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Just wondering............
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:32 pm
by hounddog
How many Vets visit this site on a regular basis? What years and what Branch of service. Shoot, I may have served with some of you.
Jim Umbarger
U.S. Army ( Airborne Rangers)
1979- 1988
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:57 pm
by Tim H
USAF 1983-1987.
young vet
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:59 pm
by mrwvsportsman
I am just a "youngun" and don't really consider myself a vet. Have been in the WV Army Nat Guard since 1997. Served in Iraq from Jan 2004 to Jan 2005. I proudly wear the uniform every day for my job also. My hat is off especially to those who fought the foreign wars before me but I have great respect to all who have worn or wear the uniform!!
vet
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:09 pm
by Phillip Housden
Army, 1969 to 1971, 1 year in Vietnam. I admire all who ever put on a uniform. Some where treated better than others but over all a vet has alot of pride.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:07 pm
by Dale Pea
US ARMY 1973-1997
14 years in the 82nd Airborne. Really proud of the time I spent with the paratroopers. A greater bunch of guys, from all over the US of A never existed.
"ALL THE WAY"
vets
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:30 pm
by Big Dog
US ARmy 1990 - 1999, 24th Infantry Division 1st Battalion 18th Infantry(Strikers)
Big Dog
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:12 pm
by main event`s beagles
82nd airborne division 2/504 pir strike hold. 1991 -1997. home of the america`s best the eighty deuce. AIRBORNE, ALL THE WAY. `` YOU CAN BE MENTALLY ABLE AND PHYSICALLY FIT, BUT IF YOU AIN AIRBORNE YOU AINT ----. LOL
WHAT A RIDE IT WAS definitely a young mans life and world fantastic i loved. the life was a little fast for this country boy though. wow what a party.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:24 pm
by schleppy
USMC 1994-1998 and WI Army National Guard 1999-2002 hooha
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:42 pm
by joe kaschak
USAF Aug 68 to Mar 73
Pa. Army Nat Guard 1975
USCG 1976 to 1980
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:11 pm
by Honey Pot Hounds
THANKYOU ALL
FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!!!!!!
000
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:16 pm
by jfields
000
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:42 pm
by sanfordssj
USAF 93 to 97. Cannon AFB, NM
Operation Provide Comfort / Operation Southern Watch
Crew Chief EF-111A & F-111
429th Fighter Squadron
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:57 pm
by TallDog
Joined the Naval Reserves in the 10th grade in hopes of becoming a navy jet pilot. You know how young kids are; they foolishly think they can do anything they set their minds to. Following high school, I left my first beagle behind and went to college and the NROTC program. I finished college with no car, no money and not much else... but... I finally had those orders to flight school! My Mom traded in her green stamp books to get me a suitcase for the trip to Pensacola and she gave me $60 to live on until I got my first pay check. (Base pay for a brown bar in '67 was $300/month). Three years later, I was flying A-7 Corsair II's over North and South Vietnam and Laos. We were flying from the USS Oriskany. After 25 years and tours in Japan, Guantanamo Bay, The Netherlands, Florida, Texas, California, Washington, D.C., and numerous aircraft carriers, I retired back to Missouri. It was a great life.... a little rough sometimes but still great. There'll be no more flying for me but then running hounds nearly every day ain't that shabby.
To my fellow veterans on the forum... Thanks for your service and I'm glad you're also safely back home running your hounds.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:52 pm
by Hare Hawk
Enlisted in the Minnesota Air National Guard in 1998:
133rd Airlift Wing
Commisioned in 2004:
Currently a C-130 pilot for the 109th AS MNANG
Love every minute of it and get plenty of sandbox time. My hat is off to all the young men and women that we shuttle in and out. We couldn't get anything without them.
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:20 am
by jumpmaster
army, from 89-94, mosly baumholder germany. My son is seven months into a tour in Iraq, with tenth mt. div.