OT: Veteran's Day 2025 Roll Call

[Centerstream]

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)

 

[Cuango]

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)

Thank you!

 

[uconnfan68]

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.

 

[Husky fanatic]

USMC 1965 to 1971. I can’t eat like I used to so I have to pass on a bunch of free meals

 

[Boreifs]

West Point Band; June 13, 1967-June 12,1970.

 

[Tonyc]

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.

 

[HuskyinWRNY]

US Army
68 to 73
Paratrooper
Vietnam Vet

 

[msf22b]

West Point Band; June 13, 1967-June 12,19

West Point Band; June 13, 1967-June 12,1970.

Unbelievable,
West Point Band…62-5
Was Bill Blount part of your class?

 

[and one]

USAF 68 to 72. Tan Son Nhut AFB (Saigon) and Rhein-Main AFB (Frankfurt, Germany). Aircraft maintenance - Instruments and Avionics.

 

[Majic Hands]

Army 74-77 Ft Knox Ky, Fürth & Worms Germany.

Wife was in the Army as well.

 

[Boreifs]

Unbelievable,
West Point Band…62-5
Was Bill Blount part of your class?

Bill was a year earlier.

 

[64Zcode]

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...

 

[DriveLH]

Army 1967 - 1970
Ft,. Monmouth, N,J,
532 Signal Company, MACV headquarters

 

[Rayvin56]

USN Sonar Tech '73-'76

 

[MainefanSC]

US Naval Air
VF 103 F4Js
68 - 72
AT3
Aviation Electronic Tech

 

[Ex Nutmegger]

US Army Signal Corps 62-64 stationed in Washington DC. Liaison to the Pentagon for the group buying and maintaining all the Army radios

 

[dcdon]

US Army Band, Ft. McPherson, GA
1969-72

 

[Steelerone]

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.

 

[Skeets]

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.

 

[ConnMotors]

US Navy Sub Service
1977-1981
MS2 - SS
USS Spadefish based out of Norfolk, VA

 

[MilfordHusky]

Army 74-77 Ft Knox Ky, Fürth & Worms Germany.

Wife was in the Army as well.

Did you keep the gold safe? 😉

 

[UpstateNY]

Americal Division-Vietnam
Infantry July 69 - July 70
'freedom ain't free'

 

[meyers7]

USN 1982-1992. MM1 (Nuke). USS Will Rogers SSBN 659 and NPTU Windsor.

 

[Scud49]

USAF Torrejon Spain
1968-72
Loved it, I miss those days.

 

[Ozimoto]

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.