Who here served in the Military?

[GrandSportC3]

Originally Posted by Bill

Maybe you could offer your services to our military, to train them on how to defend our border. I don't believe they have those skills, or that training.

Send your resume to Trump....if he beats the cheat, we'll be needing people experienced in stopping the invasion dead in its tracks.

Training won't help if your orders are to stand down..

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by GrandSportC3

Training won't help if your orders are to stand down..

Very true, but our soldiers were excellent at border control after 20 years of war in the shit holes of the sand box.

[GrandSportC3]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Very true, but our soldiers were excellent at border control after 20 years of war in the shit holes of the sand box.

The problem is not at the "soldier" level. We have the world's greatest military but if leadership doesn't let them do their job, there is nothing that can be done. We need a change in leadership. We could easily shut down the border for illegal immigration. You don't even need a wall. We have so much modern technology that can detect illegal immigration. All we need is to use that technology and let our border patrol and military do their job.

[Frankie the Fink]

Army Security Agency. 1972-1974.
Volunteer -draft lottery number 363.
MOS - 98J (Electronic Intercept Operator)

Top secret monitoring of Russian activities across the Black Sea; then pulled back to work US TS submarine missions in the Barents Sea tracking Russian subs while I was stationed on a Navy base in Norfolk - prob the only Army guy there at the time..

This is why I get so goddamned pissed off when people talk about the Russian-Ukraine bullshit and classified documents and don't have f*cking clue.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Does a 37+ year DAC count? No? Didn’t think so.

Your heart was there but not your heights.

[RedLS1GTO]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Let's hear it for the Snipers!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6OqJDeM5w

Oh man.

I remember that day well. Got called to come in "right f**king now" off of the golf course on Easter Sunday.

Rumor has it that they cut my part out of the movie because Brad Pitt was unavailable at the time.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Navy leads in the series, so there's that.

Army has won 6 out of the last 8 games, so there's that. Army has three National Championships and Navy has none, so there's that.

[Anjdog2003]

I got drafted out of High School. U.S Army 1970-73. MOS at the time but got changed was 78B20 i think. I have forgot a lot of things over the years about the Military. My Company thought a few of us should work with the Green Berets. I'am glad i served, i wouldn't have joined if i wasn't drafted. I talk very little about my experience in the Military especially with my Sons and they never really ask anyway. I will talk about Boot Camp and the funny stories that weren't funny back then but are now.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

I got drafted out of High School. U.S Army 1970-73. MOS at the time but got changed was 78B20 i think. I have forgot a lot of things over the years about the Military. My Company thought a few of us should work with the Green Berets. I'am glad i served, i wouldn't have joined if i wasn't drafted. I talk very little about my experience in the Military especially with my Sons and they never really ask anyway. I will talk about Boot Camp and the funny stories that weren't funny back then but are now.

I wish my dad would have talked about Vietnam more. He shared some snippets but was pretty bitter, especially after gulf war vets came back as heroes but him and his fellow vn vets were baby killers, etc.

He was USAF radio guy and told me about the “Saigon drop” to avoid small arms fire. He hated to fly since he came home in like 1966.

[Steve_R]

My dad was a tail gunner on a bomber in Korea. All I know about his service is that his plane got shot down and he was a POW for a while. He never, ever talked about his service, not sure why but wish he had now that he's gone.

[Anjdog2003]

The average lifespan of a door gunner on a Huey in Vietnam was just two weeks. A kid i grew up with lived a couple of house's down was a door gunner in Vietnam. He got drafted 2 years before me. His ETS was done and he left Camp Pendleton and drove back to Burbank which was a 100 miles away. Got killed on the freeway on his way home. I was junior in high school. I remember them playing Taps and the 21 gun salute at the funeral. I lost many friends during that time. To this day i can't listen to the playing of taps.

[Steve_R]

Trolling a thread about military service. Classy.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Why don't you lay out a list of what is appropriate at which times, why, and when, and for whom? Or should we all just let you play your "Lord Of The Flies" games and question nothing about your assumed supremacy? Just sayin'. Lighten up, Francis.

Learning to stfu forum------------------------>

[slewfoot]

Originally Posted by Ronins2ndCuzzin

Typical Army...needs pictures instead of words with letters.

Looks like words & letters to me.

[BayouCountry]

USAF 1974-76. Munitions Maint. Iranian pilots were training on our base.

[Old Ben]

USAF 64 to 85. 11 years Air Traffic Control then 10 years Civil Engineering.

[Allan]

Army - 1970-1972 , 71H30 Personnel Mgmt Specialist

[Taurus]

I did not, one of my biggest regrets. A sincere thanks to all that did make the sacrifice, much respect.

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

My dad was a tail gunner on a bomber in Korea. All I know about his service is that his plane got shot down and he was a POW for a while. He never, ever talked about his service, not sure why but wish he had now that he's gone.

Same with my dad. He was in Korea too, USMC. He earned a purple heart, but never talked about his time there.

[Old Ben]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

My dad was a tail gunner on a bomber in Korea. All I know about his service is that his plane got shot down and he was a POW for a while. He never, ever talked about his service, not sure why but wish he had now that he's gone.

Same here. My father was in the Army and was in WW2, Korea and Nam. He also never talked about any of those times.