What was your Rate or MOS in the military????

[DD977GM2]

I know there is a decent amount of folks on here who served this great Country.
Im curious what you all did while in the service.

In the Navy my "Rate" or MOS for you USMC and Army guys,
I was a Gunner's Mate (Missiles) and I worked on a Tomahawk Vertical Launching System.
I acchieved the rank of E-5, 2nd Class Petty Officer and my title was GM2 (Last Name) from 1996 to 2000.

Me in summer of 99 on the Empire State building for "Fleet Week"

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/WTC_99.jpg
I fired the #7 bird onto Sudan in summer of 98 in the Red Sea.
I was part of the VBSS (Visit Board Search Seizure) team for all my deployments
for enforcing UN Sanctions while in the Persian Gulf. I also did a ton of work in the
Armory onboard , basically perfroming repairs and preventative maintenance on
the M-14, Rem 870, M9 Beretta, M60, M79...never got to shoot that puppy and
the wonderfully badass Browning M2. [M2]

I guess that is where I attained my love of firearms and the desire to be very proficient
with them all. To this day though, I hate the M9 and will never own one
and really hate cleaning firearms after shooting, I do it only because if not, my firearms can be ruined.
I will post pics later of me onboard if I can find them!!!!!

Lets hear what ya did while you allowed the rest of us to have freedom[Weight]


Also for the dupe police, I think this is an acceptable dupe thread if there is even one still active [SP]

The Mighty U.S.S. Briscoe (DD977)
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/USSBriscoeDD977.jpg

Firing on Sudan in summer of 98
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/TLAM_20AUG98_3.jpg

Heading to the Red Sea from the Persian Gulf at full speed in 30+ ft seas to get on station for
Sudan to get some of our wonderful toys shoved up their .........
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/USSBriscoe_IndianOcean.jpg

Sparrow shot on a drone in summer of 99 off the Virginia, Maryland coasts (Not actual pic, but this was a test firing i 89-90 timeframe onboard the Briscoe)

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/Sparrowlaunch_circa89-90.jpg

[Ronin13]

I was a 35F- Intelligence...

That's all I can say about it [Coffee]
Just kidding. I was the S2 ANCOIC, PSD Team member, Base Ops ASOG for our FOB in Afghanistan, and firearms instructor. I was with 3IBCT, 10th Mountain Division, and deployed in support of OEF IX/X (12/08-12/09). Qualified expert in M4, M203, M9 and taught familiarization with the AK-47.
Served 4 years, 10/06-10/10, couldn't re-up due to injury and surgery... but am A-OK now! Got out as an E-4 (CPL)
Me with my PSD team before a mission
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/15336_191182283129_2545185_n.jpg

Currently waiting for the next opening to get on Jefferson County SO. I guess I just can't get away from service. [Beer]

[Scanker19]

69T -In flight Missile Repair Specialist.

[tmleadr03]

I was a 35F- Intelligence...


So many jokes, so little time.


0311 Marine Infantry. Spent some time in Lazy Ass Recon (1st LAR) as a scout.

[wagzs]

I made PO3 a couple of times and after being in for a couple of years, I finally figured out that my primary MOS was 1369 and just went with! Can anybody relate?

[Inconel710]

Sparrow shot on a drone in summer of 99 off the Virginia, Maryland coasts

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Military/RAMlaunchin99_1.jpg

Uh, isn't that a RIM-116 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile)? The Sea Sparrow launcher is the eight pack box launcher in the foreground.

Sorry, couldn't help myself! :)
Us bubbleheads have to remind you skimmer targets where you stand. [Coffee]

My background - Nuclear Machinist Mate (Submarines) with a Chem/Radcon specialty. Made MM1(SS) before I got my lobotomy, I mean commission!

Ronin - Aha, I understand why you over share information now. You were repressed.

[Ronin13]

So many jokes, so little time.


0311 Marine Infantry. Spent some time in Lazy Ass Recon (1st LAR) as a scout.

Yeah yeah yeah... [Tooth]

[DD977GM2]

Uh, isn't that a RIM-116 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile)? The Sea Sparrow launcher is the eight pack box launcher in the foreground.

Sorry, couldn't help myself! :)
Us bubbleheads have to remind you skimmer targets where you stand. [Coffee]

My background - Nuclear Machinist Mate (Submarines) with a Chem/Radcon specialty. Made MM1(SS) before I got my lobotomy, I mean commission!

Ronin - Aha, I understand why you over share information now. You were repressed.


Yeah wrong pic, I never was onboard when we fired the RAM. I was TAD when they pulled out to sea for test firing it. HAHAHAHA
Thanks for noticing for me!!!!!!

[Great-Kazoo]

Navy, procurer. You needed it i found it.

[HBARleatherneck]

delete

[tmleadr03]

so, things fall off the truck in the Navy too?

Did you hear? They found him.

http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/08/corps-lone-thief-apprehended-marines-rejoice-burn-missing-gear-statements/

[Byte Stryke]

http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i410/Guy_Bennett/IronMaiden1987.jpg
62B10
~1987 94th Eng Bn (CBT, HVY) Darmstadt Germany

[zteknik]

31g Tactical Communications Cheif.
worked up from 31v,31l,31u,31c.All with P designation(Paratrooper)

Now I cant remember the differance between a diode from a flux capacitor![LOL]

[Scanker19]

They need to fix those truck tail gates. Whose driving them Pauly Shore?

[jplove71]

63B - Light Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic

I worked on the old CUCV's (Chevy pickups and blazers), HMMWV's (Humvees), Deuce and a halves, and both versions of the 5-tons.

[eadgbe194]

Uh, isn't that a RIM-116 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile)? The Sea Sparrow launcher is the eight pack box launcher in the foreground.

Sorry, couldn't help myself! :)
Us bubbleheads have to remind you skimmer targets where you stand. [Coffee]

My background - Nuclear Machinist Mate (Submarines) with a Chem/Radcon specialty. Made MM1(SS) before I got my lobotomy, I mean commission!

Ronin - Aha, I understand why you over share information now. You were repressed.

Me too. MM1/ss elt

[Byte Stryke]

63B - Light Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic

I worked on the old CUCV's (Chevy pickups and blazers), HMMWV's (Humvees), Deuce and a halves, and both versions of the 5-tons.


you must be a youngin'
I remember when they were the old Dodges

My Contact truck was a Dodge

[Great-Kazoo]

so, things fall off the truck in the Navy too?

Motor launches. Trucks sink in water, get your shit together.
How long we known each other now, 20 years??

[TEAMRICO]

19D Cav Scout. Let you imagination run wild with that one..........
Desert Storm! In Iraq before Burger King got there!
1989-2010

[Rucker61]

you must be a youngin'
I remember when they were the old Dodges

My Contact truck was a Dodge


I think the contact truck was the last mogas vehicle in the Army. I bet it was swaybacked.

I was a 21J5P, Combat Engineer officer with parachutist qualification.

[Eggysrun]

19D Cav Scout. Let you imagination run wild with that one..........
Desert Storm! In Iraq before Burger King got there!
1989-2010

19D here too, I was in 2007-2011. In the reserves now waiting eternally to be reclassed lol

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j67/cmarkl/IRAQ/35650_431497958124_506593124_5712570_4190640_n.jpg

[Whistler]

SINS Tech (NavET) bubblehead.

Can't seem to locate my pics right now but here's one I found of the Holland in Holy Loch where I spent the last couple years active.

http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii532/ol-Whistler/UssHollandAS32.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii532/ol-Whistler/AS-32_patch.jpg

[RonMexico]

0311,0241,0931,0933 Intel BN and 4th Force Co. Now in the army and getting a badass MOS

[drew890]

13F and I loved every minute of it.

[Sharpienads]

I'd post up but AFSC wasn't asked for in the OP [BooHoo]

[jerrymrc]

63B - Light Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic

I worked on the old CUCV's (Chevy pickups and blazers), HMMWV's (Humvees), Deuce and a halves, and both versions of the 5-tons.

Oh God, I had a whole squad of you guys when I was 1ID. 35U here but it changed to 68A Medical Equipment Repairer.


http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac44/jerrymrc/IMG_0013Medium.jpg

[ChadAmberg]

Avionics AFSC 45555

A few pics of my time in the sandbox during round 1.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7841546780_567a0ee9a9_b.jpg
Daisycutter! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82) 12,600 lbs of OMG WTF am I sitting on???!?!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7841550092_f90fcdb5fc_b.jpg
My time in Iraq with an ALCE team.

[obisean68]

11B, 91B, and briefly Navy 1975 (HPSP medical student)

[cebeu]

33S, active 84'-88'

[BlasterBob]

U.S. Army....MOS 421.10 = small arms repairman. 1955-1958 and yeah, only a peace time soldier so was never shot at. Stationed in Fairbanks, AK.[Beer]

[WillysWagon]

63Y - Track Vehicle Mechanic (M88, M113, CEV, AVLB, etc..).
Worked on wheeled stuff too (even the old Army Jeep, pre-HMMV [Beer])

[SideShow Bob]

35-Mike. Avionics Nav. & Flight control equiptment repair..... Think Hueys, Cobras, Chinooks and Kiowas.
Sadly (or good for everyone here) the first EX kept and did what ever with all my pictures from those days....

[Holger Danske]

11H - Infantry, TOW missile gunner & 11M Mech Infantry Bradley Fighting Vehicle crew member

[trlcavscout]

69T -In flight Missile Repair Specialist.

Holy crap what happened to your name [ROFL1]


19D, is their anything else?

[Shodown]

11M2B, C-130 Pilot. Still active duty.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e40/Shodown69/IMG_20120425_083605.jpg

[Scanker19]

Holy crap what happened to your name [ROFL1]




The 19 Series Eiffel Tower'd me.

[Guylee]

Currently 11B.

[USMC88-93]

MOS 5954

[The Heretic]

PR2 (AW) Parachute Rigger Second Class (Air Warfare) Spent most of my time with ASF though.

[275RLTW]

11B/13F in 75th RGT
<2> RLTW!

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h366/275RLTW/Picture31mayX352.jpg


BIAP, '03 (before the PX, Burger King, and legs/mechanized/anyone else). Some of the 1st fixed wings on the gound in background. I guess you new guys would have called that OIF 1.

[muddywings]

11M3B, C-130 pilot, Elmendorf and Pope, OIF, OEF, and OEF-P. Out of AD now, work at alma mater-Rocky Mountain School for Wayward Boys and Girls

[Byte Stryke]

when were you at Pope?
I used to work on the 140T FMC link-Belt crane down there at Green ramp

[TennVol]

I killed a lot of trees in various CBPO/MPF/Orderly Room/CSS assignments during my 25 years in the Air Force as a 732X0 (3S0X1)/Personnel.

..I got some real nasty paper cuts over the years to show for it too!

[muddywings]

when were you at Pope?
I used to work on the 140T FMC link-Belt crane down there at Green ramp

I was stationed there from '04-'06 but I really wasn't there much. Ahhh....the Green Ramp....

[TEAMRICO]

Operation Desert Storm 1991

Then OIF 3 2005-2006

[stevelkinevil]

11B, nothing special, in between desert storm and Afghanistan.

[TheBelly]

Thank you all for your service!

[blackford76]

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUo_6vPjIOwLgUML-CsCCFdaO-e5jolYUlcXXwrlpRcoX8LD48vw63S10H8, Wrecker driver. M984E1. E4 SPC. '88-'92.
Desert Storm with 92nd Cmbt Hvy Engineers. 2 years in Germany with 1AD, 1-37 Armor.
Recovery Operator instructor Ft. Stewart.https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQs9eYYn4GP_ttyVUiT_O3wDF6d2V10q dfA38AjChLTBK3PkXhn

[Mick-Boy]

0311. Yut.

[Bailey Guns]

207X1 Morse Operator. Misawa, Japan 80-83. Spent a little time on RC-135 and AWACS (special assignments mostly as an "adviser/observer") buzzing around the hot tourist spots in the Sea of Okhotsk, the South/East China Seas and the Sea of Japan.

Cross-trained into weather 271X0 and, due to the clearance, spent a short time at Williams AFB in AZ and the remainder at the Special Ops Branch of Global Weather at Offutt AFB. Specialized in forecasts for "overhead platforms".

Went into the Guard/Reserves and was a "Red Hat" then a Security Forces guy.

Mostly Cold War era.

[AirbornePathogen]

Army, 31B Military Police.

[speedysst]

Army/COARNG 13B30 to 13M30. Cannon cocker to rocket jockey.

[splogan]

I am still active AF E-7/MSgt. I am a 3D171 (Transmission Systems). SATCOM mx is what was before the merger with radio. When I joined I was a 3P0x1 (Law Enforcement)

[Teufelhund]

USMC 2841 Ground Radio Repairman from '96-'01. A year at 29 Palms for electronics school, then 4 at Camp Pendleton (3/1 oorah) with one WESTPAC in the middle. Like a few of the others here, I was also in between conflicts.

Made Corporal (E-4) pretty fast, but my cutting score for Sergeant was unattainable. There were so few of us comm-techs in the Corps, you had to wait for someone to retire or die to get promoted above E-4.

[TDO]

USMC 2841 Ground Radio Repairman from '96-'01. A year at 29 Palms for electronics school, then 4 at Camp Pendleton (3/1 oorah) with one WESTPAC in the middle. Like a few of the others here, I was also in between conflicts.

Made Corporal (E-4) pretty fast, but my cutting score for Sergeant was unattainable. There were so few of us comm-techs in the Corps, you had to wait for someone to retire or die to get promoted above E-4.

Im leaving for boot camp on Monday, and my mos as of right now is communications.

[onebadfx4]

Currently 3POX1, Security Forces. 13 years and counting.

[Hoser]

Air Force. 24 years.

Aircrew and parachute rigger.

http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac105/puebloshooter/Hurk/228272_10150188184710852_5296042_n.jpg

http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac105/puebloshooter/Hurk/DSC02910.jpg

[tmleadr03]

USMC 2841 Ground Radio Repairman from '96-'01. A year at 29 Palms for electronics school, then 4 at Camp Pendleton (3/1 oorah) with one WESTPAC in the middle. Like a few of the others here, I was also in between conflicts.

Made Corporal (E-4) pretty fast, but my cutting score for Sergeant was unattainable. There were so few of us comm-techs in the Corps, you had to wait for someone to retire or die to get promoted above E-4.

WESTPAC98?

[Teufelhund]

WESTPAC98?

Yessir, I was with a victor unit 3/1, attached to the 15th MEU.

[HBARleatherneck]

delete

[Teufelhund]

Im leaving for boot camp on Monday, and my mos as of right now is communications.

Semper Fi, recruit! Are you 2800 or 2500? The former is techs, the latter is operators (battery-powered grunts).

[Teufelhund]

where was 3/1? Camp Horno?

Yes, that's right. All of 1st Marines, 1 MARDIV is/was at Horno. Just down Basilone Rd, in from the back gate and past SOI. I lived in that base housing just inside the back gate at San Onofre.

[HBARleatherneck]

delete

[Teufelhund]

The Mobile Home park?

[LOL] it was duplexes when I lived there.

[tmleadr03]

Yessir, I was with a victor unit 3/1, attached to the 15th MEU.

I was with 1st LAR C Co 1st Plt. USS Tarawa. Same trip as you.

[tmleadr03]

Semper Fi, recruit! Are you 2800 or 2500? The former is techs, the latter is operators (battery-powered grunts).

First target, second one is the SAW Gunner.

I was a SAW Gunner.

[tmleadr03]

The Mobile Home park?

I was at Flores for 4 years.

Then 22 area. for 4 more.

minus deployments, Okinawa, Desert Storm, Stumps, etc.

What years at Flores? I spent a few there myself.

[MCarp71]

US Army. 19Kilo. M1A1 Abrams.
91-95
Asschaufenburg, Germany, Ft Irwin, CA.

4-66 Armor, 3rd. ID
1-11 ACR
"Iron Knights"

Met the wife at Ft. Irwin, she was am MP US Army.

[Teufelhund]

I was with 1st LAR C Co 1st Plt. USS Tarawa. Same trip as you.

Wow that is pretty freaking cool! I was on the USS Essex so I didn't see the LAR guys much. I think I had to cross-deck to both of the support ships at some point to fix radios. I think you had your own comm guys though so I didn't work on your vehicles, but I did get to drive one while we were doing work up during CAX.

Was the Tarawa the boat with busted boilers, or was that the Duluth? I still have the "yearbook" they gave us with all the photos from the deployment, so there's probably a picture or two of you in there somewhere.

[tmleadr03]

Wow that is pretty freaking cool! I was on the USS Essex so I didn't see the LAR guys much. I think I had to cross-deck to both of the support ships at some point to fix radios. I think you had your own comm guys though so I didn't work on your vehicles, but I did get to drive one while we were doing work up during CAX.

Was the Tarawa the boat with busted boilers, or was that the Duluth? I still have the "yearbook" they gave us with all the photos from the deployment, so there's probably a picture or two of you in there somewhere.

There is at least one. I was the platoon with the Minotaur pic. The one with the big balls.

Big.

Balls.

[BlasterBob]

U.S. Army....MOS 421.10 = small arms repairman. 1955-1958 and yeah, only a peace time soldier so was never shot at. Stationed in Fairbanks, AK.[Beer]

Ran across this old picture of me standing in front of the Yukon Command NCO club where I was assigned. This was in 1956. Damn tough duty being assigned to an NCO club but I really didn't complain.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/bobjan/Army56002.jpg

[Ronin13]

Air Force. 24 years.

Aircrew and parachute rigger.

What's up my rigger? [ROFL1]

Sorry, joke I heard at Benning when a black hat ran into a red hat... hilarious the way he said it! [Tooth]

[Fmedges]

Ahhhh COMM is the worst.

1141 Electrician. Year and a half in 9th Comm Engineer Plt and Year and a half in the 13th MEU command element.

[Inconel710]

Me too. MM1/ss elt

Glad to see a fellow SMAG. What boat(s) were you on?

This is my first boat - USS AUGUSTA (SSN 710), may God rest her soul
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9149/080402n8655e001augusta.jpg

[Marlin]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to vaccinate you.




[Tooth]

[10mm-man]

11M2B, C-130 Pilot. Still active duty.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e40/Shodown69/IMG_20120425_083605.jpg

Do you guys offer ride alongs?[Beer]

[275RLTW]

Do you guys offer ride alongs?[Beer]

We got ride alongs all the time....only they were 1 way. Couldn't tell if AF was being nice to us, or being mean and kicking us out for eating their food.

[WillysWagon]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to vaccinate you.

[Tooth]

You still rode horses into battle didn't you ???

[Mazin]

You still rode horses into battle didn't you ???


Nope its was only one of two choices.....North or South [Tooth]

[RobertB]

11H - Infantry, TOW missile gunner & 11M Mech Infantry Bradley Fighting Vehicle crew member

Copycat! You didn't follow up with a halfass 98G stint (such as it was, TNANG for that) did you?

[WillysWagon]

This was in 1956.

BB, this and your title just make total sense [Beer]

[Marlin]

You still rode horses into battle didn't you ???


Naw, that was pre-horse.

[USMC88-93]

There were so few of us comm-techs in the Corps, you had to wait for someone to retire or die to get promoted above E-4.

There were many E-4 well into their second enlistment that couldn't make E-5 cutting scores when I was in in the 5952, 5953, and 5954 MOS.

[WillysWagon]

There were many E-4 well into their second enlistment that couldn't make E-5 cutting scores when I was in in the 5952, 5953, and 5954 MOS.

That's how it was for me, scores for promo were crazy high and sometimes not listed at all.

[eadgbe194]

Glad to see a fellow SMAG. What boat(s) were you on?

This is my first boat - USS AUGUSTA (SSN 710), may God rest her soul
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9149/080402n8655e001augusta.jpg

USS Albany SSN 753

[theGinsue]

They changed the Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) while I was in but I started out for my first 4.5 years as a 491X1 (Communications & Computer Operator; the "X" denoted skill level, I made it to "5 level" skill).

I re-trained (okay, I bypassed the actual "training" and became..) a 491X2 (Programmer) which later became 3C0X2. After 15.5 years in this career field, I retired as a "7 level" Programmer.

Guess what I never (not once) got to do during my career. That's right, write code (program). Oh, I got to do System Software Analysis, System Administration and to "manage" a web development shop, but I never got to actually be a programmer.

Of course, I got to play at being a Port Operations troop, a Transportation Vehicle Operations driver, a Facility Manager for the largest & newest building on the Base, an OPFOR (volunteer) member, a 7 year Self Aid & Buddy Care (military type first aid) Instructor, a QC'd/honorary "badged" Security Forces member, and a Unit Security Manager, but no programming.

[jonnyd49]

I was stationed there from '04-'06 but I really wasn't there much. Ahhh....the Green Ramp....

11B1P - 82nd ABN. 2000-03. One go-round in Afghanistan. Something like OEF 2 or 3... I don't know how it was classified. When the shopette opened on Bagram, that might have been the best day of my life. The second best day might have been when some AF guys I knew had pizzas flown in from Germany. 12-hour-old cold pizza was a-freaking-mazing.

And F the Green Ramp. Nothing like showing up there at 1400 to do a nighttime Mass TAC with a TOT of 0200. Hated that crap...

[275RLTW]

11B1P - 82nd ABN. 2000-03.

And F the Green Ramp. Nothing like showing up there at 1400 to do a nighttime Mass TAC with a TOT of 0200. Hated that crap...

Ha ha....how were those Div. inspections & parades I heard about? Something about having field gear & parade gear....

[jonnyd49]

Ha ha....how were those Div. inspections & parades I heard about? Something about having field gear & parade gear....

And Division runs. And All American Week. I'm sure other divisions have that crap too. The one full division parade I was actually around for, I was "lucky" to be assigned to a parking lot detail - I guess there weren't enough MPs or something. Anyway, there were medics "hidden" back in the woodline for the people who passed out. I had a good laugh about that.

[275RLTW]

And Division runs. And All American Week. I'm sure other divisions have that crap too. The one full division parade I was actually around for, I was "lucky" to be assigned to a parking lot detail - I guess there weren't enough MPs or something. Anyway, there were medics "hidden" back in the woodline for the people who passed out. I had a good laugh about that.

Screw that shit! I'd rather be getting my ass smoked all day in Bn than do that gayness.

[Shodown]

11M3B, C-130 pilot, Elmendorf and Pope, OIF, OEF, and OEF-P. Out of AD now, work at alma mater-Rocky Mountain School for Wayward Boys and Girls

I know a few dudes who were at Pope and Elmo. Elmo sounded like a blast, but its on the BRAC list :(


Do you guys offer ride alongs?[Beer]

Of course! Just grab a set of Multicams, a rifle and hop on [Tooth]


We got ride alongs all the time....only they were 1 way. Couldn't tell if AF was being nice to us, or being mean and kicking us out for eating their food.

LOL

I've got unwavering respect for the Army dudes because they pull way longer rotations than we do and have a tougher job. I dont care if they eat all the food at Ali al Salem, Kuwait...it was horrible. Bagram on the other hand...mmm BBQ.

[brutal]

you must be a youngin'
I remember when they were the old Dodges

My Contact truck was a Dodge

Like one of these?

http://www.ar-15.co/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12286&stc=1&d=1345786754
Proudly served 1980-1988

Yup, that's a steel pot.

1981-1984 26V Microwave Radio Repairman, Barme, Germany 5th Signal Command, ran the comms on an ECCCS trib site for the nukies.

1984-1988 34C DAS3 Specialist (IT stuff), Ft Riley, KS 1st ID

Signal Corps, In the rear with the gear.

ETS 1988 as an E-5 (Sergeant) promotable for 3.5 years...

http://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?http&&&www.usarmygermany.com/units/signal/USAREUR_SignalCorps.htm

European Command Control Console System (ECCCS) (Sources: Nuclear Command and Control in NATO, by Shaun R. Gregory, MacMillan Press LT, 1996) Command and Control of US Theater Nuclear Forces in NATO

[brutal]

I was with 1st LAR C Co 1st Plt. USS Tarawa. Same trip as you.

My BIL served on the Tarawa, I think 77-79?

[Scoobypup]

Does it count if I'm still in?
Started as a 2A5X3A, Offensive Avionics Specialist...worked on B-1B offensive/nav systems...cross trained into current AFSC of 9S100 or Technical Applications Specialist. All I can say about this job is that I do work regarding global nuclear treaty monitoring...and satellite stuff.

[TDO]

Semper Fi, recruit! Are you 2800 or 2500? The former is techs, the latter is operators (battery-powered grunts).

Only thing I know is I'm going in as 0600

[losttrail]

Army, 19K20, Tank gunner/commander. M48A5, M60, M60A1, M60A3, M1 Abrams

[scratchy]

1979 - 1984 AFSC 32854 Inertial Nav systems
1988 - 1993 USNR-R Rate AX3 Antisubmarine Warfare systems

[Whistler]

1979 - 1984 AFSC 32854 Inertial Nav systems
1988 - 1993 USNR-R Rate AX3 Antisubmarine Warfare systems

Was that the VERDAN? I worked on an inertial nav system for subs called SINS using the MARDAN I understand was similar.

[Buckaroobonsai]

13F Forward Observer U.S. Army.
Fire Support Specialist.
Death by radio.
I order a mean pizza.

http://rlv.zcache.com/fist_sticker-p217673124574776651envb3_400.jpg

[NightCat]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/551571_10151765609645217_732527446_n.jpg


Nuff said....


Now reserves....gettin out, getting too old, broken and am now a Dad...

I know you probably cant see how many stripes are on the Flash on the Beret, but my Avatar should give away that there are 3...

<3> RTLW!

[WillysWagon]

Working on Heavy Junk, we had a motto:
"You blow'em, we tow'em", "We tow the dead" or "We're High drag, Low speed"

[rshives]

I was a 19D from '87-'97. Served in Desert Shield and Storm. Ran in Bradleys mostly, but served on Hummers as well. Seemed our co-ax always misfired.

[Ronin13]

Nuff said....


Now reserves....gettin out, getting too old, broken and am now a Dad...

I know you probably cant see how many stripes are on the Flash on the Beret, but my Avatar should give away that there are 3...

<3> RTLW!

Funny... you look like you're about 29... But then again when you hit E-6 and you being a tan-beanie wearer it probably feels more like 59.
RTLW- ATW! [Beer] One of my "mentors" was with the 75th, retired CSM- #1 lesson: "Rangers are the best friends to have and the worst enemies to make... messing with them is like diving head first into a wood chipper, except you hear the wood chipper." [Tooth]

[SA Friday]

USAF
1988 - 1998; 605/2T2, Air Cargo/Air Trans
1998 - 2009; 7S0, Criminal and Counter-intel Investigator

One tour Desert Shield/Desert Storm
Two tours OIF

[theGinsue]

Sean, looking at that pic I'm left thinking that Leonardo DiCaprio could play you.

[Ready Room]

US Army 81E, Graphics Specialist, Arlington Hall Station, INSCOM

[dtbighit]

Usmc,I was a 3531 motor t,"you can't truck it f#@% it ,1991-1995 got out an e3,lance cooley,it wad the fastest promoting mos in the corps...........hahaha,I never did my marine corps institute classes,I needed the nco course to even get corporal.......o well

[Bakke1]

POGs :)


0311, was a boot rifleman while on the 31st MEU, now a team leader deploying to afghanistan within the month.

Oh yea, Fuck 29 palms.

[BlasterBob]

BB, this and your title just make total sense [Beer]

Yep, I do believe that I AM the oldest of the really old farts on this web site.
OK, as you were.
[Beer]

[wagzs]

Yep, I do believe that I AM the oldest of the really old farts on this web site.
OK, as you were.
[Beer]

Or as my old jarhead DI used to say, "As you was, as you was MF!"