Happy Veterans Day - How many GFYers Served In The Military ?
 

Thanks to all the present, past and future solders that protect our great country. I did my time in the Army straight out of high school in 1998. I was a MP. It was a great experience and taught me many lessons that will last a lifetime.

How many of you served time in the military and what branch were you in?

Specialist Amp / US Army 1st Infantry Division
Desert Shield / Desert Storm 1991

US Army, 5th Field Artillery

I belong to the People's Army...

Sgt Sperbonzo ( :) ), 2nd battalion, 18th Field Artillery, 212 brigade, 18th airborne corp (attached)

Desert Shield, Desert Storm


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I served, USMC (FAST Company Atlantic Fleet) counter-terrorism

HT1/E-6, 1981 - 1991, USN

Sub Base, Pearl Harbor
http://www.submarinebaseph.com/subbase.html

USS Conserver, ARS-39, Pearl Harbor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Conserver_%28ARS-39%29

USS Reeves, CG-24, Yokosuka, Japan
http://ussreeves.net/

SBU-13, Coronado, CA
http://www.warboats.org/SBU13.htm

USS Okinawa, LPH-3, San Diego, CA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Okinawa_%28LPH-3%29

Happy Veterans Day.

PFC "Joker"

Primary MOS 13B
Secondary MOS 76V (Warehouse Specialist aka Fuck Off & Disappear For Half the Day)

Fort Hood 90-92

3 Corps HHC USAG DOL Sham Duty Station Ops

Lifeguard. Funeral Detail. Hardware Store. Assorted meandering worthless 9-5 jobs that left me free to travel all over Texas and get drunk every weekend.

Desert Storm (TDY)

Us Army 101st Airborne 320th Divarty

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My father served on the USS Los Angeles (CA-135)
http://www.lamaritimemuseum.org/images/ussla.jpg

I served on the USS Tautog, (SSN 639) Sonar Tech
http://www.titantalk.com/forums/atta...ow-639blow.jpg

My daughter just got out of the Navy, she served on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MTE3roZy35...e+Headon-2.jpg


But then there are only two kinds of ships, submarines and targets

Happy Veterans day to all the Veterans

Happy Veterans Day!

1980-1992 82nd Airborne Division.

Why do military retards think they're entitled to respect because they "served their country"?

That's nice, you got a job with salary, benefits, training, free food, free clothing, free housing and free healthcare. Odds are, you didn't do anything especially useful. You were a tail, not a tooth.

How is it you "served your country" and you think you're entitled to respect? I serve my country every fucking year, to the tune of $80K+ in federal taxes. That's four months out of every year I work for my country instead of myself. When are YOU going to thank ME for my service... especially since I helped pay your salary?

Fuck this American "support our troops" phenomenon.

In Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Canada soldiers have always been rightly looked upon as shit-donkeys who are losers.

What an ignorant fuck!

don't let that piece of shit push your buttons V.

jesus dude, show some respect.

Regardless of your views on war, the point of today is to remember, and respect those that served and lost their lives for their country.

The reason they may have gotten free health care is they had a better chance of being killed than an adult WM paying his taxes.

Odds are you don't do anything useful.

What is there to respect in the first place about being a government employee sucking up public money? do I have to "respect" IRS bureaucrats and ghetto welfare queens too?


Most military tards never get anywhere near risking their life. Most of the ones who do, aren't qualified for anything else. The smart people move up to officer fast, and spend all their time in meetings and behind a desk.

Want to know a profession far more dangerous than the military? Cab driver. Do you "respect" them and salute their selfless service to others? You should - they're fighting to survive in the free market, without all the free cheese guaranteed to every government employee in the military.

Wow, another bitter loser who can't make it in the real world.

You should re-enlist in the military! :321GFY

Yeah I know, kinda on a Patriotic high from my daughter just getting out, she earned 5 medals, 8 ribbons and her anti warfare pin all in 4 years. Part of what she did was render aid to the Philippines after a big storm that knocked out a whole city. A modern aircraft carrier has two reactors. One can power the ship, the other can be used to power a city, it made all the water the city needed and did surgeries on those that needed it, and provided an airport to land planes with supplies. She got a humanitarian medal for that.

She got a good conduct too, something I didn't get, hehehe

Army

13B

86-89

I see the fail runs deep in your family. Thank you for your service to fucking Israel. Congrats to losing years of your lives to stupid foreign policy.

Your daughter did well :)

Congrats V

Now the military is paying for her to finish college and then go to medical school.
She wanted to see the world like her dad did, she had a blast and now she's getting serious.

Congrats and Thank You to all that served !!!

Navy -- 1988 to 1992 -- I served during desert storm, but I don't call myself a vet of that war, because I was on a Naval Air Base in Hawaii.

She will make a fine MD :)

U.S. Army 545th Military Police Company
Fort Gordon, GA Circa 1969 for me (I am getting old LOL)
remember the draft and the lottery?

My son is currently Army Spec Ops at Fort Bragg (5 years already...jeez)...1 S Korea tour and deploying for Afghanistan In a couple Months...He is a Medic

15 years
Most of it with the Infantry
1983 - 1998
4 years with NATO in Central Europe from 88-92

First things first. Thank you for paying your taxes, I can definitely respect that and I am not trying to be clever here, I mean it.

Second, you are certainly under no obligation to respect me for my time in the military. However I ask that you do respect the military as a whole. While recent events have soured many in the public views on the arm services, they do perform a necessary job that honestly has provided the US with a lot of what Americans take for granted today ad allowed our influence (both positive and negative) to spread worldwide.

this is not a blowjob to the flag by the way, merely a statement of fact.

Those of us who did serve in the military, for the most part, believed in this country and what she stands for enough to take an oath to be willing to put our own lives in jeopardy in defense of it.

It does not matter one bit if we were put in the line of fire or not, we were all willing to be put there. In my opinion this does not make any of us heros. They are people who responded in ways most people could not comprehend in situations most people cannot imagine. That title is earned... I have not earned it

I probably have not earned any respect from you either, after all, what have I done directly related to you. It's ok for you to not respect individual service members based on whatever reasons you may have for it. But being an American citizen and being able to pay those incredibly high taxes and enjoy the freedoms to scream and yell about anything that twists your short hairs.... those rights were paid for in blood by this generation and generations before. So I humbly ask that you try to respect The US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard. The members of whom do not know who you are, but are willing to risk their lives so that you may live free. :2 cents:

Happy Veterans Day. A lot of North Americans are here.
People from all over the world post on GFY.

Thanks to all who served in the past, paid their taxes, and endured the demanding military life. A special thanks to those presently in the military---THANKS!!!!

I spent 25 years in the U.S. Army.

Dave
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...F-8&fr=fp-yie8

Lt Col??? color this enlisted jarhead impressed, nice to meet you sir
http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/shar...070315-020.jpg

YOU Marines are/were the pride of the American warriors who collectively make/protected the freedoms available to us grateful citizens of the United States.

Thanks, MARINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave

Does that fucking troll even deserve an answer?

---and maybe he's just impressed with himself for making 80k a year, so he needs to tell everyone.

No trolls ever deserve answers. They only deserve to be trolled once in a while and then left to chew their own gristle while nobody replies.

My dad served in the air force in the 1950's, stationed on Guam. Then worked on SAGE and other IBM FSD projects all of his life.

I worked for a time on B52 and B1B computer boards at a manufacturing plant.

I'll bet you get less respect in real life than you do on internet message board.

http://www.vrc-50.org/image/nasatsugi.jpg

USN (Navy), Petty Officer, 6 years

NAS Atsugi, Japan (Commander Fleet Air Western Pacific, Staff Command)

NAS Cubi Point, Philippines

Kadena Air Force Base (Kadena, Okinawa)

NAS Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif. (P-3 "Submarine Chaser" Aviation Squadron)

ADG

normally I would agree with you. But I know lot of people will silently agree with what he said. I think it is just a bit of short sightedness. So I felt it appropriate to let him know that honestly no reasonable person will expect him to respect every single person who put on a uniform, but as a whole the military has paid the price for him to have what he has

"For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected never know"

Nav 74-82 :thumbsup

Spaz, you were a marine? I did not know that.

You might have guarded one of our gates or something ;p












j/k

SARE!

hell yeah devil dog to the core.... and you might be right if you were on the East Coast and did Nuclear Refueling.... i may have tossed you to the ground and dragged ya for a scrub down if your fingers penetrated those chain link fences LOL

ahh good times :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Had Marines at the gates in Key Waste and Bermuda. I always got along with them fine until I found out that their job was, if we were attacked, after we destroyed all the secret shit, their job was to kill us. They had m16s for that purpose while we had .45s and a couple of riot guns. That didn't make for nice friendly times at the corner bar..lol.

Marines 2512/2513

http://i52.tinypic.com/20qcq69.jpg

Served. Details? I can't tell you or I'd have to kill you.

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MarBars = craziest places on earth unless an officer walks in :winkwink:

Aw yes, the philippines, the "ADULT" version of Disneyland

They put their ass on the line for all of us. I couldn't imagine being in a desert in full gear when it is 120 degrees or being shot at. They have earned respect for being brave and protecting us. You sir can go fuck off.