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What branch of the service were you or are you in?
Thinking of Memorial Day I'm wonder what branch of the service our members were or are in? I was in the Army during the Vietnam era.
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Wandering Aimlessly
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Drafted into the Army. Following training, was assigned to the last Smoke Generating Company. Spent my last 18 mos as a WAC, due to a paperwork snafu. They assigned me instead of attaching me.
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Ontario 32 - Aria
Free, is the heart, that lives not, in fear.
Full, is the spirit, that thinks not, of falling.
True, is the soul, that hesitates not, to give.
Alive, is the one, that believes, in love. JCP
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Gemini 105Mc Hull 987
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USMC - 1978-1979 Reserves while in college
USAF - 1979-1980 WVANG Martinsburg Wv while in college
USN - 1980 - 2000
(not including training and temporary duty assignments which were many):
USS Will Rogers SSBN 659 (blue) (1980-82)
USS Ponce LPD 15 (1983-85)
NOPF Dam Neck (va) (1985-87)
USS Whidby Island LSD 42 (1987-89)
USS America CV 66 (1989-1992)
ComNavComTelCom Washington (1992 -1995)
NCTS Sicily (ASCOMM) (1995-1998)
USNS Apache T-ATF 172 (1998)
DCMS Washington (1998-2000)
Retired in March 2000.
Loved every minute of it.
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US Navy, started in the nuclear engineering program as a ET - got bronchitis on the dark side - was kicked out of the program. Became a sonar technician, and served onboard the USS Seahorse and USS Minneapolis-St Paul (SSNs), as well as a stint as a Naval Warfare instructor in Norfolk.....both a shellback and blue nose. Most interesting aspect was that I have actually walked on the ice at the North Pole ... 8 years was all I did as better opportunities existed in the civilian sector....
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Itz That Eazy!!!
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Retired after 20 years and 3 days in the United States Air Force. The best part is I got to see so much of the world and do things others could only read about and I wouldn't trade my experiences for any others in the world.
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S/V Itz That Eazy!!!
1976 Catalina 27 #2684
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I spent 20 years in the Air Force, retired in 1990.
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Portuguese Army, 7th Cavalery, M-48 Attack Tank Battalion.
(they forced me to it...but eneded up becoming a man thanks to it)...
A few months ago, while driving in the Country I found what was once my tank...now a "statue" in front of a Cavalery base. The Army got rid of all except this one...curious...
Last edited by Giulietta; 05-23-2008 at 12:35 PM.
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29 years in the Canadian Navy. Retired April 2007. 15 years seatime, 5 as Captain.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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Telstar 28
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Portugal must be crazy...they let you drive an armed tank?? Have they lost their minds... 
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Originally Posted by Giulietta
Portuguese Army, 7th Cavalery, M-48 Attack Tank Battalion.
(they forced me to it...but eneded up becoming a man thanks to it)...
A few months ago, while driving in the Country I found what was once my tank...now a "statue" in front of a Cavalery base. The Army got rid of all except this one...curious...
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
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Semper Peratus
Just retired to a new Jeanneau 36i in San Diego after 31 years USCG service:
USCGC WHITE HOLLY, New Orleans (QM)
District 8 Rescue Center, New Orleans
Group Corpus Christi (Group OD)
OCS Yorktown
USCGC ACACIA, Grand Haven (Ops)
USCGC POINT COUNTESS, Port Angeles (CO)
Group Corpus Christi (LE)
Station St. Simons (TO)
Olympic Task Force, Savannah (TO)
PSU 311, Tacoma (PRECOMDET, TO, Boat Div)
HQ International Affiars, transferred 22 ships
HQ Cutter Forces, Buoy Tender System Study
HQ Cutter Forces, Ops rep for USCGC MACKINAW acquisition
HQ Intelligence, CG-2 rep to DHS Intelligence
What a long, strange trip it's been . . . wouldn't change a thing!
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