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Me: Drafted in '68. Did Basic @ Ft. Jackson, S.C.
Qualified with the M-14.
Advanced training (offset pressman) @ Ft. Belvoir Virginia.
Spent the remainder of my service running a press on an Army facility in Kawasaki & lived in Yokohama, Japan. Length of service: 2 yrs.
Rank @ discharge: Specialist 5th. Class E-5.
 
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Basic Ft Dix, NJ 1980
Ft Huachuca, AZ
Ft McClellan, AL - Military Police School
Ft Polk, LA Duty station - MP
Field Station Kunia, Hawaii - MP
Ft McClellan, AL - Operations SGT MP
Camp Humphreys Korea - Physical Security MP
Ft Lewis, WA - Physical Security MP
Helena Montana - Recruiter
254th Army Support Group - - Physical Security MP
254th BSB - Operations NCO
Retired Jan 2000 - Staff Sergeant US Army

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Enlisted in USAF Reserves in 1984.
- Aerial Gunner on AC-130a's in 911th Special Ops Squadron
Enlisted in CO Air Nat'l Guard.
- Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist on A-7d's in 140th CAMS
Commissioned in 1988 and became a Security Police/Forces Officer.
- Dyess AFB, TX, 88-92 in 96th SPS
-- Deployed in '91 to Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia in 4401st TFW
- Upper Heyford, UK, 92-93 in 20 SPS
- Sembach AB, Germany, 93-95 commanding 601st SPS
- University of SC for AF Institute of Technology masters program, 95-97
- HQ AMC, Scott AFB, IL 97-99
-- Deployed with HQUSCENTCOM/JRAC to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait
- Charleston AFB, SC, 99-01, commanding 437th SFS
- Ft Leavenworth, KS, Army Command and General Staff College, 01-02
- Elmendorf AFB, AK, 02-04, commanding 3rd SFS
-- Deployed to Kuwait, Iraq, UAE, and Jordan
- Pentagon, DC, 04-06
- Carlisle Barracks, PA, US Army War College, 06-07
- MacDill AFB, HQUSSOCOM, 07-10 as HQ Cmdt then IG
- Travis AFB, CA, 10-12, commanding 60th Mission Support Group
- Retired in 2012 as an O-6/Colonel and have been teaching AFJROTC at a local high school ever since. Life is pretty darned good!
 
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Enlisted Navy 1969
Boot camp and basic hospital corps school, San Diego, CA 1969
Operating room tech school, Corpus Christi, TX 1970
Optician tech school, Williamsburg, VA 1971
POIC Eye Clinic and POIC ER, MCAS Cherry Point, NC 1971 -1973
Rate/Rank HM2 E5
Discharge 1973
 
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Enlisted in the Air Force in Aug 1966
Basic training Lackland AFB Texas.
Security Police Lackland AFB Texas
K.I Sawyer AFB MI (SAC) Air Police 1966-1967
14th Aerial Port Sq. Cam Rahn Bay RVN, OLAD#8 Cam Ly Airfield Dalat City RVN. 12/1967-12/1968. Air Cargo Specialist
70th BW Clintion-Sherman AFB OK.(Sac) 1/69-8/70 with a 6 month TDY to Okinawa for Operation Arc Light. Air Cargo Spec.
Wursmith AFB MI 379th BW (SAC) 9/70-3/72 Air Cargo Supervisor
603 MasSQ (MAC) 4/72-4/74 Kadana AB Okinawa Air Cargo/Air Passenger Supervisor
1369 Photo Sq. (MAC) 5/74-1-78 Vandenberg AFB Ca. Motion Picture Supervison.
410th Bomb Wg (SAC) K.I. Sawyer AFB Mi. Inventory Manager Supervisor. 5/78-86 Retired, E-6 TECH SGT
I severed because I could, not because others couldn't but because others didn't. Proud of my service.
 
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I salute all my brothers replying here and wish you well. Feel free to include any interesting or funny experiences while you served. Got to admit, going from civilian life into Basic was a shock...and from Basic to Japan, even more so.
In the end I will say I returned a better person than when I first went in.
 
Backlighting said:
In the end I will say I returned a better person than when I first went in.
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My parents wanted me to go straight to college right after high school, but I wasn't ready. I would have done a lot better in high school if I had applied myself, but I didn't. So, I enlisted. When I got home after service and started college, I was ready and I took it seriously. As a result, I was on the Dean's Honor List every semester, and graduated with honors...even working full time in the evenings at a local hospital. (The GI Bill paid for my tuition, but didn't pay for my rent and food!) I give full credit to the discipline I learned during my time in service.
 
Enlisted USMC - Sep 1959
Graduated Boot Camp - Dec 1959, Paris Island
Infantry Training Regiment - Jan 1960 to Apr 1960, Camp Lejeune
2nd Btn/8th Marines - May 1960 to Jul 1962, Camp Lejeune
3rd Btn/3rd Marines - Aug 1963 to May 1965, Okinawa
May 1965 to Jan 1967, Vietnam
Recon Training - Feb 1967 to Aug 1967, Camp Lejuene
3rd Recon Btn - Sep 1967 to Mar 1968, Vietnam
Stateside wound recovery - Apr 1968 to Oct 1968, various locations
2nd Recon Btn - Nov 1968 to Dec 1970, Camp Lejeune
3rd Recon Btn - Jan 1970 to Dec 1970, Vietnam
2nd Recon Btn - Jan 1970 to Dec 1979, Camp Lejeune
OCS Trainer - Jan 1980 to Dec 1982, Quantico
2nd Recon Btn - Jan 1983 to Sep 1989, Camp Lejeune
Oct 1983, Brief duty,Grenada invasion
Retired - Sep 1989

Almost 3 decades after retirement and I still miss it. Semper Fi.
 
Basic Training & AIT (MP School) Ft McClellan, Alabama Aug 77
2nd MP Co, 2nd Inf Div, Camp Casey Korea Dec 77-Dec 78
Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma AZ
MP Investigator School, Ft McClellan, AL
DLI-FLC, German Language School
42nd MP (Customs), Stuttgart Field Office

Good Times
 
I know I cannot hold a candle to those of you who served.

Air Force ROTC 1970-1972.
Life Member VFW Auxiliary
Vice Commander Sons of the American Legion Squadron 321. Qualifying ancestor was maternal grandfather who served in France during World War I.

To those who were in our armed forces, thank you for your service.
 
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Enlisted USMC August 1969
Boot camp..MCRD San Diego
ITR Camp Pendleton Calif
MOS 3516 School Camp Pendleton 1970
Staging Bn
!st Mar Div FMF-PAC
Camp Pendleton 1972
EAS 1973... Corporal E4
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Enlisted August 1969
MCRD San Diego honor platoon 3152
ITR camp Pentleton
Computer Science school, Quantico, VA MOS 4024
Marine supply depot, Phil. PA
Camp McTureous, Okinawa (1st MEF)
Camp Pentleton, 24 area
Separated early out June 1972, Corporal.
 
Commissioned 2 LT in May 1978 upon graduation from Eastern KY University.
MP Officers Basic School
Engineer Officers Advanced Course
CAS3
Ordnance Officers Advance Course
KY Army National Guard
PA Army National Guard
Army Reserve in WV
100th Division, Louisville KY
Deployed to Kuwait Nov 04-Sep 05
Retired May 06 as Lieutenant Colonel with 28 years service.
 
Served from Jun 63 to Jun 67
Basic Training and Air Police School at Lackland AFB, TX
1st duty station was Clark AB, Philippines for 18 months, with a TDY assignment to Bien Hoa, Viet Nam for 2 1/2 months or so.
Came back Stateside and spent the rest of my enlistment at Webb AFB, TX, which was a pilot training base.
Discharged as an Airman 1st Class.
 
Drafted April 1st, 1969, (They weren't fooling).
Basic training, Ft. Knox, KY. Qualified expert, M-14.
AIT. Ft. Gordon, GA. 95B, Military Police. Qualified expert, M-16. Sharpshooter, 45 pistol.
1st MP Co. 1st Inf. Div. Vietnam Sept. '69-May '70. 720th Bn. 18th MP Bde. Vietnam. May-Sept, '70.
225th MP Det. 1st Army. Indiantown Gap Military Res. Pennsylvania. Sept. '70-March, '71.
 
Basic at Ft Polk LA in early 1970, then Clerk Typist school at Ft Leonard Wood. Selected for Army Security Agency and sent to Hawaii as the
Morning Report Clerk for Headquarters Company of ASA. Made E-5 and discharged on Thanksgiving day 1971. Probably the best duty anyone could have had!
 
Drafted Aug 1969.
Entered Boot camp at Ft. Dix NJ
AIT Radio School 05B Ft. Dix NJ about 6 weeks.
AIT Teletype School 05C Ft. Gordon GA much longer.
Teletype / crypto operator HHC 1st Avn Bde Long Binh RVN April 70 - Mar 71
Separated SP4.
Seems like a previous life. But I still have dreams of being re-activated.
 
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