Dates Served and Wartime if any?

[vmaquera]

USN Medical Officer/Undersea Medical Officer/Neurologist 1984-1998
(Qualified USN Diver, Naval Parachutist, Submarine Medical Officer, Radiation Health Officer).

Medical Officer USS Alabama SSBN-731 Gold
Medical Officer USS Ohio SSBN-726 Blue

I also served as Diving Medical Officer for SpecWar Unit 1, EOD Mobile Unit 5, 3rd Marine Recon, COMSUBGRU SEVEN Rep Subic Bay.

I was an instructor at the USN Dive School as well, before I did my residency at Bethesda.

The closest I came to war or combat was when I rode the subs for 2 Strategic Deterrant patrols, and when I operated with the Forward Deployed units in the Western Pacific from Korea to Thailand.

My heart goes out to the men and women in Iraq. I wish I could go, but I am now in private practice, with a very busy practice and a dozen employees. Besides I am too old to be jumping out of airplanes and playing with demolitions.

[SPANISHVETTS]

USMC 1968 – 1976
Like Tuna I drove A-7s and OV-10s as well as F-4s.
We modified our OV-10Ds for light ground support (mini-guns on the sponsons, rocket pods on the wings and a 20 MM on the centerline), and spent a lot of time getting SEALS and other Special Forces out of the **** they liked to get themselves into.

Left the military and spent some years in the music industry but some SEAL friends and John Boyd seduced back into Para-Military service in the early 80’s working on a contract basis with friendly governments, (read anything into that that you want).

Spent another 15 years training and sometimes fighting with soldiers from a dozen or so friendly countries. There are some good memories some bad ones. I had started to ramble on about people and places but that is for another day.

Military life really started for me in ’63. I was a bad kid and got into a lot of trouble. A Judge who I like to think of as very smart gave me a choice. Juvenile Detention or Military School. Well that was a no brainer…what I did not know at the time was that all I wanted was a realistic goal and the disciplining to get there. So I got a lot more back from the military than it ever asked of me. i.e., my life; without that Judge and the US Marine Corps I would have surly gone to prison and would probably have been dead a long time ago.

Sempre Fi

[twiget]

I'm working on 9 years as an ET2 in the Navy. 6 active duty, and 3 in the reserves. I was onboad the U.S.S. San Jacinto, an Aegis cruiser from February '96 until August 2000. I did two deployments with her, one in '96, and one in '98. Both were Gulf cruises.

In the reserves I am in a new program called Surge Main. I can get shipped out to varioius shipyards around the country. Mostly to work on submarines, but as the program picks up, we'll probably branch out to surface ships too.

Jason

[polo94conv]

Sgt USMC 1953-1956 Korea vet

[Florida Guy]

31 years with USAF. Served 1954 - 1986. Retired CMSGT

Education and Training - 10 Years
Microwave and Tropospheric Scatter Radio Maintenance - 8 Years
Titan II ICBM Launch Crew - 13 Years

Lackland AFB, Tx
Amarillo AFB, Tx
Dhahran AB, Saudi Arabia
Fort Miley, San Francisco, CA
Keesler AFB, Ms
Clark AB, Philippines
Altus AFB, Ok
Malatya, Turkey
Davis-Monthan AFB, Az
Izmir, Turkey
Tinker AFB, Ok
Davis-Monthan AFB, Az
Vandenberg AFB, Ca

A week after retirement I started work as a Launch Engineer on Titan II, Titan 34D and Titan IV for Martin-Marietta Aerospace

[mdsbch]

12 years with the USAF as a navigator on the KC-135's

84 - 86 Training (Lackland AFB,Texas - Mather AFB, California - and Castle AFB, California)

86 - 89 Tanker Nav and PACS (Post Attack Command and Control) at Grissom AFB, Indiana

89 - 95 Nav on the Looking Glass and CSA (Command Support Airlift) at Offutt AFB, Nebraska (a couple tours to Rhiad during Desert Storm)

95 - 96 Tanker Operations (planner) at Hickam AFB, Hawaii

[Yoda]

USN 1967 ~ 1973


June 1969 Tunis, Tunisia; March 1970 Izmir, Turkey; May 1970 Bodrum, Turkey;
April 1972 ~ May 1973 Viet Nam; August 16, 1973 Honorable Discharge

[ROCKETBLOCK]

Army Aviation 1963 to 1966

[rwpeders]

I served in the Army from Nov 1965 to June 1989 and retired. I had two tours in Viet Nam, one with Air Moble Field Artillery (68-69) and one flying helicopters (71-72).

I have had a 62, a 73, a 96 and now a 2000, all convertibles.

19 years Navy here. Been around the world a few times serving as Naval Attache to various Embassies and serving on the 3 carriers. Currently serving USMC from 2004- present day in Iraq. Navy refused to let me serve on front line so I changed branches. I am ConCom with 2nd BN 7FW until the end of June when I go home.

[torch95red]

USN Active Duty 1987 to 1993
Boot Camp San Diego 9/87 to 12/87
Sonar Technician A - School San Diego 1988
Sonar Technician C School San Diego 1990
U.S.S. Lake Champlain CG-57 Homeport San Diego 12/90 to 8/93
Deployed Western Pacific x 2 1991 & 1993
Operation Desert Storm ( after the shooting ceased) & Operation Southern Watch

Reserves 1995-1996
U.S.S. Fahrion FFG-22 Homport Mayport, FL

Hey Parrothead we both served on the Champy, just a few years apart. You were a GMM on the VLS correct?

Proud to have served our great Nation,
Mike

Hi Mike
My my...small world. What are you doing now?

[catbert]

Army:

Active Duty 1966-70
Reserves until 90s

[Vette81]

Army

Oct 1969-June 1972
Served in Vietnam from Nov 1970 to June 1972 CH-47 Chinook Helicopter Mechanic/Flight Engineer.

Army Reserves 1973-1990,UH-1 Huey/Oh-58 Kiowa/UH=60 Blackhawk Technical Inspector.

Worked for the Army Aviation Systems Command which is now the Army Aviation and Missle Command as an Aircraft Equipment Specialist from 1982 until I retired in Aug 2005.

I now work for a private contractor performing a Level of repair analysis on the UH-60a/L aircraft

[BigMike5]

Army for 27 years. 2 years in tanks with the 1/13th Armor then I went to Law School. 3 years in Law School and was CO of the 317th QM SVC Co [USAR] while in school. Then after one year clerking for a Judge came back on Active Duty in the JAG Corps. Spent the next 21 years in Jag and retired out of 6th Army at the Presidio of SF as a Colonel. Took a job at Fort Knox running the Claims Section and have been there since 1992. Would retire again but I spend all my money on cars. Only overseas tour was with the 2ID in Korea. I was the prosecutor for the Div Arty at Camp Stanley for a year.