanom was that of an Air Commando Unit. Flight operations from the base were to support ground personnel, with the support of indigenous personnel in Laos.

Here is a pic of the base I found off the net ...

[ACP01]

Us Navy 1973-1977

[HotelSecurity]

How does the draft in the US work?

[Rooney]

How does the draft in the US work?

We don't have a draft (right now). We're all volunteer.

When they did have the draft I was too young to know.

[Bill Warnock]

Special Investigator:
The spelling of these two names will be atrocious but here goes. Tok kle and oo-ta-pou Thailand. Tankers in one and fighters at the other. Went there from Andersen in a C-97 with the windows covered over to drop off "bags" of stuff. Normally you got of an aircraft while refueling, we didn't. We found out "where we went" about three months later.
I found out more about those places from the History Channel this and last year than in 1965.
Enjoy the day,
Bill

[Lawson]

How does the draft in the US work?

http://www.sss.gov/WHHAP.HTM

[copelandamuffy]

http://www.usscadmus.com/Main.html

United State Naval Reserve 1968-1974
Basic Training Great Lakes { our as we called it Great Mistakes} during
the coldest winter in 1968.
Stationed aboard USS Cadmus at Newport, Rhode Island
Postal Clerk 3rd Class E-4
Also duty at San Juan, and Newport Naval Stations

Best duty was San Juan. Cold beer, and wild sexy beautifull women.
Sandy warm beaches.


And as mentioned above, Great Lakes outside of Chicago
was brutal. I am used to snow being from Boston, but
not day after day. And guess who shoveled snow, Yup the
the recruits. We stood at attention for 3 hours in an ice storm,
while our drill instructor an Aviation Boatswain Mate 1st class sat in the barracks and drank coffee