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OT: Veteran's Day 2025 Roll Call

For some reason, I thought this was an annual thread. Admins, if not, please remove

US Navy
Sept. 1971 - Aug. 1977
Missile Technician 2 (SS)
Made 8 Poseidon Deterrent patrols aboard the USS Simon Bolivar SSBN 641 (G)
I may have been your duty driver at the Sub Base. Caught that every 5-6 weekends while in Training Dept. USN 1970-74, 1975-79.
 
Jan 1972-Jan1975

US Army FT Bragg NC Main Post Finance Accounting and Pay Specialist
In Processing Auditor

I handled the finance records for the POWs that came back from Vietnam

Met a few. Some had been in Vietnam as POWs for over 8 years. A sad time as many of their wives had remarried and started new families thinking their husbands were dead. Many were suffering from being capture.

In November 1974 I was part of a group that was going to be deployed to Afghanistan. President Ford resided the orders while we were sitting next to a truck with our gear ready to leave. They told me they were extending me for another year and I would be handling the finance office somewhere over there. We didnt go and on January 30 1975 I was released and came home.
 
Active Army '73 - '76. Summer support at Camp Buckner for West Point Cadets 2x
Army Reserve late 70s - CT
Army Guard VT & NY - Mountain Infantry during the 80s, OCS commission, Ranger School grad

One of the coolest things I did as a member of the VT Guard in the mid 80s was to be a member of the Combat Rifle Competition Team.
VT won the National Guard Championship for (I think) 6 years and I was on the team for 3 of those years. Fun times...
 
I am humbled by these posts. I was accepted into the US Coast Guard Academy, but alas I failed the physical due to a high frequency hearing loss. A disappointment? Yes, but still proud of the acceptance. I have the acceptance letter still floating around somewhere after 52 years. My hats off to all those who served.
 
USMC, 1953 to 1956, Camp Gieger, Camp LeJeune, Cherry Point. CID. Didn't realize it at the time but some of the best years of my life. A true education into manhood.
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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