Are there any Squids out there?

20 years in the army. Korea, Germany, Nam and all over the US. I do miss it a lot. But you cannot turn back the clock.

Lets see...umm. Hawaii, Korea, HongKong, Philippines, Singapore, Diego Garcia, Pakistan, Africa, Australia, Thailand, Alaska, Canada, all over mainland U.S., and Mexico(at least two weekends a month )

elvee, we spend years at a time, not days or weeks.

Aye Aye Matey!

USN 1987-93
"Ping Jockey"
USS Blakely FF 1072 / USS Moinster FF 1097
STG2 AN/SQR 18(A)V1 & AN/SQR 18(A)V2 Towed Array Sonar
If I told you anymore, I would have to kill you!

at 1Renegade

Wise, i wasn't in the reserves

Hey, I have the clearance. Besides us army type are hard to kill.

I figured that elvee, but just how long does your ship stay in those ports? That was what I was getting at.

Oh well your right, about seven days tops. Been to each place at least twice. Spent a month in Pearl Harbor and 21 days at Subic Bay P.I. I was in Peace Time gimme a break

At least you got to see a lot of places. I thought about the Navy but I can't swim, so I'am a little nervous if I cannot see land.

Both of those ships were in the "reserves." Funny thing though, we spent more time at sea than did the "actice duty cans." I was active duty for those 6 years. Wouldn't trade for anything.....learned how to handle in iron, that was for sure!

Fair winds.........and following seas...........

Ahh... Memories. Buff that floor you Wog! Spit and Shine! Spit and Shine!

BTW any USN people Remember crossing the line

I don't, but I saw that in a movie. HA HA

That is something i will never forget

Shellback here...........

8 years as a puppy pusher,handling a bomb dog from 76 to 84 in the USAF got stuck in Omaha Ne. for the whole time,but wouldn't trade for anything it was a great time.

USAF 14 years
AC-130 gunships Thailand, Laos, Cambodia
B-52s Arkansas, California. Wouldn't want to relive most of that time period, but wouldn't trade the memories from those years for anything. Do I miss all those devious, driven, irreverent, merciless, mean-spirited %#&*@s that I flew with - yeah

USAF 14 years
AC-130 gunships Thailand, Laos, Cambodia
B-52s Arkansas, California. Wouldn't want to relive most of that time period, but wouldn't trade the memories from those years for anything. Do I miss all those devious, driven, irreverent, merciless, mean-spirited %#&*@s that I flew with - yeah

Error message tricked me - sorry for the DP

1/SAS, 7RAR, deployed all over SE Asia from '69 to '73.
Makes the current "War against terrorism" look like a Platstation game ....

Errrrr....."PlayStation Game".....I know what I meant!

Wow, that's a mombo jumbo thread to be... What language are you speaking?
Blacknights? NAS? NorthIsland? CVN? Who's Carl Vinson?

All right, I'll let you talk gun-talk between yourselves.

USAF
CH/HH-3E Crew Chief
HH-53B/C Flight Engineer

3 years 7 months AD
Homestead, Patrick, DaNang, NKP, Hill

21 years Reserves
Selfridge, Wright-Patt also trips to beautiful Honduras, Spain and Italy

Living by the motto
"That Others May Live"

JollyFE

USMC 6 years active duty
USAF 15 years dependant

been to:
West Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Canada
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
South Korea
Okinawa
Japan
Australia
Mexico

Dad (USAF) was a weapons loader on everything from F-106's to cruises on the '52's.

I (USMC) was a 1371 with Division...blew $#!T up and played with land mines for a living the first few years, then lat-moved to 3521 and worked on deisels and earth-movers.

Every Marine is a basic rifleman...5th award expert here...

I can put a 5.56 NATO Ball Round through a gnat's ass at 500 meters with iron sights on a USM16A2 Service Rifle consistently without dropping more than 3 shots out of 50...

Just imagine if they let me use a SCOPE...

...and that is "dropped shots" out of the V-Ring, within the bulls-eye, within the target impact area...just in case you are thinking I meant I was impacting off target somewhere