[Big_Papa1080]

Who was in, where were you, and what rank were you when you got out/are you currently? I just started to notice a lot of monkeys were.

I'll start. I'm in the Army, stationed at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany. I'm PFC as of the moment.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Who was in, where were you, and what rank were you when you got out/are you currently? I just started to notice a lot of monkeys were.

I'll start. I'm in the Army, stationed at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany. I'm PFC as of the moment.

there is already a thread like this someplace...

 

[BurlyShirley]

PFC and been in since 2001? What did you do? Lol!

 

[Big_Papa1080]

PFC and been in since 2001? What did you do? Lol!

No I just joined last August, haha. I'm behaving myself

 

[llkoolkeg]

I've done a lot of work with and for the Army both here and abroad...but always as a civilian.

 

[Echo]

Navy Data Systems Tech from 1984-1990, got out as an E-5.

 

[BurlyShirley]

oh yeah.

Marine Corps Public Affairs:
00-04 Got out a Sgt.
Hawaii most of the time.

 

[sanjuro]

Hid in Canada...

 

[Jeronimo]

USAF

1982-1986

PAFB, NC

TDY all over

E-4 on ETS

 

[BurlyShirley]

USAF

1982-1986

PAFB, NC

TDY all over

E-4 on ETS

He said "military"

 

[Jeronimo]

He said "military"

Yeah, pubic affairs is a righteous gig, isn't it?

 

[blue]

He said "military"

Tehehe.

Mall Ninjas, 2002-2004, left as "Herr Kommandant".

 

[BurlyShirley]

Yeah, pubic affairs is a righteous gig, isn't it?

Actually it was. If you can think of any "cool military tactic" that you could train for, I've done it, photographed it, and written articles about it. I got trained at the "Defense Information School" just across from NSA where I learned how to write govt. propaganda and move furniture. Ive done training maneuvers with Marine Force Recon, Navy Seals, Australian Special Forces, Thai Spec. forces, the list goes on...
The best part was, If I didnt feel like doing something ****ty, I did stories on Marines who surfed, rode dirtbikes, did Mtn Biking articles. I got sent to conferences everywhere. I got sent to Mardi Gras to cover the MC Band. Basically, if there is a "good job" in any of the military, I had it.

 

[Reactor]

USN, Submarine service and "special projects" 1982-1989.

Great lakes, Key west, Orlando, Idaho falls, Groton, Bangor/Bremerton, Mare Island (and other S.F. area bases), San Diego...not in that order.

 

[Jeronimo]

If you can think of any "cool military tactic" that you could train for, I've done it, photographed it, and written articles about it.

So, when did you go to Fort Benning for Basic Airborne Training?

I find it very hard to believe they let you jump without a rating.

"I've done it"

I doubt it.

How can you thump your chest when you don't have one to thump?

 

[N8 v2.0]

US Navy Seabees
1983 - 1996

Adak, Guam, Puerto Rico, Sigonella Sicily, Pt. Hueneme CA.

TDYs to Misawa Japan, Naples Italy, Rota Spain, to name a few.

 

[BurlyShirley]

So, when did you go to Fort Benning for Basic Airborne Training?

I find it very hard to believe they let you jump without a rating.

"I've done it"

I doubt it.

I have in fact, strapped on a gunners belt, and stood at the beck edge of a c-130 and photographed recon marines jumping, but no, never got to actually got to jump, although it was an option for me to go if I re-enlisted. No thanks on that

 

[BurlyShirley]

I have, however, done this

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=SPIE Rigging&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

 

[I Are Baboon]

I have, however, done this

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=SPIE Rigging&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Dude, you bungee jumped out of a chopper? Kick ass!

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Army, chief harbor craft operator (LCM-6), got out as Sgt E5.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Dude, you bungee jumped out of a chopper? Kick ass!

Well, not exactly, its called SPIE rigging. Basically its a way to drop people off on tops of buildings, but it was damn scary for me. Hate the heights.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Army, chief harbor craft operator (LCM-6), got out as Sgt E5.

Army men driving boats???

Damn!! That was back in WW 2!!!

 

[blue]

I have, however, done this

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=SPIE Rigging&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

I did that once...I think.

zip line? You know, the thingy where you have the rope around your ass and harness and etc...

 

[Reactor]

Army men driving boats???

Damn!! That was back in WW 2!!!

The army has more boats than the navy,
the navy has more planes than the air force,
the air force has more brains than the marines,
the marines ......uh......yeh....o.k.....

(actually all the Marines I know are pretty cool)

 

[Tame Ape]

So, when did you go to Fort Benning for Basic Airborne Training?

I find it very hard to believe they let you jump without a rating.

"I've done it"

I doubt it.

How can you thump your chest when you don't have one to thump?

you see field action in that long four years of service?

 

[manimal]

Marines
96-01 (got out on sept 9, 2001.....lucked out on that one )

E-5/Sgt

Intel and aerial observer in a CH-53E Squadron. basically logged flight hours on a .50 cal when i wasn't giving briefs on current and future threats.

i did a couple of western pacific floats. Thailand, singapore, bali, australia, hawaii, korea, phillipines, okinawa

stationed all over SoCal and miss it dearly

 

[Tame Ape]

dag, the tail of that chopper earns a hearty 'WTF??'

 

[BurlyShirley]

dag, the tail of that chopper earns a hearty 'WTF??'

CH 53E Super Stallion!

I just tooled in the regular sea stallions at hawaii. Supposedly the Supers can do a complete loop!

 

[Tame Ape]

y'know, if you painted that thing yellow, it would really look alot like a school bus...

 

[DRB]

Army, chief harbor craft operator (LCM-6), got out as Sgt E5.

When we were in San Diego, we saw the US Army Tugboat museum and I immediately thought of you.

 

[Kihaji]

Dude, you bungee jumped out of a chopper? Kick ass!

Special Insertion Extraction, or as we called it, Dope on a rope. (I was the dope more than my share of times)

1996-2000
US Army
Field Artillery Forward Observer, E-5
Ft. Drum and way to many TDY's to Panama/Bosnia to count.

 

[manimal]

dag, the tail of that chopper earns a hearty 'WTF??'

lol...there's a big sign as you exit the loading ramp that says "left turn only". i can only imagine the horror if a hummvee turned right as it drove down the ramp.


BS - i'm not sure about a loop but it is debatebly the fastest bird for 0-200kts off of the runway. there's nothing like a 30' hover to a full on, nose down sprint to 240+mph in just a few seconds

cool! i just found a vid of what i did as an AO. it was great, i wasn't a crew chief so i didnt have to do it all the time, just a minimum of 4 hours per month to maintain my flight pay. 'twas a good extra billet for an intel guy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5005139823857777701&q=ch-53E&hl=en

edit#2
wow...i love video google! i just typed in my old unit "HMH-361" and found a slide show of their last tour in Iraq. pretty funny stuff...well pics anyway. too bad all the guys i served with have moved on, didn't recognize anybody.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6062895256474312274&q=hmh+361&hl=en

 

[JohnE]

USAF Security Forces (MP) type guy. Going on 11 years, just sewed on E6...trying to hang on for the full go at 20, but at this point, who knows. If I decide what to be when I grow up, I may punch out. Porn star, dolphin trainer, astronaut, race car driver, whatever.
Been to SWA too many times, Italy, England, just escaped Germany (Where I survived hanging out with legendary PartsBara!), Egypt, all over the US...
Send all the "The AF isnt the military" jokes now. I have to wax my dolphin...

 

[Jeronimo]

USAF Security Forces (MP) type guy. Going on 11 years, just sewed on E6...trying to hang on for the full go at 20, but at this point, who knows. If I decide what to be when I grow up, I may punch out. Porn star, dolphin trainer, astronaut, race car driver, whatever.
Been to SWA too many times, Italy, England, just escaped Germany (Where I survived hanging out with legendary PartsBara!), Egypt, all over the US...
Send all the "The AF isnt the military" jokes now. I have to wax my dolphin...

At least you're not a 702.

 

[Jeronimo]

you see field action in that long four years of service?

Only history can tell that, eh?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

When we were in San Diego, we saw the US Army Tugboat museum and I immediately thought of you.

I would really like to own a ST. And have the funding to maintain and operate it.

 

[BurlyShirley]

I would really like to own a ST. And have the funding to maintain and operate it.

That's a pretty cool job. I would've liked to have been a tanker myself. Do you have any pics of you in the army JBP?

 

[DRB]

That's a pretty cool job. I would've liked to have been a tanker myself. Do you have any pics of you in the army JBP?

Here I found one...

 

[BurlyShirley]

lol!!!! approved

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Yeah, someplace in a box behind my desk. I have a b&w of the LCMs tied up at night under the lights at Samba Du on the dining room table. I'd love to get some of this stuff digitized - hundreds of 35 mm slides of Pusan and its environs. Drunk hogs being carried on bicycles, marine operations, Pusan street scenes in the late 1960s...