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USN Jan 78 to Oct 88
ET1 (Nuke Reactor Operator)

My 3 major commands:
USS Carl Vinson CVN 70 1980-1982 Commissioning Crew and Plank Owner

USS Long Beach (CGN-9) 1983-1985 WestPac 1984 (10.5 months at sea including a 108 day stretch)

Trident Training Facility 1985-1988
Naval Subbase Bangor, WA

These assignments were sandwiched between lots of schooling (A school, Nuke School + C7) and 8 months limited duty at ComNavSurfLant Norfolk, VA
 
USAF 1967-98 (O-6 retired).
OSI, JAG, USAFA/AFROTC Scholarship Liaison Officer.
Lackland AFB TX, Beale AFB CA, McGuire AFB NJ, Lowry AFB CO, Maxwell AFB AL, Ft McNair DC, England AFB LA, Charleston AFB SC, Scott AFB IL, Hanscom AFB MA, The Pentagon.
Air War College, LOM.
 
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Ozimoto said:
My father was at Camp Geiger and Cherry Point around the same time. He was an AARF crash crew member driving a crash truck. His tour was in the '51 to '53 time frame. Very fortunate not to be deployed to Korea. A number of guys he went through boot camp with did come back.
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My Dad "jumped out of perfectly good airplanes" from 1950-1953. He always said that he felt safer OUTSIDE of the airframe, as he did not trust the planes they were jumping out of back in the day. He has 3 weeks left in the Army when the Korean Conflict went hot, and chose to get out and marry my Mom.

I believe that was the best choice he ever made, and he would say it multiple times while he was alive.

I also had 4 Uncles in the military: one Army, Two Navy and one Air Force. Three enlisted and one who went in enlisted and retired as a Major in the Air Force, and then did his same job description as a civilian for another 20 years before retiring for a second time out in California (near Malibu). My cousin went into the Army straight out of High School and was a Nuclear/Chemical/Biologic tech.

My wife was also Navy AND from Connecticut. Our two nieces were Marines, and one of them graduated with a 4.000 GPA from UConn during the "Four-peat" with Stewie, Morgan, and MoJeff, but she did not play basketball.
 
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Sorry about being late to the thread... been away and haven't checked in on the BY for a while.

US Coast Guard Academy Graduate 1977
US Coast Guard Active Duty 1977 - 2007.
Retired as a Captain, (O-6) after 30 years and 10(?) household goods moves.
Search and Rescue, Fisheries Laws enforcement, Drug Interdiction in the Caribbean, Migrant Interdiction,
International Engagement, Logistics Support and Coordination, Personnel Management... and much more.
 
PAHuskeyFan said:
Sorry about being late to the thread... been away and haven't checked in on the BY for a while.

US Coast Guard Academy Graduate 1977
US Coast Guard Active Duty 1977 - 2007.
Retired as a Captain, (O-6) after 30 years and 10(?) household goods moves.
Search and Rescue, Fisheries Laws enforcement, Drug Interdiction in the Caribbean, Migrant Interdiction,
International Engagement, Logistics Support and Coordination, Personnel Management... and much more.
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Were you at JTF 4 or at sea for Caribbean Drug Interdiction?
 
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