Military Service Roll Call?
 

I thought it might be interesting to have a roll call of sorts of those who have served in any branch of the Military. I'll start it off.

U.S. Navy 1964 - 1968
Great Lakes, IL Boot Camp
Great Lakes, IL Class "A" School
U.S.S. Plymouth Rock LSD-29

U.S. Navy 1968 - 1972
Great Lakes, IL Boot Camp
A-6 Intruder Training Squadron VA-128, NAS Whidbey Island, WA
U.S. Naval Justice School, Newport, RI
USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) (turned 21 on deployment - Yankee Station, Vietnam)
U.S. Naval Destroyer School, Newport, RI

Wish I could do it all again - wouldn't change a thing.

US Army
 

U.S. Army 1965 - 1968
Fort Dix, NJ - Boot Camp
Fort Monmouth, NJ - Tech School - Computer Ops
Fort Belvoir, VA - Computer Operator - IBM 360/370
Pentagon - DIA - Computer Operator - Top Secret

US Army, 1959 - 1962
Basic Training - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
Cooks & Bakers School - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
Stationed at Ft. Niagara, NY; Camp Drum, NY and Ft. Dix, NJ

When the troops ate liver, I'd fix myself a steak!

Usmc
 

USMC
Vietnam, Que Shan Mountains, Charlie Ridge, Dodge City, DaNang Rocket belt

Marine Corps

National Guard

Us army
 

US ARMY 5/68-5/70
Boot Camp Fort Jackson
AIT Fort Jackson
MP School Panama Canal Zone
Southern Comand Hdqtrs Quarry Heights Panama Canal

Just back from the ceremonies at The Villages Memorial Park. Always a good show. :bowdown:

U.S.Army 1959-1988.
Drafted. Basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in the middle of winter = Bah!
OJT as cadre to newly formed HQ unit 6th Artillery Group at Fort Bliss, TX.
My sergeant there - a crusty old Master Sergeant who'd been around since "Christ wore knee pants" and knew everyone "worth knowing" in the chain of command - made sure that my required Reserve time be spent as a commissioned officer.
So, my first two week summer camp at Camp McCoy, WI, at the end of July 1962. I became hooked and served in a variety of Army Reserve units, including a two-star headquarters command until 1978.
Went on full-time active duty as AGR (Army-Guard Reserve) for six years right at home in St. Louis.
Retired as Lieutenant Colonel, USAR. Receive just over 11 years' active duty retirement pay, which helps me afford all my travel!
Wouldn't have missed it for the world. And, when I meet with officers who actually served "in the trenches," I can't match their stories, but have some weird ones of my own!

SWR
:beer3:

My husband was in the 8th Air Force during WWII, flying B-17s over Germany, out of England. I am very fortunate to still have him at age 86.

Air Force

US Navy 1957-63
Radioman

Pentagon
Adak Alaska
Treasure Island

US Army 1967-1969

Infantry - need I say more?

US Army 7/64 - 6/67

Ft Knox, KY E/8/3 Basic
Ft Dix, NJ AIT Infantry

7 day troop ship cruise in North Atlantic in December to Breman, Germany
3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry Division Schweinfurt, Germany. Assigned to Chopper assault unit, no pilots (all sent to Vietnam), reassigned to Squadron HQ as S-1 clerk (thanks to 9th grade typing teacher Mr Eckert)

Volunteered for Vietnam
Assigned to MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) as infantry advisor to ARVN (Army of Viet Nam)
Reassigned as clerk in MACV HQ J12 Division (Personnel Management) in Saigon just prior to deployment to 4 man advisory team in jungle. Our office (one room) had 2 Cols, 21 Lt Cols (yes, twenty-one), 2 Majors, and a GS16. All service branches except Coast Guard were represented (even had a Navy Commander who was a fighter pilot). Top Secret Clearance.

(on our compound, MACV-3 in Cholon, Major Generals and below were not saluted because of the numerous officer types)


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USAF '65-'69.

Texas (2 bases), Langley AFB VA, Albrook AFB Panama Canal Zone, Altus AFB Oklahoma.

US Navy 1968-1972
Great Lakes, Ill Boot Camp
USS Jonas Ingram DD938 -Docked at Mayport Fla.
USS Power DD839 - Docked at Mayport Fla.

US ARMY 82 Airborn

US ARMY 1961 to 1965 Basic Ft Dix Jump school Ft. Benning Stationed Korea and California

U.S. Navy 1960-1964
USS Richard E. Kraus
USS Newport News

U.S. Army '69 - '71

Vietnam '70 - '71; 2/8 Infantry, 4th Div.; Pleiku and An Khe in the Central Highlands

U.S. Naval Security Group Edzell Scotland, 1963 to 1965

Usaf 1971-2001

U S Navy 1965 - 1989
Great Lakes
Glynco, GA
U S S Saratoga
Atsugi, Japan.
Imperial Beach, Ca
Adak, Alaska
North Island, CA
Mare Island, CA
U S S Macdonough
FTU Mayport, FL
USS Deyo.

Was time to retire when I was aboard the Deyo.

US Army Military Police, 1968-1970, Germany and Republic of Vietnam.

Air Force 1967-1974

Lackland Trng Ctr, San Antonio, Texas
Edwards AFB, Mojave desert,California
Udorn Royal Thai Air base, Thailand
Mather AFB, Sacremento California
Utupao AFB, Thailand
Grissom AFB, Indiana

You can tell you are getting old when some of the airplanes you serviced have been in the Wright-Patterson AF museum for many years.

U. S. Navy Submarine Service 1966-1998

US Army ROTC....Northeastern University, Boston, MA....1968-73
Comissioned US Army, Ft Bragg, NC, 3 Aug 73
NYARNG, 1973-1996
Retired, NYARNG 1996
Retired US Army 15 May 10, LTC

Us navy
 

US NAVY

Boot Camp: Naval Training Center, Orlando, FL

Post Boot Camp Training: Communications Yeoman School, Norfolk VA

Active Duty: US Naval Communications Station, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1969 & 1970. Top Secret Clearance.

Active Naval Reserve: 1971 - 1974

-Dave W-

USMC
68-70
Vietnam 69-70
Marble Mountain outside Danang

Air force
 

Air Force 71-75
SanAntonio, Texas
Anchorage, Alaska
Spokane, Washington
Walla Walla, Washington
Bellechaise, Lousiana

Best time of my life! Many great people I was able to meet and get to know.

US army 1964-1967
basic was at ft knox
spent last 1 and 1/2 years working in personnel at 97th ordinance bde hq in kaiserslautern germany. Great duty over there.

US Army 66-69
ROTC Summer Camp - Indiantown Gap Mir Res (PA)
QMC Basic Off course - Ft Lee, VA
NAVCOSSACT computer school, Washington Navy Yard
CINCPAC, Camp Smith, Hawaii
followed by 25 years as an Army civilian employee at FSTC (now NGIC) - Charlottesville, VA

Completed 49 years, 7 months, 23 days of continuous service to the Air Force on the 7th of May, just a week prior to heading to the Villages where we have been all of two weeks. Enlisted in September of 1960 and retired as a Chief Master Sergeant in 1986, went to work the following day as a Civil Servant, retiring in December 2001, and again, the following day went to work as a Contractor on an AF contract until last month when I quit work on the 7th of May and the 14th the moving van was "Villages bound'. I started in personnel and the last 2/3s in Logistics Plans in too many places to mention. Spent the Cuban crisis here in Florida at Macdill AFB and the Vietnam era found me at Tan Son Nhut AB.

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.
53-57
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
AIR MATERIAL COMM.-attached AEC
Sampson
parks
Bealle
Ellsworth
Westover
Limestone
Goosebay
and some parts that will remain nameless.....

AS YOU WERE , SMOKE IF YOU'VE GOTTEM , I'LL BE IN THE AREA ALL DAY.......
FUMAR

My husband was in the US Army 1976-79 active. Took basic in Ft. Knox, stationed in Ft. Meade and then on to Schwaback, Germany. Then the Reserves for many years. He was a 52 D generator specialist.

My 91-year-old father was in the Army Air Corps during WWII and was part of the great 93rd Bombardment Group better known as Ted's Flying Circus.

My two brother-in-laws served during the Vietnam War. One was in the Army. The other, a Marine, was a POW and given a Purple Heart.

Thank you and God Bless each of you here who allow me the privilege and freedom to post my views and opinions on this forum in this great country. Your service and the service of your loved ones fills my eyes with tears of pride.

UNITED STATES ARMY (Signal Corps)
Active Duty - 1967 - 1982
Connecticut National Guard - 1982 - 1986
U.S. Army Reserves - 1986 - 1995
U.S. Army Inactive Reserves - 1995 - 2004
Retired - 2004 with over 37 years o credited service

U.S. Navy (SEABEES) 1970 Thru 1990

Stationed:
Beach Master Unit 1
Naval Moble Construction Battalion 4 (3 Times)
31st Naval Construction Regiment
Naval Construction Unit 405
Naval Support Unit State Dept.
Naval Station Adak, ALaska

Retired in 1990

I retired a Builder Chief Petty Officer (BUC)

US Navy 1962-1965

Great Lakes Training Center

USS Essex CVS-9

Retired Data Systems Chief Petty Officer (DSC)