How many Veterans & Active Duty on this site

[usndiver]

My BFF was a USN Diver - 1980-1986.

We went in under the Buddy Program. My first ship was in the Far East, Yokosuka on a Frigrate, then Pearl Harbor on a Destroyer. 1980-1985

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What was your friends last name? The diving community is small, I may have heard of him.

[Markinsa]

What was your friends last name? The diving community is small, I may have heard of him.

Spencer, I believe he was stationed at Norfolk when he got out. He had an unusual piercing.

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[billbill]

Served Active Duty USAF as Security Forces 86-90, AF Reserves 90-94, then crosstrained in the Air National Guard to Satellite Communications/Microwave Radio Systems and worked in that field until after 09-11-01. Crosstrained back to Security Forces and finished out my 20yrs in 2007.

Spent a couple years in Philippines at Clark AB, 1987-1989. Then off to the desert in Phoenix, AZ.

No regrets for my military service, hope to actually live long enough to collect a monthly paycheck when I turn 60yrs old from Air National Guard Retirement.

[speculator2]

Record for shortest time as a Captain, US ARMY - 68 days ADT...1973.

[dip stick]

9th inf. div. 1972-75

[sailin12]

USAF 1968-98. Did some aviation repair and modification. Sweet tours.Enjoyed the time served my country.Hope RV benefits every veteran here and others invested worldwide. Go Iraq make this fun!!!

[Shinnidan]

USN Corpsman 1990-1998, Naval personnel attached to the 1st Marine Division during Operation Desert Storm During the 1st Gulf War. That was the only exciting part of my whole military career. "Oh my!? private...you should take care of that wound! Here let me get you another band aid. you keep coming to patch up that same scratch...they may give you a Purple Heart."

[wayneabwa]

US Army Korea 1968-1970

[usndiver]

Spencer, I believe he was stationed at Norfolk when he got out. He had an unusual piercing.

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Diver tradition, the day I received my MK V pin I went back to the dorms, was summoned into a friends room, he was in 1st Class Dive School, he said "it's time". A few seconds later it was all done! No pain.

[Slaydadea]

Card carrying member myself. 1979 to 1994. Retired under Clinton's TERA Program. Glad I did. Bless you all. Much respect, Slay.

[sassytexan]

With Veterans Day just a couple of days away on November 11, I felt it appropriate to find out what the makeup of the DV.com group is. I have been on here for over two years and get a good sense of the Vet & Current Military and also the civilian sector. We owe our Veterans from WWII to the Viet Nam Era a big , big thank you. If things had been slightly different during WWII, one could only imagine what the world would be like today.

From the first Gulf War to the current War on Terror, The United States had to put on a completely different pair of gloves, however with the troops leaving Iraq now, the current group of Vets have had to pay dearly for their injuries and PSTD. Also, the number of deaths between Iraq and Afghanastan seem quiet high given the high tech war machine our military has at its disposal.

So with all the actions our Vets and current military have had to deal with in Iraq and Afghanistan, we at DV.com owe then a big Thank You. They have brought us to the edge of fruition.. Sometimes I think some of us tend to forget how we have gottten to this point after 7 years of fighting in Iraq. Terrorism is held back a little bit more because of our Vets and current military, anything else after that is a big plus.

Thank you to all of our Vets.

Please take the survey at the top of this posting and let everyone else know how you have shaped your part of America. You can even let everyone else know what unit you are or was in. If you was or are a civilian, don't worry, because not everyone could serve in the military.

Well lets see I was in the Air Force and my husband was in the Army and we both worked as contractors in Iraq. Does that count???

[average joe]

i served in vietnam 1967 and 1968 ist cav and i also was in iraq as contractor

for 6yrs in balad iraq have two kids in airforce one 18yrs and the other 12yrs

so i have sceen all sides of the wars.

[rkpdwp]

Hey all, forgot to say that in my Navy days I had been at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba two times for two months each during 1977 while with HSL-34 and two fast frigates, USS Vreeland and USS Joseph Hewes!!! At Gitmo I got to learn how big iguanas can actually get and snorkeled unbeknownst with barracudas lurking about.

Go Navy! Go RV!

Cosmo spent 18 months in gitmo,was there for bay of pigs.Went back for blockade,installed the arresting gear,at mob.Spent almost 14 years,lost my left eye

in nam,medical retirement,was on the Bennington cva-20 Tico-14 and the Kitty hawk,made abec.

[Markinsa]

Diver tradition, the day I received my MK V pin I went back to the dorms, was summoned into a friends room, he was in 1st Class Dive School, he said "it's time". A few seconds later it was all done! No pain.

So it that used for the tether?

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[mskimsto]

VIETNAM VET---20 YRS---US ARMY

[Ex-wingnut]

U.S. Air Force (hence the username Ex-wingnut)

Aerospace Grounds Equipment Mechanic

1985 - 1988 (3 years, 1 month due to early out)

1990 - Current: government contractor directly supporting the USAF

Early Happy Veteran's Day to all those who have served!!

Edited November 10, 2011 by Ex-wingnut

[DobieD]

USAF 1957-1963 GO RV!

[krome2ez]

USAF 81-85

ATC Radar Repair Tech

K.I.Sawyer AFB, MI

US Army 86-02

M249 Automatic Rifleman, 3/504 PIR. Ft. Bragg, NC

Anit-Armor Squad Leader, 3/22 Inf. Schofileld Bks, HI

Drill Sgt. 2/42 Inf. Ft. Knox, Ky

Platoon Sgt. 3/504 PIR, Ft. Bragg, NC

NCOIC 82d Abn Div Ranger Indoctrination Program, Ft.Bragg, NC

ACRC / Active Component Reserve Component, Camp Blanding, FL

[Weapon X]

USAF 93-99

Air Transportation Specialist 2T251

AMC all the way

[Cosmo]

Cosmo spent 18 months in gitmo,was there for bay of pigs.Went back for blockade,installed the arresting gear,at mob.Spent almost 14 years,lost my left eye

in nam,medical retirement,was on the Bennington cva-20 Tico-14 and the Kitty hawk,made abec.

Thanks for all you've done and been through rkpdwp to serve our country!

The closest I came to injury or probable death was during in-flight refueling one day while on the fast frigate USS Joseph Hewes. I was on the flight deck handling the fuel hose with 5 other enlisted men while the helo was maintaining course and speed with the ship's port side. I was the last man in the line. All of a sudden the helo pitched slightly towards us and the hose started dropping towards the sea. We were told ahead of time if something like that happened we all had to hustle the line back to the deck like there was no tomorrow, all because of entanglement with the ship's prop. A lot of lives would be at stake including those aboard The SH-2F helicopter. So in a heartbeat we the deck crew all starting pulling the line back. Well being the last guy I kept walking and walking back with the hose and stepped cleanly over the side of the ship! The only reason I'm still here typing this is that when I stepped over I came down smartly into the safety netting which extended out about four feet from the deck. I remember looking down through the netting and seeing the blue Atlantic swirling and rushing below down along the starboard side as I had a healthy grip still on the hose. Then I nonchalantly pulled myself back up to the flight deck. The ship and the helo were moving about thirty knots when it all happened. Amazing how I still hold on to those memories...

[detroitjazzman]

II Field Forces Viet Nam Artillery. Office of the Staff Judge Advocate General Jan 1968 - Feb 1971

[ronny46]

USAF (1966-1970)

2 yrs stateside at Luke AFB, Phoenix, AZ TAC Mobile

2 yrs Turkey, can"t say what command

Communications

[usndiver]

Depends on what your tethering.

[seabee64]

Once a SeaBee always a SeaBee. I enjoyed all my deployments and duty stations.

+ 1 for you on starting this thread.

[Nelg]

Army, Active Duty 1962-65. All stateside as a Chaplain's Assistant. Vietnam War was just heating up and my time was just about up. Missed it by the hair of my teeth. Glad that I didn't do any fighting but was able to serve.