20 years Army National Guard and one tour in Iraq 2005-2006 Ramadi, Please think of the fallen Soldiers,Marines, Airmen, Sailors, they were the best this country had and they gave thier life to defend it ...
To all my fellow vets out there throughout the world thank you for your service. And to the families of the fallen your sacrifice will not be forgotten.
7 1/2 years active duty (Duck Hunter) 1st ID(Gemany with a tour in the sandbox), 11th ADA (Fort Bliss)
2 1/2 years reserves 7th ARCOM (Germany)
John
scubaterry. This is our weekend so its ok to toot our own horn. Terry
To everyone that has served...... I feel you are MORE THAN entitled to "toot your own horn" Whenever and wherever you please. For it is what you all did that gives us what we have today. I have many friends that have served or are just finishing their time. I let them know every chance I get how grateful I am. Had things panned out differently for me 9 years ago I too would be in service flying C-130's most likely out of youngstown ohio.
THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING U DID!!!!!!
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
I served six years in USAF from 1964 to 1970, including a tour in South East Asia in 1968.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Jason You are right about the sans. They say or I was told that you are not a true boat man until you have screwed up the sans blowing & venting process as I did the first time I did it on my own just before morning quarters. Not wanting to miss them I cleaned up as best I could but still smelled like a full porta potty After quarters I had to clean up the head until it smelled like roses.The COB made me the official san tanks blower for 2 straight weeks.I studied the procedure until I could do it in the dark. As far as trading the fish in I never met a man who after earning them would trade them in willingly for surface craft.
Bob D As long as you surface as many times as you dive you`ll be alive to read these posts.
Hamltnblue That's what they have empty cans for. Sonar could use one though, along with a coffee pot, and spare ice cream machine
That's what they have empty cans for.
Sonar could use one though, along with a coffee pot, and spare ice cream machine
I hear ya! Unfortuantely, the Navy gets final approval on the design, and they think it's good for their sailors to suffer.
Seriously,though, you guys should get a look at the inside of a Virginia-class fast attack. It's almost like it was actaully designed to hold sailors, rather than adding them as an afterthought like the 688's. Pretty slick machines.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Let us all remember what this holiday is really about.
A very heartfelt THANK YOU to the fallen comrades. With out your sacrifice we would not have the freedom to enjoy a hobby such as this.
Nothing ticks me off more then hearing someone say this holiday is the beginning of summer and time off from work. It tends to cheapen what so many have died for.
Take a few moments of your holiday to salute the REAL reason we share this freedom.
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
I am an US NAVY VET 1972-1976 SK-3
USS LEXINGTON CVT-16
USS L.Y. SPEARS AS-36
NAS Miramar
But today I wish to remember all who are not with us. One is my Father-in-Law Don Cole who flew 23 Missions in a B-24 Bomber as a radio-gunner in the 15th AF. 459th BG 757th BS ETO.
Also remember all of the Disabled Vets who have given so much.
God Bless America!
Springfield PA
CTValleyRRNow I build submarines at Electric Boat
Now I build submarines at Electric Boat
Can you do me a favor. When you guys design and build the next generation SSBN, can you put a urinal out near CAMP in the Missile Compartment? All the future Missile Tech's would appreciate it.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
Four years in Air Force, 56 through Jan of 60 as electronic tech. Only had to deal with the cold war. I spent a year in Alaska 7000' up on a mountain top helping to look for Ruskies. Hardships? Well I did spend a few minutes on guard duty at 45 degrees below otherwise good food, warm buildings and 250 friends going stir crazy.
Thanks to all that had to go in harms way.
Lee
10 yrs USN as a Supply Corps Officer, and a veteran of the first Gulf War. USS Normandy (CG-60), SEAL Team TWO, USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (SSN-708). Now I build submarines at Electric Boat-- gets in your blood. I also grew up in the village of Boalsburg, PA, one of several towns in the country with a legitimate claim to be the "Birthplace of Memorial Day".
Speaking for myself, just because Memorial Day is an observed holiday for us Yanks, that doesn't make anyone else's service to and sacrifice for his country any less valuable. As we celebrate our service to our country, take a moment to congratulate yourselves on your service. You can be justifiably proud of it.
R. T. POTEETADDENDUM: although it is, perhaps, more appropriate to tender a "Thank You" to our Canadian friends on November 11th--after all, Memorial Day was set aside in 1868 as a day of commemoration for the (Union) dead in our recently concluded Civil War--I wish to tender to all of you a hearty thanks for your service over the years. We citizens of the United States are a little deficient in our knowledge of your military accomplishments so I will just take a minute here to reflect on some of those, if I may be so bold.
ADDENDUM: although it is, perhaps, more appropriate to tender a "Thank You" to our Canadian friends on November 11th--after all, Memorial Day was set aside in 1868 as a day of commemoration for the (Union) dead in our recently concluded Civil War--I wish to tender to all of you a hearty thanks for your service over the years. We citizens of the United States are a little deficient in our knowledge of your military accomplishments so I will just take a minute here to reflect on some of those, if I may be so bold.
And a rousing rendition of "Scotland the Brave" to you, as well! For those that don't recall the song, we "Yanks" used it in our Old Spice commercials.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
cacoleI served 26 years in the U.S. Army and then worked as a civilian instructor at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center for another 16 years.
Ft. Huachuca! Hello, from a fellow "Zonie"! Oh, and retired Air Force, too.
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
I salute all of you VETS and thank you all for your service to us all. We are fortunate on this blessed Continent that we both have such valiant dedicated neighbors going both ways.
From the wide spacious Canadian Prairies I wish you a great Memorial Day week end and may all our Servicemen and Women come home safely.
Johnboy out........................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
When my dad openend a letter for me from the draft board in Jan. 1965, he called them and told them where to find me- Flight 18, 3703 Training Squadron, Lackland AFB, (Yehaa!) Texas. I was a Draft Dodger - I selected 4 years active duty in the AF instead of waiting to be drafted for 2 years active duty in the Army. Beat the Draft by 3 weeks. Spent 24 weeks at Chanute AFB in Illinois for AGE tech School, 18 months at Wheelus AFB, Triloli, Libya. When I was getting ready to rotate Stateside, they asked me where I wanted to go. Not wanting ro see sand anymore, I asked for East or West coast assignments. Had the system figured out apparently, they sent me to Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kansas, just a couple hundred miles from the geographic center of the company. While PCS there, I got to spend a 6 month TDY at Whiteman AFB, Knob Noster, Mo, 4 months on 2 separate TDYs to Brasil, where I met and eventually married my wife of 41 years, and also got to see a little bit of Trinidad, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Barely had time to get familiar with Topeka.
One of the big scares was at Wheelus when an excited CQ came running through the barracks about 2:15AM calling out that we were on alert, and the code was DEFCON 4, not the usual practice code. Turns out it was the big NYC Blackout. False Alarm. I was kind of numb already, since when I got off night shift two days before, I got a little over an hour's sleep, when 8th pulled an ORI (Operational Readiness Inspection). So, I had an almost 24 hour duty day with. Then with the DEFCON bit, I got another nearly 20 hour duty day with no sleep and two meals (K Rations, yet). About 56 hours with maybe 3 hours sleep and 7 meals.
In spite of the long hours and hard pay,I had a great time, met a lot of great people, worked for a quality and competancy of supervisor I rarely had in civilian life, nearly became a lifer, and never regreted a second of the time.
USAF 1964-68 as a Russian Linguist and intell analyst. Spent the last 1 year 9 months and 11 days in Alaska which made the decision to get out of the military and return to college (in a far warmer climate) a no brainer. Retired now and living on a barrier island off the Texas coast( and I still really hate cold weather).
Roy Onward into the fog http://s1014.photobucket.com/albums/af269/looseclu/
submanhamltnblue part of my problem was those dam planesmen poping the snorkle induction head valve all the time while running submerged on 3 main engines Oh well Uncle Sam sends me a check every month for that. It only takes 6 seconds to have the engines suck out every bit of atmospheric pressure and pull a 6" vacuum and that feels like your ear drums are being pulled out of your head at least to me it did.
hamltnblue part of my problem was those dam planesmen poping the snorkle induction head valve all the time while running submerged on 3 main engines Oh well Uncle Sam sends me a check every month for that. It only takes 6 seconds to have the engines suck out every bit of atmospheric pressure and pull a 6" vacuum and that feels like your ear drums are being pulled out of your head at least to me it did.
Luckily being on a nuke I didn't have the brains sucked out too often but now and then they ran the diesel during reactor scram drills. Even worse was when they would stick the snorkel up and equalize pressure after the Hipac had been running for an extended period and not being at PD for several days.
While I served 27 years in the Air Force including two tours in Iraq attached to the 101st Airborne Division, we must never forget that Memorial Day is to honor those who did not return. Unfortunately I knew a few of them and I was proud to serve with them.
Ricky Keil, 1981-2009, CMSgt, Retired
I was a blue suiter for twenty years and 26 days beginning 5 Aug 1958. Did my duty in AFSCs 304X0--Radio Relay; 305X1--Computer Maintenance; 511X0--Computer Operations. Entered onto the retired roles 1 Sep 1978 as a Technical Sergeant (E-6). Had PCS assignments in Texas--of course, Mississippi, Turkey, Pakistan, Washington, Massachusetts, the Philippines, California, Vietnam--of course, Germany, Arizona, the Azores, and back to Arizona. I was an Air Force "Brat' and I didn't have what I would label a particularly "Good Career" and, had I known what was ahead of me when I took that first oath of enlistment at Fort Douglas, Utah on that 5th day of August in 1978 I most probably would have remained a civilian; I hadn't, however, been out but a very short time when I began to reflect that no one could ever offer me any amount of money whatsoever for the experience of those twenty years.
To each of you who served, no matter what that capacity might have been, and when it might have been, I am grateful to God for your service and extend to you a profound "Thank You!"
. . . . . . . . . . and as a sidebar tomorrow I attain a big number seven zero . . . . . . . . . . thirty years and four or five more layouts to a hundred..
In World War Two your contribution to the winning of the Battle of the Atlantic was second to none; your forces put up one of the stoutest defences in the defence of Hong Kong in December, 1941 following Pearl Harbor; you formed the majority of the forces that made the assault at Dieppe on the 17th of August, 1942; your 1st Army hinged the left flank on the advance into Belgium, Holland, and Germany in 1944-45. And if one really wants to read a story of military glory pick up a history book on World War One and ready about the 1917 battle around Ypres in Belgium and about a mudpit called Passchendaele. That has to be one of history's greatest feats of bravery. Well done, sirs; well done and I will thank you for your service over the years.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
drafted in dec. 65, 1year in colorado, 1 year in nam out in 67, from freezing to mold interesting is what i called it.
Well I see this thread got another shot in the arm. That's great, it's always good to hear fm fellow vets. And I want to apologize to Crandell and all the others for not including other militarys in my original post. Even though it was posted a couple of years ago I just spent a bit reading all of the posts. A vet is a vet regardless of country. We all share that common trait of obligation and sacrifice for our countries. Of course it was nice to spend a couple of days on a Canadian Destroyer in the Gulf. The bar was open. Crandell I don't know how you guys ever get anything done underway,
I got into MRR'ing late in life so I pretty much ignored all the trains I ran acrossed during my 23 yrs in the Navy. I remember Yakoska had a RR on base but I don't recall ever seeing any locomotives just the tracks as I stumbled over them after a night on the town.
20 years in the NH Army National Guard, retired in 2005. Deployments to Europe, Central and South America, two peacekeeping tours in the Balkans, but luckily didn't end up in the desert.
U.S. Air Force, 1969 to 1973. K. I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan, U-Tapao RTNAS, Thailand, HqTAC Langley AFB, Virginia. Salutes to all those who have served, are serving and will serve.
I served 5 years in the Navy, 88'-93'. Four of them on the USS Caron DD-970 as a Gunner's mate. She now sits at the bottom of the Carribean off the coast of Purto Rico, and on the back of my leg as a Tattoo. I made E-5 before I got out and went to the Persian Gulf twice.
3.5 years Navy active duty 72-76, NAS North Island and NAS Moffett Field.
Glad I enlisted, Proud I served, Grateful to all others who did a turn or a career in any of the services!