bkboy is glad that the VC did not shoot as good as Kinrik!

I didn't do that on live targets...it was on the rifle ranges at Pendleton, Hanson, and Le Jeune

It is much easier when the targets aren't firing back

/me looks at this thread and wonders where Buzz and DaWebMassa are.

/me throws a fig for old time sake and reminisces about when times were good and fig fights were common.

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What no European or other country vets?

25years, RAAF 64-89, Warrant Officer, been round a bit. Liked the Air Force, didn't want to crawl around on my stomach with the snakes (grunts)- or float in a tinnie on the big ocean and we only send our Commissioned Officers to the front. G'd day Wombat 1 going to check out your web site mate.

Bangkokboy,

Remember one of the premier laws of air-to-mud combat in SEA was:

Never kill a 3-level gunner. They may replace him with a 9-level.

JollyFE

I'm an Officer Cadet in the Canadian Forces Communications Reserve, serving as a Communications & Electronics Engineering Officer (CELE). The CF recently restructured all of its Reserve training, so I'm in a holding pattern, waiting for my Phase II training.

My husband is in the Regular Force. He's an engineering officer, currently at the rank of Major. He's done tours in Kuwait, Haiti, Bosnia, and Eritrea, and had postings at CFB Chilliwack (which no longer exists), CFB Petawawa, CFB Gagetown and now at NDHQ (National Defence Headquarters). He's a 'staff weenie' right now, but prior to that he served as DCO (Deputy Commanding Officer) of 4ESR (Engineer Support Regiment), and was in that position when he went to Eritrea in Dec 2000.

DaWebMassa...I didn't even realize I had forgotten that name...and I ain't seen Buzzhog since skinz either...but hell, one of us jarheads at a time is usually enough

/me smiles and laughs.....

Kinnik you are deffinatly right one jarhead at a time please..


I served 6 years USN as a Cryogenics Technician ( NO I did not freeze people)

3 aboard the USS Siapan LHA-2
3 aboard the USS Enterprise CVAN - 65

You're right, Jolly - the wilder their antiaircraft fire was, the less we cared. Unfortunately, most of them began to get good with practice rather quickly. If they learned that cargo 130's don't buzz around the neighborhood orbitting things, then they got to live to be old gunners.

Bangkokboy,

Wasn't that the point you taught them the definition of "Spectre"?

JollyFE

Wow, everyone seems so OLD. I was a nuc electrician on the USS South Carolina (CGN-37) from 92 to 96. Before that I was training to be a nuc electrician from 90 to 92.

Wow, I didn't serve in any Miltitary so maybe I shouldn't post but I always admired those who served their country (what ever country it is)

I wanted to do it but I just couldn't see 4 years of my life to it. I really am into the Navy.

I guess the closest I will get is being a security screener at an airport. I have to wait because the position is filled.

I worked on SH-3H SeaKings. Anti-submarine Warfare. Did some AK work (supply) and i fiddled around with the AO's (Weapons). I couldn't settle with one rate. The best place i liked to be was a Plane Captain on the Flight Deck! I was also an LSE (landing signalman enlisted) where i would launch and recover birds using signals. We had to be the first ones up and the last ones down, and inbetween i would hang around and watch flight ops for a while Man! What a Rush Night ops was where i wanted to be all the time. To stand just on the other side of the flight line watching an F-14 TomCat Sitting on the Cat, throttle wide open. The afterburners firing out against the JBD's. The pilot signals he is ready by saluting Cat control and BOOM!!! All that raw power goes from 0 to 160 in about 1.7 seconds and blasts off into the night sky and I'm just yelling like crazy!

Man i miss those days Sorry guys...i got kinda lost in my self huh?

elvee, I think we would all like to be reliving it over again. I would. I enjoyed about 16 of my 20 years. I still kick myself for not staying another hitch.

... and all this time I thought that joetheblow was an old Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technician !

U.S.N. 72-76. No, sometime in 77. I don't like talking, writing, or listening about it. Duty done and Honorably Discharged. The End.

I've played Half-Life enough times to know exactly how many whacks to the head with a crowbar a person needs until they die.

AND I can remember what it was like playing army men in the backyard with my friends when I was 10


Does that count?

WiseOldMan - my husband has 8 years left until he can retire from the army with a full pension, but he'll probably stay in past his 20 years. Although he's in a 'staff weenie' job right now, he's loved all of his previous positions. Hey, he's an engineer, he loves blowing stuff up. He only plans on getting out if they post him somewhere, after his 20 is done, where I can't get a job (like back to CFB Gagetown. Uggh.) Otherwise he'll stay in until it isn't fun anymore.

Caylynn- I was comming up on a rotation and I'd been married only a year so I went ahead and got out. Did not want to put a strain on my second marriage.

WiseOldMan - I can understand that. My husband has the opportunity to go to Bosnia for another 6 month tour in March, but since we've only been married since last October, he's declined for now. Thankfully they are only looking for volunteers right now, so he doesn't have to go.

Of course, I want to get done with my Reserves training, so that I can go on a mission somewhere! Time for him to stay at home and let me galavant around the world.

caylynn- It is fun to see the world and do the things that you are trained for, but it can put a strain on a marrage. Its even harder if only one works. The income only does so far. It does start getting harder the older you get. I found that my body was not keeping up with kids and that started to set the wrong example. There were many factors in my retiring. But I did enjoy it and still find myself longing for it.

WiseOldMan - Yep, it can be tough. My husband's tours in Bosnia and Eritrea were while we were dating, and to top it off, when he was in Canada, he was in New Brunswick (CFB Gagetown) and I was in Ontario (Guelph or Ottawa). So we had lots of practice at doing the long-distance thing before getting married.

I'm lucky - because I work for the Federal Public Service, my job is guarranteed if I do want to go on a tour as a member of the Reserves. Unfortunately here in Canada, we don't have the kind of job protection legislation that other countries have to protect their Reserve officers and soldiers.

Speaking of which, I should get back to work now.

Nice chatting with you Caylynn. My day off this week.